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Identify the 120 actors in List A and the 50 movies in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match them into 75 trios consisting of two actors and one movie. 30 actors will be used twice, each time in a different capacity. 25 movies will be used twice.
ACTORS
A-1. She was one of the four co-founders of United Artists.
MARY PICKFORD
A-2. “You're right, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in ... sixty years.”
ORSON WELLES
A-3. This iconic star of 1930s musicals came out of retirement in 1970 to star in a smash hit musical revival on Broadway.
RUBY KEELER
A-4. “If this factory ever produces a shell that can actually be fired, I'll be very unhappy.”
LIAM NEESON
A-5. His real-life roles included an Arab sheik, a French painter, a Lakota warrior, a Mexican revolutionary, and a Mongol emperor.
ANTHONY QUINN
A-6. “Nature made me a freak. Man made me a weapon. And God made it last too long.”
HUGH JACKMAN
A-7. Her 54-year marriage to a brash bandleader was one of Hollywood’s most enduring, though skeptics had predicted it wouldn’t last.
ALICE FAYE
A-8. “Those are the shrieking eels. If you don't believe me, just wait. They always grow louder when they're about to feed on human flesh.”
WALLACE SHAWN
A-9. In 1962, she made one of the great entrances in movie history, stepping out of the sea in a white bikini while holding a hunting knife.
URSULA ANDRESS
A-10. “When I'm good, I'm very good. But, when I'm bad, I'm better.”
MAE WEST
A-11. In a television sitcom based on a Martin Scorsese movie, she played a different role than she had in the original film.
DIANE LADD
A-12. “I picked you for my team because I thought you were a very bright young man. Do you realize what you're doing? Not to me, but to yourself? Normally, it takes years to work your way up to the twenty-seventh floor. But it only takes thirty seconds to be out on the street again. You dig?”
FRED MacMURRAY
A-13. In a 1964 Gothic thriller, he lost his head and his hand.
BRUCE DERN
A-14. “My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. I took his photo once as he talked to my parents about his border flowers. I was aiming for the bushes when he got in the way. He stepped out of nowhere and ruined the shot. He ruined a lot of things.”
SAOIRSE RONAN
A-15. He won three consecutive Emmy awards for his role as a Hollywood agent.
JEREMY PIVEN?
A-16. “Being gay is your thing. There are parts of it you have to go through alone. I hate that. As soon as you came out, you said, ‘Mom, I'm still me.’ I need you to hear this: You are still you, Simon. You are still the same son who I love to tease and who your father depends on for just about everything. And you're the same brother who always complements his sister on her food, even when it sucks. You get to exhale now, Simon. You get to be more you than you have been in ... in a very long time. You deserve everything you want.”
A-17. She and Bette Davis are the only actresses nominated for an Oscar five years in a row.
GREER GARSON
A-18. “That business before when that tall guy, what's-his-name, was trying to bait me? That doesn't prove anything. I'm a pretty excitable person. I mean, where does he come off calling me a public avenger, sadist and everything? Anyone in his right mind would blow his stack. He was just trying to bait me.”
LEE J. COBB
A-19. Better known for her comedic work on Broadway and TV, this diminutive actress had her funniest film role as a maid with no lines.
NANCY WALKER
A-20. “Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny?”
A-21. ROBBY THE ROBOT
A-22. “Hi, excuse me, sorry. Has anyone seen a nun? A Carmelite nun? No? Sure? OK, thanks.”
KATHY NAJIMY
A-23. Never a major star, his most notable roles were as a real-life gangster and a real-life actor known for playing gangsters.
RAY DANTON
A-24. “I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you.”
LESLIE NIELSEN
A-25. He appeared in movies such as
The Caine Mutiny and
Marty, but is much better known for his TV role as a sitcom dentist – and as a sitcom director.
PETER BONERZ? JERRY PARIS?
A-26. “The poor dope - he always wanted a pool. Well, in the end, he got himself a pool.”
WILLIAM HOLDEN
A-27. Before achieving her biggest success on television, she appeared on the big screen as a vomiting adolescent ghost.
