Game #157: Encore

[SportsFan68]

A-4. “It's good, and it's bad. There's a guaranteed return, and that's good. But the guarantor is Amusa, and Amusa's a rookie, and that's bad. But it's an easily transportable object, and that's good. Only it's in a rotten position in the museum, thirty steps to the quickest exit, and that's bad. And the glass over the stone, that's bad too, because that's glass with metal mixed in it, bulletproof, shatterproof. But the locks don't look impossible, three, maybe five tumblers. But there's no alarm system, and that's the worst, because that means no one's going to get lazy watching, knowing the alarm will pick up their mistakes. Which means the whole thing has got to be a diversion job, and that's good and that's bad, because if the diversion's too big, it'll draw pedestrians, and if the diversion's not big enough, it won't draw that watchman.”

Robert Redford in The Hot Rock.

[silverscreenselect]

B-27. I won’t swear that this is the only movie in which a spilled cup of coffee leads to the deaths of 53 people, but I’ll take pretty high odds on it.

Fate Is the Hunter

By the way, this movie co-starred Nancy Kwan, who appeared with Miyoshi Umeki in Flower Drum Song. Neither of them made all that many movies, so I'd guess that they are paired through FDS. I'm not sure how or why yet.

[silverscreenselect]

A-20. “You hear me now! You rode into my place and beat my men for the last time and I give you warnin'. You set foot in Blanco Canyon once more and this country's gonna run red with blood 'til there ain't one of us left! Now I don't hold mine so precious, so if you want to start, here, start now! What's the matter? Can't you shoot a man a-facin' ya? I'll make it easy fer ya. Here's my back.”

Burl Ives in The Big Country

[franktangredi]

First pass

Game #157: Encore

A-55. His final film role was as the primary murder victim in the most successful “film noir” of the 1980s.

I would have guessed Body Heat as the most successful film noir of the 80s, but I guess not, because Richard Crenna definitely made more movies after that. Maybe the quotes mean the film noir is a pun or something.

If that's the case, could it be Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid? I'm sure that was the last role for several of the old time stars edited in. Ray Milland maybe?

The "old time stars" did not appear in the movie. Instead, they edited together clips from classic film noirs and similar 40s films with the new material making it look like Steve Martin was talking to them. If Frank means this, that's really a stretch for him.

But I'm trying to think of films that could arguably be called the most successful film noir of the 80s: Fatal Attraction, Blue Velvet, Blood Simple, even Blade Runner, and I don't see how that clue fits any of them.

This movie uses so many elements of film noir that it's hard not to classify it as an example of the genre. But its main distinction is so incongruously un-noirish that quotation marks are needed. As for its success .... it was a blockbuster!

[littlebeast13]

First pass

If that's the case, could it be Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid? I'm sure that was the last role for several of the old time stars edited in. Ray Milland maybe?

The "old time stars" did not appear in the movie. Instead, they edited together clips from classic film noirs and similar 40s films with the new material making it look like Steve Martin was talking to them. If Frank means this, that's really a stretch for him.

But I'm trying to think of films that could arguably be called the most successful film noir of the 80s: Fatal Attraction, Blue Velvet, Blood Simple, even Blade Runner, and I don't see how that clue fits any of them.

This movie uses so many elements of film noir that it's hard not to classify it as an example of the genre. But its main distinction is so incongruously un-noirish that quotation marks are needed. As for its success .... it was a blockbuster!

Ha! I'm taking this one even if I had to look up the actor's name...

A-55 - Stubby Kaye!

lb13

[mellytu74]

MUCH too late to this party but I was swamped yesterday.

First passes coming shortly.

[silverscreenselect]

A-34. “You'll publish your novel, you'll make a million bucks, you'll marry a big movie star, and for the rest of your life you'll live with your conscience, if you have any.”

I think this is Jose Ferrer in The Caine Mutiny talking to Fred MacMurray.

[frogman042]

A-34. “You'll publish your novel, you'll make a million bucks, you'll marry a big movie star, and for the rest of your life you'll live with your conscience, if you have any.”

I think this is Jose Ferrer in The Caine Mutiny talking to Fred MacMurray.

This one had been bothering me since I knew I knew it - but couldn't pull from where. Thanks!

[mellytu74]

first pass - actors

MOVIES COMING SHORTLY

LIST A: ACTORS

A-1 & A-2. “And after you shot your husband... how did you feel?”
“Hungry!”

KATHARINE HEPBURN
JUDY HOLIDAY

A-6. “I don't believe that God made man in his image. 'Cause most of the shit that happens comes from man. No, I think man was made in the Devil's image. And women were created out of God. 'Cause after all, women can have babies, which is kind of like creating. And which also accounts for the fact that women are so attracted to men... 'cause let's face it... the Devil is a hell of a lot more interesting! Believe me, I've slept with some saints in my day, I know what I'm talking about. So the whole point in life is for men and women to get married... so that God and the Devil can get together and work it out. Not that we have to get married. God forbid.”

MERCEDES REHUL in The Fisher King

A-7. This father of an Oscar-winning actress had one of the shortest tenures on one of the longest-running television series of all time.

A-8. “You can't help that you were born Christian instead of Jewish. It doesn't mean you're glad you were. But I am glad. There, I said it”

DOROTHY MCGUIRE in Gentlemen’s Agreement

A-10. “Goddammit, when is somebody going to go on the record in this story? You guys are about to write a story that says the former Attorney General, the highest-ranking law enforcement officer in this country, is a crook! Just be sure you're right!”

JASON ROBARDS

A-11. Taking on a role previously played by Will Rogers, this character actor had one of his few starring parts in a what was reputedly John Ford’s favorite among his films.

CHARLES WINNINGER? The role is Judge Priest/Sun Shines Bright

A-16. “It's as clear as a buttonhook in the well water!

PAUL FORD

A-19. Just as her career was getting started, this actress was blacklisted due to her eulogy for an earlier blacklisted actor – and her refusal to testify against her own husband.

LEE GRANT

A-21. In her 1987 autobiography, this Oscar-winning actress became the first celebrity to go public about being diagnosed with bipolar disorder.


PATTY DUKE

A-23. She was the first of two actresses to receive posthumous Emmy awards for their work on the same television series.

Who came first – ALICE PEARCE OR MARION LORNE? The show is Bewitched.

A-24. “Suppose I tell you exactly what's gonna happen to you. You're gonna be back in television. Only it won't be quite the same as it was before. There'll be a reasonable cooling-off period and then somebody will say: ‘Why don't we try him again in an inexpensive format. People's memories aren't too long.’ And you know, in a way, he'll be right. Some of the people will forget, and some of them won't. Oh, you'll have a show. Maybe not the best hour or, you know, top 10. Maybe not even in the top 35. But you'll have a show. It just won't be quite the same as it was before. Then a couple of new fellas will come along. And pretty soon, a lot of your fans will be flocking around them. And then one day, somebody'll ask: ‘Whatever happened to, a, whatshisname? You know, the one who was so big. The number-one fella a couple of years ago. He was famous. How can we forget a name like that?’”

WALTER MATTHAU in Face in the Crowd

A-29. In a classic thriller, she played the mother of one Charlie and the sister of another.

Teresa Wright’s mother/Joseph Cotton’s sister in Shadow of a Doubt. Drawing a blank on the name.

A-30. “Hemingway once wrote, ‘The world's a fine place and worth fighting for.’ I agree with the second part.”

MORGAN FREEMAN

A-31. He had a memorable bit as his own father in a 1942 musical biopic.

EDDIE FOY, JR.

A-32. “You know, you never were an actor. You did have looks, but they're gone now. You don't have to take my word for it. Just look in any mirror. They don't lie. Take a good look. Look at those pouches under your eyes. Look at those creases. You sag like an old woman! Get a load of yourself! Wait till you start tramping around the offices, looking for a job, because no agent's going to handle you. Sitting in those anterooms hour after hour, giving your name to office boys that never even heard of you. You're through!”

LEE TRACY in Dinner At Eight (To John Barrymore)???

A-35. As far as I can tell, he was the only actor to have appeared in support of both Cary Grant and Eddie Murphy.
RALPH BELLAMY (Awful Truth/His Girl Friday and Trading Places)

A-37. In 1962, this actor took on a role that had previously been played by both the actors referenced in Clue A-11.

TOM EWELL (State Fair)

A-38. “Older? You mean like Shelley Winters older or Shirley MacLaine older?”

HARVEY FIERSTEIN (Mrs. Doubtfire)

A-41. His impressive gallery of character roles included a Wild West showman, a Roman general, and a Sylvanian diplomat.

LOUIS CALHERN

A-42. “Twelve people go off into a room: twelve different minds, twelve different hearts, from twelve different walks of life; twelve sets of eyes, ears, shapes, and sizes. And these twelve people are asked to judge another human being as different from them as they are from each other. And in their judgment, they must become of one mind - unanimous. It's one of the miracles of Man's disorganized soul that they can do it, and in most instances, do it right well. God bless juries.”

HENRY FONDA?

A-44. “Look how they massacred my boy!”

MARLON BRANDO

A-45. In what would become the longest-running nationally-aired commercial in U.S. television history, this actor reminded us that many popular melodies were actually written by the great masters.

Like these familiar themes. OK, I have no idea who it was! LOL

A-47. In a highly unlikely casting choice, this baby-faced actor gave lessons in adultery to an actor in one of the preceding clues.

ROBERT MORSE (Guide for the Married Man)

A-50. “I feel sorry for you. What it must feel like to want to pull the switch.”

OK. the one about juries above can’t be Fonda because this is HENRY FONDA.

A-52. “I wouldn't cover the burning of Rome for you if they were just lighting it up! If I ever lay my two eyes on you again, I'm gonna walk right up to you and hammer on that monkeyed skull of yours 'til it rings like a Chinese gong!”

ROSALIND RUSSELL (in His Girl Friday)

A-60. “Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.”

Pretty sure this is PAUL SCOFIELD in Quiz Show

A-61. She won two Emmy awards for playing a character first introduced in a one-panel magazine comic.

OK – the 5-2 1/2 actress in A-13 can’t be Shirley Booth because THIS is SHIRLEY BOOTH in Hazel.

A-63. This young actor caused a stir when he turned down the role of Charles Lindbergh due to his dislike of Lindy’s pro-Nazi sympathies.

JAMES DEAN?

A-64. “’Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to discover that he had been transformed into a giant cockroach.’ Nah, it's too good.”

ZERO MOSTEL

A-65. The peak of his career was winning a Tony award for a real-life role that would later be played on screen by Dustin Hoffman.

CLIFF GORMAN (Lenny Bruce)

A-69. In her most popular movie, she played a tough-yet-vulnerable high school student. (She was 33 at the time.)

STOCKARD CHANNING

A-70. “I'm gonna' build me a chapel.”

SIDNEY POITIER

A-74. “I have a letter here, written a long time ago, to a Mrs. Bixby in Boston. So bear with me.”

HARVE PRESNELL

A-77. He has played the father of one of his sons three times, the father of another of his sons four times, and the father of his then daughter-in-law once.

MARTIN SHEEN?

A-78. “I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.”

LAURENCE OLIVIER

A-79. Bette Davis always credited this English actor with giving her her first big break.

GEORGE ARLISS?

A-80. “One Rocco more or less isn't worth dying for.”

LIONEL BARRYMORE

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A-34. “You'll publish your novel, you'll make a million bucks, you'll marry a big movie star, and for the rest of your life you'll live with your conscience, if you have any.”

