Game #222: Film Fill-In

[franktangredi]

Did Oscar Wilde ever win an award for playwriting? I don't think that applies to his era.

[mellytu74]

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.”

I thought this was answered already?

ROBERT REDFORD in The Candidate.

[Vandal]

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.”

I thought this was answered already?

ROBERT REDFORD in The Candidate.

Yes, by me.

[silverscreenselect]

Two of the answers in List A are right, but are misspelled in ways that may matter.

I keep coming back to this comment by Frank. The actors on this list are used in two different ways. One is probably a film that particular actor was in, but the other one has to do with the actor's name (else misspelling wouldn't matter). Frank also uses the title of his game as a clue, and the "fill in" may mean that the actor's name fills in part of a movie title. For example, Elizabeth Banks might yield Saving Mr. Banks or Agent Cody Banks. If we can use just plain "bank," there are a lot more movies with "bank" in the title.

Another possibility I noted is that the title of the film might be part of a larger film title. Ragtime is part of Alexander's Ragtime Band, which co-starred Alice Faye. Probably just a coincidence, but I'm grasping at straws here.

[silverscreenselect]

B-27. This was the first James Bond flick to earn an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song.
SKYFALL? LIVE AND LET DIE?

I confirmed this is LIVE AND LET DIE. Skyfall was the first Bond film to win the Best Song Oscar.

[silverscreenselect]

Did Oscar Wilde ever win an award for playwriting? I don't think that applies to his era.

Considering that both Finch and Morley played Oscar Wilde, neither of them can be the correct answer.

[mrkelley23]

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.
PETER JACKSON (had a cameo appearance in The Return of the King)

I really don't think Frank would characterize a cameo as "co-starring." I'm pretty sure this is Rupert Grint, of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. He did several interviews where he talked about this.

[mrkelley23]

I kept trying to make B-30 be Raising Arizona, but it's Three Men and a Baby

[kroxquo]

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.”

Since we've determined this is not Lee Ermey, might it be Louis Gossett in An Officer and a Gentleman?

[Vandal]

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.”

Since we've determined this is not Lee Ermey, might it be Louis Gossett in An Officer and a Gentleman?

It's Warren Oates in Stripes

[silverscreenselect]

This might be a good time for Frank to provide a hint as to the Tangredi.

[silverscreenselect]

A-32. “Whoa, I have access to the entire curse word library!”

I broke down and cheated on this one. I thought it came from one of the Bill and Ted movies, but it's from Inside Out, and this is LEWIS BLACK.

[franktangredi]

This might be a good time for Frank to provide a hint as to the Tangredi.

I already did, in the title of the game, as usual. But here's another. None of the actors in List A are here because of the movies they were in.

[jarnon]

Updated consolidation …

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. MARY PICKFORD
A-2. ORSON WELLES
A-3. RUBY KEELER
A-4. LIAM NEESON
A-5. ANTHONY QUINN
A-6.HUGH JACKMAN
A-7. ALICE FAYE
A-8. WALLACE SHAWN
A-9. URSULA ANDRESS
A-10. MAE WEST
A-11. DIANE LADD
A-12.FRED MacMURRAY
A-13. BRUCE DERN
A-14.SAOIRSE RONAN
A-15. 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. GREER GARSON
A-18. LEE J. COBB
A-19. NANCY WALKER
A-20. DANA CARVEY
A-21. ROBBY THE ROBOT
A-22. KATHY NAJIMY
A-23. RAY DANTON
A-24. 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.
JERRY PARIS

A-26. WILLIAM HOLDEN

A-27. Before achieving her biggest success on television, she appeared on the big screen as a vomiting adolescent ghost.
MISCHA BARTON

A-28. MARGARET RUTHERFORD
A-29. CHUCK NORRIS
A-30. WALTER MATTHAU
A-31. MARION DAVIES

A-32. “Whoa, I have access to the entire curse word library!”
LEWIS BLACK

A-33. His vocal roles included a cat, a mouse, a stork, a snake, and a bear.
STERLING HOLLOWAY

A-34. BEN STEIN
A-35. JASON MILLER
A-36.TERRY GILLIAM
A-37. ETHEL BARRYMORE
A-38. SISSY SPACEK
A-39. DARRYL HICKMAN
A-40. ANDY GRIFFITH
A-41. EDGAR BUCHANAN
A-42. COLIN FIRTH
A-43. JOHN MILLS
A-44. JANE DARWELL
A-45. 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.”
ROBERT REDFORD

A-47. ELIZABETH BANKS
A-48. ALBERT FINNEY
A-49. PEARL BAILEY
A-50. EDMUND GWENN
A-51. DAME MAY WHITTY
A-52. ELLEN BURSTYN

A-53.She was the only French actress to receive a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (before 2022).