A-28. “What a ridiculous form of locomotion flying is. They tie you to your chair and tell you you're going, then they make scarifying noises with their engines, then they untie you and tell you're not going at all. Can you imagine the Queen Mary behaving like that?”
A-29. This action star founded a martial arts system known as Chun Kuk Do.
CHUCK NORRIS
A-30. “I know him. He'll kill himself just to spite me. Then his ghost will come back, following me around the apartment, haunting and cleaning, haunting and cleaning, haunting and cleaning....”
WALTER MATTHAU
A-31. She was not nearly as bad an actress as a character based on her was an opera singer.
MARION DAVIES
A-32. “Whoa, I have access to the entire curse word library!”
A-33. His vocal roles included a cat, a mouse, a stork, a snake, and a bear.
A-34. “In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the - Anyone? Anyone? - the Great Depression, passed the - Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered? - raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects?”
BEN STEIN
A-35. He was the first of two Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights to receive an Oscar nomination for acting.
JASON MILLER
A-36. “What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?”
TERRY GILLIAM
A-37. Her screen offspring included Cary Grant, George Brent, and Joseph Cotton.
ETHEL BARRYMORE
A-38. “I may have trouble remembering my own name, or what country I live in, but there are two things I can't seem to forget: that my own daughter threw me into a nursing home, and that she ate Minny's sh*t.”
SISSY SPACEK
A-39. As a child actor in the 1940s, he played the younger brothers of Henry Fonda and Cornel Wilde; his own younger brother played the title role in a 1960s sitcom.
DARRYL HICKMAN
A-40. “ Those morons out there? Shucks, I could take chicken fertilizer and sell it to them as caviar. I could make them eat dog food and think it was steak. Sure, I got 'em like this.... You know what the public's like? A cage of Guinea Pigs. Good Night, you stupid idiots. Good Night, you miserable slobs. They're a lot of trained seals. I toss them a dead fish and they'll flap their flippers.”
ANDY GRIFFITH
A-41. Before turning to acting – largely in westerns – this grizzled character actor was a practicing dentist, as was his wife.
A-42. “F**k. F**k! F**k, f**k, f**k and f**k! F**k, f**k and bugger! Bugger, bugger, buggerty buggerty buggerty, f**k, f**k, arse! Balls, balls, f**kity, sh*t, sh*t, f**k and willy. Willy, sh*t and f**k and ... tits”
COLIN FIRTH
A-43. He appeared in film adaptations of works by William Shakespeare, Leo Tolstoy, H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Robert Louis Stevenson, Raymond Chandler – and, most notably, Charles Dickens.
JOHN MILLS
A-44. “ Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good an' they die out. But we keep a'comin'. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out; they can't lick us. We'll go on forever, Pa, 'cause we're the people.”
HENRY FONDA
A-45. His eyeglasses were the focal point of one of the most memorable moments of the film in Clue B-50.
ALEX ROCCO
A-46. “Can't any longer play off black against old - young against poor. This country cannot house its houseless - feed its foodless. They're demanding a government of the people - peopled by people. Our faith, our compassion, our courage on the gridiron.”
A-47. At the 2024 Oscars, she co-presented with a bear (though not the one she directed.)
ELIZABETH BANKS
A-48. “Has it occurred to you that there are too many clues in this room?
ALBERT FINNEY
A-49. In 1970, President Nixon appointed her America’s “Ambassador of Love.”
PEARL BAILEY
A-50. “For the past 50 years or so I've been getting more and more worried about Christmas. Seems we're all so busy trying to beat the other fellow in making things go faster and look shinier and cost less that Christmas and I are sort of getting lost in the shuffle.”
EDMUND GWENN
A-51. She was the first actress to receive an honor later bestowed on Sybil Thorndike, Edith Evans, Maggie Smith, and the actress in Clue A-59.
DAME MAY WHITTY
A-52. “I'm somebody now, Harry. Everybody likes me. Soon, millions of people will see me and they'll all like me. I'll tell them about you, and your father, how good he was to us. Remember? It's a reason to get up in the morning. It's a reason to lose weight, to fit in the red dress. It's a reason to smile. It makes tomorrow all right.”