I think this is Jose Ferrer in The Caine Mutiny talking to Fred MacMurray.

This one had been bothering me since I knew I knew it - but couldn't pull from where. Thanks!

Yes! I had the wrong answers but the right movie. I took my answer out.

[mellytu74]

LIST B: MOVIES

B-1. It was the first film of its genre, as well as the first based on a novel by a woman, to win a Best Picture Oscar.

CIMMARON

B-3. The director of this musical was hired because the studio mistakenly thought he was Jewish. (Come on, haven’t we all made the same mistake?)

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF

B-5. The National Legion of Decency sent representatives to Trinidad and Tobago to oversee production of this John Huston film – and were shocked when the two leads improvised a racy kissing scene entirely for their benefit.

HEAVEN KNOWS, MR. ALLISON?

B-6. “Don't touch the suit.”

ATLANTIC CITY

B-9. This film set in England was parodied two years later by Laurel and Hardy.

A YANK AT OXFORD?

B-10. “Sebastian always said, 'Mother, when you descend, it's like the Goddess from the Machine. You look just like angel coming to earth' as I float, float into view. Sebastian, my son Sebastian, was very interested in the Byzantine.”

SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER?

B-11. Although the words “Germany” and “Jew” are never spoken on screen, the Nazis got the message: they banned this 1940 film and every subsequent MGM film.

THE MORTAL STORM

B-12. “Now, see here Jerry. I'm sorry darling, of course. But, there's no sense in overplaying it. There's nothing to it. Oh, come on, snap out of it. It isn't the end of the world, darling. Why, gosh, I don't care a snap of my fingers for any woman in the world but you. If - if I'd killed somebody, you'd go all the way and back again for me. I'd ask you to try and forgive me, if I thought it was the right thing to do. But, that isn't the point. But, darling, you've got to get a broader look at things, that's all. Why, you're out in the world doing a man's work. Was that just a lot of talk about a man's point of view? Oh, please believe me, darling. It doesn't mean a thing. Not a thing! It doesn't make the slightest difference. Come on, snap out of it. Now, pull yourself together.”

THE DIVORCEE (thank you, TCM)

B-13. Any resemblance between this film and the actual life of Jeanine Deckers is purely coincidental.

THE SINGING NUN

B-15. Winning an Oscar for this film made its star the first male to win in both acting categories.

MISTER ROBERTS?


B-18. “Suppose the saints would have smoked if tobacco'd been popular back then?”
“Undoubtably. Not the ascetics, of course, but, well, St. Thomas More.”
“Long, thin, and filtered!”
“St. Ignatius would smoke cigars and then stub them out on the soles of his bare feet. And of course all of the apostles?”
“Hand rolled. ”
“Even Christ would partake socially. ”
“St. Peter?”
“Pipe! ”
“Right! ”
“Mary Magdalene? ”
“Ohhh! You've come a long way baby!”

AGNES OF GOD

B-22. “The force behind a great company has to be more than the pride of one man; it has to be the pride of thousands. You can't make men work for money alone - you starve their souls when you try it, and you can starve a company to death the same way.”

Not sure but this sure sounds like William Holden in EXECUTIVE SUITE

B-23. The only surviving print of this Best Picture nominee – adapted from a scandalous Victorian best-seller – resides in the UCLA film archive.

THE WHITE PARADE?

B-25. This 1939 western helped cement the mythology that has turned a onetime terrorist into an American folk hero.

JESSE JAMES? STAGECOACH?

B-28. “You have to think about one shot. One shot is what it's all about.”

THE DEER HUNTER

B-31. If you want to see the Nutty Professor recreate a role originally played by Rhett Butler’s wife, this will surely be your only chance.

LIVING IT UP

B-32. “You know when I was your age, I went out to fishing with all my brothers and my father, and everybody. And I was, I was the only one who caught a fish. Nobody else could catch one except me. You know how I did it? Every time I put the line in the water I said a Hail Mary and every time I said a Hail Mary I caught a fish. You believe that? It's true, that's the secret.”

THE GODFATHER, PART II

B-33. In a notorious gaffe, the Academy tried to nominate this classy musical for its screenplay, but inadvertently nominated a Bowery Boys movie with a similar title instead.

HIGH SOCIETY

B-36. “Hurry up, before they come back. And, groan, groan, stagger about and don't die too soon! You must take your time. And you mustn't die before eleven o'clock.”
“Don't you worry! I'll give you the best performance you ever saw in a hotel bedroom!”

ROOM SERVICE

B-39. The title character of this movie was based on a jazz pioneer who died at the age of 28.

YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN?

B-40. “A part in a play. You'd do all that just for a part in a play?”
“I'd do much more for a part that good.”

ALL ABOUT EVE

[SportsFan68]

What happened to A-4, Robert Redford?

first pass - actors

MOVIES COMING SHORTLY

LIST A: ACTORS

A-1 & A-2. “And after you shot your husband... how did you feel?”
“Hungry!”

KATHARINE HEPBURN
JUDY HOLIDAY

A-6. “I don't believe that God made man in his image. 'Cause most of the shit that happens comes from man. No, I think man was made in the Devil's image. And women were created out of God. 'Cause after all, women can have babies, which is kind of like creating. And which also accounts for the fact that women are so attracted to men... 'cause let's face it... the Devil is a hell of a lot more interesting! Believe me, I've slept with some saints in my day, I know what I'm talking about. So the whole point in life is for men and women to get married... so that God and the Devil can get together and work it out. Not that we have to get married. God forbid.”

MERCEDES REHUL in The Fisher King

A-7. This father of an Oscar-winning actress had one of the shortest tenures on one of the longest-running television series of all time.

A-8. “You can't help that you were born Christian instead of Jewish. It doesn't mean you're glad you were. But I am glad. There, I said it”

DOROTHY MCGUIRE in Gentlemen’s Agreement

A-10. “Goddammit, when is somebody going to go on the record in this story? You guys are about to write a story that says the former Attorney General, the highest-ranking law enforcement officer in this country, is a crook! Just be sure you're right!”

JASON ROBARDS

A-11. Taking on a role previously played by Will Rogers, this character actor had one of his few starring parts in a what was reputedly John Ford’s favorite among his films.

CHARLES WINNINGER? The role is Judge Priest/Sun Shines Bright

A-16. “It's as clear as a buttonhook in the well water!

PAUL FORD

A-19. Just as her career was getting started, this actress was blacklisted due to her eulogy for an earlier blacklisted actor – and her refusal to testify against her own husband.

LEE GRANT

A-21. In her 1987 autobiography, this Oscar-winning actress became the first celebrity to go public about being diagnosed with bipolar disorder.


PATTY DUKE

A-23. She was the first of two actresses to receive posthumous Emmy awards for their work on the same television series.

Who came first – ALICE PEARCE OR MARION LORNE? The show is Bewitched.

A-24. “Suppose I tell you exactly what's gonna happen to you. You're gonna be back in television. Only it won't be quite the same as it was before. There'll be a reasonable cooling-off period and then somebody will say: ‘Why don't we try him again in an inexpensive format. People's memories aren't too long.’ And you know, in a way, he'll be right. Some of the people will forget, and some of them won't. Oh, you'll have a show. Maybe not the best hour or, you know, top 10. Maybe not even in the top 35. But you'll have a show. It just won't be quite the same as it was before. Then a couple of new fellas will come along. And pretty soon, a lot of your fans will be flocking around them. And then one day, somebody'll ask: ‘Whatever happened to, a, whatshisname? You know, the one who was so big. The number-one fella a couple of years ago. He was famous. How can we forget a name like that?’”

WALTER MATTHAU in Face in the Crowd

A-29. In a classic thriller, she played the mother of one Charlie and the sister of another.

Teresa Wright’s mother/Joseph Cotton’s sister in Shadow of a Doubt. Drawing a blank on the name.

A-30. “Hemingway once wrote, ‘The world's a fine place and worth fighting for.’ I agree with the second part.”

MORGAN FREEMAN

A-31. He had a memorable bit as his own father in a 1942 musical biopic.

EDDIE FOY, JR.

A-32. “You know, you never were an actor. You did have looks, but they're gone now. You don't have to take my word for it. Just look in any mirror. They don't lie. Take a good look. Look at those pouches under your eyes. Look at those creases. You sag like an old woman! Get a load of yourself! Wait till you start tramping around the offices, looking for a job, because no agent's going to handle you. Sitting in those anterooms hour after hour, giving your name to office boys that never even heard of you. You're through!”

LEE TRACY in Dinner At Eight (To John Barrymore)???

A-35. As far as I can tell, he was the only actor to have appeared in support of both Cary Grant and Eddie Murphy.
RALPH BELLAMY (Awful Truth/His Girl Friday and Trading Places)

A-37. In 1962, this actor took on a role that had previously been played by both the actors referenced in Clue A-11.

TOM EWELL (State Fair)

A-38. “Older? You mean like Shelley Winters older or Shirley MacLaine older?”

HARVEY FIERSTEIN (Mrs. Doubtfire)

A-41. His impressive gallery of character roles included a Wild West showman, a Roman general, and a Sylvanian diplomat.

LOUIS CALHERN

A-42. “Twelve people go off into a room: twelve different minds, twelve different hearts, from twelve different walks of life; twelve sets of eyes, ears, shapes, and sizes. And these twelve people are asked to judge another human being as different from them as they are from each other. And in their judgment, they must become of one mind - unanimous. It's one of the miracles of Man's disorganized soul that they can do it, and in most instances, do it right well. God bless juries.”

HENRY FONDA?

A-44. “Look how they massacred my boy!”

MARLON BRANDO

A-45. In what would become the longest-running nationally-aired commercial in U.S. television history, this actor reminded us that many popular melodies were actually written by the great masters.

Like these familiar themes. OK, I have no idea who it was! LOL

A-47. In a highly unlikely casting choice, this baby-faced actor gave lessons in adultery to an actor in one of the preceding clues.

ROBERT MORSE (Guide for the Married Man)

A-50. “I feel sorry for you. What it must feel like to want to pull the switch.”

OK. the one about juries above can’t be Fonda because this is HENRY FONDA.

A-52. “I wouldn't cover the burning of Rome for you if they were just lighting it up! If I ever lay my two eyes on you again, I'm gonna walk right up to you and hammer on that monkeyed skull of yours 'til it rings like a Chinese gong!”

ROSALIND RUSSELL (in His Girl Friday)

A-60. “Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.”

Pretty sure this is PAUL SCOFIELD in Quiz Show

A-61. She won two Emmy awards for playing a character first introduced in a one-panel magazine comic.

OK – the 5-2 1/2 actress in A-13 can’t be Shirley Booth because THIS is SHIRLEY BOOTH in Hazel.

A-63. This young actor caused a stir when he turned down the role of Charles Lindbergh due to his dislike of Lindy’s pro-Nazi sympathies.

JAMES DEAN?

A-64. “’Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to discover that he had been transformed into a giant cockroach.’ Nah, it's too good.”

ZERO MOSTEL

A-65. The peak of his career was winning a Tony award for a real-life role that would later be played on screen by Dustin Hoffman.

CLIFF GORMAN (Lenny Bruce)

A-69. In her most popular movie, she played a tough-yet-vulnerable high school student. (She was 33 at the time.)

STOCKARD CHANNING

A-70. “I'm gonna' build me a chapel.”

SIDNEY POITIER

A-74. “I have a letter here, written a long time ago, to a Mrs. Bixby in Boston. So bear with me.”

