Identify the 60 actors in List A and the 60 movies in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, pair one actor with one movie according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. No name or movie will be used twice.
Alternate matches are probable, but only one solution will complete the game.
LIST A: ACTORS
A-1. As an editor of American history textbooks, I can state with confidence that he gets mentioned in them more frequently than any other Hollywood star.
A-2. “You're right, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in – 60 years.”
A-3. In one of his two films for Mel Brooks, this British actor parodied his most famous film scene.
A-4. “We will be cruel to the Germans, and through our cruelty they will know who we are. And they will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disemboweled, dismembered, and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us.”
A-5. He received his only Oscar nomination for a historical role that another actor won an Oscar for playing 72 years later.
A-6. “Nazis. I hate these guys.”
A-7. He and Kirk Douglas are the only living male actors on the AFI list of greatest film stars. (He made the 1950 cutoff by the skin of his teeth.)
A-8. “I must make my decision, Bob must make his, you yours. And bear what we must. Hold and carry what we must. What I carry within me, you must allow me to do it. Alone, as I must. And you alone, Mary, you alone may lighten the burden. Or render it intolerable. As you choose.”
A-9. This beloved British character actor appeared in both the first feature film in full Technicolor and the first 3-D feature.
A-10. “It's not your flying, it's your attitude. The enemy's dangerous, but right now you're worse. Dangerous and foolish. You may not like who's flying with you, but whose side are you on?.”
A-11. The auto accident that cost him an eye also cost him the chance to both direct and star in one of the earliest talking westerns.
A-12. “If I'm doing a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit.”
A-13. This actor, who died more than 30 years, did a helluva good impersonation of a singer who died only a few weeks ago.
A-14. “She was my wife. We married in secret because I would not share her with an English lord. They killed her to get to me. I've never spoken of it, I don't know why I tell you now, except I see her strength in you. One day, you'll be a queen. And you must open your eyes.”
A-15. His wide-ranging career included some serious dramas, some classic comedies, and the title role in a Hitchcock film – but 30 of his last 31 films were westerns.
A-16. “Look at me, jerking off in the shower. This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here.”
A-17. WE HAD FACES THEN, PART ONE: The character actor in this photo was a specialist in blowhards and con-men.
A-18. “To protect the sheep you gotta catch the wolf, and it takes a wolf to catch a wolf.”
A-19. In the 1980s, he was the third of three consecutive actors to win an Oscar for Best Director, and the only one of the three never to have been nominated for acting. (And he never will be.)
A-20. “I wish I could be there to walk you down the aisle, but I'll – I'll look in on you from time to time, okay, honey? I love you, Grace.”
A-21. In 2012, this British actor took on a film role that had previously been played by several other actors – including one who had played the role 17 times.
A-22. “Do you know what it's like to fall in the mud and get kicked in the head with an iron boot? Of course you don't, no one does. It never happens. Sorry, Ted, that's a dumb question. Skip that.”
A-23. On television, he starred in two classic episodes of The Twilight Zone, was a villain on [i/]Batman[/i], and originated the role that would later win him an Oscar.
A-24. “Sure, I'm white! Didn't you hear me say, ‘God bless George Washington. God bless my mother’? I mean, now what kind of Indian would say a fool thing like that?”
A-25. Like Henry VIII – whom he once played on Broadway – this “kingly” British actor had six wives, although he didn’t have any of them beheaded. (For the record: divorced, divorced, widowed, divorced, divorced, survived him.)
A-26. “You think you're telling me something? Like what, boxing is dangerous, something like that? You don't think working triple shifts and at night on a scaffold isn't just as likely to get a man killed? What about all those guys who died last week living in cardboard shacks to save on rent money just to feed their family, 'cause guys like you have not quite figured out a way yet to make money off of watching that guy die? But in my profession - and it is my profession - I'm a little more fortunate.”
A-27. His biographical roles included a Yankee showman and a Mexican revolutionary.