JARED LETO
A-53. She was the only French actress to receive a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.
ISABELLE HUPPERT
A-54. “You can tell her that when you found me, I was with the only brothers I had left. And that there was no way I was deserting them. I think she'd understand that.”
MATT DAMON
A-55. Audiences were disappointed when we didn’t get to see him ripped apart by a Xenomorph in a 1986 movie, but at least we had the satisfaction of knowing that it happened.
PAUL REISER?
A-56. “Look, I've got a gun out there in my purse. And up to now, I've been forgiving and forgetting because of the way I was brought up. But I'll tell you one thing: If you ever say another word about me or make another indecent proposal, I'm gonna get that gun of mine. And I'm gonna change you from a rooster to a hen with one shot!”
DOLLY PARTON
A-57. In a 1989 movie and its 1994 sequel, this character actor played the manager of a fictionalized version of a real MLB team.
JAMES GAMMON
A-58. “What gift do you think a good servant has that separates them from the others? It’s the gift of anticipation. And I'm a good servant; I'm better than good, I'm the best; I'm the perfect servant. I know when they'll be hungry, and the food is ready. I know when they'll be tired, and the bed is turned down. I know it before they know it themselves.”
A-59. Early in her career, she was given the unflattering nickname “the British Open,” and she made a career playing vixens, but she received the honor referred to in Clue A-51 for her work in children’s charities.
JOAN COLLINS
A-60. “You shouldn't have killed my mom and squished my Walkman.”
CHRIS PRATT
A-61. A member of the Legion of Honor, he starred in the first foreign language film to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
JEAN GABIN
A-62. “It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.”
TED LEVINE
A-63. He played a role six times that Warner Baxter played four times, Cesar Romero played six times, and Duncan Renaldo played eight times.
GILBERT ROLAND
A-64. “You sit on a throne of lies!”
WILL FERRELL
A-65. The father and mother of this Oscar-winning actress are both found earlier in this game.
LAURA DERN
A-66. “I know you like me. I know it. For the last year or two, you've been pretending like you hate me. I love you very much. I love you as much as I love anybody, as much as I love myself. And in a few years when I haven't been around to be on your tail about something or irritating you, you could... remember that time that I bought you the baseball glove when you thought we were too broke. You know? Or when I read you those stories? Or when I let you goof off instead of mowing the lawn? Lots of things like that. And you're gonna realize that you love me. And maybe you're gonna feel badly, because you never told me. But don't - I know that you love me. So don't ever do that to yourself, all right?”
DEBRA WINGER
A-67. Her dip in the Fountain of Trevi was one of the most memorable moments in a classic Italian film.
ANITA EKBERG
A-68. “We must have boat. Even now may be too late. This is your island; I make your responsibility. You help us get boat quickly, otherwise there is World War III, and everybody is blaming
you!”
A-69. She appeared in a Broadway and movie musical based on a popular comic strip, and was a recurring villain on a TV series based on a popular comic book.
JULIE NEWMAR?
A-70. “You gave it up. Now, you're no longer a virgin. You're not a virgin. Now you got to die. Those are the rules.”
A-71. He starred opposite the actor in Clue A-30 in the original stage version of the movie quoted in that clue.
ART CARNEY
A-72. “Beautiful isn't it? It took me half a lifetime to invent it. I'm sure you've discovered my deep and abiding interest in pain. Presently I'm writing the definitive work on the subject, so I want you to be totally honest with me on how the machine makes you feel.”
CHRISTOPHER GUEST
A-73. Before his success on television, he played the title role in a 1957 monster movie in which he played a teenage … well, you know.
MICHAEL LANDON
A-74. “Nothing is of its own explanation. Is there a better description of a cube than that of its construction? There was a war on. And yet it is my understanding that many of the sites of my projects have survived. They remain there still in the city. When the terrible recollections of what happened in Europe cease to humiliate us, I expect for them to serve instead as a political stimulus, sparking the upheavals that so frequently occur in the cycles of peoplehood.”