HARVE PRESNELL

A-77. He has played the father of one of his sons three times, the father of another of his sons four times, and the father of his then daughter-in-law once.

MARTIN SHEEN?

A-78. “I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.”

LAURENCE OLIVIER

A-79. Bette Davis always credited this English actor with giving her her first big break.

GEORGE ARLISS?

A-80. “One Rocco more or less isn't worth dying for.”

LIONEL BARRYMORE

[silverscreenselect]

Throwing this out there. Miyoshi Umeki appeared in Flower Drum Song with Nancy Kwan. She also appeared in Cry for Happy with Glenn Ford who was also in Fate Is the Hunter. It seems like this still leaves a lot of wiggle room since actors like Henry Fonda and Paul Newman appeared in dozens of films, so it's pretty easy to get a film with two actors who appeared with Fonda at one time or another in their careers.

Unless you factor in that James Shigeta also co-starred with Umeki in both Flower Drum Song and Cry for Happy. That narrows it down a lot.

The Tangredi might be that Actor in List A appeared with Actor X (not in List A) in two different films. In one of those films, they costarred with Actor Y and in the other they co-starred with Actor Z. Both Actor Y and Actor Z appear in a film in List B.

[mellytu74]

What happened to A-4, Robert Redford?

This was my first pass, not a consolidation. Robert Redford's not there because I didn't know it.

[mellytu74]

CONSOLIDATION COMING SHORTLY

I won't be able to consolidate during the day but can handle it at night.

[mellytu74]

Game #157: Encore

Identify the 80 actors in List A and the 40 movies in List B. (For questions A-1 and A-2, you need to identify both actors involved in the given dialogue; every other clue after that is a quotation.) Then, pair one actor with one movie according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. There will be a total of 87 pairs.

Seven actors will be used twice. Thirteen movies will be used twice, ten will be used three times, one will be used four times, one will be used six times, and one will be used seven (!) times.

LIST A: ACTORS

A-1 & A-2. “And after you shot your husband... how did you feel?”
“Hungry!”

KATHERINE HEPBURN
JUDY HOLIDAY

A-3. This actress completes the following list: Cate Blanchett, Robert DeNiro, Paul Newman, Joe Pesci.


A-4. “It's good, and it's bad. There's a guaranteed return, and that's good. But the guarantor is Amusa, and Amusa's a rookie, and that's bad. But it's an easily transportable object, and that's good. Only it's in a rotten position in the museum, thirty steps to the quickest exit, and that's bad. And the glass over the stone, that's bad too, because that's glass with metal mixed in it, bulletproof, shatterproof. But the locks don't look impossible, three, maybe five tumblers. But there's no alarm system, and that's the worst, because that means no one's going to get lazy watching, knowing the alarm will pick up their mistakes. Which means the whole thing has got to be a diversion job, and that's good and that's bad, because if the diversion's too big, it'll draw pedestrians, and if the diversion's not big enough, it won't draw that watchman.”

ROBERT REDFORD

A-5. This one-time WWI intelligence officer was a lifelong friend of the man who wrote the score for the musical in Clue B-33.

A-6. “I don't believe that God made man in his image. 'Cause most of the shit that happens comes from man. No, I think man was made in the Devil's image. And women were created out of God. 'Cause after all, women can have babies, which is kind of like creating. And which also accounts for the fact that women are so attracted to men... 'cause let's face it... the Devil is a hell of a lot more interesting! Believe me, I've slept with some saints in my day, I know what I'm talking about. So the whole point in life is for men and women to get married... so that God and the Devil can get together and work it out. Not that we have to get married. God forbid.”

MERCEDES RUEHL

A-7. This father of an Oscar-winning actress had one of the shortest tenures on one of the longest-running television series of all time.

A-8. “You can't help that you were born Christian instead of Jewish. It doesn't mean you're glad you were. But I am glad. There, I said it”

DOROTHY MCGUIRE

A-9. The stabbing death of this actor is one of the most closely analyzed sequences in Francois Truffaut’s celebrated interview with Alfred Hitchcock.

MARTIN BALSAM?

A-10. “Goddammit, when is somebody going to go on the record in this story? You guys are about to write a story that says the former Attorney General, the highest-ranking law enforcement officer in this country, is a crook! Just be sure you're right!”

JASON ROBARDS

A-11. Taking on a role previously played by Will Rogers, this character actor had one of his few starring parts in a what was reputedly John Ford’s favorite among his films.

CHARLES WINNINGER?

A-12. “Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”

RICHARD CASTELLANO

A-13. For 25 years, she held the record as the oldest Oscar-winning actor and still holds the #10 spot. (At 5' 2¼", she was also one of the shortest, and at six films compiled one of the shortest filmographies.)

JOSEPHINE HULL? Ruth Gordon has too many movies

A-14. “It's funny how some distance/Makes everything seem small/And the fears that once controlled me/Can't get to me at all!”

A-15. She received no screen credit for her 1947 role as victim of arguably the most shocking and vicious murder in the history of film noir.

MILDRED DUNNOCK (kiss of death)

A-16. “It's as clear as a buttonhook in the well water!

PAUL FORD

A-17. This Canadian actor’s divorce from his second wife provided the inspiration for one of the films quoted above.

A-18. “Thank you, Honore. That was the most charming and endearing excuse for infidelity I've ever heard.”

HERMONINE GINGOLD

A-19. Just as her career was getting started, this actress was blacklisted due to her eulogy for an earlier blacklisted actor – and her refusal to testify against her own husband.

LEE GRANT

A-20. “You hear me now! You rode into my place and beat my men for the last time and I give you warnin'. You set foot in Blanco Canyon once more and this country's gonna run red with blood 'til there ain't one of us left! Now I don't hold mine so precious, so if you want to start, here, start now! What's the matter? Can't you shoot a man a-facin' ya? I'll make it easy fer ya. Here's my back.”

BURL IVES

A-21. In her 1987 autobiography, this Oscar-winning actress became the first celebrity to go public about being diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

PATTY DUKE

A-22. “Laughter? Laughter? My son I shall build your tomb upon their crushed bodies. If any escape me, their seed shall be scattered and accursed forever. My armor! The war crown! Laughter? I will turn the laughter of these slaves into wails of torment!”

YUL BRYNNER

A-23. She was the first of two actresses to receive posthumous Emmy awards for their work on the same television series.

ALICE PEARCE? MARION LORNE?

A-24. “Suppose I tell you exactly what's gonna happen to you. You're gonna be back in television. Only it won't be quite the same as it was before. There'll be a reasonable cooling-off period and then somebody will say: ‘Why don't we try him again in an inexpensive format. People's memories aren't too long.’ And you know, in a way, he'll be right. Some of the people will forget, and some of them won't. Oh, you'll have a show. Maybe not the best hour or, you know, top 10. Maybe not even in the top 35. But you'll have a show. It just won't be quite the same as it was before. Then a couple of new fellas will come along. And pretty soon, a lot of your fans will be flocking around them. And then one day, somebody'll ask: ‘Whatever happened to, a, whatshisname? You know, the one who was so big. The number-one fella a couple of years ago. He was famous. How can we forget a name like that?’”

WALTER MATTHAU

A-25. Other than Edward Asner himself, she was the only actor to play the same role on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Lou Grant.

EILEEN HECKART

A-26. “You killed the car.”

MATTHEW BRODERICK

A-27. In two of the highest-grossing costume epics of the 1950s, she played the mother of the same actor – who was only eleven years her junior.

MARTHA SCOTT

A-28. “I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics.”

A-29. In a classic thriller, she played the mother of one Charlie and the sister of another.

PATRICIA COLLINGE

A-30. “Hemingway once wrote, ‘The world's a fine place and worth fighting for.’ I agree with the second part.”

MORGAN FREEMAN

A-31. He had a memorable bit as his own father in a 1942 musical biopic.

EDDIE FOY, JR.

A-32. “You know, you never were an actor. You did have looks, but they're gone now. You don't have to take my word for it. Just look in any mirror. They don't lie. Take a good look. Look at those pouches under your eyes. Look at those creases. You sag like an old woman! Get a load of yourself! Wait till you start tramping around the offices, looking for a job, because no agent's going to handle you. Sitting in those anterooms hour after hour, giving your name to office boys that never even heard of you. You're through!”

LEE TRACY

A-33. She was the first African American actress to lose an Oscar.

ETHEL WATERS (Pinky)

A-34. “You'll publish your novel, you'll make a million bucks, you'll marry a big movie star, and for the rest of your life you'll live with your conscience, if you have any.”

JOSE FERRER

A-35. As far as I can tell, he was the only actor to have appeared in support of both Cary Grant and Eddie Murphy.

RALPH BELLAMY

A-36. “Now what kind of an attitude is that, ‘These things happen?’ They only happen because this whole country is just full of people, who when these things happen, they just say, ‘These things happen,’ and that's why they happen!”

ETHEL MERMAN

A-37. In 1962, this actor took on a role that had previously been played by both the actors referenced in Clue A-11.

TOM EWELL (State Fair)

A-38. “Older? You mean like Shelley Winters older or Shirley MacLaine older?”

HARVEY FIERSTEIN

A-39. This actor appeared in films based on novels by Louisa May Alcott, Sinclair Lewis, Rudyard Kipling, Jules Verne, and Joseph Conrad.

A-40. “You are a caged lion! But lions can't be captive their entire lives. They have to be free to roam the bush. Free and wild! Your wife is a hot sexy tigress and she's waiting for you to pounce on her! Let me hear you roar, baby, roar! Your body is talking to me. It's hungry for action! I can feel it. Unleash the beast inside you, Jack!”

A-41. His impressive gallery of character roles included a Wild West showman, a Roman general, and a Sylvanian diplomat.

LOUIS CALHERN

A-42. “Twelve people go off into a room: twelve different minds, twelve different hearts, from twelve different walks of life; twelve sets of eyes, ears, shapes, and sizes. And these twelve people are asked to judge another human being as different from them as they are from each other. And in their judgment, they must become of one mind - unanimous. It's one of the miracles of Man's disorganized soul that they can do it, and in most instances, do it right well. God bless juries.”

ARTHUR O’CONNELL (Anatomy of a Murder)

A-43. Though he came First, this actor had a much smaller role than the guys who played Second Cab Driver and Third Cab Driver.

LEO GORCEY?

A-44. “Look how they massacred my boy!”

MARLON BRANDO

A-45. In what would become the longest-running nationally-aired commercial in U.S. television history, this actor reminded us that many popular melodies were actually written by the great masters.

JOHN WILLIAMS

A-46. “Running was always a big thing in our family, specially running away from the police. It's hard to understand. All I know is that you've got to run, running without knowing why, through fields and woods. And the winning post's no end, even though the barmy crowds might be cheering themselves daft.”

TOM COURTENAY

A-47. In a highly unlikely casting choice, this baby-faced actor gave lessons in adultery to an actor in one of the preceding clues.

ROBERT MORSE

A-48. “You only live once, and once is enough if you play your cards right.”

A-49. He reprised one of his most popular big screen roles in a small screen spinoff, while his most popular small screen role was reprised on the big screen by Christopher Lloyd.

RAY WALSTON?

A-50. “I feel sorry for you. What it must feel like to want to pull the switch.”

