Game #119 – All Kinds of Movies
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 6:30 pm
Game #119 – All Kinds of Movies
Identify the 50 movies indicated in List A and the 50 actors indicated in List B. (In each list, every other clue is a quotation.) Pair the movies, according to a Tangredi or principle you must discover for yourself. Then, match each pair of movies to a pair of actors.
There’s one tiny element of this puzzle that I’m much less strict about than usual. You will figure it out.
LIST A: MOVIES
A-1. Moving up 65 places from the 1998 list, this was the highest ranking silent movie on the AFI’s 2007 ranking of the greatest movies.
A-2. “There was this boy I sent to the 'lectric chair at Huntsville here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killt a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out he'd do it again. Said he knew he was going to hell. ‘Be there in about fifteen minutes.’ I don't know what to make of that.”
A-3. Morehouse and Spelman were just two of the colleges that withdrew permission for the director of this 1988 movie to film there once they got a look at the content.
A-4. “Think of it. On the surface there is hunger and fear. Men still exercise unjust laws. They fight, tear one another to pieces. A mere few feet beneath the waves their reign ceases, their evil drowns.”
A-5. The stentorian style of this monthly ‘news magazine’ was famously parodied in the opening sequences of an even more famous film.
A-6. “You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.”
“You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die.”
A-7. The sixth of sixteen films made by arguably the greatest actor/director team of all time, it is also considered by some the first modern action movie.
A-8. “All right, this is it. These crummy aliens stole our parents, it's time to show them what we're made of. We're tough, we're mean. Darn it, we're carbon based life forms. So who's going to kick buttocks?”
A-9. The second musical to win an Oscar for Best Picture, its director had to wait for the third to get one of his own.
A-10. “I came here to rob you, but unfortunately I fell in love with you.”
A-11. Roger Ebert called this 1978 faux feminist revenge flick “a vile bag of garbage” and suggested that the cheering audience members with whom he watched it were “vicarious sex criminals” – but, then, you can’t please everybody.
A-12. “I'm your dream client. I'm the most fun, I'm rich, and I'm always in trouble.”
A-13. At the time they won their Oscars for this movie, its star and writer/director were already at work on its sequel – for which they were both nominated the following year.
A-14. “You were sitting at the next table. She turned and borrowed the sugar. You must remember.”
“Yes, I recall passing the sugar.”
“Well then, you saw her.”
“I repeat, we were deep in conversation. We were discussing cricket.”
“Well, I don't see how a thing like cricket can make you forget seeing people.”
“Oh, don't you? If that's your attitude, there's nothing more to be said!”
A-15. The masterpiece of the second-greatest Soviet filmmaker, its most famous scene depicts the joy of peasants at the arrival of a new tractor. (Did I mention it was Soviet?)
A-16. “One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to show you a brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken. Then this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the jack of spades jump out of this brand-new deck of cards and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not accept this bet, because as sure as you stand there, you're going to wind up with an ear full of cider.”
A-17. Initially released as ‘Tell Your Children,’ it became a cult classic three decades later under this title.
A-18. “No matter how far we traveled on our own separate paths....”
“Somehow we would always find out way back to each other….”
“And with that, we could get through anything.”
“To us. Who we were, and who we are. And who we'll be.”
A-19. This courtroom drama was the second (and last) film directed by the leading playwright to emerge from the Group Theatre.
A-20. “I'm gonna do to you what my daddy did to me. I'm gonna teach you to HATE spending money. I'm gonna make you so sick of spending money that the mere sight of it will make you wanna throw up!”
A-21. This medical tearjerker has no relationship whatsoever to a hit song released by Pat Benatar two years later.
A-22. “I haven't seen my analyst in 200 years. He was a strict Freudian. If I'd been going all this time, I'd probably almost be cured by now.”
A-23. Cody Jarrett takes on the Black and Tans in this fictionalized historical drama.
A-24. “We have ways of making men talk.”
A-25. An adaptation of a controversial Broadway hit, its title was changed at the insistence of the Hays Office – in fact, the original title was not even allowed to be mentioned in the publicity. (But everybody knew anyway.)