A-75. His trademark hairstyle was suggested by producer J. J. Shubert, who knocked on his door just as he was shampooing his hair.
LARRY FINE
A-76. “Now, when we fought, you had that eye of the tiger, man; the edge! And now you gotta get it back, and the way to get it back is to go back to the beginning. You know what I mean?”
CARL WEATHERS
A-77. As a result of the blacklist, she did not make a movie between 1947 and 1962, when she recreated her stage role as a jolly Iowa mother in a hit musical.
PERT KELTON
A-78. “A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life. Reach out. Take a chance. Get hurt, even. But play as well as you can. Go team, go! Give me an L. Give me an I. Give me a V. Give me an E. L-I-V-E. LIVE! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.”
A-79. She later said of her most famous role, “If you watch the movie, you are watching me get raped.”
MARIA SCHNEIDER?
A-80. “Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here.”
DAN AYKROYD
A-81. She was one of the queens of the American theatre, but – apart from an appearance as herself in
Stage Door Canteen – she made only made one film.
KATHERINE CORNELL
A-82. “Lisbeth. Oh, can I call you Lisbeth? I want you to help me catch a killer of women.”
DANIEL CRAIG
A-83. In a 1992 adaptation of a classic American novel, she played a role that had been played 56 years earlier by Heather Angel.
A-84. “Well, I believe in the soul, the c*ck, the p*ssy, the small of a woman's back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.”
KEVIN COSTNER
A-85. In a 1995 film, this British actor played a role that had earlier been played by Broderick Crawford and would later be played by Leonardo DiCaprio.
KENNETH BRANAGH?
A-86. “No patty-fingers if ya please!”
BARRY FITZGERALD
A-87. SHANI WALLIS
A-88. “Allow me to explain about the theatre business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.”
A-89. His roles in two hit Broadway musicals were played on screen by Rod Steiger and himself.
HOWARD DA SILVA
A-90. “I have a dream. It's not a big dream, it's just a little dream. My dream - and I hope you don't find this too crazy - is that I would like the people of this community to feel that if, God forbid, there were a fire, calling the fire department would actually be a wise thing to do.”
STEVE MARTIN
A-91. This Czech-born actress married the head of a minor Hollywood studio, building a career that earned her a Golden Turkey nomination as Worst Actress of All Time.
VERA HRUBA RALSTON
A-92. “Before we proceed any further, we gotta get something straight. Your mamas are not here to take care of you now. It's just you, me, and Uncle Sam. And before I leave you, you're gonna find out that me and Uncle Sam are one in the same.”
LEE ERMEY
A-93. His arachnophobia is so severe, he cannot watch a certain scene from a 2002 fantasy film in which he co-starred – despite the fact that the giant spider in that scene was completely rendered in CGI.
ELIJAH WOOD? SEAN ASTIN? ANDY SERKIS? RUPERT GRINT?
A-94. “Twelve people go off into a room: twelve different minds, twelve different hearts, from twelve different walks of life; twelve sets of eyes, ears, shapes, and sizes. And these twelve people are asked to judge another human being as different from them as they are from each other. And in their judgment, they must become of one mind - unanimous. It's one of the miracles of Man's disorganized soul that they can do it, and in most instances, do it right well. God bless juries.”
JAMES STEWART?
A-95. This Austrian actor is best known for his four films with the Italian director of
Death in Venice.
HELMUT BERGER
A-96. “I don't ask you to understand me. Between us all the time were those jewels, like a fire - a fire in my brain that separated us - those jewels which I wanted all my life. I don't know why. Goodbye, Paula”
A-97. Another member of the Legion of Honor, he once appeared as King Louis XVI in an American film about a hero of the American Revolution.
A-98. “ There are no colored bathrooms in this building, or any building outside the West Campus, which is half a mile away. Did you know that? I have to walk to Timbuktu just to relieve myself!”
TARAJI P. HENSON
A-99. He was the only recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors whose honor was rescinded.
