For heaven's sake -- KIM HUNTER. Stellllllllllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!franktangredi wrote:I didn't think of her, since she won played Madame Hortense in a revival of the musical Zorba after she won the Oscar. So she did not win the Oscar for a role she had originated on Broadway.mellytu74 wrote:B-42. Though he never won an Oscar (or any other award) for his acting, this swashbuckler did pick up a few trinkets for his service during World War II – including the Legion of Merit and Silver Star from the United States, the Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre from France, and the Distinguished Service Cross from Britain.
I was thinking AUDIE MURPHY but he's not a swashbuckler. How about DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR.?
B-80. Oscar-wise, she completes the following list: Anne Bancroft, Shirley Booth, Patty Duke, Eileen Heckart, Judy Holliday, Josephine Hull, Barbra Streisand.
LILA KEDROVA?
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B-7. “We don't really move. I mean, we'd like to, but – my mom is sort of attached to the house. Attached is, I guess, not the right word. She's pretty much wedged in.”
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OK -- I think I have everything from everybody. I am really swamped at work so I hope this isn't all done before tomorrow night. 
Game #152: Subtitles
Identify the 65 movies in List A and the 100 actors in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, form 78 triples, each consisting of one movie and two actors, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.
7 movies and 28 actors will be used twice.
3 movies and 14 actors will be used three times.
LIST A: MOVIES
A-1. Arguably the single most iconic image in all of 1950s cinema is that of Bengt Ekerot in this film.
THE SEVENTH SEAL
A-2. “You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite! Hannah, can you hear me?”
THE GREAT DICTATOR
A-3. This romantic classic was remade with a different title 18 years after its release and with its original title 55 years after its release.
LOVE AFFAIR
A-4. “I'm not sure George is wrong about automobiles. With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization. May be that they won't add to the beauty of the world or the life of the men's souls, I'm not sure. But automobiles have come and almost all outwards things will be different because of what they bring. They're going to alter war and they're going to alter peace. And I think men's minds are going to be changed in subtle ways because of automobiles. And it may be that George is right. May be that in ten to twenty years from now that if we can see the inward change in men by that time, I shouldn't be able to defend the gasoline engine but agree with George - that automobiles had no business to be invented.”
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
A-5. This movie was MGM’s biggest musical hit of 1939 – which is rather astonishing, considering the other MGM musical released the same year with the same leading lady.
BABES IN ARMS
A-6. “Can I borrow your odorant?”
“Yeah, I got, uh, Smelly Garbage or Old Dumpster.”
MONSTERS, INC.
A-7. The subject of this biopic played for the Chicago Cubs from 1934 to 1938. (The reason he didn’t play longer is what the movie is about.)
THE STRATTON STORY
A-8. “It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.”
SHANGHAI EXPRESS?
A-9. This movie featured the only performance directed by John Sayles to receive an Oscar nomination.
LONE STAR? EIGHT MEN OUT? PASSION FISH?
A-10. “I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun. People always thought I grew up on a farm. And I guess, in a way, I did. But I lived a lifetime before that, in those six weeks on the road in the winter of 1931.”
ROAD TO PERDITION
A-11. In this musical remake, the actor in clue B-83 attempted to step into the size 14 shoes of Coop.
A SONG IS BORN
A-12. “Daddy! Oh, Daddy! It is you! I found you! I found you! They said you were dead, but I knew you weren't! I knew you'd come back! Oh, Daddy, hold me, hold me close. You won't ever go away again, will you? Will you, Daddy? What's the matter, Daddy? Why don't you talk to me?”
THE LITTLE PRINCESS
A-13. This complicated caper flick shares a major plot point – and not much else – with the film Fourteen Hours.
A-14. “But don't get her drunk. If you get her drunk, she loses control.”
“Ted, are we talking a loss of inhibitions here, or does she pee on the floor?”
BLIND DATE?
A-15. This western is the earliest John Ford film selected for preservation by the National Film Registry.
