Game #161: Old Movies, New Movies

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Game #161: Old Movies, New Movies

Identify the 45 actors in List A and the 45 movies in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, form 50 pairs, each consisting of one movie and one actor, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. On each list, three answers will be used twice and one will be used three times.

This one may be a bit tricky, but I think people will get it.

LIST A: ACTORS

A-1. “They are more than nasty little snobs, Kathy. You call them that, and you can dismiss them; it's too easy. They're persistent little traitors to everything that this country stands for, and stands on, and you have to fight 'em! Not just for the 'poor, poor Jews,' as Dave says, but for everything this country stands for.”

A-2. This Commander of the Order of St. Olav is one of the few people nominated for an Oscar for foreign-language roles more than once.

A-3. “Sir, I'm gonna have to ask you to exit the donut.”

A-4. This busy actor-playwright-director-polyglot-wit also served as president of the World Federalist Movement for the last thirteen years of his life.

A-5. “Four years ago, when the President and I arrived, this was a pure pigsty. Tobacco stains in the carpets, mushrooms sprouting from the ceilings! And a pauper's pittance allotted for improvements. As if your committee joined with all of Washington waiting, in what you anticipated to be our comfort in squalor, further proof that my husband and I were prairie primitives, unsuited to the position to which an error of the people, a flaw in the democratic process, had elevated us.”

A-6. This actor died on January 2, 1950 – though not according to Quentin Tarantino.

A-7. “I make a point of avoiding familiarity with pirates.”

A-8. The career of this actress – best known for her role in a seminal Warner Brothers gangster flick – was brought to a screeching halt in 1947 by the Hollywood blacklist.

A-9. “There is more money potential in narcotics than anything else we're looking at now. If we don't get into it, somebody else will, maybe one of the Five Families, maybe all of them. And with the money they earn they'll be able to buy more police and political power. Then they come after us.”

A-10. During his long career, this British actor appeared in screen adaptations of works by William Makepeace Thackeray, Baroness Orczy, H. Rider Haggard, Alfred Tennyson, Daphne du Maurier, and Maurice Maeterlinck – but he is most closely associated with a character created by a different writer.

A-11. “Quite frankly, I didn't even want to use you guys, with your dip and velcro and all your gear bulls**t. I wanted to drop a bomb. But people didn't believe in this lead enough to drop a bomb. So they're using you guys as canaries.”

A-12. This actor had the shortest filmography of anyone on the AFI list of 50 Greatest Screen Legends.

A-13. “You can't discharge me. I am my own master for the first time in my life. You can't discharge me. I'm sick. I'm going to die, you understand? I'm going to die, and nobody can do anything to me anymore. Nothing can happen to me anymore. Before I can be discharged, I'll be dead!”

A-14. This character actress was the first member of the Gone with the Wind cast to shuffle off this mortal coil.

A-15. “What makes you think either Miller or Sherwood would stand for the nonsense I take from you? You'd better stick to Beaumont and Fletcher! They've been dead for three hundred years!”

A-16. Her leading role in a 1978 remake of a 1956 sci-fi classic netted her a Saturn nomination.

A-17. “We at the FBI do not have a sense of humor we're aware of.”

A-18. Discussing her most famous scene, she once commented, “At least it proves I'm a natural blonde.”

A-19. “Pay strict attention to what I say because I choose my words carefully and I never repeat myself. I've told you my name: that's the Who. The Where could most readily be described as a prison cell. But there's a vast difference between being stuck in a tiny cell and being in prison. The What is easy: recently I planned and set in motion events to execute the perfect bank robbery. That's also the When. As for the Why: beyond the obvious financial motivation, it's exceedingly simple... because I can. Which leaves us only with the How; and therein, as the Bard would tell us, lies the rub.”

A-20. One of these things is not like the others…. Two of his screen roles had earlier been played by Douglas Fairbanks and Rudolph Valentino, while another would later be played by Bill Murray.

A-21. “I'm taking all my dolls, even the dead ones.”

A-22. This Venezuelan actor won a César Award for his role as a real-life Venezuelan terrorist currently incarcerated in France.

A-23. “There'll be no locks or bolts between us, Mary Kate, except those in your own mercenary little heart!”

A-24. The turning point in this actor’s career came in 1964 with his live TV rendition of “A Time for Choosing.”

A-25. “If you allow them life imprisonment, they will be eligible for parole in seven years. That is the law. Gentlemen, four of your neighbors were slaughtered like hogs in a pen by them. They did not strike suddenly in the heat of passion, but for money. They did not kill in vengeance, they planned it for money. And how cheaply those lives were bought. $40. $10 a life. They drove 400 miles to come here. They brought their weapons with them. This shotgun. This dagger. This is the rope they hogtied their victims with. This is the blood they spilled.”

A-26. Oscar-wise, she completes the following list: Martha Raye, Rosalind Russell, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Sherry Lansing, Oprah Winfrey, _______, Debbie Reynolds.

A-27. “This sucks! A maniac gets ahold of my gun and runs all over the streets killin' people with it. So, instead of bein' where I oughta be, home in bed with my gal givin' her the high hard one, I'm out here doin' this s**t, roamin' around the streets with an overdressed, charcoal-colored loser like you.”

A-28. In 2008, he became the third actor to fill the fourth slot in the opening credits of a long-running television series.

A-29. “When you're seventeen and the world's beautiful, facing facts is just as slick fun as dancing or going to parties, but when you're seventy ... well, you don't care about dancing, you don't think about parties anymore, and about the only fun you have left is pretending that there ain't any facts to face, so would you mind if I just went on pretending?”

A-30. After his appearances in a Broadway musical based on an Oscar-nominated British film and an American miniseries based on a Tony-winning Broadway play, this actor declared that his New Year’s resolution for 2003 was “to be in a movie or a play which doesn't require me to take off my clothes.”

A-31. “There are some who say that the old bank is suffering from hardening of the arteries and of the heart. I refuse to listen to such radical talk. I say that our bank is alive, it's generous, it's human, and we're going to have such a line of customers seeking and getting small loans that people will think we're gambling with the depositors' money. And we will be. We will be gambling on the future of this country. I thank you.”

A-32. This star of silent films and early talkies had one blue eye and one brown eye.

A-33. “Wanna play a game? It's a mind-reading game. Here's how it works. I read your mind. If what I say is right, you take one step towards the chair. If what I say is wrong, you take one step back... towards the doorway. If you reach the chair, you sit down. If you reach the door, you can go. Wanna play?”

A-34. This Vienna-born character actress made her penultimate screen appearance – at the age of 91 – as a wise psychiatrist in a movie written by David Mamet. (Fortunately, she left the four-letter words to other actors.)

A-35. “It is very common here to live to a very ripe old age. Climate, diet - the mountain water you might say. But we like to believe it's the absence of struggle in the way we live. In your countries, on the other hand, how often do you hear the expression, ‘He worried himself to death,’ or This thing or that killed him?’”

A-36. In two miniseries based on novels by Charles Dickens, she played the roles of Lady Dedlock and Miss Havisham.

A-37. “As ambassador to Earth, it is my duty to observe and understand human behavior. Marrying your mother was ... logical.”

A-38. A leading candidate for the title Greatest Film Actor of All Time, he added to his honors this year by earning an Emmy nomination – at the age of 87.

A-39. “No, Your Honor. No! Germany alone is not guilty: The whole world is as responsible for Hitler's Germany. It is an easy thing to condemn one man in the dock. It is easy to condemn the German people, to speak of the basic flaw in the German character that allowed Hitler to rise to power, and at the same time positively ignore the basic flaw of character that made the Russians sign pacts with him, Winston Churchill praise him, American industrialists profit by him!”

A-40. In 1991, this Canadian actress got her only Oscar nomination for playing the mother of an actor in one of the preceding clues – who is actually nine years her senior.

A-41. “I'm forty-seven. Forty-seven years old. You know how I stayed alive this long? All these years? Fear. The spectacle of fearsome acts. Somebody steals from me, I cut off his hands. He offends me, I cut out his tongue. He rises against me, I cut off his head, stick it on a pike, raise it high up so all on the streets can see. That's what preserves the order of things. Fear.”

A-42. Among his memorable quips are “California is a fine place to live – if you happen to be an orange” and “Television is …. called a medium because nothing is well-done.”

A-43. “You're a clever little man, little master of the universe, but mortals are weak and frail. If their stomach speaks, they forget their brain. If their brain speaks, they forget their heart. And if their heart speaks, they forget everything.”

A-44. In 2001, he played a role that had previously been played on film – sort of – by Frank Finlay and Kenneth Branagh.

A-45. “I didn't want to be born. You didn't want me to be born. It's been a calamity on both sides.”

LIST B: MOVIES

B-1. “Now I'm gonna make us some Old Fashioneds the old-fashioned way - the way dear old Dad used to!”
“What if something happens??”
“What could happen to an Old Fashioned?”

B-2. It was the first movie about World War II – which was then in progress – to win the Oscar for Best Picture.

B-3. “It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.”

B-4. Remakes of this silent film starred Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Midler.

B-5. “Why don't you drop by tomorrow evening about eight-thirty. He'll be in then.”
“Who?”
“My husband. You were anxious to talk to him, weren't you?”
“Yeah, I was, but I'm sort of getting over the idea, if you know what I mean.”

B-6. Pearl Bailey agreed to appear in this musical only after costume designer Irene Sharaff assured her she would not have to wear a bandanna.

B-7. “What does it matter if an individual is shattered, if only justice is resurrected?”

B-8. To prepare for her role in this film, Julia Roberts attended both finishing school and art history classes.

B-9. “Take a can of your gasoline. Say this can of gasoline is the sun. Now, you spread a thin line of it to a ball, representing the earth. Now, the gasoline represents the sunlight, the sun particles. Here we saturate the ball with the gasoline, the sunlight. Then we put a flame to the ball. The flame will speedily travel around the earth, back along the line of gasoline to the can, or the sun itself. It will explode this source and spread to every place that gasoline, our sunlight, touches. Explode the sunlight here, gentlemen, you explode the universe. Explode the sunlight here and a chain reaction will occur direct to the sun itself and to all the planets that sunlight touches, to every planet in the universe. This is why you must be stopped. This is why any means must be used to stop you. In a friendly manner or as (it seems) you want it.”

B-10. This Italian classic was the first winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film after the category switched from honorary to competitive.