HENRY FONDA

A-51. This actress made only five American films between 1957 and 1962 – winning an Oscar in the process – and retired completely from acting in 1972 after a three-year stint on a popular sitcom.
MIYOSHI UMEKI

A-52. “I wouldn't cover the burning of Rome for you if they were just lighting it up! If I ever lay my two eyes on you again, I'm gonna walk right up to you and hammer on that monkeyed skull of yours 'til it rings like a Chinese gong!”

ROSALIND RUSSELL

A-53. In 1935, this scene-stealing character actress appeared in classic films directed by John Ford, James Whale, and George Cukor.

UNA O’CONNOR

A-54. “There's nothing more inconvenient than an old queen with a head cold.”

ROBERT PRESTON

A-55. His final film role was as the primary murder victim in the most successful “film noir” of the 1980s.

STUBBY KAYE

A-56. “Most fish languages are a combination of bubbles and mouth movement. At the moment, all I can make is large bubbles and they keep telling me I'm shouting”

A-57. He made the last of his five films at the age of 34 and died 44 years later.

A-58. “Beware. Beware. Beware of the big, green dragon that sits on your doorstep. He eats little boys, puppy dog tails and big, fat snails. Beware. Take care. Beware.”

A-59. This distinguished actor starred in two episodes of my favorite television series: as a sick old man who chooses love over health and as a ghost who metes out terrifying justice to a really bad man.

JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT

A-60. “Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.”

PAUL SCOFIELD

A-61. She won two Emmy awards for playing a character first introduced in a one-panel magazine comic.

SHIRLEY BOOTH (Hazel was a one-panel)

A-62. “Ladies and gentlemen, you all have one thing in common: you're all being blackmailed. For some considerable time, all of you have been paying what you can afford, and in some cases more than you can afford, to someone who threatens to expose you. And none of you know who's blackmailing you. Do you?”

TIM CURRY

A-63. This young actor caused a stir when he turned down the role of Charles Lindbergh due to his dislike of Lindy’s pro-Nazi sympathies.

JAMES DEAN?

A-64. “’Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to discover that he had been transformed into a giant cockroach.’ Nah, it's too good.”

ZERO MOSTEL

A-65. The peak of his career was winning a Tony award for a real-life role that would later be played on screen by Dustin Hoffman.

CLIFF GORMAN

A-66. “Don’t look for happiness, Richie, it’ll only make you miserable.”

This was driving me nuts. BEA ARTHUR (Lovers and Other Strangers)

A-67. As far as I know, he is the only man to have ever slept with both Rita Hayworth and Whoopi Goldberg.

A-68. “Who looks after your father? Tell me that. When something terrible happens, what does he do? Fends for himself, he does. Who does he tell about it? No one. Don't blab his troubles at home. He just pushes on at his job, uncomplaining and alone and silent.”

DICK VAN DYKE

A-69. In her most popular movie, she played a tough-yet-vulnerable high school student. (She was 33 at the time.)

STOCKARD CHANNING

A-70. “I'm gonna' build me a chapel.”

SIDNEY POITIER

A-71. He was the first actor ever to play the role of James Bond.

BARRY NELSON

A-72. “If he'd just pay me what he's spending to make me stop robbing him, I'd stop robbing him.”

PAUL NEWMAN

A-73. This blacklisted actor’s eleven-year exile from feature films came to an end when he was cast as a sympathetic psychiatrist in a highly regarded love story.

HOWARD DASILVA? (David and Lisa)

A-74. “I have a letter here, written a long time ago, to a Mrs. Bixby in Boston. So bear with me.”

HARVE PRESNELL

A-75. She was the first actress ever to be named a DBE.

A-76. “Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope.”

JAMES EARL JONES

A-77. He has played the father of one of his sons three times, the father of another of his sons four times, and the father of his then daughter-in-law once.

MARTIN SHEEN?

A-78. “I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.”

LAURENCE OLIVIER

A-79. Bette Davis always credited this English actor with giving her her first big break.

GEORGE ARLISS?

A-80. “One Rocco more or less isn't worth dying for.”

LIONEL BARRYMORE

LIST B: MOVIES

B-1. It was the first film of its genre, as well as the first based on a novel by a woman, to win a Best Picture Oscar.

CIMARRON

B-2. “You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, ‘Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness.’ You call yourself a free spirit, a ‘wild thing,’ and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself.”

B-3. The director of this musical was hired because the studio mistakenly thought he was Jewish. (Come on, haven’t we all made the same mistake?)

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF

B-4. “I’m a cotton-headed ninnymoggins!”

B-5. The National Legion of Decency sent representatives to Trinidad and Tobago to oversee production of this John Huston film – and were shocked when the two leads improvised a racy kissing scene entirely for their benefit.

HEAVEN KNOWS MR. ALLISON

B-6. “Don't touch the suit.”

ATLANTIC CITY

B-7. This 1950 sports film belongs on a list that also includes To Hell and Back and Private Parts.

THE JACKIE ROBINSON STORY

B-8. “Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if no one tried to find out what lies beyond? Have your never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars, or to know what causes the trees to bud? And what changes the darkness into light? But if you talk like that, people call you crazy. Well, if I could discover just one of these things, what eternity is, for example, I wouldn't care if they did think I was crazy.”

FRANKENSTEIN

B-9. This film set in England was parodied two years later by Laurel and Hardy.

A YANK AT OXFORD

B-10. “Sebastian always said, 'Mother, when you descend, it's like the Goddess from the Machine. You look just like angel coming to earth' as I float, float into view. Sebastian, my son Sebastian, was very interested in the Byzantine.”

SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER

B-11. Although the words “Germany” and “Jew” are never spoken on screen, the Nazis got the message: they banned this 1940 film and every subsequent MGM film.

THE GREAT DICTATOR? THE MORTAL STORM?

B-12. “Now, see here Jerry. I'm sorry darling, of course. But, there's no sense in overplaying it. There's nothing to it. Oh, come on, snap out of it. It isn't the end of the world, darling. Why, gosh, I don't care a snap of my fingers for any woman in the world but you. If - if I'd killed somebody, you'd go all the way and back again for me. I'd ask you to try and forgive me, if I thought it was the right thing to do. But, that isn't the point. But, darling, you've got to get a broader look at things, that's all. Why, you're out in the world doing a man's work. Was that just a lot of talk about a man's point of view? Oh, please believe me, darling. It doesn't mean a thing. Not a thing! It doesn't make the slightest difference. Come on, snap out of it. Now, pull yourself together.”

THE DIVORCEE

B-13. Any resemblance between this film and the actual life of Jeanine Deckers is purely coincidental.

THE SINGING NUN

B-14. “Why are they doing this? Why are they doing this? They said when you got here the whole thing started. Who are you? What are you? Where did you come from? I think you're the cause of all of this. I think you're evil. Evil!”

THE BIRDS

B-15. Winning an Oscar for this film made its star the first male to win in both acting categories.

MISTER ROBERTS?

B-16. “Is that tuck and roll?”
“ Yeah.”
“ That's bitchin,' tuck and roll! You know, I really love the feel of tuck and roll upholstery. ”

AMERICAN GRAFITTI

B-17. This flick kicked off what would become the highest-grossing horror movie franchise in U.S. history (adjusting for inflation.)

FRIDAY THE 13TH?

B-18. “Suppose the saints would have smoked if tobacco'd been popular back then?”
“Undoubtably. Not the ascetics, of course, but, well, St. Thomas More.”
“Long, thin, and filtered!”
“St. Ignatius would smoke cigars and then stub them out on the soles of his bare feet. And of course all of the apostles?”
“Hand rolled. ”
“Even Christ would partake socially. ”
“St. Peter?”
“Pipe! ”
“Right! ”
“Mary Magdalene? ”
“Ohhh! You've come a long way baby!”

AGNES OF GOD

B-19. The star of this film called his castmate “one of the most natural actors I ever worked with” – high praise indeed for a Pongo pygmaeus!

EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE?

B-20. “Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us, and many of us much worse.”

B-21. This 1972 comedy-drama was adapted from two different novels by Peter DeVries.

B-22. “The force behind a great company has to be more than the pride of one man; it has to be the pride of thousands. You can't make men work for money alone - you starve their souls when you try it, and you can starve a company to death the same way.”

EXECUTIVE SUITE

B-23. The only surviving print of this Best Picture nominee – adapted from a scandalous Victorian best-seller – resides in the UCLA film archive.

THE WHITE PARADE?

B-24. “Cold are the hands of time that creep along relentlessly, destroying slowly but without pity that which yesterday was young. Alone our memories resist this disintegration and grow more lovely with the passing years. Heh! That's hard to say with false teeth!”

B-25. This 1939 western helped cement the mythology that has turned a onetime terrorist into an American folk hero.

JESSE JAMES? STAGECOACH?

B-26. “I was prepared to sue you. I don't know who I am, but I'm sure I have a lawyer.”

B-27. I won’t swear that this is the only movie in which a spilled cup of coffee leads to the deaths of 53 people, but I’ll take pretty high odds on it.

FATE IS THE HUNTER

B-28. “You have to think about one shot. One shot is what it's all about.”

THE DEER HUNTER

B-29. This cult classic by an Italian master of horror is probably the scariest, goriest movie ever made about ballet.

SUSPIRIA

B-30. “You don't own me, Howard. I'm not one of your teenage whores and I'm not some damn airplane!.”

THE AVIATOR

B-31. If you want to see the Nutty Professor recreate a role originally played by Rhett Butler’s wife, this will surely be your only chance.

LIVING IT UP

B-32. “You know when I was your age, I went out to fishing with all my brothers and my father, and everybody. And I was, I was the only one who caught a fish. Nobody else could catch one except me. You know how I did it? Every time I put the line in the water I said a Hail Mary and every time I said a Hail Mary I caught a fish. You believe that? It's true, that's the secret.”

THE GODFATHER II

B-33. In a notorious gaffe, the Academy tried to nominate this classy musical for its screenplay, but inadvertently nominated a Bowery Boys movie with a similar title instead.

HIGH SOCIETY

B-34. “What kind of a person drives from Colorado to Louisiana to work in a dog kennel?”
“I couldn't tell you. I walked. ”
“You walked? You walked here from Colorado? ”
“I like to walk.”

B-35. The film critic for the New York Times said that this 2006 tale of restitution and redemption "may be among the most transcendently, eye-poppingly, call-your-friend-ranting-in-the-middle-of-the-night-just-to-go-over-it-one-more-time crazily awful motion pictures ever made." (It also features a rare cinematic example of suicide-by-jellyfish.)

SEVEN POUNDS

B-36. “Hurry up, before they come back. And, groan, groan, stagger about and don't die too soon! You must take your time. And you mustn't die before eleven o'clock.”
“Don't you worry! I'll give you the best performance you ever saw in a hotel bedroom!”

ROOM SERVICE

B-37. A rose. Flatulence. Model airplane glue. Pizza. Gasoline in a can. Skunk. Natural gas from an oven. A new car smell of leather upholstery. Dirty shoes. Air freshener from an aerosol can. (If you get the sequence, you know the movie.)

B-38. “I've been jealous all my life. Jealous, I couldn't even stand it. Tonight, I even tried to buy your love, but now I don't want it anymore. I can't use it anymore. I don't want any kind of love anymore. It doesn't pay off.”

EAST OF EDEN?

B-39. The title character of this movie was based on a jazz pioneer who died at the age of 28.

YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN

B-40. “A part in a play. You'd do all that just for a part in a play?”
“I'd do much more for a part that good.”

ALL ABOUT EVE

[silverscreenselect]

B-17. This flick kicked off what would become the highest-grossing horror movie franchise in U.S. history (adjusting for inflation.)