A-26. “My little brother had not eaten voluntarily in over three years.”
A-27. The cast of this sports flick included one actor who had previously won an Oscar for playing a man with a certain disability, and one actor who would later win an Oscar for playing a man with the same disability.
A-28. “I can't live without you. And I won't let you live without me.”
A-29. This thriller – a variant on ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’ – helped its leading actor win a special juvenile Oscar.
A-30. “If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake, I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!”
A-31. This Oscar-winning documentary was, appropriately, narrated by the author of ‘Torch Song Trilogy.’
A-32. “I never knew fear until I kissed Becky.”
A-33. This World War II action comedy featured one actor who had previously appeared in a movie whose title included the name of a famous prison, and one actor who would later star in a movie whose title included the name of the same prison. Got that?
A-34. “Can love really travel back in time and heal a broken heart? Was it our joined hands that finally lifted Maria's curse? I'd like to think so. But there are some things I know for certain: always throw spilt salt over your left shoulder, keep rosemary by your garden gate, plant lavender for luck, and fall in love whenever you can.”
A-35. This was certainly not the first film whose leading lady was sleeping with its producer, but it was the first one for which she also won an Oscar.
A-36. “There has definitely been a breakdown in discipline aboard this vessel.”
“I blame the fish-people.”
A-37. In this musical, the young star of a musical in one of the preceding clues followed in the footsteps of the first two actresses to ever win Oscars.
A-38. “What'd I do?”
“You killed the car.”
A-39. This satirical comedy is quite obscure in and of itself, but the suite derived from its score became one of the most popular works of a great 20th century composer
A-40. “Look at it out here, it's all falling apart. I'm erasing you and I'm happy!.”
A-41. Though intended as an antiwar movie by its formerly-blacklisted screenwriter and its socially-conscious star, this 1961 movie was embraced by most audiences as simply an action-packed wartime adventure.
A-42. “One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.”
A-43. Set in northern California, this thriller by a British director starred an actress whose mother was best known for another thriller by another British director also set in northern California. Got that?
A-44. “This is your law and your finest possession - it makes you free men in a free country. Why have you come here to destroy it? If you know what's good for you, take those weapons home and burn them! And then think... think of this country and of the law that makes it what it is. Think of a world crying for this very law! And maybe you'll understand why you ought to guard it. Why the law has got to be the personal concern of every citizen. To uphold it for your neighbor as well as yourself. Violence against it is one mistake. Another mistake is for any man to look upon the law as just a set of principles. And just so much language printed on fine, heavy paper. Something he recites and then leans back and takes it for granted that justice is automatically being done. Both kinds of men are equally wrong! The law must be engraved in our hearts and practiced every minute to the letter and spirit. It can't even exist unless we're willing to go down into the dust and blood and fight a battle every day of our lives to preserve it. For our neighbor as well as ourselves!”
A-45. This was the only Bugs Bunny cartoon to win an Oscar for Best Animated Short Subject.
A-46. “Ladies, you have to be strong and independent, and remember, don't get mad, get everything.”
A-47. A four-time Oscar winner and a four-time Tony winner compete for the affections of a two-time Oscar winner in this comedy directed by a three-time Oscar winner. Got that?.
A-48. “The way you walked was thorny, through no fault of your own, but as the rain enters the soil, the river enters the sea, so tears run to a predestined end. Your suffering is over, my son. Now you will find peace.”
A-49. The first Bond movie based on one of Ian Fleming’s short stories, it was also the only film in the series not to feature M.
A-50. “Bottom line is ... we're around each other an' ... this thing, it grabs hold of us again ... at the wrong place ... at the wrong time ... and we're dead.”
LIST B: ACTORS
B-1. The only time AMPAS ever presented an award after Best Picture was when they gave this screen legend his second honorary Oscar.
B-2. “Frankly, you're beginning to smell and for a stud in New York, that's a handicap.”
B-3. This screen legend is slated to appear in the movie version of a Broadway musical adapted from a film that starred her most frequent leading man. Got that?