B-11. “Susan, dear, you've had him to yourself all this time, and I can understand that suddenly to have another woman around, well, it's a tremendous intrusion. But all my life, it seemed, I've hoped and waited for someone like him: someone gentle and mature, rough-edged, but quick to laugh, someone understanding and wise. All the things that I've come to love and cherish in him.”
“Well, that’s very refreshing.”
“Why, dear?”
“Most girls just run after Daddy because he's so wealthy.”

B-12. This 1939 western later became a Broadway musical starring Andy Griffith.

B-13. “Humans of Earth, I come in peace. You need not fear me, I mean you no harm. However, it is important to note that most of you will not survive the next 24 hours. The few of you that do survive will be enslaved and experimented upon. You should, in no way, take any of this personally. It's just business. So, to recap: I come in peace, I mean you no harm, and you all will die.”

B-14. This 1977 film was based on a best-selling semi-autobiographical novel about the author’s bout with schizophrenia. (Reportedly, she was not too pleased with it.)

B-15. “You contemptible pig! I remained celibate for you. I stood at the back of a cathedral, waiting, in celibacy, for you, with three hundred friends and relatives in attendance. My uncle hired the best Romanian caterers in the state. To obtain the seven limousines for the wedding party, my father used up his last favor with Mad Pete Trullo. So for me, for my mother, my grandmother, my father, my uncle, and for the common good, I must now kill you and your brother.”

B-16. Katharine Hepburn was originally cast in this film by her old pal George Cukor, but was ultimately let go – in part because she was too old to play the flashback sequences.

B-17. “What kind of talk is that, calling me a stoolie? I was brought up to report any injustice to the police authority. I call that being a solid citizen.”
“But you get paid for it.”
“You gonna knock it?”

B-18. This 1951 adaptation of a Broadway hit made some inroads against the Production Code by getting approval to incorporate the killing of a police officer – vërboten at the time – and by including oblique references to abortion.

B-19. “Men would pay $200 for me, and here you are turning down a freebie. You could get a perfectly good dishwasher for that.”

B-20. This 1939 film marked the fourth teaming of two of Universal’s biggest horror movie stars – and the final appearance of one of them in his most famous role.

B-21. “Why'd you donate sperm?”
“It just seemed like a lot more fun than, uh, donating blood.”

B-22. In 1992, an English actress won the New York Film Critics Award jointly for her performances in Enchanted April, The Crying Game and this film, which also earned her an Oscar nomination.

B-23. “I hope you'll forgive me if I acted a little clumsy, but this is the first time I ever met an actress.”
“Lieutenant, this is the first time I've ever met a man who could drop three tons of dynamite in two minutes.”

B-24. This early Hitchcock talkie was the first film in which a character’s inner thoughts were heard on the soundtrack.

B-25. “I always wanted to be in the movies. When I was little I thought for sure that one day, I could be a big, big star. Or maybe just beautiful. Beautiful and rich, like the women on TV. Yeah, I had a lot of dreams. And I guess you can call me a real romantic, because I truly believe that one day, they'll come true. So I dreamed about it for hours. As the years went by, I learnt to stop sharing them with people. They said I was dreaming. But back then, I believed it wholeheartedly. So whenever I was down, I would just escape into my mind to my other life, where I was someone else. It made me happy to think that all these people just didn't know yet who I was gonna be. But one day they'll all see.”

B-26. This wartime romance took its title from Vera Lynn’s signature song.

B-27. “Hemingway once wrote, ‘The world's a fine place and worth fighting for.’ I agree with the second part.”

B-28. The title characters of this 1938 film were played by Billy the Kid, Midshipman Roger Byam, and Marcus Welby, M.D.

B-29. “You're working some angle, and don't tell me you're not because I wrote the book!”
“What about you? You still handling playback money for the mob?”
“That’s me. That's who I am. You were never cut out for the rackets, Roy.”
“How come?”
“You aren’t tough enough.”

B-30. This film is most fondly remembered for a classic rendition of the hymn that begins, “Why should I feel discouraged….”

B-31. “Nobody - and I don't care if you're Warren Buffet or Jimmy Buffet - nobody knows if a stock is going up, down, or f**ing sideways, least of all stockbrokers. But we have to pretend we know.”

B-32. This coming-of-age movie set in rural Louisiana marked the final film of its 83 year-old director and the first film of a 14 year-old actress who would later go on to win an Oscar.

B-33. “We are supposed to be righteous. That's a beautiful thing. And we're losing it. If I lose that, that's everything. That's my soul.”

B-34. The actor who played the Witchfinder General in this movie considered it his finest horror movie performance.

B-35. “You are, all of you, amateurs. And international affairs should never be run by gentlemen amateurs. Do you have any idea of what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The days when you could just act out of your noble instincts, are over. Europe has become the arena of realpolitik, the politics of reality. If you like: real politics. What you need is not gentlemen politicians, but real ones. You need professionals to run your affairs, or you're headed for disaster!”

B-36. Set against the backdrop of two feuding Mexican villages, this movie starred such notable Mexican actors as Cyd Charisse, Pier Angeli, Nina Foch, Kurt Kasznar, and Vittorio Gassman – who considered it his worst film.

B-37. “When I was a little girl, my mama used to lock me in the attic when I was bad, which was pretty often. And I would - I would pretend I was a princess, trapped in a tower by a wicked queen. And then suddenly this knight on a white horse with these colors flying would come charging up and draw his sword. And I would wave. And he would climb up the tower and rescue me. But never in all the time that I had this dream did the knight say to me, ‘Come on, baby, I'll put you up in a great condo.’”

B-38. This movie came out the same year as Pinky and covered some of the same ground from a male perspective.

B-39. “Listen to me, John. How many other white apes have you seen? You're like me, not them. You have another family, far away, one you have never seen.

B-40. The cast of this movie musical features four alumni of the Harry Potter franchise.

B-41. “Son, I knew your daddy. He worked for me for years. Years. Then he wanted his own thing. You play the horses? You know they either geld the horse with a knife or with chemicals. When your Daddy said no to me, I did him the chemical way. Gave your mother a taste. Got the hook into her. Ahh, she doped up good and proper. Hung herself with a wire, on Melnea Cass. And you, running around the neighborhood looking for her. Your daddy didn't have the heart to tell his son that he was looking for a suicide doper who was never coming home. If there's a Heaven, son, she ain't in it.”

B-42. The London Times ranked the subject of this 2001 biopic twelfth on a list of the 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945.

B-43. “Look, Jasper. Do you suppose they disguised themselves?”
“Say now, Horace, that's just what they did! Dogs is always paintin' 'emselves black!”

B-44. In 1973, this movie became only the third foreign language film to get an Oscar nomination for Best Picture, and the second consecutive film from the same country to do so.

B-45. “Don't you ever talk that way to me. 'Pig,' 'Pollack,' 'disgusting,' 'vulgar,' 'greasy.' Those kind of words have been on your tongue and your sister's tongue just too much around here. What do you think you are? A pair of queens? Now just remember what Huey Long said - that every man's a king - and I'm the King around here, and don't you forget it.”

[jarnon]

Let's get the ball rolling!

A-5 Sally Field
A-9 Robert Duvall
A-37 Ben Cross

B-3 The Terminator
B-37 Pretty Woman
B-45 A Streetcar Named Desire

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A-27. “This sucks! A maniac gets ahold of my gun and runs all over the streets killin' people with it. So, instead of bein' where I oughta be, home in bed with my gal givin' her the high hard one, I'm out here doin' this s**t, roamin' around the streets with an overdressed, charcoal-colored loser like you.”
NICK NOLTE??

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will have the first passes through shortly.

[Pastor Fireball]

Quick pass before I head out.

A-12. This actor had the shortest filmography of anyone on the AFI list of 50 Greatest Screen Legends.

JAMES DEAN did only three or four films, but I'm not sure if he was on that list

A-28. In 2008, he became the third actor to fill the fourth slot in the opening credits of a long-running television series.

LINUS ROACHE (for Law & Order, as Sam Waterson had been fourth for a majority of the show's run)

A-38. A leading candidate for the title Greatest Film Actor of All Time, he added to his honors this year by earning an Emmy nomination – at the age of 87.

MAX VON SYDOW is nominated for Game of Thrones this year

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ACTORS - first pass

LIST A: ACTORS

A-1. “They are more than nasty little snobs, Kathy. You call them that, and you can dismiss them; it's too easy. They're persistent little traitors to everything that this country stands for, and stands on, and you have to fight 'em! Not just for the 'poor, poor Jews,' as Dave says, but for everything this country stands for.”

GREGORY PECK (Gentleman’s Agreement)

A-4. This busy actor-playwright-director-polyglot-wit also served as president of the World Federalist Movement for the last thirteen years of his life.

PETER USTINOV?

A-5. “Four years ago, when the President and I arrived, this was a pure pigsty. Tobacco stains in the carpets, mushrooms sprouting from the ceilings! And a pauper's pittance allotted for improvements. As if your committee joined with all of Washington waiting, in what you anticipated to be our comfort in squalor, further proof that my husband and I were prairie primitives, unsuited to the position to which an error of the people, a flaw in the democratic process, had elevated us.”

SALLY FIELD

A-6. This actor died on January 2, 1950 – though not according to Quentin Tarantino.

EMIL JANNINGS

A-9. “There is more money potential in narcotics than anything else we're looking at now. If we don't get into it, somebody else will, maybe one of the Five Families, maybe all of them. And with the money they earn they'll be able to buy more police and political power. Then they come after us.”

ROBERT DUVALL

A-12. This actor had the shortest filmography of anyone on the AFI list of 50 Greatest Screen Legends.

JAMES DEAN

A-13. “You can't discharge me. I am my own master for the first time in my life. You can't discharge me. I'm sick. I'm going to die, you understand? I'm going to die, and nobody can do anything to me anymore. Nothing can happen to me anymore. Before I can be discharged, I'll be dead!”

LIONEL BARRYMORE

A-14. This character actress was the first member of the Gone with the Wind cast to shuffle off this mortal coil.

LAURA HOPE CREWS?

A-15. “What makes you think either Miller or Sherwood would stand for the nonsense I take from you? You'd better stick to Beaumont and Fletcher! They've been dead for three hundred years!”

HUGH MARLOWE

A-20. One of these things is not like the others…. Two of his screen roles had earlier been played by Douglas Fairbanks and Rudolph Valentino, while another would later be played by Bill Murray.

TYRONE POWER (Zorro, Blood & Sand and Razor’s Edge)

A-21. “I'm taking all my dolls, even the dead ones.”