FRIDAY THE 13TH?

If we're talking about US grosses adjusted for inflation, the highest franchises, in order, are Jaws, The Exorcist, Alien, and Friday the 13th. You can make arguments either way as to whether or not the first three of these are really "horror" franchises. Now, if you're talking about worldwide grosses, the Saw franchise ranks ahead of Friday the 13th.

[silverscreenselect]

B-37. A rose. Flatulence. Model airplane glue. Pizza. Gasoline in a can. Skunk. Natural gas from an oven. A new car smell of leather upholstery. Dirty shoes. Air freshener from an aerosol can. (If you get the sequence, you know the movie.)

POLYESTER

[SportsFan68]

What happened to A-4, Robert Redford?

This was my first pass, not a consolidation. Robert Redford's not there because I didn't know it.

Oops, sorry. I misunderstood.

Bad Sprots! Bad!! Bad!!

[mellytu74]

What happened to A-4, Robert Redford?

This was my first pass, not a consolidation. Robert Redford's not there because I didn't know it.

Oops, sorry. I misunderstood.

Bad Sprots! Bad!! Bad!!

Sprotsie!

We got a consolidation out of it!!

[franktangredi]

B-17. This flick kicked off what would become the highest-grossing horror movie franchise in U.S. history (adjusting for inflation.)

FRIDAY THE 13TH?

If we're talking about US grosses adjusted for inflation, the highest franchises, in order, are Jaws, The Exorcist, Alien, and Friday the 13th. You can make arguments either way as to whether or not the first three of these are really "horror" franchises. Now, if you're talking about worldwide grosses, the Saw franchise ranks ahead of Friday the 13th.

The source I looked at said Friday the 13th, so let's clear that up.

[franktangredi]

Of the actors, one of the definites is wrong. (It's a case of right church, wrong pew.) Of the ones with question marks, two are wrong, and one of them is my fault due to the same myopia that made me overlook Janet Leigh. (The correct answer was suggested by someone else.) All of the answers with two alternates include the correct answer.

Of the movies, all of the definites are correct. Of the one with question marks, two are wrong. (One of them is a case of right preacher, wrong church, and the correct answer was suggested by someone else.) All of the answers with two alternates include the correct answer.

The Tangredi is very gettable.

Game #157: Encore

Identify the 80 actors in List A and the 40 movies in List B. (For questions A-1 and A-2, you need to identify both actors involved in the given dialogue; every other clue after that is a quotation.) Then, pair one actor with one movie according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. There will be a total of 87 pairs.

Seven actors will be used twice. Thirteen movies will be used twice, ten will be used three times, one will be used four times, one will be used six times, and one will be used seven (!) times.

LIST A: ACTORS

A-1 & A-2. “And after you shot your husband... how did you feel?”
“Hungry!”

KATHERINE HEPBURN
JUDY HOLIDAY

A-3. This actress completes the following list: Cate Blanchett, Robert DeNiro, Paul Newman, Joe Pesci.


A-4. “It's good, and it's bad. There's a guaranteed return, and that's good. But the guarantor is Amusa, and Amusa's a rookie, and that's bad. But it's an easily transportable object, and that's good. Only it's in a rotten position in the museum, thirty steps to the quickest exit, and that's bad. And the glass over the stone, that's bad too, because that's glass with metal mixed in it, bulletproof, shatterproof. But the locks don't look impossible, three, maybe five tumblers. But there's no alarm system, and that's the worst, because that means no one's going to get lazy watching, knowing the alarm will pick up their mistakes. Which means the whole thing has got to be a diversion job, and that's good and that's bad, because if the diversion's too big, it'll draw pedestrians, and if the diversion's not big enough, it won't draw that watchman.”

ROBERT REDFORD

A-5. This one-time WWI intelligence officer was a lifelong friend of the man who wrote the score for the musical in Clue B-33.

A-6. “I don't believe that God made man in his image. 'Cause most of the shit that happens comes from man. No, I think man was made in the Devil's image. And women were created out of God. 'Cause after all, women can have babies, which is kind of like creating. And which also accounts for the fact that women are so attracted to men... 'cause let's face it... the Devil is a hell of a lot more interesting! Believe me, I've slept with some saints in my day, I know what I'm talking about. So the whole point in life is for men and women to get married... so that God and the Devil can get together and work it out. Not that we have to get married. God forbid.”

MERCEDES RUEHL

A-7. This father of an Oscar-winning actress had one of the shortest tenures on one of the longest-running television series of all time.

A-8. “You can't help that you were born Christian instead of Jewish. It doesn't mean you're glad you were. But I am glad. There, I said it”

DOROTHY MCGUIRE

A-9. The stabbing death of this actor is one of the most closely analyzed sequences in Francois Truffaut’s celebrated interview with Alfred Hitchcock.

MARTIN BALSAM?

A-10. “Goddammit, when is somebody going to go on the record in this story? You guys are about to write a story that says the former Attorney General, the highest-ranking law enforcement officer in this country, is a crook! Just be sure you're right!”

JASON ROBARDS

A-11. Taking on a role previously played by Will Rogers, this character actor had one of his few starring parts in a what was reputedly John Ford’s favorite among his films.

CHARLES WINNINGER?

A-12. “Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”

RICHARD CASTELLANO

A-13. For 25 years, she held the record as the oldest Oscar-winning actor and still holds the #10 spot. (At 5' 2¼", she was also one of the shortest, and at six films compiled one of the shortest filmographies.)

JOSEPHINE HULL? Ruth Gordon has too many movies

A-14. “It's funny how some distance/Makes everything seem small/And the fears that once controlled me/Can't get to me at all!”

A-15. She received no screen credit for her 1947 role as victim of arguably the most shocking and vicious murder in the history of film noir.

MILDRED DUNNOCK (kiss of death)

A-16. “It's as clear as a buttonhook in the well water!

PAUL FORD

A-17. This Canadian actor’s divorce from his second wife provided the inspiration for one of the films quoted above.

A-18. “Thank you, Honore. That was the most charming and endearing excuse for infidelity I've ever heard.”

HERMONINE GINGOLD

A-19. Just as her career was getting started, this actress was blacklisted due to her eulogy for an earlier blacklisted actor – and her refusal to testify against her own husband.

LEE GRANT

A-20. “You hear me now! You rode into my place and beat my men for the last time and I give you warnin'. You set foot in Blanco Canyon once more and this country's gonna run red with blood 'til there ain't one of us left! Now I don't hold mine so precious, so if you want to start, here, start now! What's the matter? Can't you shoot a man a-facin' ya? I'll make it easy fer ya. Here's my back.”

BURL IVES

A-21. In her 1987 autobiography, this Oscar-winning actress became the first celebrity to go public about being diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

PATTY DUKE

A-22. “Laughter? Laughter? My son I shall build your tomb upon their crushed bodies. If any escape me, their seed shall be scattered and accursed forever. My armor! The war crown! Laughter? I will turn the laughter of these slaves into wails of torment!”

YUL BRYNNER

A-23. She was the first of two actresses to receive posthumous Emmy awards for their work on the same television series.

ALICE PEARCE? MARION LORNE?

A-24. “Suppose I tell you exactly what's gonna happen to you. You're gonna be back in television. Only it won't be quite the same as it was before. There'll be a reasonable cooling-off period and then somebody will say: ‘Why don't we try him again in an inexpensive format. People's memories aren't too long.’ And you know, in a way, he'll be right. Some of the people will forget, and some of them won't. Oh, you'll have a show. Maybe not the best hour or, you know, top 10. Maybe not even in the top 35. But you'll have a show. It just won't be quite the same as it was before. Then a couple of new fellas will come along. And pretty soon, a lot of your fans will be flocking around them. And then one day, somebody'll ask: ‘Whatever happened to, a, whatshisname? You know, the one who was so big. The number-one fella a couple of years ago. He was famous. How can we forget a name like that?’”

WALTER MATTHAU

A-25. Other than Edward Asner himself, she was the only actor to play the same role on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Lou Grant.

EILEEN HECKART

A-26. “You killed the car.”

MATTHEW BRODERICK

A-27. In two of the highest-grossing costume epics of the 1950s, she played the mother of the same actor – who was only eleven years her junior.

MARTHA SCOTT

A-28. “I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics.”

A-29. In a classic thriller, she played the mother of one Charlie and the sister of another.

PATRICIA COLLINGE

A-30. “Hemingway once wrote, ‘The world's a fine place and worth fighting for.’ I agree with the second part.”

MORGAN FREEMAN

A-31. He had a memorable bit as his own father in a 1942 musical biopic.

EDDIE FOY, JR.

A-32. “You know, you never were an actor. You did have looks, but they're gone now. You don't have to take my word for it. Just look in any mirror. They don't lie. Take a good look. Look at those pouches under your eyes. Look at those creases. You sag like an old woman! Get a load of yourself! Wait till you start tramping around the offices, looking for a job, because no agent's going to handle you. Sitting in those anterooms hour after hour, giving your name to office boys that never even heard of you. You're through!”

LEE TRACY

A-33. She was the first African American actress to lose an Oscar.

ETHEL WATERS (Pinky)

A-34. “You'll publish your novel, you'll make a million bucks, you'll marry a big movie star, and for the rest of your life you'll live with your conscience, if you have any.”

JOSE FERRER

A-35. As far as I can tell, he was the only actor to have appeared in support of both Cary Grant and Eddie Murphy.

RALPH BELLAMY

A-36. “Now what kind of an attitude is that, ‘These things happen?’ They only happen because this whole country is just full of people, who when these things happen, they just say, ‘These things happen,’ and that's why they happen!”

ETHEL MERMAN

A-37. In 1962, this actor took on a role that had previously been played by both the actors referenced in Clue A-11.

TOM EWELL (State Fair)

A-38. “Older? You mean like Shelley Winters older or Shirley MacLaine older?”

HARVEY FIERSTEIN

A-39. This actor appeared in films based on novels by Louisa May Alcott, Sinclair Lewis, Rudyard Kipling, Jules Verne, and Joseph Conrad.

A-40. “You are a caged lion! But lions can't be captive their entire lives. They have to be free to roam the bush. Free and wild! Your wife is a hot sexy tigress and she's waiting for you to pounce on her! Let me hear you roar, baby, roar! Your body is talking to me. It's hungry for action! I can feel it. Unleash the beast inside you, Jack!”

A-41. His impressive gallery of character roles included a Wild West showman, a Roman general, and a Sylvanian diplomat.

LOUIS CALHERN

A-42. “Twelve people go off into a room: twelve different minds, twelve different hearts, from twelve different walks of life; twelve sets of eyes, ears, shapes, and sizes. And these twelve people are asked to judge another human being as different from them as they are from each other. And in their judgment, they must become of one mind - unanimous. It's one of the miracles of Man's disorganized soul that they can do it, and in most instances, do it right well. God bless juries.”

ARTHUR O’CONNELL (Anatomy of a Murder)

A-43. Though he came First, this actor had a much smaller role than the guys who played Second Cab Driver and Third Cab Driver.

LEO GORCEY?

A-44. “Look how they massacred my boy!”

MARLON BRANDO

A-45. In what would become the longest-running nationally-aired commercial in U.S. television history, this actor reminded us that many popular melodies were actually written by the great masters.

JOHN WILLIAMS

A-46. “Running was always a big thing in our family, specially running away from the police. It's hard to understand. All I know is that you've got to run, running without knowing why, through fields and woods. And the winning post's no end, even though the barmy crowds might be cheering themselves daft.”