A-28. “America is an irradiated wasteland. Within it lies a city. Outside the boundary walls, a desert. A cursed earth. Inside the walls, a cursed city, stretching from Boston to Washington D.C. An unbroken concrete landscape. 800 million people living in the ruin of the old world and the mega structures of the new one. Mega blocks. Mega highways. Mega City One. Convulsing. Choking. Breaking under its own weight. Citizens in fear of the street. The gun. The gang. Only one thing fighting for order in the chaos: the men and women of the Hall of Justice. Juries. Executioners. Judges.”
A-29. In 1975, he took on a role that had previously been played by Dick Powell, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Montgomery, and James Garner.
A-30. “Bowels in or bowels out?”
A-31. In 1948, this actor co-starred with Mickey Rooney in a highly sanitized biopic about a famous songwriting duo.
A-32. “And if you get bored in Oklahoma City, you can always go over to Tulsa for the weekend!”
A-33. Now 37 years old, this former child star has been in and out of rehab for drug and alcohol abuse, arrested three times for domestic violence – in incidents involving three different women – and ordered by a court to pay $15,00 in back child support despite telling the court he was completely broke.
A-34. “I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.”
A-35. A longtime member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, he has received Oscar nominations for playing a very good man and a very bad man.
A-36. “Now when you pick a pawpaw / Or a prickly pear/ And you prick a raw paw / Well, next time beware / Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw / When you pick a pear try to use the claw.”
A-37. Though best known today as a comedian and actor, he entered show biz as a founding member of a Scottish folk group called the Humblebums.
A-38. “I am the Creator - of a television show that gives hope and joy and inspiration to millions.”
A-39. At the time of his recent death, this actor was dating one of reality tv’s most notorious villains.
A-40. “You better grow eyes in the back of your head, you horned piece of s**t, because I'm not gonna sleep until worms are crawling up your foam-rubber ass!”
A-41. Primarily an actor on the British stage, he is best known to movie audiences for his 1981 portrayal of King Arthur.
A-42. “Oh Lord. Almighty God. It ain't for us ignorant mortals to say what's right and what's wrong. Was any one of us to be doin' of it, we'd not of bring this poor boy into the world a cripple, and his mind teched. We'd of bring him in straight and tall like his brothers, fitten to live and work and do. But in a way o' speakin', Lord, you done made it up to him. You give him a way with the wild creatures. You give him a sort of wisdom, made him knowin' and gentle. The birds come to him, and the varmints moved free about him, and like as not he could of takened a she wild-cat right in his pore twisted hands. Now you've done seed fit to take him where bein' crookedy in mind or limb don't matter. But Lord, it pleasures us to think now you've done straightened out them legs and that pore bent back and them hands. It pleasures us to think on him, movin' around as easy as any one. And Lord, give him a few red-birds and maybe a squirrel and a 'coon and a 'possum to keep him company, like he had here. All of us is somehow lonesome, and we know he'll not be lonesome, do he have them little wild things around him, if it ain't askin' too much to put a few varmints in Heaven. Thy will be done. Amen.”
A-43. He is only a year younger than the Utah service station owner he portrayed in a 1980 film.
A-44. “Lighten up, Francis.”
A-45. His portrayal of a lawyer made him the first winner of two consecutive Emmy awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
A-46. “Very pretty, Colonel, very pretty. But can they fight?”
A-47. And his portrayal of a doctor earned him two consecutive Emmy awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
A-48. “You're nothing to me now. You're not a brother, you're not a friend. I don't want to know you or what you do. I don't want to see you at the hotels, I don't want you near my house. When you see our mother, I want to know a day in advance, so I won't be there. You understand?”
A-49. Six years after receiving his only Oscar nomination, he played a troubled teen who gets his girlfriend pregnant.
A-50. “You need a license to buy a dog, or drive a car. Hell, you need a license to catch a fish! But they'll let any butt-reaming a**hole be a father.”