B-4. “Dracula hasn't had servants in 400 years and then a man comes to his ancestral home, and he must convince him that he ... that he is like the man. He has to feed him, when he himself hasn't eaten food in centuries. Can he even remember how to buy bread? How to select cheese and wine? And then he remembers the rest of it. How to prepare a meal, how to make a bed. He remembers his first glory, his armies, his retainers, and what he is reduced to. The loneliest part of the book comes when the man accidentally sees Dracula setting his table.”
B-5. In the 1970s, both Mel Brooks and the Statler Brothers paid homage to the iconic power of this retired Western star.
B-6. “From what I hear, your singing career is almost non-existent and your married lover wants you dead. God has brought you here. Take the hint.”
B-7. Two decades after beating Spencer Tracey for an Oscar, this actor won a Tony for creating a role that would later earn Tracy an Oscar nomination.
B-8. “I'm not the first guy who fell in love with a woman that he met at a restaurant who turned out to be the daughter of a kidnapped scientist only to lose her to her childhood lover who she last saw on a deserted island who then turned out fifteen years later to be the leader of the French underground.”
B-9. Thanks to dubbing, this stalwart British actor continued to make movies for nearly a decade after his larynx was removed.
B-10. “People always look down their noses at hookers. Never give you a chance, because they think you took the easy way out, when no one could imagine the willpower it took to do what we do. Walking the streets, night after night, taking the hits and still getting back up.”
B-11. Improbably, his screen wives have included both Mary Astor and Jane Fonda.
B-12. “We had an accident. We fell into yellow, alright?”
B-13. The most lamented of all lost films is the uncut, 9-hour version of this director’s masterpiece – which was shown only once.
B-14. “I am not her child! She's a bad lady! She tried to sell me to gypsies! Please. Please let the Grandfather take me home. He didn't mean to do anything bad.”
B-15. The shortest distance from Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper to Rodgers and Hammerstein is through this actor.
B-16. “Yeah, I'll fight him. Get my face kicked in. And you come around here. You wanna move in here with me? Come on in! It's a nice house! Real nice. Come on in and move. It stinks! This whole place stinks. You wanna help me out? Well, help me out! Come on, help me out. I'm standin' here!”
B-17. This unique performer – best known for playing ‘the filthiest personal alive’ – made only thirteen movies, nine of them for the same director
B-18. “In the morning, I have to call my board. I have to tell them that the architect of our defense was arrested for running naked in the street.”
B-19. Thanks to ill health and the declining popularity of musicals, this dancer’s career consisted of only thirteen films in as many years.
B-20. “Shall I tell you what I find beautiful about you? You are at your very best when things are worst.”
B-21. The career of this silent comic went into a tailspin when he broke with the director of the film in clue A-47 and decided to call all the shots himself.
B-22. “I miss my dad. He worked really hard for that house. It took him thirty years to pay it off. And it took me eight months to f**k it up!”
B-23. This arch-conservative actor was voted the best dressed man in America nine times.
B-24. “No! I don't want to die! Oh, please! I don't want to die! Oh, please! Don't make me burn in hell. Oh, please let go of me! Please don't kill me! Oh, don't kill me, please!”
B-25. This actor has appeared in three films with one fellow Batman villain and five films with another.
B-26. “You're not anybody in America unless you're on TV. On TV is where we learn about who we really are. Because what's the point of doing anything worthwhile if nobody's watching? And if people are watching, it makes you a better person.”
B-27. He made his last movie at the age of 82, the same year he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.
B-28. “I don't get hurt or bleed, hair doesn't muss; it's one of the advantages of being imaginary.”
B-29. He starred in the film version of what was, up to that time, the longest running play in Broadway history, but censorship prevented him from uttering the play’s immortal curtain line.
B-30. “This day does not belong to one man but to all. Let us together rebuild this world that we may share in the days of peace.”
B-31. She and Helen Hayes were the only two Oscar-winning actresses to have Broadway theatres named after them.
B-32. “Back to school. Back to school, to prove to Dad that I'm not a fool. I got my lunch packed up, my boots tied tight, I hope I don't get in a fight. Ohhhh, back to school. Back to school. Back to school.”