THE IRON HORSE
A-16. “Go ahead, make my day.”
SUDDEN IMPACT
A-17. For the first hour of this film – the third teaming of one of the great screen duos – the leading man’s face is never fully seen: all shots are either from his point of view or show his face covered in bandages.
DARK PASSAGE
A-18. “See, that’s the trouble, it’s exotic, but it’s not honest. I mean, it’s fancy, but it’s not real. I mean, this is honest food. There’s no lying in that beef. There’s no insincerity in those potatoes. There’s no deceit in the cauliflower. This is a totally honest meal. You don’t know what a pleasure it in this day and age to sit down and eat a meal you can believe in.”
THE HEARTBREAK KID?
A-19. Robert Altman’s Thieves Like Us was based on the same novel as this cult classic released 26 years earlier.
A-20. “I'm willing to meet my creator and answer for every shot that I took.”
AMERICAN SNIPER
A-21. Unlike the stage version – which had a score written by the same team that wrote the score for the stage version of the musical referenced in clue A-5 – this movie musical needed just two actors to play the four leading roles.
THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE
A-22. “Well, that's the whole point of the holidays, Paul. So you and your sister can mope around the house, and your mother and I can wait on you hand and foot, while the two of you occasionally grunt for more food from behind the hair in your faces. Believe it or not, we actually enjoy it.”
A-23. There is some dispute as to whether or not this 2007 movie was a remake of Working Girl, but there is no disputing the fact that it was a Grade A dud –it opened at eight theatres in Texas and averaged $48 per screen for a total box office of $384.
A-24. “We'll have a line of low-priced furniture, a new and different line - as different from anything we're making today as a modern automobile is different from a covered wagon. That's what you want Walt, isn't it - what you've always wanted? Merchandise that will sell because it had beauty and function and value - not because the buyers like your scotch or think that you're a good egg. The kind of stuff that you, Jesse, will feel in your guts when you know it's coming off your production line. A kind of product that you will be able to budget to the nearest hundredth of a cent, Shaw, because it will be scientifically and efficiently designed. And something you will be proud to have your name on, Miss Tredway.”
EXECUTIVE SUITE
A-25. The first woman to receive a Saturn Award for Best Director did so for this 1995 movie. (It also earned one of its stars a Saturn for Best Actress, but I refuse to mention that person’s name.)
STRANGE DAYS
A-26. “One day, my wife explained to me that, for the past fifteen years, my output as a poet had dealt entirely with the part of our lives in which we discovered each other.”
“Are you a poet?”
“Was. And so, to give me something new to write about, she left me. A very noble woman, my wife - she left me for the good of literature. And remarkably it worked.”
“What, you wrote a lot of good stuff, did ya?”
“No, I stopped writing altogether.”
EDUCATING RUTA
A-27. This Randolph Scott flick shares its name with the 17th largest city in the United States.
A-28. “What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.”
PATCH ADAMS?
A-29. If you want to see Gracie Allen and Bela Lugosi in the same movie, this will surely be your only chance.
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
A-30. “If only my life could be more like the movies. I want an angel to sweep down to me like it does to Jimmy Stewart in It’s a Wonderful Life and talk me out of suicide. I've always waited for that one moment of truth to set me free and change my life forever, but he won’t come, it doesn’t happen that way. All the drugs, all the therapy, fights, anger, guilt, rage, suicidal thoughts, all of that was part of some slow recovery process. The same way I went down, I came back up, gradually – and then suddenly. The pills weren’t the cure at all, God knows, but they gave me breathing space which allowed me to start writing again, only this time it was not as if my life depended on it.”
A-31. This anthology was the fourth film in what is sometimes referred to as the “Poe-Corman” cycle.
A-32. “But then you go to the police. That's what innocent people do. They go to the police.”
“Sure. And that young man who was just here, he'd believe me over the President, wouldn't he?”
ABSOLUTE POWER
A-33. Francois Truffaut once said he would have given up all his own movies to have directed this two-part classic, filmed during the Nazi occupation of France.