MARGARET O’BRIEN

A-23. “There'll be no locks or bolts between us, Mary Kate, except those in your own mercenary little heart!”

JOHN WAYNE

A-24. The turning point in this actor’s career came in 1964 with his live TV rendition of “A Time for Choosing.”

RONALD REAGAN

A-26. Oscar-wise, she completes the following list: Martha Raye, Rosalind Russell, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Sherry Lansing, Oprah Winfrey, _______, Debbie Reynolds.

ANGELINA JOLIE (Hersholt Award)

A-28. In 2008, he became the third actor to fill the fourth slot in the opening credits of a long-running television series.

LINUS ROACHE? Was it that long ago he became L&O DA??

A-29. “When you're seventeen and the world's beautiful, facing facts is just as slick fun as dancing or going to parties, but when you're seventy ... well, you don't care about dancing, you don't think about parties anymore, and about the only fun you have left is pretending that there ain't any facts to face, so would you mind if I just went on pretending?”

BEULAH BONDI

A-31. “There are some who say that the old bank is suffering from hardening of the arteries and of the heart. I refuse to listen to such radical talk. I say that our bank is alive, it's generous, it's human, and we're going to have such a line of customers seeking and getting small loans that people will think we're gambling with the depositors' money. And we will be. We will be gambling on the future of this country. I thank you.”

FREDRIC MARCH

A-32. This star of silent films and early talkies had one blue eye and one brown eye.

Pretty sure this is COLLEEN MOORE

A-34. This Vienna-born character actress made her penultimate screen appearance – at the age of 91 – as a wise psychiatrist in a movie written by David Mamet. (Fortunately, she left the four-letter words to other actors.)

LILLIA SKALA?

A-35. “It is very common here to live to a very ripe old age. Climate, diet - the mountain water you might say. But we like to believe it's the absence of struggle in the way we live. In your countries, on the other hand, how often do you hear the expression, ‘He worried himself to death,’ or This thing or that killed him?’”

HB WARNER

A-41. “I'm forty-seven. Forty-seven years old. You know how I stayed alive this long? All these years? Fear. The spectacle of fearsome acts. Somebody steals from me, I cut off his hands. He offends me, I cut out his tongue. He rises against me, I cut off his head, stick it on a pike, raise it high up so all on the streets can see. That's what preserves the order of things. Fear.”

DANIEL DAY LEWIS

A-42. Among his memorable quips are “California is a fine place to live – if you happen to be an orange” and “Television is …. called a medium because nothing is well-done.”

FRED ALLEN

A-45. “I didn't want to be born. You didn't want me to be born. It's been a calamity on both sides.”

BETTE DAVIS

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MOVIES FIRST PASS

LIST B: MOVIES

B-4. Remakes of this silent film starred Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Midler.

STELLA DALLAS

B-5. “Why don't you drop by tomorrow evening about eight-thirty. He'll be in then.”
“Who?”
“My husband. You were anxious to talk to him, weren't you?”
“Yeah, I was, but I'm sort of getting over the idea, if you know what I mean.”

DOUBLE INDEMNITY

B-7. “What does it matter if an individual is shattered, if only justice is resurrected?”

LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA

B-8. To prepare for her role in this film, Julia Roberts attended both finishing school and art history classes.

MONA LISA SMILE

B-11. “Susan, dear, you've had him to yourself all this time, and I can understand that suddenly to have another woman around, well, it's a tremendous intrusion. But all my life, it seemed, I've hoped and waited for someone like him: someone gentle and mature, rough-edged, but quick to laugh, someone understanding and wise. All the things that I've come to love and cherish in him.”
“Well, that’s very refreshing.”
“Why, dear?”
“Most girls just run after Daddy because he's so wealthy.”

THE PARENT TRAP

B-12. This 1939 western later became a Broadway musical starring Andy Griffith.

DESTRY RIDES AGAIN

B-14. This 1977 film was based on a best-selling semi-autobiographical novel about the author’s bout with schizophrenia. (Reportedly, she was not too pleased with it.)

I'M DANCING AS FAST AS I CAN??

B-15. “You contemptible pig! I remained celibate for you. I stood at the back of a cathedral, waiting, in celibacy, for you, with three hundred friends and relatives in attendance. My uncle hired the best Romanian caterers in the state. To obtain the seven limousines for the wedding party, my father used up his last favor with Mad Pete Trullo. So for me, for my mother, my grandmother, my father, my uncle, and for the common good, I must now kill you and your brother.”

BLUES BROTHERS

B-16. Katharine Hepburn was originally cast in this film by her old pal George Cukor, but was ultimately let go – in part because she was too old to play the flashback sequences.

TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT?

B-17. “What kind of talk is that, calling me a stoolie? I was brought up to report any injustice to the police authority. I call that being a solid citizen.”
“But you get paid for it.”
“You gonna knock it?”

PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET

B-18. This 1951 adaptation of a Broadway hit made some inroads against the Production Code by getting approval to incorporate the killing of a police officer – vërboten at the time – and by including oblique references to abortion.

DETECTIVE STORY

B-23. “I hope you'll forgive me if I acted a little clumsy, but this is the first time I ever met an actress.”
“Lieutenant, this is the first time I've ever met a man who could drop three tons of dynamite in two minutes.”

TO BE OR NOT TO BE

B-28. The title characters of this 1938 film were played by Billy the Kid, Midshipman Roger Byam, and Marcus Welby, M.D.

THREE COMRADES

B-32. This coming-of-age movie set in rural Louisiana marked the final film of its 83 year-old director and the first film of a 14 year-old actress who would later go on to win an Oscar.

MAN IN THE MOON

B-33. “We are supposed to be righteous. That's a beautiful thing. And we're losing it. If I lose that, that's everything. That's my soul.”

MUNICH?

B-37. “When I was a little girl, my mama used to lock me in the attic when I was bad, which was pretty often. And I would - I would pretend I was a princess, trapped in a tower by a wicked queen. And then suddenly this knight on a white horse with these colors flying would come charging up and draw his sword. And I would wave. And he would climb up the tower and rescue me. But never in all the time that I had this dream did the knight say to me, ‘Come on, baby, I'll put you up in a great condo.’”

PRETTY WOMAN

B-45. “Don't you ever talk that way to me. 'Pig,' 'Pollack,' 'disgusting,' 'vulgar,' 'greasy.' Those kind of words have been on your tongue and your sister's tongue just too much around here. What do you think you are? A pair of queens? Now just remember what Huey Long said - that every man's a king - and I'm the King around here, and don't you forget it.”

STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

[SportsFan68]

A-17. “We at the FBI do not have a sense of humor we're aware of.”

Tommy Lee Jones in Men in Black.

A-18. Discussing her most famous scene, she once commented, “At least it proves I'm a natural blonde.”

Sharon Stone

A-37. “As ambassador to Earth, it is my duty to observe and understand human behavior. Marrying your mother was ... logical.”

Mark Lenard

LIST B: MOVIES

B-31. “Nobody - and I don't care if you're Warren Buffet or Jimmy Buffet - nobody knows if a stock is going up, down, or f**ing sideways, least of all stockbrokers. But we have to pretend we know.”

I'll guess Wall Street.

B-32. This coming-of-age movie set in rural Louisiana marked the final film of its 83 year-old director and the first film of a 14 year-old actress who would later go on to win an Oscar.

I'll guess Paper Moon.

B-43. “Look, Jasper. Do you suppose they disguised themselves?”
“Say now, Horace, that's just what they did! Dogs is always paintin' 'emselves black!”

101 Dalmatians

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[quote="franktangredi"]Game #161: Old Movies, New Movies

Identify the 45 actors in List A and the 45 movies in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, form 50 pairs, each consisting of one movie and one actor, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. On each list, three answers will be used twice and one will be used three times.

This one may be a bit tricky, but I think people will get it.

LIST A: ACTORS

A-1. “They are more than nasty little snobs, Kathy. You call them that, and you can dismiss them; it's too easy. They're persistent little traitors to everything that this country stands for, and stands on, and you have to fight 'em! Not just for the 'poor, poor Jews,' as Dave says, but for everything this country stands for.”
Gentleman's Agreement

A-2. This Commander of the Order of St. Olav is one of the few people nominated for an Oscar for foreign-language roles more than once.
Max von Sydow?

A-9. “There is more money potential in narcotics than anything else we're looking at now. If we don't get into it, somebody else will, maybe one of the Five Families, maybe all of them. And with the money they earn they'll be able to buy more police and political power. Then they come after us.”
Robert Duval

A-12. This actor had the shortest filmography of anyone on the AFI list of 50 Greatest Screen Legends.
Rudolf Valintino?

A-17. “We at the FBI do not have a sense of humor we're aware of.”
Tom Hanks?

A-18. Discussing her most famous scene, she once commented, “At least it proves I'm a natural blonde.”
Sally Kellerman?

A-19. “Pay strict attention to what I say because I choose my words carefully and I never repeat myself. I've told you my name: that's the Who. The Where could most readily be described as a prison cell. But there's a vast difference between being stuck in a tiny cell and being in prison. The What is easy: recently I planned and set in motion events to execute the perfect bank robbery. That's also the When. As for the Why: beyond the obvious financial motivation, it's exceedingly simple... because I can. Which leaves us only with the How; and therein, as the Bard would tell us, lies the rub.”
Clive Owen

A-25. “If you allow them life imprisonment, they will be eligible for parole in seven years. That is the law. Gentlemen, four of your neighbors were slaughtered like hogs in a pen by them. They did not strike suddenly in the heat of passion, but for money. They did not kill in vengeance, they planned it for money. And how cheaply those lives were bought. $40. $10 a life. They drove 400 miles to come here. They brought their weapons with them. This shotgun. This dagger. This is the rope they hogtied their victims with. This is the blood they spilled.”
Will Geer

A-31. “There are some who say that the old bank is suffering from hardening of the arteries and of the heart. I refuse to listen to such radical talk. I say that our bank is alive, it's generous, it's human, and we're going to have such a line of customers seeking and getting small loans that people will think we're gambling with the depositors' money. And we will be. We will be gambling on the future of this country. I thank you.”
Fredrick March?