B-33. In preparation for his most popular role, this actor made a careful study of such films as ‘The Man in the White Suit’ and ‘The Lavender Hill Mob.’
B-34. “Well, maybe it's like Casy says. A fellow ain't got a soul of his own, just little piece of a big soul, the one big soul that belongs to everybody.”
B-35. Her role opposite Elvis Presley earned her a Golden Turkey Award for Worst Performance as a Member of the Clergy.
B-36. “I passed through the seven levels of the Candy Cane forest, through the sea of swirly twirly gum drops, and then I walked through the Lincoln Tunnel.”
B-37. In the film versions of two different Pulitzer Prize-winning plays, this actress recreated roles originated on stage by Lynn Fontanne.
B-38. “What difference does it make where you buy underwear? What difference does it make? Underwear is underwear! It is underwear wherever you buy it! In Cincinnati or wherever!”
B-39. In the course of his career, he has had to endure many horrors – such as getting devoured by rodents, being liquefied, and hearing Lucille Ball sing.
B-40. “During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. Compelled to live on food and water for several days.”
B-41. He was the youngest actor ever accorded the final spot in the annual Oscar ‘Tribute’ segment.
B-42. “I've been kidnapped by K-Mart!”
B-43. He made his mark as a handsome continental leading man, but if you grew up when I did, he will forever be that mean old man who wanted to destroy Christmas.
B-44. “I hate you! I hate you! I wish I was never artificially created in a lab!”
B-45. This silent screen legend was played onscreen by an actor in one of the preceding clues.
B-46. “You've got a corpse in a car, minus a head, in a garage. Take me to it.”
B-47. Granddaughter of an actor in one of the preceding clues, she had her most successful role as the victim of an extreme form of identity theft.
B-48. “Look how the massacred my boy!”
B-49. Daughter of an actor in one of the preceding clues, she has been nominated for the Oscar exactly the same number of times as her father.
B-50. “And then what did he do? Did he train you? Did he rehearse you? Did he tell you exactly what to do, what to say? You were a very apt pupil too, weren't you? You were a very apt pupil! Well, why did you pick on me? Why me?”
Identify the 50 movies indicated in List A and the 50 actors indicated in List B. (In each list, every other clue is a quotation.) Pair the movies, according to a Tangredi or principle you must discover for yourself. Then, match each pair of movies to a pair of actors.
There’s one tiny element of this puzzle that I’m much less strict about than usual. You will figure it out.
LIST A: MOVIES
A-1. Moving up 65 places from the 1998 list, this was the highest ranking silent movie on the AFI’s 2007 ranking of the greatest movies.
A-2. “There was this boy I sent to the 'lectric chair at Huntsville here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killt a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out he'd do it again. Said he knew he was going to hell. ‘Be there in about fifteen minutes.’ I don't know what to make of that.”
A-3. Morehouse and Spelman were just two of the colleges that withdrew permission for the director of this 1988 movie to film there once they got a look at the content.
A-4. “Think of it. On the surface there is hunger and fear. Men still exercise unjust laws. They fight, tear one another to pieces. A mere few feet beneath the waves their reign ceases, their evil drowns.”
A-5. The stentorian style of this monthly ‘news magazine’ was famously parodied in the opening sequences of an even more famous film.
A-6. “You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.”
“You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die.”
A-7. The sixth of sixteen films made by arguably the greatest actor/director team of all time, it is also considered by some the first modern action movie.
A-8. “All right, this is it. These crummy aliens stole our parents, it's time to show them what we're made of. We're tough, we're mean. Darn it, we're carbon based life forms. So who's going to kick buttocks?”
A-9. The second musical to win an Oscar for Best Picture, its director had to wait for the third to get one of his own.
A-10. “I came here to rob you, but unfortunately I fell in love with you.”
A-11. Roger Ebert called this 1978 faux feminist revenge flick “a vile bag of garbage” and suggested that the cheering audience members with whom he watched it were “vicarious sex criminals” – but, then, you can’t please everybody.
A-12. “I'm your dream client. I'm the most fun, I'm rich, and I'm always in trouble.”