TOM COURTENAY

A-47. In a highly unlikely casting choice, this baby-faced actor gave lessons in adultery to an actor in one of the preceding clues.

ROBERT MORSE

A-48. “You only live once, and once is enough if you play your cards right.”

A-49. He reprised one of his most popular big screen roles in a small screen spinoff, while his most popular small screen role was reprised on the big screen by Christopher Lloyd.

RAY WALSTON?

A-50. “I feel sorry for you. What it must feel like to want to pull the switch.”

HENRY FONDA

A-51. This actress made only five American films between 1957 and 1962 – winning an Oscar in the process – and retired completely from acting in 1972 after a three-year stint on a popular sitcom.
MIYOSHI UMEKI

A-52. “I wouldn't cover the burning of Rome for you if they were just lighting it up! If I ever lay my two eyes on you again, I'm gonna walk right up to you and hammer on that monkeyed skull of yours 'til it rings like a Chinese gong!”

ROSALIND RUSSELL

A-53. In 1935, this scene-stealing character actress appeared in classic films directed by John Ford, James Whale, and George Cukor.

UNA O’CONNOR

A-54. “There's nothing more inconvenient than an old queen with a head cold.”

ROBERT PRESTON

A-55. His final film role was as the primary murder victim in the most successful “film noir” of the 1980s.

STUBBY KAYE

A-56. “Most fish languages are a combination of bubbles and mouth movement. At the moment, all I can make is large bubbles and they keep telling me I'm shouting”

A-57. He made the last of his five films at the age of 34 and died 44 years later.

A-58. “Beware. Beware. Beware of the big, green dragon that sits on your doorstep. He eats little boys, puppy dog tails and big, fat snails. Beware. Take care. Beware.”

A-59. This distinguished actor starred in two episodes of my favorite television series: as a sick old man who chooses love over health and as a ghost who metes out terrifying justice to a really bad man.

JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT

A-60. “Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.”

PAUL SCOFIELD

A-61. She won two Emmy awards for playing a character first introduced in a one-panel magazine comic.

SHIRLEY BOOTH (Hazel was a one-panel)

A-62. “Ladies and gentlemen, you all have one thing in common: you're all being blackmailed. For some considerable time, all of you have been paying what you can afford, and in some cases more than you can afford, to someone who threatens to expose you. And none of you know who's blackmailing you. Do you?”

TIM CURRY

A-63. This young actor caused a stir when he turned down the role of Charles Lindbergh due to his dislike of Lindy’s pro-Nazi sympathies.

JAMES DEAN?

A-64. “’Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to discover that he had been transformed into a giant cockroach.’ Nah, it's too good.”

ZERO MOSTEL

A-65. The peak of his career was winning a Tony award for a real-life role that would later be played on screen by Dustin Hoffman.

CLIFF GORMAN

A-66. “Don’t look for happiness, Richie, it’ll only make you miserable.”

This was driving me nuts. BEA ARTHUR (Lovers and Other Strangers)

A-67. As far as I know, he is the only man to have ever slept with both Rita Hayworth and Whoopi Goldberg.

A-68. “Who looks after your father? Tell me that. When something terrible happens, what does he do? Fends for himself, he does. Who does he tell about it? No one. Don't blab his troubles at home. He just pushes on at his job, uncomplaining and alone and silent.”

DICK VAN DYKE

A-69. In her most popular movie, she played a tough-yet-vulnerable high school student. (She was 33 at the time.)

STOCKARD CHANNING

A-70. “I'm gonna' build me a chapel.”

SIDNEY POITIER

A-71. He was the first actor ever to play the role of James Bond.

BARRY NELSON

A-72. “If he'd just pay me what he's spending to make me stop robbing him, I'd stop robbing him.”

PAUL NEWMAN

A-73. This blacklisted actor’s eleven-year exile from feature films came to an end when he was cast as a sympathetic psychiatrist in a highly regarded love story.

HOWARD DASILVA? (David and Lisa)

A-74. “I have a letter here, written a long time ago, to a Mrs. Bixby in Boston. So bear with me.”

HARVE PRESNELL

A-75. She was the first actress ever to be named a DBE.

A-76. “Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope.”

JAMES EARL JONES

A-77. He has played the father of one of his sons three times, the father of another of his sons four times, and the father of his then daughter-in-law once.

MARTIN SHEEN?

A-78. “I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.”

LAURENCE OLIVIER

A-79. Bette Davis always credited this English actor with giving her her first big break.

GEORGE ARLISS?

A-80. “One Rocco more or less isn't worth dying for.”

LIONEL BARRYMORE

LIST B: MOVIES

B-1. It was the first film of its genre, as well as the first based on a novel by a woman, to win a Best Picture Oscar.

CIMARRON

B-2. “You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, ‘Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness.’ You call yourself a free spirit, a ‘wild thing,’ and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself.”

B-3. The director of this musical was hired because the studio mistakenly thought he was Jewish. (Come on, haven’t we all made the same mistake?)

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF

B-4. “I’m a cotton-headed ninnymoggins!”

B-5. The National Legion of Decency sent representatives to Trinidad and Tobago to oversee production of this John Huston film – and were shocked when the two leads improvised a racy kissing scene entirely for their benefit.

HEAVEN KNOWS MR. ALLISON

B-6. “Don't touch the suit.”

ATLANTIC CITY

B-7. This 1950 sports film belongs on a list that also includes To Hell and Back and Private Parts.

THE JACKIE ROBINSON STORY

B-8. “Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if no one tried to find out what lies beyond? Have your never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars, or to know what causes the trees to bud? And what changes the darkness into light? But if you talk like that, people call you crazy. Well, if I could discover just one of these things, what eternity is, for example, I wouldn't care if they did think I was crazy.”

FRANKENSTEIN

B-9. This film set in England was parodied two years later by Laurel and Hardy.

A YANK AT OXFORD

B-10. “Sebastian always said, 'Mother, when you descend, it's like the Goddess from the Machine. You look just like angel coming to earth' as I float, float into view. Sebastian, my son Sebastian, was very interested in the Byzantine.”

SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER

B-11. Although the words “Germany” and “Jew” are never spoken on screen, the Nazis got the message: they banned this 1940 film and every subsequent MGM film.

THE GREAT DICTATOR? THE MORTAL STORM?

B-12. “Now, see here Jerry. I'm sorry darling, of course. But, there's no sense in overplaying it. There's nothing to it. Oh, come on, snap out of it. It isn't the end of the world, darling. Why, gosh, I don't care a snap of my fingers for any woman in the world but you. If - if I'd killed somebody, you'd go all the way and back again for me. I'd ask you to try and forgive me, if I thought it was the right thing to do. But, that isn't the point. But, darling, you've got to get a broader look at things, that's all. Why, you're out in the world doing a man's work. Was that just a lot of talk about a man's point of view? Oh, please believe me, darling. It doesn't mean a thing. Not a thing! It doesn't make the slightest difference. Come on, snap out of it. Now, pull yourself together.”

THE DIVORCEE

B-13. Any resemblance between this film and the actual life of Jeanine Deckers is purely coincidental.

THE SINGING NUN

B-14. “Why are they doing this? Why are they doing this? They said when you got here the whole thing started. Who are you? What are you? Where did you come from? I think you're the cause of all of this. I think you're evil. Evil!”

THE BIRDS

B-15. Winning an Oscar for this film made its star the first male to win in both acting categories.

MISTER ROBERTS?

B-16. “Is that tuck and roll?”
“ Yeah.”
“ That's bitchin,' tuck and roll! You know, I really love the feel of tuck and roll upholstery. ”

AMERICAN GRAFITTI

B-17. This flick kicked off what would become the highest-grossing horror movie franchise in U.S. history (adjusting for inflation.)

FRIDAY THE 13TH?

B-18. “Suppose the saints would have smoked if tobacco'd been popular back then?”
“Undoubtably. Not the ascetics, of course, but, well, St. Thomas More.”
“Long, thin, and filtered!”
“St. Ignatius would smoke cigars and then stub them out on the soles of his bare feet. And of course all of the apostles?”
“Hand rolled. ”
“Even Christ would partake socially. ”
“St. Peter?”
“Pipe! ”
“Right! ”
“Mary Magdalene? ”
“Ohhh! You've come a long way baby!”

AGNES OF GOD

B-19. The star of this film called his castmate “one of the most natural actors I ever worked with” – high praise indeed for a Pongo pygmaeus!

EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE?

B-20. “Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us, and many of us much worse.”

B-21. This 1972 comedy-drama was adapted from two different novels by Peter DeVries.

B-22. “The force behind a great company has to be more than the pride of one man; it has to be the pride of thousands. You can't make men work for money alone - you starve their souls when you try it, and you can starve a company to death the same way.”

EXECUTIVE SUITE

B-23. The only surviving print of this Best Picture nominee – adapted from a scandalous Victorian best-seller – resides in the UCLA film archive.

THE WHITE PARADE?

B-24. “Cold are the hands of time that creep along relentlessly, destroying slowly but without pity that which yesterday was young. Alone our memories resist this disintegration and grow more lovely with the passing years. Heh! That's hard to say with false teeth!”

B-25. This 1939 western helped cement the mythology that has turned a onetime terrorist into an American folk hero.

JESSE JAMES? STAGECOACH?

B-26. “I was prepared to sue you. I don't know who I am, but I'm sure I have a lawyer.”

B-27. I won’t swear that this is the only movie in which a spilled cup of coffee leads to the deaths of 53 people, but I’ll take pretty high odds on it.

FATE IS THE HUNTER

B-28. “You have to think about one shot. One shot is what it's all about.”

THE DEER HUNTER

B-29. This cult classic by an Italian master of horror is probably the scariest, goriest movie ever made about ballet.

SUSPIRIA

B-30. “You don't own me, Howard. I'm not one of your teenage whores and I'm not some damn airplane!.”

THE AVIATOR

B-31. If you want to see the Nutty Professor recreate a role originally played by Rhett Butler’s wife, this will surely be your only chance.

LIVING IT UP

B-32. “You know when I was your age, I went out to fishing with all my brothers and my father, and everybody. And I was, I was the only one who caught a fish. Nobody else could catch one except me. You know how I did it? Every time I put the line in the water I said a Hail Mary and every time I said a Hail Mary I caught a fish. You believe that? It's true, that's the secret.”

THE GODFATHER II

B-33. In a notorious gaffe, the Academy tried to nominate this classy musical for its screenplay, but inadvertently nominated a Bowery Boys movie with a similar title instead.

HIGH SOCIETY

B-34. “What kind of a person drives from Colorado to Louisiana to work in a dog kennel?”
“I couldn't tell you. I walked. ”
“You walked? You walked here from Colorado? ”
“I like to walk.”

B-35. The film critic for the New York Times said that this 2006 tale of restitution and redemption "may be among the most transcendently, eye-poppingly, call-your-friend-ranting-in-the-middle-of-the-night-just-to-go-over-it-one-more-time crazily awful motion pictures ever made." (It also features a rare cinematic example of suicide-by-jellyfish.)

SEVEN POUNDS

B-36. “Hurry up, before they come back. And, groan, groan, stagger about and don't die too soon! You must take your time. And you mustn't die before eleven o'clock.”
“Don't you worry! I'll give you the best performance you ever saw in a hotel bedroom!”