A-51. This actor’s racy, posthumously-published – and at least partially ghost-written – memoir was hailed by one critic as “major autobiography in the tradition of Cellini, Casanova, and Frank Harris."
A-52. “They cast a spell on you, you know, the Jews. When you work closely with them, like I do, you see this. They have this power. It's like a virus. Some of my men are infected with this virus. They should be pitied, not punished. They should receive treatment because this is as real as typhus. I see it all the time.”
A-53. WE HAD FACES THEN, PART TWO: The actor in this photo would have been more instantly recognizable several decades ago.
A-54. “One doesn't get to be a second administrative assistant around here unless he's a pretty good judge of character, and as far as I'm concerned you're tops. I mean, decency-wise and otherwise-wise.”
A-55. He has been nominated for four Oscars as an actor, two Oscars as a director, four Oscars as a writer, and four Oscars as a producer – winning only once plus the Thalberg Award.
A-56. “Make no mistake, I shall regret the absence of your keen mind. Unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.”
A-57. He made his feature film debut getting brained with a poker in an Alfred Hitchcock film; five decades later, he’s still going strong.
A-58. “Criss-cross.”
A-59. In the 1950s, he starred in the last two films of a famous director and in two highly successful remakes of silent movies – making a total of three films.
A-60. “My wife is divorcing me, my mother-in-law is suing me for damages, my daughter is applying to the courts to have her name changed, my pension has been revoked. And the only reason that you ten idiots will very likely get off lightly is because the judge will have me up there to throw the book at!”
LIST B: MOVIES
B-1. Two thousand actual soldiers were paid $3.50 apiece to shave their heads for their appearance as extras in this Oscar-winning film.
B-2. “No one really runs away from anything. It's like a private trap that holds us in like a prison. You know what I think? I think that we're all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out. We scratch and we claw, but only at the air, only at each other, and for all of it, we never budge an inch.”
“Sometimes... we deliberately step into those traps.”
“I was born into mine. I don't mind it anymore.”
B-3. A prominent composer/lyricist went on record as saying that this was the only screen adaptation of one of his stage musicals that he liked. (Whether that’s still true, we don’t know yet.)
B-4. “Whether it's love or hate doesn't matter; they can't keep away from each other. They may think it's twice as safe because there's two of them, but it isn't twice as safe. It's ten times twice as dangerous. They've committed a murder! And it's not like taking a trolley ride together where they can get off at different stops. They're stuck with each other and they got to ride all the way to the end of the line and it's a one-way trip and the last stop is the cemetery.”
B-5. In its original language, the title of this classic film is Jungfrukällan.
B-6. “Oh, I'm the drug dealer? No, you're the f**kin' drug dealer. I mean, goddamn, people are dyin'. And y'all are up there afraid that we're gonna find an alternative without you.”
B-7. Based on a novel by Graham Greene, it was Lieutenant Columbo’s favorite movie.
B-8. “We've been invaded by America. We're all gonna be rich.”
“Really?”
“We won't have anywhere to call home, but we'll be stinkin' rich.”
B-9. This movie will forever be associated with an incident that took place in Pennsylvania twelve days after its release.
B-10. “I could stand the sight of worms /And look at microscopic germs /But technicolor pachyderms/ Is really much for me.”
B-11. Stephen Spielberg received his first Academy Award nomination for this movie.
B-12. “Oh well, if you've seen one Stradivarius, you've seen them all.”
B-13. The title of this caper film refers to a palace-turned-museum in Istanbul.
B-14. “I'm gonna write a show for us and put on right here in Seaport. Why, it'll be the most up-to-date things these hicks around here have ever seen! Opening night we'll have Max Gordon, Sam Harris, Lee Schubert down to give us the once over. How about it, kids?”
B-15. The director with the most Academy Award nominations received his last for this 1965 drama.
B-16. “They look like big, good, strong hands, don't they? I always thought that's what they were.”