A-13. At the time they won their Oscars for this movie, its star and writer/director were already at work on its sequel – for which they were both nominated the following year.
A-14. “You were sitting at the next table. She turned and borrowed the sugar. You must remember.”
“Yes, I recall passing the sugar.”
“Well then, you saw her.”
“I repeat, we were deep in conversation. We were discussing cricket.”
“Well, I don't see how a thing like cricket can make you forget seeing people.”
“Oh, don't you? If that's your attitude, there's nothing more to be said!”
A-15. The masterpiece of the second-greatest Soviet filmmaker, its most famous scene depicts the joy of peasants at the arrival of a new tractor. (Did I mention it was Soviet?)
A-16. “One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to show you a brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken. Then this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the jack of spades jump out of this brand-new deck of cards and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not accept this bet, because as sure as you stand there, you're going to wind up with an ear full of cider.”
A-17. Initially released as ‘Tell Your Children,’ it became a cult classic three decades later under this title.
A-18. “No matter how far we traveled on our own separate paths....”
“Somehow we would always find out way back to each other….”
“And with that, we could get through anything.”
“To us. Who we were, and who we are. And who we'll be.”
A-19. This courtroom drama was the second (and last) film directed by the leading playwright to emerge from the Group Theatre.
A-20. “I'm gonna do to you what my daddy did to me. I'm gonna teach you to HATE spending money. I'm gonna make you so sick of spending money that the mere sight of it will make you wanna throw up!”
A-21. This medical tearjerker has no relationship whatsoever to a hit song released by Pat Benatar two years later.
A-22. “I haven't seen my analyst in 200 years. He was a strict Freudian. If I'd been going all this time, I'd probably almost be cured by now.”
A-23. Cody Jarrett takes on the Black and Tans in this fictionalized historical drama.
A-24. “We have ways of making men talk.”
A-25. An adaptation of a controversial Broadway hit, its title was changed at the insistence of the Hays Office – in fact, the original title was not even allowed to be mentioned in the publicity. (But everybody knew anyway.)
A-26. “My little brother had not eaten voluntarily in over three years.”
A-27. The cast of this sports flick included one actor who had previously won an Oscar for playing a man with a certain disability, and one actor who would later win an Oscar for playing a man with the same disability.
A-28. “I can't live without you. And I won't let you live without me.”
A-29. This thriller – a variant on ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’ – helped its leading actor win a special juvenile Oscar.
A-30. “If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake, I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!”
A-31. This Oscar-winning documentary was, appropriately, narrated by the author of ‘Torch Song Trilogy.’
A-32. “I never knew fear until I kissed Becky.”
A-33. This World War II action comedy featured one actor who had previously appeared in a movie whose title included the name of a famous prison, and one actor who would later star in a movie whose title included the name of the same prison. Got that?
A-34. “Can love really travel back in time and heal a broken heart? Was it our joined hands that finally lifted Maria's curse? I'd like to think so. But there are some things I know for certain: always throw spilt salt over your left shoulder, keep rosemary by your garden gate, plant lavender for luck, and fall in love whenever you can.”
A-35. This was certainly not the first film whose leading lady was sleeping with its producer, but it was the first one for which she also won an Oscar.
A-36. “There has definitely been a breakdown in discipline aboard this vessel.”
“I blame the fish-people.”
A-37. In this musical, the young star of a musical in one of the preceding clues followed in the footsteps of the first two actresses to ever win Oscars.
A-38. “What'd I do?”
“You killed the car.”
A-39. This satirical comedy is quite obscure in and of itself, but the suite derived from its score became one of the most popular works of a great 20th century composer
A-40. “Look at it out here, it's all falling apart. I'm erasing you and I'm happy!.”
A-41. Though intended as an antiwar movie by its formerly-blacklisted screenwriter and its socially-conscious star, this 1961 movie was embraced by most audiences as simply an action-packed wartime adventure.
A-42. “One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.”
A-43. Set in northern California, this thriller by a British director starred an actress whose mother was best known for another thriller by another British director also set in northern California. Got that?