ROOM SERVICE

B-37. A rose. Flatulence. Model airplane glue. Pizza. Gasoline in a can. Skunk. Natural gas from an oven. A new car smell of leather upholstery. Dirty shoes. Air freshener from an aerosol can. (If you get the sequence, you know the movie.)

B-38. “I've been jealous all my life. Jealous, I couldn't even stand it. Tonight, I even tried to buy your love, but now I don't want it anymore. I can't use it anymore. I don't want any kind of love anymore. It doesn't pay off.”

EAST OF EDEN?

B-39. The title character of this movie was based on a jazz pioneer who died at the age of 28.

YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN

B-40. “A part in a play. You'd do all that just for a part in a play?”
“I'd do much more for a part that good.”

ALL ABOUT EVE

[frogman042]

A-56. “Most fish languages are a combination of bubbles and mouth movement. At the moment, all I can make is large bubbles and they keep telling me I'm shouting”

Rex Harrison? Eddie Murphy? - Sounds like it must be Dr. Doolittle (I don't think it is Don Knotts).

[mellytu74]

I am at a meeting. I will try and get the consolidation gaps fixed while I am here. I picked out an isolated spot but, apparently, not isolated enough.

[mellytu74]

I think I have everyone's answers. An advance mea maxima culpa if I don't.

Is the myopia one Ethel Waters/Dorothy Dandridge? Dandridge was Best Actress but Waters was supporting Actress.


Game #157: Encore
Identify the 80 actors in List A and the 40 movies in List B. (For questions A-1 and A-2, you need to identify both actors involved in the given dialogue; every other clue after that is a quotation.) Then, pair one actor with one movie according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. There will be a total of 87 pairs.

Seven actors will be used twice. Thirteen movies will be used twice, ten will be used three times, one will be used four times, one will be used six times, and one will be used seven (!) times.

A-1 & A-2. “And after you shot your husband... how did you feel?”
“Hungry!”

KATHERINE HEPBURN
JUDY HOLIDAY

A-3. This actress completes the following list: Cate Blanchett, Robert DeNiro, Paul Newman, Joe Pesci.

CATE BLANCHETT?

A-4. “It's good, and it's bad. There's a guaranteed return, and that's good. But the guarantor is Amusa, and Amusa's a rookie, and that's bad. But it's an easily transportable object, and that's good. Only it's in a rotten position in the museum, thirty steps to the quickest exit, and that's bad. And the glass over the stone, that's bad too, because that's glass with metal mixed in it, bulletproof, shatterproof. But the locks don't look impossible, three, maybe five tumblers. But there's no alarm system, and that's the worst, because that means no one's going to get lazy watching, knowing the alarm will pick up their mistakes. Which means the whole thing has got to be a diversion job, and that's good and that's bad, because if the diversion's too big, it'll draw pedestrians, and if the diversion's not big enough, it won't draw that watchman.”

ROBERT REDFORD

A-5. This one-time WWI intelligence officer was a lifelong friend of the man who wrote the score for the musical in Clue B-33.

A-6. “I don't believe that God made man in his image. 'Cause most of the shit that happens comes from man. No, I think man was made in the Devil's image. And women were created out of God. 'Cause after all, women can have babies, which is kind of like creating. And which also accounts for the fact that women are so attracted to men... 'cause let's face it... the Devil is a hell of a lot more interesting! Believe me, I've slept with some saints in my day, I know what I'm talking about. So the whole point in life is for men and women to get married... so that God and the Devil can get together and work it out. Not that we have to get married. God forbid.”

MERCEDES RUEHL

A-7. This father of an Oscar-winning actress had one of the shortest tenures on one of the longest-running television series of all time.

PAUL SORVINO?

A-8. “You can't help that you were born Christian instead of Jewish. It doesn't mean you're glad you were. But I am glad. There, I said it”

DOROTHY MCGUIRE

A-9. The stabbing death of this actor is one of the most closely analyzed sequences in Francois Truffaut’s celebrated interview with Alfred Hitchcock.

MARTIN BALSAM?

A-10. “Goddammit, when is somebody going to go on the record in this story? You guys are about to write a story that says the former Attorney General, the highest-ranking law enforcement officer in this country, is a crook! Just be sure you're right!”

JASON ROBARDS

A-11. Taking on a role previously played by Will Rogers, this character actor had one of his few starring parts in a what was reputedly John Ford’s favorite among his films.

CHARLES WINNINGER?

A-12. “Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”

RICHARD CASTELLANO

A-13. For 25 years, she held the record as the oldest Oscar-winning actor and still holds the #10 spot. (At 5' 2¼", she was also one of the shortest, and at six films compiled one of the shortest filmographies.)

JOSEPHINE HULL? Ruth Gordon has too many movies

A-14. “It's funny how some distance/Makes everything seem small/And the fears that once controlled me/Can't get to me at all!”

A-15. She received no screen credit for her 1947 role as victim of arguably the most shocking and vicious murder in the history of film noir.

MILDRED DUNNOCK (kiss of death)

A-16. “It's as clear as a buttonhook in the well water!

PAUL FORD

A-17. This Canadian actor’s divorce from his second wife provided the inspiration for one of the films quoted above.

A-18. “Thank you, Honore. That was the most charming and endearing excuse for infidelity I've ever heard.”

HERMONINE GINGOLD

A-19. Just as her career was getting started, this actress was blacklisted due to her eulogy for an earlier blacklisted actor – and her refusal to testify against her own husband.

LEE GRANT

A-20. “You hear me now! You rode into my place and beat my men for the last time and I give you warnin'. You set foot in Blanco Canyon once more and this country's gonna run red with blood 'til there ain't one of us left! Now I don't hold mine so precious, so if you want to start, here, start now! What's the matter? Can't you shoot a man a-facin' ya? I'll make it easy fer ya. Here's my back.”

BURL IVES

A-21. In her 1987 autobiography, this Oscar-winning actress became the first celebrity to go public about being diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

PATTY DUKE

A-22. “Laughter? Laughter? My son I shall build your tomb upon their crushed bodies. If any escape me, their seed shall be scattered and accursed forever. My armor! The war crown! Laughter? I will turn the laughter of these slaves into wails of torment!”

YUL BRYNNER

A-23. She was the first of two actresses to receive posthumous Emmy awards for their work on the same television series.

ALICE PEARCE? MARION LORNE?

A-24. “Suppose I tell you exactly what's gonna happen to you. You're gonna be back in television. Only it won't be quite the same as it was before. There'll be a reasonable cooling-off period and then somebody will say: ‘Why don't we try him again in an inexpensive format. People's memories aren't too long.’ And you know, in a way, he'll be right. Some of the people will forget, and some of them won't. Oh, you'll have a show. Maybe not the best hour or, you know, top 10. Maybe not even in the top 35. But you'll have a show. It just won't be quite the same as it was before. Then a couple of new fellas will come along. And pretty soon, a lot of your fans will be flocking around them. And then one day, somebody'll ask: ‘Whatever happened to, a, whatshisname? You know, the one who was so big. The number-one fella a couple of years ago. He was famous. How can we forget a name like that?’”

WALTER MATTHAU

A-25. Other than Edward Asner himself, she was the only actor to play the same role on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Lou Grant.

EILEEN HECKART

A-26. “You killed the car.”

MATTHEW BRODERICK

A-27. In two of the highest-grossing costume epics of the 1950s, she played the mother of the same actor – who was only eleven years her junior.

MARTHA SCOTT

A-28. “I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics.”

A-29. In a classic thriller, she played the mother of one Charlie and the sister of another.

PATRICIA COLLINGE

A-30. “Hemingway once wrote, ‘The world's a fine place and worth fighting for.’ I agree with the second part.”

MORGAN FREEMAN

A-31. He had a memorable bit as his own father in a 1942 musical biopic.

EDDIE FOY, JR.

A-32. “You know, you never were an actor. You did have looks, but they're gone now. You don't have to take my word for it. Just look in any mirror. They don't lie. Take a good look. Look at those pouches under your eyes. Look at those creases. You sag like an old woman! Get a load of yourself! Wait till you start tramping around the offices, looking for a job, because no agent's going to handle you. Sitting in those anterooms hour after hour, giving your name to office boys that never even heard of you. You're through!”

LEE TRACY

A-33. She was the first African American actress to lose an Oscar.

ETHEL WATERS (Pinky). DOROTHY DANDRIDGE?

A-34. “You'll publish your novel, you'll make a million bucks, you'll marry a big movie star, and for the rest of your life you'll live with your conscience, if you have any.”

JOSE FERRER

A-35. As far as I can tell, he was the only actor to have appeared in support of both Cary Grant and Eddie Murphy.

RALPH BELLAMY

A-36. “Now what kind of an attitude is that, ‘These things happen?’ They only happen because this whole country is just full of people, who when these things happen, they just say, ‘These things happen,’ and that's why they happen!”

ETHEL MERMAN

A-37. In 1962, this actor took on a role that had previously been played by both the actors referenced in Clue A-11.

TOM EWELL (State Fair)

A-38. “Older? You mean like Shelley Winters older or Shirley MacLaine older?”

HARVEY FIERSTEIN

A-39. This actor appeared in films based on novels by Louisa May Alcott, Sinclair Lewis, Rudyard Kipling, Jules Verne, and Joseph Conrad.

A-40. “You are a caged lion! But lions can't be captive their entire lives. They have to be free to roam the bush. Free and wild! Your wife is a hot sexy tigress and she's waiting for you to pounce on her! Let me hear you roar, baby, roar! Your body is talking to me. It's hungry for action! I can feel it. Unleash the beast inside you, Jack!”

A-41. His impressive gallery of character roles included a Wild West showman, a Roman general, and a Sylvanian diplomat.

LOUIS CALHERN

A-42. “Twelve people go off into a room: twelve different minds, twelve different hearts, from twelve different walks of life; twelve sets of eyes, ears, shapes, and sizes. And these twelve people are asked to judge another human being as different from them as they are from each other. And in their judgment, they must become of one mind - unanimous. It's one of the miracles of Man's disorganized soul that they can do it, and in most instances, do it right well. God bless juries.”

ARTHUR O’CONNELL (Anatomy of a Murder)

A-43. Though he came First, this actor had a much smaller role than the guys who played Second Cab Driver and Third Cab Driver.

LEO GORCEY?

A-44. “Look how they massacred my boy!”

MARLON BRANDO

A-45. In what would become the longest-running nationally-aired commercial in U.S. television history, this actor reminded us that many popular melodies were actually written by the great masters.

JOHN WILLIAMS

A-46. “Running was always a big thing in our family, specially running away from the police. It's hard to understand. All I know is that you've got to run, running without knowing why, through fields and woods. And the winning post's no end, even though the barmy crowds might be cheering themselves daft.”

TOM COURTENAY

A-47. In a highly unlikely casting choice, this baby-faced actor gave lessons in adultery to an actor in one of the preceding clues.

ROBERT MORSE

A-48. “You only live once, and once is enough if you play your cards right.”

A-49. He reprised one of his most popular big screen roles in a small screen spinoff, while his most popular small screen role was reprised on the big screen by Christopher Lloyd.

RAY WALSTON? JACKIE COOGAN?

A-50. “I feel sorry for you. What it must feel like to want to pull the switch.”

HENRY FONDA

A-51. This actress made only five American films between 1957 and 1962 – winning an Oscar in the process – and retired completely from acting in 1972 after a three-year stint on a popular sitcom.