BILL COSBY
A-100. “I hate you! I hate you! I wish I was never artificially created in a lab!”
A-101. She appeared in a 2003 film directed by Clint Eastwood and a 2007 film directed by the star of the previous film.
A-102. “You know what I want. I want you to make me feel good. Can you make me feel good, can you make me feel good? I wanna feel good. I wanna feel....”
A-103. At the age of sixteen, he made his film debut in the title role of a gangster.
SCOTT BAIO
A-104. “We are the music makers ... and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
GENE WILDER
A-105. He made his film debut in the most successful film of 1982, but his status as a rising star was damaged when he spent most of a 1986 comedy appeared in blackface.
C. THOMAS HOWELL
A-106. “ I crap bigger than you!”
JACK PALANCE
A-107. He received a 1954 Supporting Actor nomination for his role as the captain of an eponymous ship.
TOM TULLY
A-108. “Now she lies in 1500 fathoms - and with her, more than half our shipmates. If they had to die, what a grand way to go. For now they lie all together with the ship we loved, and they're in very good company. We've lost her - but they're still with her.”
NOEL COWARD
A-109. He played the title role of an award-winning playwright and convicted criminal.
ROBERT MORLEY?
A-110. “It's there all the time, driving me out to wander the streets, following me, silently, but I can feel it there. It's me, pursuing myself! I want to escape, to escape from myself! But it's impossible. I can't escape, I have to obey it. I have to run, run ... endless streets. I want to escape, to get away! And I'm pursued by ghosts. Ghosts of mothers and of those children ... they never leave me. They are always there ... always, always, always!”
A-111. During World War I, he served as a pilot in Canada’s Royal Flying Corps – an experience that served him well when he played a World War I pilot in an award-winning movie.
A-112. “Well, I was in such a state of shock that I completely blacked out; I can't remember a thing. It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead.”
CATHERINE ZETA JONES
A-113. She gave up acting shortly after her marriage to a Member of Parliament – and stuck by him even after his career was ruined by scandal.
VALERIE HOBSON
A-114. “Greetings. The Master Control Program has chosen you to serve your system on the Game Grid. Those of you who continue to profess a belief in the Users will receive the standard substandard training which will result in your eventual elimination. Those of you who renounce this superstitious and hysterical belief will be eligible to join the warrior elite of the MCP.”
DAVID WARNER
A-115. She completes a short Oscar list that also includes Isabel Adjani and the actress in Clue A-101.
A-116. “I don't know if I will have the time to write any more letters because I might be too busy trying to participate. So if this does end up being the last letter, I just want you to know that I was in a bad place before I started high school, and you helped me. Even if you didn't know what I was talking about or know someone who's gone through it, you made me not feel alone. Because I know there are people who say all these things don't happen. And there are people who forget what it's like to be 16 when they turn 17.”
A-117. Though relatively forgotten today, she was a huge star in the 1930s in films co-starring William Powell, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant, and even Al Jolson.
KAY FRANCIS?
A-118. “In the Army I've had to be with men when they were stripped of everything in the way of property except what they carried around with them and inside them. I saw them being tested. Now some of them stood up to it and some didn't. But you got so you could tell which ones you could count on.”
FREDRIC MARCH
A-119. His hands have been cold and dead since 2008.
CHARLTON HESTON
A-120. “I didn't bring your breakfast, because you didn't eat your din-din.”
FAYE DUNAWAY
MOVIES
B-1. The climax of this movie takes place in 1914 … and 1572 … and c. 27 … and 539 BCE.
B-2. “You see a lot, Doctor. But are you strong enough to point that high-powered perception at yourself? What about it? Why don't you - why don't you look at yourself and write down what you see? Or maybe you're afraid to.”
B-3. At one time or another, stars of this film were married to Gloria Swanson, Dolores Costello and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
GRAND HOTEL
B-4. “Was nothing real?”
“You were real. That's what made you so good to watch.”
THE TRUMAN SHOW
B-5. Frank Capra’s last film was a remake of this film, which he also directed.