A-44. “This is your law and your finest possession - it makes you free men in a free country. Why have you come here to destroy it? If you know what's good for you, take those weapons home and burn them! And then think... think of this country and of the law that makes it what it is. Think of a world crying for this very law! And maybe you'll understand why you ought to guard it. Why the law has got to be the personal concern of every citizen. To uphold it for your neighbor as well as yourself. Violence against it is one mistake. Another mistake is for any man to look upon the law as just a set of principles. And just so much language printed on fine, heavy paper. Something he recites and then leans back and takes it for granted that justice is automatically being done. Both kinds of men are equally wrong! The law must be engraved in our hearts and practiced every minute to the letter and spirit. It can't even exist unless we're willing to go down into the dust and blood and fight a battle every day of our lives to preserve it. For our neighbor as well as ourselves!”
A-45. This was the only Bugs Bunny cartoon to win an Oscar for Best Animated Short Subject.
A-46. “Ladies, you have to be strong and independent, and remember, don't get mad, get everything.”
A-47. A four-time Oscar winner and a four-time Tony winner compete for the affections of a two-time Oscar winner in this comedy directed by a three-time Oscar winner. Got that?.
A-48. “The way you walked was thorny, through no fault of your own, but as the rain enters the soil, the river enters the sea, so tears run to a predestined end. Your suffering is over, my son. Now you will find peace.”
A-49. The first Bond movie based on one of Ian Fleming’s short stories, it was also the only film in the series not to feature M.
A-50. “Bottom line is ... we're around each other an' ... this thing, it grabs hold of us again ... at the wrong place ... at the wrong time ... and we're dead.”
LIST B: ACTORS
B-1. The only time AMPAS ever presented an award after Best Picture was when they gave this screen legend his second honorary Oscar.
B-2. “Frankly, you're beginning to smell and for a stud in New York, that's a handicap.”
B-3. This screen legend is slated to appear in the movie version of a Broadway musical adapted from a film that starred her most frequent leading man. Got that?
B-4. “Dracula hasn't had servants in 400 years and then a man comes to his ancestral home, and he must convince him that he ... that he is like the man. He has to feed him, when he himself hasn't eaten food in centuries. Can he even remember how to buy bread? How to select cheese and wine? And then he remembers the rest of it. How to prepare a meal, how to make a bed. He remembers his first glory, his armies, his retainers, and what he is reduced to. The loneliest part of the book comes when the man accidentally sees Dracula setting his table.”
B-5. In the 1970s, both Mel Brooks and the Statler Brothers paid homage to the iconic power of this retired Western star.
B-6. “From what I hear, your singing career is almost non-existent and your married lover wants you dead. God has brought you here. Take the hint.”
B-7. Two decades after beating Spencer Tracey for an Oscar, this actor won a Tony for creating a role that would later earn Tracy an Oscar nomination.
B-8. “I'm not the first guy who fell in love with a woman that he met at a restaurant who turned out to be the daughter of a kidnapped scientist only to lose her to her childhood lover who she last saw on a deserted island who then turned out fifteen years later to be the leader of the French underground.”
B-9. Thanks to dubbing, this stalwart British actor continued to make movies for nearly a decade after his larynx was removed.
B-10. “People always look down their noses at hookers. Never give you a chance, because they think you took the easy way out, when no one could imagine the willpower it took to do what we do. Walking the streets, night after night, taking the hits and still getting back up.”
B-11. Improbably, his screen wives have included both Mary Astor and Jane Fonda.
B-12. “We had an accident. We fell into yellow, alright?”
B-13. The most lamented of all lost films is the uncut, 9-hour version of this director’s masterpiece – which was shown only once.
B-14. “I am not her child! She's a bad lady! She tried to sell me to gypsies! Please. Please let the Grandfather take me home. He didn't mean to do anything bad.”
B-15. The shortest distance from Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper to Rodgers and Hammerstein is through this actor.
B-16. “Yeah, I'll fight him. Get my face kicked in. And you come around here. You wanna move in here with me? Come on in! It's a nice house! Real nice. Come on in and move. It stinks! This whole place stinks. You wanna help me out? Well, help me out! Come on, help me out. I'm standin' here!”