B-17. The original director of this crime drama quit when his then-girlfriend – a fashion model – was replaced by another fashion model, who then proceeded to fall in love with the leading man and leave her then-husband, a noted producer. Got that?
B-18. “If you're part of a crew, nobody ever tells you that they're going to kill you, doesn't happen that way. There weren't any arguments or curses like in the movies. See, your murderers come with smiles, they come as your friends, the people who've cared for you all of your life. And they always seem to come at a time that you're at your weakest and most in need of their help.”
B-19. The original ads for this satirical comedy invited us to “consider the possibilities.”
B-20. “Alright, alright. Think of it like this: jump ahead, ten, twenty years, okay, and you're married. Only your marriage doesn't have that same energy that it used to have, y'know. You start to blame your husband. You start to think about all those guys you've met in your life and what might have happened if you'd picked up with one of them, right? Well, I'm one of those guys. That's me y'know, so think of this as time travel, from then, to now, to find out what you're missing out on. See, what this really could be is a gigantic favor to both you and your future husband to find out that you're not missing out on anything. I'm just as big a loser as he is, totally unmotivated, totally boring, and, uh, you made the right choice, and you're really happy.”
B-21. A thinly-disguised account of the murder of tobacco heir Zachary Smith Reynolds, this film was regarded as a trashy melodrama at the time of its release but later became a favorite of auteur critics.
B-22. “You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility.”
“You admire it.”
“I admire its purity. A survivor – unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.”
B-23. Based on a horror classic released seven decades earlier, this movie has spawned three sequels, a spinoff, an animated tv series, and a roller coaster.
B-24. “Put them in the iron maiden.”
“Iron Maiden? Excellent!”
B-25. The brothers who played the title roles in this movie died a little over a year apart, at the ages of 85 and 86.
B-26. “This country is run on epidemics, where you been? Price fixing, crooked TV shows, inflated expense accounts. How many honest men you know? Why you separate the saints from the sinners, you're lucky to wind up with Abraham Lincoln. Now I want out of this spread what I put into it, and I say let us dip our bread into some of that gravy while it is still hot.”
B-27. On Bravo’s list of “100 Scariest Movie Moments,” this was the highest-ranking film based on a stage play.
B-28. “Are you insane? Avoid all food not from a reputable vendor. It'll be washed in impure water.”
“It's just a sandwich. “
“Oh, marvelous. Then I'll have ham, cheese, and streptococcus. Or perhaps bacteria, lettuce, and tomato.”
“Would you like some of this? I believe it's called aloo ka paratha.”
“No, if I can't pronounce it, I don't want to eat it.
B-29. Lena Horne and Linda Darnell both campaigned to play the title role in this movie; the actress who did play it eventually got an Oscar nomination for it.
B-30. “Once upon a time, there was a beautiful young girl whose stepmother always made her stay home with the baby. And the baby was a spoiled child, and wanted everything to himself, and the young girl was practically a slave. But what no one knew is that the king of the goblins had fallen in love with the girl, and he had given her certain powers. So one night, when the baby had been particularly cruel to her, she called on the goblins for help!”
B-31. This was the second film in an unofficial trilogy that started with L’Avventura and ended with L’Eclisse.
B-32. “Ma, sooner or later, there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I gotta face is that, whatever it is that women like, I ain't got it.”
B-33. During the filming of this movie’s most famous scene, the director developed frostbite on one side of his face and the leading lady suffered damage to her right hand that still plagued her 73 years later.
B-34. “Hey, neighbor! You s**t-for-brains, man! You forgot I have a police radio! One well-dressed f**kin' man knows where your f**kin' cute little butt's hidin'! Stupid f**k! F**k with me, man! Here I come, ready or not! You f**k! I can hear your f**kin' radio, you stupid s**t! You got about one f**kin' second to live, buddy! You're one sorry piece of s**t, mister. Hey, pretty, pretty! What the f**k? Where are you? Where are you?”