LADY FOR A DAY
B-6. “You come in here, scaring people half to death. you steal cars and motorboats, and you cause damage to private property and you threaten the whole community with grievous bodily harm and maybe murder. Now, we ain't going to take any more of that, see? We may be scared – I know I am – but maybe we ain't so scared as you think we are, see? Now you say you're going to blow up the town, huh? Well, I say, all right! You start shooting, and see what happens!”
B-7. This was the first movie to get Oscar nominations in all four acting categories.
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF
B-8. “How do you do, sir? I'd like to talk with you sometime, sir, and tell you about my idea for harnessing the life force. It'll make atomic power look like the horse and buggy. I'm already developing my faculty for seeing millions of miles. And Senator, can you imagine being able to smell a flower on the planet Mars? I'd like to have lunch with you someday soon, sir. Tell you more about it.”
B-9. This 2021 animated film sends a DC superhero back in time to join the fight against Hitler.
B-10. “I'm just gettin' warmed up! I don't know who went to this place, William Howard Taft, William Jennings Bryan, William Tell, whoever. Their spirit is dead, if they ever had one. It's gone. You're building a rat ship here. A vessel for seagoing snitches, and if you think you're preparing these minnows for manhood, you better think again, because I say you are killing the very spirit this institution proclaims it instills. What a sham!”
SCENT OF A WOMAN
B-11. The teenage lovers in this movie were played by a 34-year-old actress and a 43-year-old actor.
ROMEO & JULIET (1936 version)
B-12. “Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.”
PULP FICTION
B-13. Characters in this movie included the founder of Tuskegee Institute and the architect of Madison Square Garden.
RAGTIME
B-14. “What is the meaning of this outrage?”
“I beg your pardon?”
“Will you be good enough to explain all this?”
“First of all, I would like to make one thing quite clear.”
“Yes?”
“I never explain anything.”
MARY POPPINS
B-15. This was the only Woody Allen movie to become the basis for a stage musical.
BULLETS OVER BROADWAY
B-16. “All right, all right, all right!”
DAZED AND CONFUSED
B-17. The title of this Irving Berlin musical was taken from a hit song from Irving Berlin’s biggest stage success.
THERE’S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS
B-18. "Hey! She's only interested in you because she thinks you're the Chosen One.”
“But I am the Chosen One.”
B-19. The actress in Clue A-3 refused to allow her name to be used in this biopic, and Columbia Pictures paid her $25,000 not to criticize the movie.
THE JOLSON STORY
B-20. “I wanna know why you claim to be Sigmund Freud.”
“Why do you claim I'm not Sigmund Freud?”
“Why do you keep asking me these questions?”
“Tell me about your mother.”
B-21. Spike Lee filmed much of this movie in front of a live audience in Charlotte, North Carolina.
MO BETTER BLUES
B-22. “What are your Prime Directives?”
“Serve the public trust, protect the innocent, uphold the law.”
ROBOCOP
B-23. Tennessee Williams so disliked this bowdlerized version of one of his plays that he told people waiting at a theatre to go home.
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
B-24. “My first show was
Barefoot in the Park, which was an absolute smash, but my production on the stage of
Backdraft was what really got them excited. This whole idea of 'In Your Face' theatre really affected them. The conceptualization, the whole abstraction, the obtuseness of this production to me was what was interesting. I wanted the audience to feel the heat from the fire, the fear, because people don't like fire, poked, poked in their noses, you know when you get a cinder from a barbeque right on the end of your nose and you kind of make that face, you know, that's not a good thing, and I wanted them to have the sense memory of that. So during the show I had someone burn newspapers and send it through the vents in the theatre. And well, they freaked out, and 'course the fire Marshall came over and they shut us down for a couple of days.”
WAITING FOR GUFFMAN
B-25. This movie won a lot of awards and made a butt-ton of money, but a lot of us feel that a 1958 British movie on the same subject was a lot better.
TITANIC
B-26. A LETTER TO THREE WIVES
B-27. This was the first James Bond flick to earn an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song.
SKYFALL? LIVE AND LET DIE?