B-17. This unique performer – best known for playing ‘the filthiest personal alive’ – made only thirteen movies, nine of them for the same director
B-18. “In the morning, I have to call my board. I have to tell them that the architect of our defense was arrested for running naked in the street.”
B-19. Thanks to ill health and the declining popularity of musicals, this dancer’s career consisted of only thirteen films in as many years.
B-20. “Shall I tell you what I find beautiful about you? You are at your very best when things are worst.”
B-21. The career of this silent comic went into a tailspin when he broke with the director of the film in clue A-47 and decided to call all the shots himself.
B-22. “I miss my dad. He worked really hard for that house. It took him thirty years to pay it off. And it took me eight months to f**k it up!”
B-23. This arch-conservative actor was voted the best dressed man in America nine times.
B-24. “No! I don't want to die! Oh, please! I don't want to die! Oh, please! Don't make me burn in hell. Oh, please let go of me! Please don't kill me! Oh, don't kill me, please!”
B-25. This actor has appeared in three films with one fellow Batman villain and five films with another.
B-26. “You're not anybody in America unless you're on TV. On TV is where we learn about who we really are. Because what's the point of doing anything worthwhile if nobody's watching? And if people are watching, it makes you a better person.”
B-27. He made his last movie at the age of 82, the same year he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.
B-28. “I don't get hurt or bleed, hair doesn't muss; it's one of the advantages of being imaginary.”
B-29. He starred in the film version of what was, up to that time, the longest running play in Broadway history, but censorship prevented him from uttering the play’s immortal curtain line.
B-30. “This day does not belong to one man but to all. Let us together rebuild this world that we may share in the days of peace.”
B-31. She and Helen Hayes were the only two Oscar-winning actresses to have Broadway theatres named after them.
B-32. “Back to school. Back to school, to prove to Dad that I'm not a fool. I got my lunch packed up, my boots tied tight, I hope I don't get in a fight. Ohhhh, back to school. Back to school. Back to school.”
B-33. In preparation for his most popular role, this actor made a careful study of such films as ‘The Man in the White Suit’ and ‘The Lavender Hill Mob.’
B-34. “Well, maybe it's like Casy says. A fellow ain't got a soul of his own, just little piece of a big soul, the one big soul that belongs to everybody.”
B-35. Her role opposite Elvis Presley earned her a Golden Turkey Award for Worst Performance as a Member of the Clergy.
B-36. “I passed through the seven levels of the Candy Cane forest, through the sea of swirly twirly gum drops, and then I walked through the Lincoln Tunnel.”
B-37. In the film versions of two different Pulitzer Prize-winning plays, this actress recreated roles originated on stage by Lynn Fontanne.
B-38. “What difference does it make where you buy underwear? What difference does it make? Underwear is underwear! It is underwear wherever you buy it! In Cincinnati or wherever!”
B-39. In the course of his career, he has had to endure many horrors – such as getting devoured by rodents, being liquefied, and hearing Lucille Ball sing.
B-40. “During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. Compelled to live on food and water for several days.”
B-41. He was the youngest actor ever accorded the final spot in the annual Oscar ‘Tribute’ segment.
B-42. “I've been kidnapped by K-Mart!”
B-43. He made his mark as a handsome continental leading man, but if you grew up when I did, he will forever be that mean old man who wanted to destroy Christmas.
B-44. “I hate you! I hate you! I wish I was never artificially created in a lab!”
B-45. This silent screen legend was played onscreen by an actor in one of the preceding clues.
B-46. “You've got a corpse in a car, minus a head, in a garage. Take me to it.”
B-47. Granddaughter of an actor in one of the preceding clues, she had her most successful role as the victim of an extreme form of identity theft.
B-48. “Look how the massacred my boy!”
B-49. Daughter of an actor in one of the preceding clues, she has been nominated for the Oscar exactly the same number of times as her father.
B-50. “And then what did he do? Did he train you? Did he rehearse you? Did he tell you exactly what to do, what to say? You were a very apt pupil too, weren't you? You were a very apt pupil! Well, why did you pick on me? Why me?”