A-33. “Wanna play a game? It's a mind-reading game. Here's how it works. I read your mind. If what I say is right, you take one step towards the chair. If what I say is wrong, you take one step back... towards the doorway. If you reach the chair, you sit down. If you reach the door, you can go. Wanna play?”
Bruce Willis

A-35. “It is very common here to live to a very ripe old age. Climate, diet - the mountain water you might say. But we like to believe it's the absence of struggle in the way we live. In your countries, on the other hand, how often do you hear the expression, ‘He worried himself to death,’ or This thing or that killed him?’”
Sam Jaffe?

A-39. “No, Your Honor. No! Germany alone is not guilty: The whole world is as responsible for Hitler's Germany. It is an easy thing to condemn one man in the dock. It is easy to condemn the German people, to speak of the basic flaw in the German character that allowed Hitler to rise to power, and at the same time positively ignore the basic flaw of character that made the Russians sign pacts with him, Winston Churchill praise him, American industrialists profit by him!”
Maximilian Schell?

LIST B: MOVIES

B-1. “Now I'm gonna make us some Old Fashioneds the old-fashioned way - the way dear old Dad used to!”
“What if something happens??”
“What could happen to an Old Fashioned?”
IAMMMMW

B-2. It was the first movie about World War II – which was then in progress – to win the Oscar for Best Picture.
Mrs. Miniver?

B-4. Remakes of this silent film starred Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Midler.
Stella Dallas?

B-5. “Why don't you drop by tomorrow evening about eight-thirty. He'll be in then.”
“Who?”
“My husband. You were anxious to talk to him, weren't you?”
“Yeah, I was, but I'm sort of getting over the idea, if you know what I mean.”
Double Indemnity

B-9. “Take a can of your gasoline. Say this can of gasoline is the sun. Now, you spread a thin line of it to a ball, representing the earth. Now, the gasoline represents the sunlight, the sun particles. Here we saturate the ball with the gasoline, the sunlight. Then we put a flame to the ball. The flame will speedily travel around the earth, back along the line of gasoline to the can, or the sun itself. It will explode this source and spread to every place that gasoline, our sunlight, touches. Explode the sunlight here, gentlemen, you explode the universe. Explode the sunlight here and a chain reaction will occur direct to the sun itself and to all the planets that sunlight touches, to every planet in the universe. This is why you must be stopped. This is why any means must be used to stop you. In a friendly manner or as (it seems) you want it.”
The Day the Earth Stood Still?

B-18. This 1951 adaptation of a Broadway hit made some inroads against the Production Code by getting approval to incorporate the killing of a police officer – vërboten at the time – and by including oblique references to abortion.
Detective Story?

[kroxquo]

LIST A: ACTORS

A-2. This Commander of the Order of St. Olav is one of the few people nominated for an Oscar for foreign-language roles more than once.

Max Von Sydow?

A-5. “Four years ago, when the President and I arrived, this was a pure pigsty. Tobacco stains in the carpets, mushrooms sprouting from the ceilings! And a pauper's pittance allotted for improvements. As if your committee joined with all of Washington waiting, in what you anticipated to be our comfort in squalor, further proof that my husband and I were prairie primitives, unsuited to the position to which an error of the people, a flaw in the democratic process, had elevated us.”

Sally Field

A-9. “There is more money potential in narcotics than anything else we're looking at now. If we don't get into it, somebody else will, maybe one of the Five Families, maybe all of them. And with the money they earn they'll be able to buy more police and political power. Then they come after us.”

Sounds like it's from The Godfather. James Caan, maybe?

A-10. During his long career, this British actor appeared in screen adaptations of works by William Makepeace Thackeray, Baroness Orczy, H. Rider Haggard, Alfred Tennyson, Daphne du Maurier, and Maurice Maeterlinck – but he is most closely associated with a character created by a different writer.

Basil Rathbone

A-12. This actor had the shortest filmography of anyone on the AFI list of 50 Greatest Screen Legends.

James Dean

A-16. Her leading role in a 1978 remake of a 1956 sci-fi classic netted her a Saturn nomination.

Brooke Adams

A-18. Discussing her most famous scene, she once commented, “At least it proves I'm a natural blonde.”

Sharon Stone?

A-20. One of these things is not like the others…. Two of his screen roles had earlier been played by Douglas Fairbanks and Rudolph Valentino, while another would later be played by Bill Murray.

Guessing whoever had the lead in the original version of The Razor's Edge

A-28. In 2008, he became the third actor to fill the fourth slot in the opening credits of a long-running television series.

Linus Roach

A-33. “Wanna play a game? It's a mind-reading game. Here's how it works. I read your mind. If what I say is right, you take one step towards the chair. If what I say is wrong, you take one step back... towards the doorway. If you reach the chair, you sit down. If you reach the door, you can go. Wanna play?”

Bruce Willis

LIST B: MOVIES

B-1. “Now I'm gonna make us some Old Fashioneds the old-fashioned way - the way dear old Dad used to!”
“What if something happens??”
“What could happen to an Old Fashioned?”

B-2. It was the first movie about World War II – which was then in progress – to win the Oscar for Best Picture.

Mrs. Miniver

B-3. “It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.”

The Terminator

B-5. “Why don't you drop by tomorrow evening about eight-thirty. He'll be in then.”
“Who?”
“My husband. You were anxious to talk to him, weren't you?”
“Yeah, I was, but I'm sort of getting over the idea, if you know what I mean.”

Double Indemnity

B-9. “Take a can of your gasoline. Say this can of gasoline is the sun. Now, you spread a thin line of it to a ball, representing the earth. Now, the gasoline represents the sunlight, the sun particles. Here we saturate the ball with the gasoline, the sunlight. Then we put a flame to the ball. The flame will speedily travel around the earth, back along the line of gasoline to the can, or the sun itself. It will explode this source and spread to every place that gasoline, our sunlight, touches. Explode the sunlight here, gentlemen, you explode the universe. Explode the sunlight here and a chain reaction will occur direct to the sun itself and to all the planets that sunlight touches, to every planet in the universe. This is why you must be stopped. This is why any means must be used to stop you. In a friendly manner or as (it seems) you want it.”

Plan 9 From Outer Space

B-14. This 1977 film was based on a best-selling semi-autobiographical novel about the author’s bout with schizophrenia. (Reportedly, she was not too pleased with it.)

Julia?

B-21 The Kids Are Alright?

B-27. “Hemingway once wrote, ‘The world's a fine place and worth fighting for.’ I agree with the second part.”

Seven

B-40. The cast of this movie musical features four alumni of the Harry Potter franchise.

Sweeney Todd? Helena Bonham-Carter and Alan Rickman were both in it

B-43. “Look, Jasper. Do you suppose they disguised themselves?”
“Say now, Horace, that's just what they did! Dogs is always paintin' 'emselves black!”

101 Dalmatians

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B-14. This 1977 film was based on a best-selling semi-autobiographical novel about the author’s bout with schizophrenia. (Reportedly, she was not too pleased with it.)

I'M DANCING AS FAST AS I CAN??

I just realized that this can't be right -- time frame is wrong.

How about I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN?

A-33. “Wanna play a game? It's a mind-reading game. Here's how it works. I read your mind. If what I say is right, you take one step towards the chair. If what I say is wrong, you take one step back... towards the doorway. If you reach the chair, you sit down. If you reach the door, you can go. Wanna play?”

Even though this has been answered, I need to answer out of loyalty (:D and the fact that I should have gotten this on first pass)

BRUCE WILLIS

B-6. Pearl Bailey agreed to appear in this musical only after costume designer Irene Sharaff assured her she would not have to wear a bandanna.

Could this be PORGY AND BESS?

[Pastor Fireball]

Since this game has been dormant for three days, I'll post the consolidation...


Game #161: Old Movies, New Movies

Identify the 45 actors in List A and the 45 movies in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, form 50 pairs, each consisting of one movie and one actor, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. On each list, three answers will be used twice and one will be used three times.

This one may be a bit tricky, but I think people will get it.

LIST A: ACTORS

A-1. “They are more than nasty little snobs, Kathy. You call them that, and you can dismiss them; it's too easy. They're persistent little traitors to everything that this country stands for, and stands on, and you have to fight 'em! Not just for the 'poor, poor Jews,' as Dave says, but for everything this country stands for.”

GREGORY PECK

A-2. This Commander of the Order of St. Olav is one of the few people nominated for an Oscar for foreign-language roles more than once.

Not Max Von Sydow because he has to be the correct answer elsewhere. Could this be LIV ULLMANN, perhaps?

A-3. “Sir, I'm gonna have to ask you to exit the donut.”

A-4. This busy actor-playwright-director-polyglot-wit also served as president of the World Federalist Movement for the last thirteen years of his life.

PETER USTINOV?

A-5. “Four years ago, when the President and I arrived, this was a pure pigsty. Tobacco stains in the carpets, mushrooms sprouting from the ceilings! And a pauper's pittance allotted for improvements. As if your committee joined with all of Washington waiting, in what you anticipated to be our comfort in squalor, further proof that my husband and I were prairie primitives, unsuited to the position to which an error of the people, a flaw in the democratic process, had elevated us.”

SALLY FIELD

A-6. This actor died on January 2, 1950 – though not according to Quentin Tarantino.

EMIL JANNINGS

A-7. “I make a point of avoiding familiarity with pirates.”

A-8. The career of this actress – best known for her role in a seminal Warner Brothers gangster flick – was brought to a screeching halt in 1947 by the Hollywood blacklist.

A-9. “There is more money potential in narcotics than anything else we're looking at now. If we don't get into it, somebody else will, maybe one of the Five Families, maybe all of them. And with the money they earn they'll be able to buy more police and political power. Then they come after us.”

JAMES CAAN? ROBERT DUVALL?

A-10. During his long career, this British actor appeared in screen adaptations of works by William Makepeace Thackeray, Baroness Orczy, H. Rider Haggard, Alfred Tennyson, Daphne du Maurier, and Maurice Maeterlinck – but he is most closely associated with a character created by a different writer.

BASIL RATHBONE

A-11. “Quite frankly, I didn't even want to use you guys, with your dip and velcro and all your gear bulls**t. I wanted to drop a bomb. But people didn't believe in this lead enough to drop a bomb. So they're using you guys as canaries.”

A-12. This actor had the shortest filmography of anyone on the AFI list of 50 Greatest Screen Legends.

JAMES DEAN

A-13. “You can't discharge me. I am my own master for the first time in my life. You can't discharge me. I'm sick. I'm going to die, you understand? I'm going to die, and nobody can do anything to me anymore. Nothing can happen to me anymore. Before I can be discharged, I'll be dead!”

LIONEL BARRYMORE

A-14. This character actress was the first member of the Gone with the Wind cast to shuffle off this mortal coil.