B-28. “Julia, shut the f**k up for a second, all right? Now, here's what's gonna happen, okay? I'm going to take a very nice, very expensive two-week vacation with my fiancée. Let's call it a honeymoon, all right? And you are gonna pay for it. Then I'm going to return to a rape-free workplace, all right? Because if you so much as look at my sexy little ass, Julia, I will have yours locked the f**k up, you crazy bitch whore!”
HORRIBLE BOSSES
B-29. The title of this movie was the nickname of the 1st Infantry Division, in which the director served during World War II.
THE BIG RED ONE
B-30. “There's a quarter of a million dollars in heroin in the diaper pail and the new baby wipes are in the hall cabinet.”
B-31. The score for this Oscar-winning Best Picture was written by the same team that had written the score for a previous Oscar-winning Best Picture.
B-32. “It's all them ‘eenie’ foods... zucchini... and linguine... and fettuccine. I want some American food, dammit! I want French Fries!”
BREAKING AWAY
B-33. Roger Ebert called this quintessential noir film “the greatest cigarette-smoking movie of all time.”
OUT OF THE PAST
B-34. “I've had two years to grow claws, Mother. Jungle red!”
THE WOMEN
B-35. The star of
The Awful Truth received her fifth and final Oscar nomination without a win – a record at the time – for this sentimental film.
I REMEMBER MAMA
B-36. “This is only the second time l've been a best man. I hope I did OK that time. The couple in question are at least still talking to me. Unfortunately, they're not actually talking to each other. The divorce came through a couple of months ago. But l'm assured it had absolutely nothing to do with me. Paula knew Piers had slept with her sister before I mentioned it in the speech. The fact that he'd slept with her mother came as a surprise, but I think was incidental to the nightmare of recrimination and violence that became their two-day marriage. Anyway, enough of that.”
FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL
B-37. This 1986 comedy shares a basic premise with O. Henry’s story ‘The Ransom of Red Chief.’
RUTHLESS PEOPLE
B-38. “You're one of the a cappella girls. I'm one of those a cappella boys, and we're gonna have aca-children. It's inevitable.”
PITCH PERFECT
B-39. Oscar-wise, this film completes a list that includes
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Champ, and
The Lion in Winter.
FUNNY GIRL
B-40. “Oh, what interesting china. It looks like young men playing leap frog.”
THE BIRDCAGE
B-41. This 1964 movie launched two popular series – one a comedy featuring the character whose actor was only second-billed in the original film, the other a cartoon series featuring a character who only appeared in the original film’s credits. Got that?
THE PINK PANTHER? A SHOT IN THE DARK?
B-42. “Something must be done! War would mean a prohibitive increase in our taxes.”
“Hey, I got an uncle lives in Taxes.”
“No, I'm talking about taxes - money, dollars!”
“Dollars! There's-a where my uncle lives! Dollars, Taxes!”
DUCK SOUP
B-43. This film completes a list that includes
Apollo 13, Catch Me If You Can, Charlie Wilson’s War, Saving Mr. Banks, Bridge of Spies, Sully, Elvis, The Post, and
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS
B-44. “It says one hundred percent guaranteed, you moron!”
“Mister, if you don't shut up I'm gonna kick one hundred percent of your ass!”
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH
B-45. The excesses of this 1946 serious western spawned a nickname that eventually became the title of a 1984 parody western.
DUEL IN THE SUN
B-46. “It's not as if is she were a maniac, a raving thing. She just goes - a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you?”
PSYCHO
B-47. This all-star hit brought together stars from – among other films – [Ocean’s Eleven, Shane, From Here to Eternity, Breathless, Bullitt,[/i] and
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
AIRPORT
B-48. “Ma chère mademoiselle. It is with deepest pride and greatest pleasure that we welcome you tonight. And now we invite to relax. Let us pull up a chair as the dining room proudly presents ... your dinner.”
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
B-49. This historical drama was based on a Tony-winning play by French dramatist Jean Anouilh.
BECKET
B-50. “All right. This one time I'll let you ask me about my affairs.”
“Is it true? Is it?”
“No.”
THE GODFATHER