B-35. A box office bomb when released in 2011, it has since achieved cult status. And if you’re wondering about the director’s intention, one critic explains that “it's right there in the title. He gives us what we want (or what we think we want, or what he thinks we think we want): Absurdly fetishized women in teeny little skirts, gloriously repetitious fight sequences loaded with plot coupons, pseudo-feminist fantasies of escape and revenge. Then he yanks it all back and stabs us through the eyeball.”
(I hope that clears that up for you.)
B-36. “Penguins have very much upset me! Animated, dancing penguins!”
B-37. This Oscar winner was the first movie to include scenes shot on location at Bellevue Hospital.
B-38. “I'll give them a chance that they didn't give me. They will get a legal trial in a legal courtroom. They will have a legal judge and a legal defense. They will get a legal sentence and a legal death.”
B-39. This film was inspired by an incident that took place at Big Dan’s Bar in Bedford, Massachusetts on March 6, 1983. (Big Dan lost his liquor license the next day.)
B-40. “He was from my village. He was the village idiot.”
“Yeah, what did you do? Place?”
B-41. Characters from the book who did not make it into this 1935 movie included Mrs. Mowcher, Mrs. Crupp, Mr. Creakle and Dr. Strong.
B-42. “You mean we might be a father?”
“ No. I might be a father. And your mom might be a mother. And you might be a brother. See, that way I keep it all in the family.”
“Wow! Hey, I didn't think people your age –“
“The next word may be your last, kid!”
B-43. Denied permission to film in Jakarta, this movie was initially shot in the Manila, then moved to Sydney when the director and leading man received death threats.
B-44. “You mean you could've taken your hand out of that cuff at any time?”
“No, not at any time, only when it was funny.”
B-45. More than 80 years after its release, this remains the only movie based on a comic strip to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Picture.
B-46. “It was not my intention to do this in front of you. For that I'm sorry. But you can take my word for it, your mother had it comin'. When you grow up, if you still feel raw about it, I'll be waiting.”
B-47. Mary was a 1999 Aston Martin DB7 . . . Stacey was a 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray . . . Gina was a 1990 Lamborghini Diablo . . . Grace was a 2000 Rolls Royce Stretch Limousine. . . .
B-48. Have you ever killed anyone?”
“Yeah, but they were all bad.”
B-49. The actress who played the adoptive mother of this film’s eponymous superhero had, 52 years earlier, won an Oscar playing opposite the actor who also played the same superhero’s biological father. Got that?
B-50. “What are you doing?”
“Well, I would say that I'm just drifting. Here in the pool.”
“Why?”
“Well, it's very comfortable just to drift here.”
“Have you thought about graduate school?”
“No.”
“Would you mind telling me then what those four years of college were for? What was the point of all that hard work?”
“You got me.”
B-51. The movie referenced in Clue A-22 also featured a parody of the most famous scene of this wartime drama.
B-52. “I'm happy that you've made the statement. But I cannot agree with most of my colleagues. See, I don't think an adult of your intelligence should be commended for simply, at long last, telling the truth.”
B-53. This film was based on the only novel by the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Got that?
B-54. “What I really want to do with my life - what I want to do for a living – is, I want to be with your daughter. I'm good at it.”
B-55. A fresh-faced young actor/dancer is remembered today only for his performance in this musical and for being the victim of one of the most brutal murders in show business history.
B-56. “What's a logical explanation for a woman taking a trip with no luggage?”
“That she didn't know she was going on a trip and where she was going she wouldn't need any luggage.”
B-57. The fifth-oldest actress to win a competitive Oscar did so for this movie, which also prominently features my favorite board game.
B-58. “The problem we're trying to solve is that there are rich teams and there are poor teams. Then there's fifty feet of crap, and then there's us.”
B-59. The movie-within-this-movie is titled Je Vous Présente Paméla.
B-60. “What is your nationality?”
“I'm a drunkard.”
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