LAURA HOPE CREWS?

A-15. “What makes you think either Miller or Sherwood would stand for the nonsense I take from you? You'd better stick to Beaumont and Fletcher! They've been dead for three hundred years!”

HUGH MARLOWE

A-16. Her leading role in a 1978 remake of a 1956 sci-fi classic netted her a Saturn nomination.

BROOKE ADAMS

A-17. “We at the FBI do not have a sense of humor we're aware of.”

TOMMY LEE JONES

A-18. Discussing her most famous scene, she once commented, “At least it proves I'm a natural blonde.”

SHARON STONE? SALLY KELLERMAN?

A-19. “Pay strict attention to what I say because I choose my words carefully and I never repeat myself. I've told you my name: that's the Who. The Where could most readily be described as a prison cell. But there's a vast difference between being stuck in a tiny cell and being in prison. The What is easy: recently I planned and set in motion events to execute the perfect bank robbery. That's also the When. As for the Why: beyond the obvious financial motivation, it's exceedingly simple... because I can. Which leaves us only with the How; and therein, as the Bard would tell us, lies the rub.”

CLIVE OWEN

A-20. One of these things is not like the others…. Two of his screen roles had earlier been played by Douglas Fairbanks and Rudolph Valentino, while another would later be played by Bill Murray.

TYRONE POWER

A-21. “I'm taking all my dolls, even the dead ones.”

MARGARET O'BRIEN

A-22. This Venezuelan actor won a César Award for his role as a real-life Venezuelan terrorist currently incarcerated in France.

A-23. “There'll be no locks or bolts between us, Mary Kate, except those in your own mercenary little heart!”

JOHN WAYNE

A-24. The turning point in this actor’s career came in 1964 with his live TV rendition of “A Time for Choosing.”

RONALD REAGAN

A-25. “If you allow them life imprisonment, they will be eligible for parole in seven years. That is the law. Gentlemen, four of your neighbors were slaughtered like hogs in a pen by them. They did not strike suddenly in the heat of passion, but for money. They did not kill in vengeance, they planned it for money. And how cheaply those lives were bought. $40. $10 a life. They drove 400 miles to come here. They brought their weapons with them. This shotgun. This dagger. This is the rope they hogtied their victims with. This is the blood they spilled.”

WILL GEER

A-26. Oscar-wise, she completes the following list: Martha Raye, Rosalind Russell, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Sherry Lansing, Oprah Winfrey, _______, Debbie Reynolds.

ANGELINA JOLIE

A-27. “This sucks! A maniac gets ahold of my gun and runs all over the streets killin' people with it. So, instead of bein' where I oughta be, home in bed with my gal givin' her the high hard one, I'm out here doin' this s**t, roamin' around the streets with an overdressed, charcoal-colored loser like you.”

NICK NOLTE

A-28. In 2008, he became the third actor to fill the fourth slot in the opening credits of a long-running television series.

LINUS ROACHE

A-29. “When you're seventeen and the world's beautiful, facing facts is just as slick fun as dancing or going to parties, but when you're seventy ... well, you don't care about dancing, you don't think about parties anymore, and about the only fun you have left is pretending that there ain't any facts to face, so would you mind if I just went on pretending?”

BEULAH BONDI

A-30. After his appearances in a Broadway musical based on an Oscar-nominated British film and an American miniseries based on a Tony-winning Broadway play, this actor declared that his New Year’s resolution for 2003 was “to be in a movie or a play which doesn't require me to take off my clothes.”

A-31. “There are some who say that the old bank is suffering from hardening of the arteries and of the heart. I refuse to listen to such radical talk. I say that our bank is alive, it's generous, it's human, and we're going to have such a line of customers seeking and getting small loans that people will think we're gambling with the depositors' money. And we will be. We will be gambling on the future of this country. I thank you.”

FREDRIC MARCH

A-32. This star of silent films and early talkies had one blue eye and one brown eye.

COLLEEN MOORE

A-33. “Wanna play a game? It's a mind-reading game. Here's how it works. I read your mind. If what I say is right, you take one step towards the chair. If what I say is wrong, you take one step back... towards the doorway. If you reach the chair, you sit down. If you reach the door, you can go. Wanna play?”

BRUCE WILLIS

A-34. This Vienna-born character actress made her penultimate screen appearance – at the age of 91 – as a wise psychiatrist in a movie written by David Mamet. (Fortunately, she left the four-letter words to other actors.)

LILIA SKALA

A-35. “It is very common here to live to a very ripe old age. Climate, diet - the mountain water you might say. But we like to believe it's the absence of struggle in the way we live. In your countries, on the other hand, how often do you hear the expression, ‘He worried himself to death,’ or This thing or that killed him?’”

H.B. WARNER

A-36. In two miniseries based on novels by Charles Dickens, she played the roles of Lady Dedlock and Miss Havisham.

A-37. “As ambassador to Earth, it is my duty to observe and understand human behavior. Marrying your mother was ... logical.”

MARK LENARD? BEN CROSS?

A-38. A leading candidate for the title Greatest Film Actor of All Time, he added to his honors this year by earning an Emmy nomination – at the age of 87.

MAX VON SYDOW

A-39. “No, Your Honor. No! Germany alone is not guilty: The whole world is as responsible for Hitler's Germany. It is an easy thing to condemn one man in the dock. It is easy to condemn the German people, to speak of the basic flaw in the German character that allowed Hitler to rise to power, and at the same time positively ignore the basic flaw of character that made the Russians sign pacts with him, Winston Churchill praise him, American industrialists profit by him!”

MAXIMILIAN SCHELL?

A-40. In 1991, this Canadian actress got her only Oscar nomination for playing the mother of an actor in one of the preceding clues – who is actually nine years her senior.

This confirms Nick Nolte at A-27. This is KATE NELLIGAN, who played Nolte's mother in "The Prince of Tides".

A-41. “I'm forty-seven. Forty-seven years old. You know how I stayed alive this long? All these years? Fear. The spectacle of fearsome acts. Somebody steals from me, I cut off his hands. He offends me, I cut out his tongue. He rises against me, I cut off his head, stick it on a pike, raise it high up so all on the streets can see. That's what preserves the order of things. Fear.”

DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

A-42. Among his memorable quips are “California is a fine place to live – if you happen to be an orange” and “Television is …. called a medium because nothing is well-done.”

FRED ALLEN

A-43. “You're a clever little man, little master of the universe, but mortals are weak and frail. If their stomach speaks, they forget their brain. If their brain speaks, they forget their heart. And if their heart speaks, they forget everything.”

A-44. In 2001, he played a role that had previously been played on film – sort of – by Frank Finlay and Kenneth Branagh.

They both played Iago, so this has to be JOSH HARTNETT, who was in the loose Othello remake called "O".

A-45. “I didn't want to be born. You didn't want me to be born. It's been a calamity on both sides.”

BETTE DAVIS

LIST B: MOVIES

B-1. “Now I'm gonna make us some Old Fashioneds the old-fashioned way - the way dear old Dad used to!”
“What if something happens??”
“What could happen to an Old Fashioned?”

IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD

B-2. It was the first movie about World War II – which was then in progress – to win the Oscar for Best Picture.

MRS. MINIVER

B-3. “It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.”

THE TERMINATOR

B-4. Remakes of this silent film starred Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Midler.

STELLA DALLAS?

B-5. “Why don't you drop by tomorrow evening about eight-thirty. He'll be in then.”
“Who?”
“My husband. You were anxious to talk to him, weren't you?”
“Yeah, I was, but I'm sort of getting over the idea, if you know what I mean.”

DOUBLE INDEMNITY

B-6. Pearl Bailey agreed to appear in this musical only after costume designer Irene Sharaff assured her she would not have to wear a bandanna.

PORGY AND BESS?

B-7. “What does it matter if an individual is shattered, if only justice is resurrected?”

THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA

B-8. To prepare for her role in this film, Julia Roberts attended both finishing school and art history classes.

MONA LISA SMILE

B-9. “Take a can of your gasoline. Say this can of gasoline is the sun. Now, you spread a thin line of it to a ball, representing the earth. Now, the gasoline represents the sunlight, the sun particles. Here we saturate the ball with the gasoline, the sunlight. Then we put a flame to the ball. The flame will speedily travel around the earth, back along the line of gasoline to the can, or the sun itself. It will explode this source and spread to every place that gasoline, our sunlight, touches. Explode the sunlight here, gentlemen, you explode the universe. Explode the sunlight here and a chain reaction will occur direct to the sun itself and to all the planets that sunlight touches, to every planet in the universe. This is why you must be stopped. This is why any means must be used to stop you. In a friendly manner or as (it seems) you want it.”

PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE

B-10. This Italian classic was the first winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film after the category switched from honorary to competitive.

LA STRADA

B-11. “Susan, dear, you've had him to yourself all this time, and I can understand that suddenly to have another woman around, well, it's a tremendous intrusion. But all my life, it seemed, I've hoped and waited for someone like him: someone gentle and mature, rough-edged, but quick to laugh, someone understanding and wise. All the things that I've come to love and cherish in him.”
“Well, that’s very refreshing.”
“Why, dear?”
“Most girls just run after Daddy because he's so wealthy.”

THE PARENT TRAP

B-12. This 1939 western later became a Broadway musical starring Andy Griffith.

DESTRY RIDES AGAIN

B-13. “Humans of Earth, I come in peace. You need not fear me, I mean you no harm. However, it is important to note that most of you will not survive the next 24 hours. The few of you that do survive will be enslaved and experimented upon. You should, in no way, take any of this personally. It's just business. So, to recap: I come in peace, I mean you no harm, and you all will die.”

B-14. This 1977 film was based on a best-selling semi-autobiographical novel about the author’s bout with schizophrenia. (Reportedly, she was not too pleased with it.)

I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN

B-15. “You contemptible pig! I remained celibate for you. I stood at the back of a cathedral, waiting, in celibacy, for you, with three hundred friends and relatives in attendance. My uncle hired the best Romanian caterers in the state. To obtain the seven limousines for the wedding party, my father used up his last favor with Mad Pete Trullo. So for me, for my mother, my grandmother, my father, my uncle, and for the common good, I must now kill you and your brother.”

THE BLUES BROTHERS

B-16. Katharine Hepburn was originally cast in this film by her old pal George Cukor, but was ultimately let go – in part because she was too old to play the flashback sequences.

TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT?