A-54. MATT DAMON
A-55. PAUL REISER
A-56. DOLLY PARTON
A-57. 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. JOAN COLLINS
A-60. CHRIS PRATT
A-61. JEAN GABIN
A-62. TED LEVINE
A-63. GILBERT ROLAND
A-64. WILL FERRELL
A-65. LAURA DERN
A-66. DEBRA WINGER
A-67. HANITA 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. 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. ART CARNEY
A-72. CHRISTOPHER GUEST
A-73. 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.”
ADRIEN BRODY

A-75. LARRY FINE
A-76.CARL WEATHERS
A-77. 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. LINDA LOVELACE
A-80. DAN AYKROYD
A-81. LYNN FONTANNE
A-82.DANIEL CRAIG
A-83.MADELINE STOWE
A-84. 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? BOB HOSKINS?

A-86. 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.HOWARD DA SILVA
A-90. STEVE MARTIN
A-91. 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.”
WARREN OATES

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.
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.”

A-95. HELMUT BERGER
A-96. CHARLES BOYER

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.
JEAN-PIERRE AUMONT

A-98. TARAJI P. HENSON
A-99. BILL COSBY

A-100. “I hate you! I hate you! I wish I was never artificially created in a lab!”

A-101. MARCIA GAY HARDEN

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. SCOTT BAIO
A-104. GENE WILDER
A-105. C. THOMAS HOWELL
A-106. JACK PALANCE
A-107.TOM TULLY
A-108. NOEL COWARD

A-109. He played the title role of an award-winning playwright and convicted criminal.

A-110. PETER LORRE
A-111. RICHARD ARLEN
A-112. CATHERINE ZETA JONES
A-113. VALERIE HOBSON
A-114. DAVID WARNER
A-115. SELMA HAYEK

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. KAY FRANCIS
A-118. FREDRIC MARCH
A-119. CHARLTON HESTON

A-120. “I didn't bring your breakfast, because you didn't eat your din-din.”
BETTE DAVIS

MOVIES

B-1. The climax of this movie takes place in 1914 … and 1572 … and c. 27 … and 539 BCE.
INTOLERENCE

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. GRAND HOTEL
B-4. THE TRUMAN SHOW
B-5. 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. MY MAN GODFREY

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.
JUSTICE SOCIETY: WORLD WAR II

B-10. SCENT OF A WOMAN
B-11. ROMEO & JULIET (1936 version)
B-12. PULP FICTION
B-13. RAGTIME
B-14. MARY POPPINS
B-15. BULLETS OVER BROADWAY
B-16. DAZED AND CONFUSED
B-17. 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 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.
THE ORIGINAL KINGS OF COMEDY

B-22. ROBOCOP
B-23. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
B-24. WAITING FOR GUFFMAN
B-25. 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.
LIVE AND LET DIE

B-28. HORRIBLE BOSSES
B-29. 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.”
THREE MEN AND A BABY

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. BREAKING AWAY
B-33. OUT OF THE PAST
B-34.THE WOMEN
B-35. I REMEMBER MAMA
B-36. FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL
B-37. RUTHLESS PEOPLE
B-38. PITCH PERFECT
B-39. FUNNY GIRL
B-40. 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. DUCK SOUP
B-43. CAPTAIN PHILLIPS
B-44. FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH
B-45. DUEL IN THE SUN
B-46. PSYCHO
B-47. AIRPORT
B-48. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
B-49. BECKET
B-50.THE GODFATHER

[mellytu74]

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.”

ARTHUR O'CONNELL in anatomy of a Murder.

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.”

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN

[mellytu74]

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? BOB HOSKINS?

BOB HOSKINS as J. Edgar Hoover. He played him in Nixon

[Vandal]

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.”
JENNIFER GARNER

A-53.She was the only French actress to receive a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (before 2022).
ISABELLE HUPPERT

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.”
HELEN MIRREN

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!”
ALAN ARKIN

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.”
RUTH GORDON

A-88. “Allow me to explain about the theatre business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.”
GEOFFREY RUSH

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....”
HALLE BERRY

A-109. He played the title role of an award-winning playwright and convicted criminal.
GARY OLDMAN (as Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears)

[silverscreenselect]

This might be a good time for Frank to provide a hint as to the Tangredi.

I already did, in the title of the game, as usual. But here's another. None of the actors in List A are here because of the movies they were in.

I noticed that all the actors have different first names, which would indicate to me that the first name is half of the actor links. The last name can't be part of it, since both Bruce and Laura Dern are answers.