MIYOSHI UMEKI

A-52. “I wouldn't cover the burning of Rome for you if they were just lighting it up! If I ever lay my two eyes on you again, I'm gonna walk right up to you and hammer on that monkeyed skull of yours 'til it rings like a Chinese gong!”

ROSALIND RUSSELL

A-53. In 1935, this scene-stealing character actress appeared in classic films directed by John Ford, James Whale, and George Cukor.

UNA O’CONNOR

A-54. “There's nothing more inconvenient than an old queen with a head cold.”

ROBERT PRESTON

A-55. His final film role was as the primary murder victim in the most successful “film noir” of the 1980s.

STUBBY KAYE

A-56. “Most fish languages are a combination of bubbles and mouth movement. At the moment, all I can make is large bubbles and they keep telling me I'm shouting”

REX HARRISON?

A-57. He made the last of his five films at the age of 34 and died 44 years later.

A-58. “Beware. Beware. Beware of the big, green dragon that sits on your doorstep. He eats little boys, puppy dog tails and big, fat snails. Beware. Take care. Beware.”

A-59. This distinguished actor starred in two episodes of my favorite television series: as a sick old man who chooses love over health and as a ghost who metes out terrifying justice to a really bad man.

JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT

A-60. “Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.”

PAUL SCOFIELD

A-61. She won two Emmy awards for playing a character first introduced in a one-panel magazine comic.

SHIRLEY BOOTH (Hazel was a one-panel). CARLOYN JONES? I don’t think Jones won an Emmy.

A-62. “Ladies and gentlemen, you all have one thing in common: you're all being blackmailed. For some considerable time, all of you have been paying what you can afford, and in some cases more than you can afford, to someone who threatens to expose you. And none of you know who's blackmailing you. Do you?”

TIM CURRY

A-63. This young actor caused a stir when he turned down the role of Charles Lindbergh due to his dislike of Lindy’s pro-Nazi sympathies.

JAMES DEAN?

A-64. “’Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to discover that he had been transformed into a giant cockroach.’ Nah, it's too good.”

ZERO MOSTEL

A-65. The peak of his career was winning a Tony award for a real-life role that would later be played on screen by Dustin Hoffman.

CLIFF GORMAN

A-66. “Don’t look for happiness, Richie, it’ll only make you miserable.”

This was driving me nuts. BEA ARTHUR (Lovers and Other Strangers)

A-67. As far as I know, he is the only man to have ever slept with both Rita Hayworth and Whoopi Goldberg.

A-68. “Who looks after your father? Tell me that. When something terrible happens, what does he do? Fends for himself, he does. Who does he tell about it? No one. Don't blab his troubles at home. He just pushes on at his job, uncomplaining and alone and silent.”

DICK VAN DYKE

A-69. In her most popular movie, she played a tough-yet-vulnerable high school student. (She was 33 at the time.)

STOCKARD CHANNING

A-70. “I'm gonna' build me a chapel.”

SIDNEY POITIER

A-71. He was the first actor ever to play the role of James Bond.

BARRY NELSON

A-72. “If he'd just pay me what he's spending to make me stop robbing him, I'd stop robbing him.”

PAUL NEWMAN

A-73. This blacklisted actor’s eleven-year exile from feature films came to an end when he was cast as a sympathetic psychiatrist in a highly regarded love story.

HOWARD DASILVA? (David and Lisa)

A-74. “I have a letter here, written a long time ago, to a Mrs. Bixby in Boston. So bear with me.”

HARVE PRESNELL

A-75. She was the first actress ever to be named a DBE.

A-76. “Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope.”

JAMES EARL JONES

A-77. He has played the father of one of his sons three times, the father of another of his sons four times, and the father of his then daughter-in-law once.

MARTIN SHEEN?

A-78. “I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.”

LAURENCE OLIVIER? CLARK GABLE?

A-79. Bette Davis always credited this English actor with giving her her first big break.

GEORGE ARLISS?

A-80. “One Rocco more or less isn't worth dying for.”

LIONEL BARRYMORE

LIST B: MOVIES

B-1. It was the first film of its genre, as well as the first based on a novel by a woman, to win a Best Picture Oscar.

CIMARRON

B-2. “You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, ‘Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness.’ You call yourself a free spirit, a ‘wild thing,’ and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself.”

B-3. The director of this musical was hired because the studio mistakenly thought he was Jewish. (Come on, haven’t we all made the same mistake?)

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF

B-4. “I’m a cotton-headed ninnymoggins!”

B-5. The National Legion of Decency sent representatives to Trinidad and Tobago to oversee production of this John Huston film – and were shocked when the two leads improvised a racy kissing scene entirely for their benefit.

HEAVEN KNOWS MR. ALLISON

B-6. “Don't touch the suit.”

ATLANTIC CITY

B-7. This 1950 sports film belongs on a list that also includes To Hell and Back and Private Parts.

THE JACKIE ROBINSON STORY

B-8. “Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if no one tried to find out what lies beyond? Have your never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars, or to know what causes the trees to bud? And what changes the darkness into light? But if you talk like that, people call you crazy. Well, if I could discover just one of these things, what eternity is, for example, I wouldn't care if they did think I was crazy.”

FRANKENSTEIN

B-9. This film set in England was parodied two years later by Laurel and Hardy.

A YANK AT OXFORD

B-10. “Sebastian always said, 'Mother, when you descend, it's like the Goddess from the Machine. You look just like angel coming to earth' as I float, float into view. Sebastian, my son Sebastian, was very interested in the Byzantine.”

SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER

B-11. Although the words “Germany” and “Jew” are never spoken on screen, the Nazis got the message: they banned this 1940 film and every subsequent MGM film.

THE GREAT DICTATOR? THE MORTAL STORM? Can’t be Casablanca – that was a Warner Brothers movie.

B-12. “Now, see here Jerry. I'm sorry darling, of course. But, there's no sense in overplaying it. There's nothing to it. Oh, come on, snap out of it. It isn't the end of the world, darling. Why, gosh, I don't care a snap of my fingers for any woman in the world but you. If - if I'd killed somebody, you'd go all the way and back again for me. I'd ask you to try and forgive me, if I thought it was the right thing to do. But, that isn't the point. But, darling, you've got to get a broader look at things, that's all. Why, you're out in the world doing a man's work. Was that just a lot of talk about a man's point of view? Oh, please believe me, darling. It doesn't mean a thing. Not a thing! It doesn't make the slightest difference. Come on, snap out of it. Now, pull yourself together.”

THE DIVORCEE

B-13. Any resemblance between this film and the actual life of Jeanine Deckers is purely coincidental.

THE SINGING NUN

B-14. “Why are they doing this? Why are they doing this? They said when you got here the whole thing started. Who are you? What are you? Where did you come from? I think you're the cause of all of this. I think you're evil. Evil!”

THE BIRDS

B-15. Winning an Oscar for this film made its star the first male to win in both acting categories.

MISTER ROBERTS? SAVE THE TIGER?

B-16. “Is that tuck and roll?”
“ Yeah.”
“ That's bitchin,' tuck and roll! You know, I really love the feel of tuck and roll upholstery. ”

AMERICAN GRAFITTI

B-17. This flick kicked off what would become the highest-grossing horror movie franchise in U.S. history (adjusting for inflation.)

FRIDAY THE 13TH?

B-18. “Suppose the saints would have smoked if tobacco'd been popular back then?”
“Undoubtably. Not the ascetics, of course, but, well, St. Thomas More.”
“Long, thin, and filtered!”
“St. Ignatius would smoke cigars and then stub them out on the soles of his bare feet. And of course all of the apostles?”
“Hand rolled. ”
“Even Christ would partake socially. ”
“St. Peter?”
“Pipe! ”
“Right! ”
“Mary Magdalene? ”
“Ohhh! You've come a long way baby!”

AGNES OF GOD

B-19. The star of this film called his castmate “one of the most natural actors I ever worked with” – high praise indeed for a Pongo pygmaeus!

EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE?

B-20. “Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us, and many of us much worse.”

B-21. This 1972 comedy-drama was adapted from two different novels by Peter DeVries.

B-22. “The force behind a great company has to be more than the pride of one man; it has to be the pride of thousands. You can't make men work for money alone - you starve their souls when you try it, and you can starve a company to death the same way.”

EXECUTIVE SUITE

B-23. The only surviving print of this Best Picture nominee – adapted from a scandalous Victorian best-seller – resides in the UCLA film archive.

THE WHITE PARADE?

B-24. “Cold are the hands of time that creep along relentlessly, destroying slowly but without pity that which yesterday was young. Alone our memories resist this disintegration and grow more lovely with the passing years. Heh! That's hard to say with false teeth!”

B-25. This 1939 western helped cement the mythology that has turned a onetime terrorist into an American folk hero.

JESSE JAMES? STAGECOACH?

B-26. “I was prepared to sue you. I don't know who I am, but I'm sure I have a lawyer.”

B-27. I won’t swear that this is the only movie in which a spilled cup of coffee leads to the deaths of 53 people, but I’ll take pretty high odds on it.

FATE IS THE HUNTER

B-28. “You have to think about one shot. One shot is what it's all about.”

THE DEER HUNTER

B-29. This cult classic by an Italian master of horror is probably the scariest, goriest movie ever made about ballet.

SUSPIRIA

B-30. “You don't own me, Howard. I'm not one of your teenage whores and I'm not some damn airplane!.”

THE AVIATOR

B-31. If you want to see the Nutty Professor recreate a role originally played by Rhett Butler’s wife, this will surely be your only chance.

LIVING IT UP

B-32. “You know when I was your age, I went out to fishing with all my brothers and my father, and everybody. And I was, I was the only one who caught a fish. Nobody else could catch one except me. You know how I did it? Every time I put the line in the water I said a Hail Mary and every time I said a Hail Mary I caught a fish. You believe that? It's true, that's the secret.”

THE GODFATHER II

B-33. In a notorious gaffe, the Academy tried to nominate this classy musical for its screenplay, but inadvertently nominated a Bowery Boys movie with a similar title instead.

HIGH SOCIETY

B-34. “What kind of a person drives from Colorado to Louisiana to work in a dog kennel?”
“I couldn't tell you. I walked. ”
“You walked? You walked here from Colorado? ”
“I like to walk.”

B-35. The film critic for the New York Times said that this 2006 tale of restitution and redemption "may be among the most transcendently, eye-poppingly, call-your-friend-ranting-in-the-middle-of-the-night-just-to-go-over-it-one-more-time crazily awful motion pictures ever made." (It also features a rare cinematic example of suicide-by-jellyfish.)

SEVEN POUNDS

B-36. “Hurry up, before they come back. And, groan, groan, stagger about and don't die too soon! You must take your time. And you mustn't die before eleven o'clock.”
“Don't you worry! I'll give you the best performance you ever saw in a hotel bedroom!”

ROOM SERVICE

B-37. A rose. Flatulence. Model airplane glue. Pizza. Gasoline in a can. Skunk. Natural gas from an oven. A new car smell of leather upholstery. Dirty shoes. Air freshener from an aerosol can. (If you get the sequence, you know the movie.)

POLYESTER

B-38. “I've been jealous all my life. Jealous, I couldn't even stand it. Tonight, I even tried to buy your love, but now I don't want it anymore. I can't use it anymore. I don't want any kind of love anymore. It doesn't pay off.”

EAST OF EDEN?

B-39. The title character of this movie was based on a jazz pioneer who died at the age of 28.

YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN

B-40. “A part in a play. You'd do all that just for a part in a play?”
“I'd do much more for a part that good.”

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