B-17. “What kind of talk is that, calling me a stoolie? I was brought up to report any injustice to the police authority. I call that being a solid citizen.”
“But you get paid for it.”
“You gonna knock it?”

PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET

B-18. This 1951 adaptation of a Broadway hit made some inroads against the Production Code by getting approval to incorporate the killing of a police officer – vërboten at the time – and by including oblique references to abortion.

DETECTIVE STORY

B-19. “Men would pay $200 for me, and here you are turning down a freebie. You could get a perfectly good dishwasher for that.”

B-20. This 1939 film marked the fourth teaming of two of Universal’s biggest horror movie stars – and the final appearance of one of them in his most famous role.

B-21. “Why'd you donate sperm?”
“It just seemed like a lot more fun than, uh, donating blood.”

THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT?

B-22. In 1992, an English actress won the New York Film Critics Award jointly for her performances in Enchanted April, The Crying Game and this film, which also earned her an Oscar nomination.

It's Miranda Richardson, so it's DAMAGE.

B-23. “I hope you'll forgive me if I acted a little clumsy, but this is the first time I ever met an actress.”
“Lieutenant, this is the first time I've ever met a man who could drop three tons of dynamite in two minutes.”

TO BE OR NOT TO BE

B-24. This early Hitchcock talkie was the first film in which a character’s inner thoughts were heard on the soundtrack.

B-25. “I always wanted to be in the movies. When I was little I thought for sure that one day, I could be a big, big star. Or maybe just beautiful. Beautiful and rich, like the women on TV. Yeah, I had a lot of dreams. And I guess you can call me a real romantic, because I truly believe that one day, they'll come true. So I dreamed about it for hours. As the years went by, I learnt to stop sharing them with people. They said I was dreaming. But back then, I believed it wholeheartedly. So whenever I was down, I would just escape into my mind to my other life, where I was someone else. It made me happy to think that all these people just didn't know yet who I was gonna be. But one day they'll all see.”

B-26. This wartime romance took its title from Vera Lynn’s signature song.

The song that I most associate her with is "We'll Meet Again".

B-27. “Hemingway once wrote, ‘The world's a fine place and worth fighting for.’ I agree with the second part.”

SEVEN

B-28. The title characters of this 1938 film were played by Billy the Kid, Midshipman Roger Byam, and Marcus Welby, M.D.

THREE COMRADES

B-29. “You're working some angle, and don't tell me you're not because I wrote the book!”
“What about you? You still handling playback money for the mob?”
“That’s me. That's who I am. You were never cut out for the rackets, Roy.”
“How come?”
“You aren’t tough enough.”

B-30. This film is most fondly remembered for a classic rendition of the hymn that begins, “Why should I feel discouraged….”

B-31. “Nobody - and I don't care if you're Warren Buffet or Jimmy Buffet - nobody knows if a stock is going up, down, or f**ing sideways, least of all stockbrokers. But we have to pretend we know.”

WALL STREET?

B-32. This coming-of-age movie set in rural Louisiana marked the final film of its 83 year-old director and the first film of a 14 year-old actress who would later go on to win an Oscar.

MAN IN THE MOON

B-33. “We are supposed to be righteous. That's a beautiful thing. And we're losing it. If I lose that, that's everything. That's my soul.”

MUNICH?

B-34. The actor who played the Witchfinder General in this movie considered it his finest horror movie performance.

B-35. “You are, all of you, amateurs. And international affairs should never be run by gentlemen amateurs. Do you have any idea of what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The days when you could just act out of your noble instincts, are over. Europe has become the arena of realpolitik, the politics of reality. If you like: real politics. What you need is not gentlemen politicians, but real ones. You need professionals to run your affairs, or you're headed for disaster!”

B-36. Set against the backdrop of two feuding Mexican villages, this movie starred such notable Mexican actors as Cyd Charisse, Pier Angeli, Nina Foch, Kurt Kasznar, and Vittorio Gassman – who considered it his worst film.

B-37. “When I was a little girl, my mama used to lock me in the attic when I was bad, which was pretty often. And I would - I would pretend I was a princess, trapped in a tower by a wicked queen. And then suddenly this knight on a white horse with these colors flying would come charging up and draw his sword. And I would wave. And he would climb up the tower and rescue me. But never in all the time that I had this dream did the knight say to me, ‘Come on, baby, I'll put you up in a great condo.’”

PRETTY WOMAN

B-38. This movie came out the same year as Pinky and covered some of the same ground from a male perspective.

B-39. “Listen to me, John. How many other white apes have you seen? You're like me, not them. You have another family, far away, one you have never seen.

B-40. The cast of this movie musical features four alumni of the Harry Potter franchise.

SWEENEY TODD?

B-41. “Son, I knew your daddy. He worked for me for years. Years. Then he wanted his own thing. You play the horses? You know they either geld the horse with a knife or with chemicals. When your Daddy said no to me, I did him the chemical way. Gave your mother a taste. Got the hook into her. Ahh, she doped up good and proper. Hung herself with a wire, on Melnea Cass. And you, running around the neighborhood looking for her. Your daddy didn't have the heart to tell his son that he was looking for a suicide doper who was never coming home. If there's a Heaven, son, she ain't in it.”

B-42. The London Times ranked the subject of this 2001 biopic twelfth on a list of the 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945.

B-43. “Look, Jasper. Do you suppose they disguised themselves?”
“Say now, Horace, that's just what they did! Dogs is always paintin' 'emselves black!”

101 DALMATIANS

B-44. In 1973, this movie became only the third foreign language film to get an Oscar nomination for Best Picture, and the second consecutive film from the same country to do so.

B-45. “Don't you ever talk that way to me. 'Pig,' 'Pollack,' 'disgusting,' 'vulgar,' 'greasy.' Those kind of words have been on your tongue and your sister's tongue just too much around here. What do you think you are? A pair of queens? Now just remember what Huey Long said - that every man's a king - and I'm the King around here, and don't you forget it.”

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

[mellytu74]

Between work and the Olympics, I let this slip.

Thanks, Fireball.

A couple of guesses on actors and a couple of definites on the movies.

A-8. The career of this actress – best known for her role in a seminal Warner Brothers gangster flick – was brought to a screeching halt in 1947 by the Hollywood blacklist.

How about KAREN MORLEY, who was Poppy in Scarface.

A-36. In two miniseries based on novels by Charles Dickens, she played the roles of Lady Dedlock and Miss Havisham.

GILLIAN ANDERSON? I know about Great Expectations but....

B-29. “You're working some angle, and don't tell me you're not because I wrote the book!”
“What about you? You still handling playback money for the mob?”
“That’s me. That's who I am. You were never cut out for the rackets, Roy.”
“How come?”
“You aren’t tough enough.”

This is THE GRIFTERS. Anjelica Huston and John Cusack

B-35. “You are, all of you, amateurs. And international affairs should never be run by gentlemen amateurs. Do you have any idea of what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The days when you could just act out of your noble instincts, are over. Europe has become the arena of realpolitik, the politics of reality. If you like: real politics. What you need is not gentlemen politicians, but real ones. You need professionals to run your affairs, or you're headed for disaster!”

Christopher Reeve in REMAINS OF THE DAY

B-42. The London Times ranked the subject of this 2001 biopic twelfth on a list of the 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945.

Oh, gosh. This is IRIS (Murdoch)

[franktangredi]

On LIST A, every answer with a question mark is correct. Every answer that includes two alternates includes the correct answer. One definite is incorrect, and it is very much a question of right church, wrong pew.

On LIST B, every answer with a question mark is correct except one. All the definites are correct.

Since this game has been dormant for three days, I'll post the consolidation...


Game #161: Old Movies, New Movies

Identify the 45 actors in List A and the 45 movies in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, form 50 pairs, each consisting of one movie and one actor, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. On each list, three answers will be used twice and one will be used three times.

This one may be a bit tricky, but I think people will get it.

LIST A: ACTORS

A-1. “They are more than nasty little snobs, Kathy. You call them that, and you can dismiss them; it's too easy. They're persistent little traitors to everything that this country stands for, and stands on, and you have to fight 'em! Not just for the 'poor, poor Jews,' as Dave says, but for everything this country stands for.”

GREGORY PECK

A-2. This Commander of the Order of St. Olav is one of the few people nominated for an Oscar for foreign-language roles more than once.

Not Max Von Sydow because he has to be the correct answer elsewhere. Could this be LIV ULLMANN, perhaps?

A-3. “Sir, I'm gonna have to ask you to exit the donut.”

A-4. This busy actor-playwright-director-polyglot-wit also served as president of the World Federalist Movement for the last thirteen years of his life.

PETER USTINOV?

A-5. “Four years ago, when the President and I arrived, this was a pure pigsty. Tobacco stains in the carpets, mushrooms sprouting from the ceilings! And a pauper's pittance allotted for improvements. As if your committee joined with all of Washington waiting, in what you anticipated to be our comfort in squalor, further proof that my husband and I were prairie primitives, unsuited to the position to which an error of the people, a flaw in the democratic process, had elevated us.”

SALLY FIELD

A-6. This actor died on January 2, 1950 – though not according to Quentin Tarantino.

EMIL JANNINGS

A-7. “I make a point of avoiding familiarity with pirates.”

A-8. The career of this actress – best known for her role in a seminal Warner Brothers gangster flick – was brought to a screeching halt in 1947 by the Hollywood blacklist.

A-9. “There is more money potential in narcotics than anything else we're looking at now. If we don't get into it, somebody else will, maybe one of the Five Families, maybe all of them. And with the money they earn they'll be able to buy more police and political power. Then they come after us.”

JAMES CAAN? ROBERT DUVALL?

A-10. During his long career, this British actor appeared in screen adaptations of works by William Makepeace Thackeray, Baroness Orczy, H. Rider Haggard, Alfred Tennyson, Daphne du Maurier, and Maurice Maeterlinck – but he is most closely associated with a character created by a different writer.

BASIL RATHBONE

A-11. “Quite frankly, I didn't even want to use you guys, with your dip and velcro and all your gear bulls**t. I wanted to drop a bomb. But people didn't believe in this lead enough to drop a bomb. So they're using you guys as canaries.”

A-12. This actor had the shortest filmography of anyone on the AFI list of 50 Greatest Screen Legends.

JAMES DEAN

A-13. “You can't discharge me. I am my own master for the first time in my life. You can't discharge me. I'm sick. I'm going to die, you understand? I'm going to die, and nobody can do anything to me anymore. Nothing can happen to me anymore. Before I can be discharged, I'll be dead!”

LIONEL BARRYMORE

A-14. This character actress was the first member of the Gone with the Wind cast to shuffle off this mortal coil.

LAURA HOPE CREWS?

A-15. “What makes you think either Miller or Sherwood would stand for the nonsense I take from you? You'd better stick to Beaumont and Fletcher! They've been dead for three hundred years!”

HUGH MARLOWE

A-16. Her leading role in a 1978 remake of a 1956 sci-fi classic netted her a Saturn nomination.

BROOKE ADAMS

A-17. “We at the FBI do not have a sense of humor we're aware of.”

TOMMY LEE JONES

A-18. Discussing her most famous scene, she once commented, “At least it proves I'm a natural blonde.”

SHARON STONE? SALLY KELLERMAN?

A-19. “Pay strict attention to what I say because I choose my words carefully and I never repeat myself. I've told you my name: that's the Who. The Where could most readily be described as a prison cell. But there's a vast difference between being stuck in a tiny cell and being in prison. The What is easy: recently I planned and set in motion events to execute the perfect bank robbery. That's also the When. As for the Why: beyond the obvious financial motivation, it's exceedingly simple... because I can. Which leaves us only with the How; and therein, as the Bard would tell us, lies the rub.”

CLIVE OWEN

A-20. One of these things is not like the others…. Two of his screen roles had earlier been played by Douglas Fairbanks and Rudolph Valentino, while another would later be played by Bill Murray.

TYRONE POWER

A-21. “I'm taking all my dolls, even the dead ones.”

MARGARET O'BRIEN

A-22. This Venezuelan actor won a César Award for his role as a real-life Venezuelan terrorist currently incarcerated in France.

A-23. “There'll be no locks or bolts between us, Mary Kate, except those in your own mercenary little heart!”

JOHN WAYNE

A-24. The turning point in this actor’s career came in 1964 with his live TV rendition of “A Time for Choosing.”

RONALD REAGAN

A-25. “If you allow them life imprisonment, they will be eligible for parole in seven years. That is the law. Gentlemen, four of your neighbors were slaughtered like hogs in a pen by them. They did not strike suddenly in the heat of passion, but for money. They did not kill in vengeance, they planned it for money. And how cheaply those lives were bought. $40. $10 a life. They drove 400 miles to come here. They brought their weapons with them. This shotgun. This dagger. This is the rope they hogtied their victims with. This is the blood they spilled.”

WILL GEER

A-26. Oscar-wise, she completes the following list: Martha Raye, Rosalind Russell, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Sherry Lansing, Oprah Winfrey, _______, Debbie Reynolds.

ANGELINA JOLIE

A-27. “This sucks! A maniac gets ahold of my gun and runs all over the streets killin' people with it. So, instead of bein' where I oughta be, home in bed with my gal givin' her the high hard one, I'm out here doin' this s**t, roamin' around the streets with an overdressed, charcoal-colored loser like you.”

NICK NOLTE

A-28. In 2008, he became the third actor to fill the fourth slot in the opening credits of a long-running television series.

LINUS ROACHE

A-29. “When you're seventeen and the world's beautiful, facing facts is just as slick fun as dancing or going to parties, but when you're seventy ... well, you don't care about dancing, you don't think about parties anymore, and about the only fun you have left is pretending that there ain't any facts to face, so would you mind if I just went on pretending?”

BEULAH BONDI

A-30. After his appearances in a Broadway musical based on an Oscar-nominated British film and an American miniseries based on a Tony-winning Broadway play, this actor declared that his New Year’s resolution for 2003 was “to be in a movie or a play which doesn't require me to take off my clothes.”

A-31. “There are some who say that the old bank is suffering from hardening of the arteries and of the heart. I refuse to listen to such radical talk. I say that our bank is alive, it's generous, it's human, and we're going to have such a line of customers seeking and getting small loans that people will think we're gambling with the depositors' money. And we will be. We will be gambling on the future of this country. I thank you.”

FREDRIC MARCH

A-32. This star of silent films and early talkies had one blue eye and one brown eye.

COLLEEN MOORE

A-33. “Wanna play a game? It's a mind-reading game. Here's how it works. I read your mind. If what I say is right, you take one step towards the chair. If what I say is wrong, you take one step back... towards the doorway. If you reach the chair, you sit down. If you reach the door, you can go. Wanna play?”

BRUCE WILLIS

A-34. This Vienna-born character actress made her penultimate screen appearance – at the age of 91 – as a wise psychiatrist in a movie written by David Mamet. (Fortunately, she left the four-letter words to other actors.)

LILIA SKALA

A-35. “It is very common here to live to a very ripe old age. Climate, diet - the mountain water you might say. But we like to believe it's the absence of struggle in the way we live. In your countries, on the other hand, how often do you hear the expression, ‘He worried himself to death,’ or This thing or that killed him?’”

H.B. WARNER

A-36. In two miniseries based on novels by Charles Dickens, she played the roles of Lady Dedlock and Miss Havisham.

A-37. “As ambassador to Earth, it is my duty to observe and understand human behavior. Marrying your mother was ... logical.”

MARK LENARD? BEN CROSS?

A-38. A leading candidate for the title Greatest Film Actor of All Time, he added to his honors this year by earning an Emmy nomination – at the age of 87.

MAX VON SYDOW

A-39. “No, Your Honor. No! Germany alone is not guilty: The whole world is as responsible for Hitler's Germany. It is an easy thing to condemn one man in the dock. It is easy to condemn the German people, to speak of the basic flaw in the German character that allowed Hitler to rise to power, and at the same time positively ignore the basic flaw of character that made the Russians sign pacts with him, Winston Churchill praise him, American industrialists profit by him!”

MAXIMILIAN SCHELL?

A-40. In 1991, this Canadian actress got her only Oscar nomination for playing the mother of an actor in one of the preceding clues – who is actually nine years her senior.

This confirms Nick Nolte at A-27. This is KATE NELLIGAN, who played Nolte's mother in "The Prince of Tides".

A-41. “I'm forty-seven. Forty-seven years old. You know how I stayed alive this long? All these years? Fear. The spectacle of fearsome acts. Somebody steals from me, I cut off his hands. He offends me, I cut out his tongue. He rises against me, I cut off his head, stick it on a pike, raise it high up so all on the streets can see. That's what preserves the order of things. Fear.”

DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

A-42. Among his memorable quips are “California is a fine place to live – if you happen to be an orange” and “Television is …. called a medium because nothing is well-done.”

FRED ALLEN

A-43. “You're a clever little man, little master of the universe, but mortals are weak and frail. If their stomach speaks, they forget their brain. If their brain speaks, they forget their heart. And if their heart speaks, they forget everything.”

A-44. In 2001, he played a role that had previously been played on film – sort of – by Frank Finlay and Kenneth Branagh.

They both played Iago, so this has to be JOSH HARTNETT, who was in the loose Othello remake called "O".

A-45. “I didn't want to be born. You didn't want me to be born. It's been a calamity on both sides.”

BETTE DAVIS

LIST B: MOVIES

B-1. “Now I'm gonna make us some Old Fashioneds the old-fashioned way - the way dear old Dad used to!”
“What if something happens??”
“What could happen to an Old Fashioned?”

IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD

B-2. It was the first movie about World War II – which was then in progress – to win the Oscar for Best Picture.

MRS. MINIVER

B-3. “It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.”

THE TERMINATOR

B-4. Remakes of this silent film starred Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Midler.

STELLA DALLAS?

B-5. “Why don't you drop by tomorrow evening about eight-thirty. He'll be in then.”
“Who?”
“My husband. You were anxious to talk to him, weren't you?”
“Yeah, I was, but I'm sort of getting over the idea, if you know what I mean.”

DOUBLE INDEMNITY

B-6. Pearl Bailey agreed to appear in this musical only after costume designer Irene Sharaff assured her she would not have to wear a bandanna.

PORGY AND BESS?

B-7. “What does it matter if an individual is shattered, if only justice is resurrected?”

THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA

B-8. To prepare for her role in this film, Julia Roberts attended both finishing school and art history classes.

MONA LISA SMILE

B-9. “Take a can of your gasoline. Say this can of gasoline is the sun. Now, you spread a thin line of it to a ball, representing the earth. Now, the gasoline represents the sunlight, the sun particles. Here we saturate the ball with the gasoline, the sunlight. Then we put a flame to the ball. The flame will speedily travel around the earth, back along the line of gasoline to the can, or the sun itself. It will explode this source and spread to every place that gasoline, our sunlight, touches. Explode the sunlight here, gentlemen, you explode the universe. Explode the sunlight here and a chain reaction will occur direct to the sun itself and to all the planets that sunlight touches, to every planet in the universe. This is why you must be stopped. This is why any means must be used to stop you. In a friendly manner or as (it seems) you want it.”

PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE

B-10. This Italian classic was the first winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film after the category switched from honorary to competitive.

LA STRADA

B-11. “Susan, dear, you've had him to yourself all this time, and I can understand that suddenly to have another woman around, well, it's a tremendous intrusion. But all my life, it seemed, I've hoped and waited for someone like him: someone gentle and mature, rough-edged, but quick to laugh, someone understanding and wise. All the things that I've come to love and cherish in him.”
“Well, that’s very refreshing.”
“Why, dear?”
“Most girls just run after Daddy because he's so wealthy.”

THE PARENT TRAP

B-12. This 1939 western later became a Broadway musical starring Andy Griffith.

DESTRY RIDES AGAIN

B-13. “Humans of Earth, I come in peace. You need not fear me, I mean you no harm. However, it is important to note that most of you will not survive the next 24 hours. The few of you that do survive will be enslaved and experimented upon. You should, in no way, take any of this personally. It's just business. So, to recap: I come in peace, I mean you no harm, and you all will die.”

B-14. This 1977 film was based on a best-selling semi-autobiographical novel about the author’s bout with schizophrenia. (Reportedly, she was not too pleased with it.)

I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN

B-15. “You contemptible pig! I remained celibate for you. I stood at the back of a cathedral, waiting, in celibacy, for you, with three hundred friends and relatives in attendance. My uncle hired the best Romanian caterers in the state. To obtain the seven limousines for the wedding party, my father used up his last favor with Mad Pete Trullo. So for me, for my mother, my grandmother, my father, my uncle, and for the common good, I must now kill you and your brother.”

THE BLUES BROTHERS

B-16. Katharine Hepburn was originally cast in this film by her old pal George Cukor, but was ultimately let go – in part because she was too old to play the flashback sequences.

TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT?

B-17. “What kind of talk is that, calling me a stoolie? I was brought up to report any injustice to the police authority. I call that being a solid citizen.”
“But you get paid for it.”
“You gonna knock it?”

PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET

B-18. This 1951 adaptation of a Broadway hit made some inroads against the Production Code by getting approval to incorporate the killing of a police officer – vërboten at the time – and by including oblique references to abortion.

DETECTIVE STORY

B-19. “Men would pay $200 for me, and here you are turning down a freebie. You could get a perfectly good dishwasher for that.”

B-20. This 1939 film marked the fourth teaming of two of Universal’s biggest horror movie stars – and the final appearance of one of them in his most famous role.

B-21. “Why'd you donate sperm?”
“It just seemed like a lot more fun than, uh, donating blood.”

THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT?

B-22. In 1992, an English actress won the New York Film Critics Award jointly for her performances in Enchanted April, The Crying Game and this film, which also earned her an Oscar nomination.

It's Miranda Richardson, so it's DAMAGE.

B-23. “I hope you'll forgive me if I acted a little clumsy, but this is the first time I ever met an actress.”
“Lieutenant, this is the first time I've ever met a man who could drop three tons of dynamite in two minutes.”

TO BE OR NOT TO BE

B-24. This early Hitchcock talkie was the first film in which a character’s inner thoughts were heard on the soundtrack.

B-25. “I always wanted to be in the movies. When I was little I thought for sure that one day, I could be a big, big star. Or maybe just beautiful. Beautiful and rich, like the women on TV. Yeah, I had a lot of dreams. And I guess you can call me a real romantic, because I truly believe that one day, they'll come true. So I dreamed about it for hours. As the years went by, I learnt to stop sharing them with people. They said I was dreaming. But back then, I believed it wholeheartedly. So whenever I was down, I would just escape into my mind to my other life, where I was someone else. It made me happy to think that all these people just didn't know yet who I was gonna be. But one day they'll all see.”

B-26. This wartime romance took its title from Vera Lynn’s signature song.

The song that I most associate her with is "We'll Meet Again".

B-27. “Hemingway once wrote, ‘The world's a fine place and worth fighting for.’ I agree with the second part.”

SEVEN

B-28. The title characters of this 1938 film were played by Billy the Kid, Midshipman Roger Byam, and Marcus Welby, M.D.

THREE COMRADES

B-29. “You're working some angle, and don't tell me you're not because I wrote the book!”
“What about you? You still handling playback money for the mob?”
“That’s me. That's who I am. You were never cut out for the rackets, Roy.”
“How come?”
“You aren’t tough enough.”

B-30. This film is most fondly remembered for a classic rendition of the hymn that begins, “Why should I feel discouraged….”

B-31. “Nobody - and I don't care if you're Warren Buffet or Jimmy Buffet - nobody knows if a stock is going up, down, or f**ing sideways, least of all stockbrokers. But we have to pretend we know.”

WALL STREET?

B-32. This coming-of-age movie set in rural Louisiana marked the final film of its 83 year-old director and the first film of a 14 year-old actress who would later go on to win an Oscar.

MAN IN THE MOON

B-33. “We are supposed to be righteous. That's a beautiful thing. And we're losing it. If I lose that, that's everything. That's my soul.”

MUNICH?

B-34. The actor who played the Witchfinder General in this movie considered it his finest horror movie performance.

B-35. “You are, all of you, amateurs. And international affairs should never be run by gentlemen amateurs. Do you have any idea of what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The days when you could just act out of your noble instincts, are over. Europe has become the arena of realpolitik, the politics of reality. If you like: real politics. What you need is not gentlemen politicians, but real ones. You need professionals to run your affairs, or you're headed for disaster!”

B-36. Set against the backdrop of two feuding Mexican villages, this movie starred such notable Mexican actors as Cyd Charisse, Pier Angeli, Nina Foch, Kurt Kasznar, and Vittorio Gassman – who considered it his worst film.

B-37. “When I was a little girl, my mama used to lock me in the attic when I was bad, which was pretty often. And I would - I would pretend I was a princess, trapped in a tower by a wicked queen. And then suddenly this knight on a white horse with these colors flying would come charging up and draw his sword. And I would wave. And he would climb up the tower and rescue me. But never in all the time that I had this dream did the knight say to me, ‘Come on, baby, I'll put you up in a great condo.’”

PRETTY WOMAN

B-38. This movie came out the same year as Pinky and covered some of the same ground from a male perspective.

B-39. “Listen to me, John. How many other white apes have you seen? You're like me, not them. You have another family, far away, one you have never seen.

B-40. The cast of this movie musical features four alumni of the Harry Potter franchise.

SWEENEY TODD?

B-41. “Son, I knew your daddy. He worked for me for years. Years. Then he wanted his own thing. You play the horses? You know they either geld the horse with a knife or with chemicals. When your Daddy said no to me, I did him the chemical way. Gave your mother a taste. Got the hook into her. Ahh, she doped up good and proper. Hung herself with a wire, on Melnea Cass. And you, running around the neighborhood looking for her. Your daddy didn't have the heart to tell his son that he was looking for a suicide doper who was never coming home. If there's a Heaven, son, she ain't in it.”

B-42. The London Times ranked the subject of this 2001 biopic twelfth on a list of the 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945.

B-43. “Look, Jasper. Do you suppose they disguised themselves?”
“Say now, Horace, that's just what they did! Dogs is always paintin' 'emselves black!”

101 DALMATIANS

B-44. In 1973, this movie became only the third foreign language film to get an Oscar nomination for Best Picture, and the second consecutive film from the same country to do so.

B-45. “Don't you ever talk that way to me. 'Pig,' 'Pollack,' 'disgusting,' 'vulgar,' 'greasy.' Those kind of words have been on your tongue and your sister's tongue just too much around here. What do you think you are? A pair of queens? Now just remember what Huey Long said - that every man's a king - and I'm the King around here, and don't you forget it.”

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

[kroxquo]

On LIST A, every answer with a question mark is correct. Every answer that includes two alternates includes the correct answer. One definite is incorrect, and it is very much a question of right church, wrong pew.


A-10. During his long career, this British actor appeared in screen adaptations of works by William Makepeace Thackeray, Baroness Orczy, H. Rider Haggard, Alfred Tennyson, Daphne du Maurier, and Maurice Maeterlinck – but he is most closely associated with a character created by a different writer.

BASIL RATHBONE

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This was an educated guess when I said Rathbone, but what about Nigel Bruce instead

[mellytu74]

On LIST A, every answer with a question mark is correct. Every answer that includes two alternates includes the correct answer. One definite is incorrect, and it is very much a question of right church, wrong pew.


A-10. During his long career, this British actor appeared in screen adaptations of works by William Makepeace Thackeray, Baroness Orczy, H. Rider Haggard, Alfred Tennyson, Daphne du Maurier, and Maurice Maeterlinck – but he is most closely associated with a character created by a different writer.

BASIL RATHBONE

This was an educated guess when I said Rathbone, but what about Nigel Bruce instead[/quote]

That would make sense. Becky Sharp, Scarlet Pimpernel, She, Charge of the Light Brigade, The Blue Bird and Rebecca.

[Pastor Fireball]

B-30. This film is most fondly remembered for a classic rendition of the hymn that begins, “Why should I feel discouraged….”

Lauryn Hill did this song in SISTER ACT 2: BACK IN THE HABIT. Also, Whitney Houston did this song for the recent remake of SPARKLE. Could be one of them.

[earendel]

A-3. “Sir, I'm gonna have to ask you to exit the donut.”

I believe this is Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury in Iron Man 2.

[plasticene]

B-31. “Nobody - and I don't care if you're Warren Buffet or Jimmy Buffet - nobody knows if a stock is going up, down, or f**ing sideways, least of all stockbrokers. But we have to pretend we know.”

WALL STREET?

That's the one that's wrong among the list B question marks. It's THE WOLF OF WALL STREET.

[Pastor Fireball]

Fred Allen didn't appear in a whole lot of films. Six, in fact:

It's in the Bag!
Love Thy Neighbor
O. Henry's Full House
Sally, Irene and Mary
Thanks a Million
We're Not Married!

He also did one film voiceover ("Buck Benny Rides Again") and three short films. The Tangredi has to run through one of those films above.

[franktangredi]

Fred Allen didn't appear in a whole lot of films. Six, in fact:

It's in the Bag!
Love Thy Neighbor
O. Henry's Full House
Sally, Irene and Mary
Thanks a Million
We're Not Married!

He also did one film voiceover ("Buck Benny Rides Again") and three short films. The Tangredi has to run through one of those films above.

It does.

[Pastor Fireball]

Lilia Skala had a fairly limited filmography, as well. She did mostly TV work.

Right now, I'm not seeing anything in the titles of Lilia Skala's movies that I can connect to one of Fred Allen's movies. I was hoping that titles of TV shows would be the connection--Fred Allen's O. Henry's Full House contains both FULL HOUSE and HOUSE--but nothing in Skala's resume leads there.

[mellytu74]

Fred Allen didn't appear in a whole lot of films. Six, in fact:

It's in the Bag!
Love Thy Neighbor
O. Henry's Full House
Sally, Irene and Mary
Thanks a Million
We're Not Married!

He also did one film voiceover ("Buck Benny Rides Again") and three short films. The Tangredi has to run through one of those films above.

It does.

Funny we should be talking about Fred Allen because that's who I was thinking about at lunch -- purely in the context of this puzzle, of course.

At least two of his movies -- We're Not Married and O'Henry's Full House -- were anthology movies, so it allows a lot of room, as far as co-stars go. AND he was a frequent co-star of his radio nemesis Jack Benny.

[franktangredi]

You have no idea how close you've gotten.

[Pastor Fireball]

You have no idea how close you've gotten.

Going through some of these other actors in List A, I am spotting a lot of film titles that were re-used for other--related or unrelated--films.

Brooke Adams = Man on Fire (later with Denzel Washington)
Fred Allen = Love Thy Neighbor (later a Tyler Perry film)
Laura Hope Crews = The Age of Innocence (later with Daniel Day-Lewis)
Karen Morley = Scarface (later with Al Pacino)
Ronald Reagan = Million Dollar Baby (later with Hilary Swank)
Liv Ullmann = Face to Face (earlier an anthology film with James Mason)