A-34. “Listen. No one could teach you to dance in a million years. Take my advice and save your money!”
SWING TIME
A-35. The star of the previous film received a Golden Turkey nomination for Worst Performance as a Historical Figure for her role as a First Lady in this film. (She couldn’t beat John Wayne’s Genghiz Khan, though.)
The only historic figure I can recall Ginger Rogers playing is Dolley Madison in something – Magnificent Doll?
A-36. “Hello? Hey, don't get shy on me all of a sudden, f**k-face. This is the one about the babysitter, right? She's getting those scary and harassing phone calls and when she traces them back, they are coming from inside the house. But ass-wipe, aren't you forgetting something? I'm not babysitting any kids!”
SCREAM?
A-37. The subject of this Oscar-winning 1979 documentary is now over 80 years old and living in a group home.
A-38. “In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.”
BEING THERE
A-39. This film version of a British play featured a gay actor playing a gay public school student who would grow up to become a real-life gay spy.
A-40. “Hey, Pastor Dan? Mr. Self-righteous? I'm hanging on by a thread here. I lost my sister, my social life, my disposable income, my ability to fit into a size 2, and - this just in - my job. Pretty much the only two things that haven't disappeared are my nicotine fits and a few pounds that have recently taken up residence on my ass. So forgive me if I'm not too thrilled about being lectured, in Queens, about being a lousy legal guardian to three kids who maybe shouldn't have been given to me in the first place.”
RAISING HELEN
A-41. Once considered a lost film, this crime drama marked the screen debut of an actress who would become much better known for her next role – seven years later – as a sinister housekeeper.
A-42. “I won't read the word!”
“I'm your father and I'm telling you to read the word. Cause I can tell you to because I'm your father.”
“I'm stupid.”
“You are not stupid!”
“Yes, I am!”
“No, you are not stupid 'cause you can read that word.”
“I don't wanna read it if you can't.”
“No, because it makes me happy! It makes me happy hearing you read. Yeah, it makes me happy when you're reading.”
I AM SAM
A-43. This film earned its director/writer his 24th – and most recent – Oscar nomination.
BLUE JASMINE?
A-44. “If you're edged 'cause I'm weazin all your grindage, just chill. 'Cause if I had the whole Brady Bunch thing happenin' at my pad, I'd go grind over there, so don’t tax my gig so hard-core cruster.”
A-45. To prepare for his role in this film, Al Pacino spent a lot of time hanging around with Rudy Giuliani.
CITY HALL
A-46. “Our survival hinges on one thing - finding someone who not only can fly this plane, but didn't have fish for dinner.”
(No, not that movie! I want the movie that this line came from originally!)
ZERO HOUR
A-47. This 1940 screen version of what is generally considered to be one of the five Great American Plays was harder to adapt to film than any of the others due to its unusual setting and narrative structure.
OUR TOWN?
A-48. “When I go back in that house, it will be with my son in my arms. I'll have a red coat on him – and red flower trousers – and a hat with a gilded Buddha and tiger-faced shoes, and I'll go into the kitchen where I spent my days as a slave and into the great hall where the old mistress sits with her pipe, and I'll show myself and my son to all of them.”
A-49. The most famous line in this movie – uttered by one of the title characters when he meets the other – was, in real life, spoken on October 27, 1871. (The reply, by the way, was “Yes.”)
STANLEY AND LIVINGSTONE
A-50. “The firing power inside my crater is enough to annihilate a small army. You can watch it all on TV. It's the last program you're likely to see.”
“Well, if I'm going to be forced to watch television, may I smoke?”
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
A-51. This western marked the official screen debut of a young man that director Raoul Walsh had discovered in the props department; the rest is history.
THE BIG TRAIL
A-52. “Come on, group hug! You too, Anger."
“Don’t touch me.”
BEDAZZLED? INSIDE OUT?
A-53. This movie starred my favorite actor in one of his hammiest roles – a role he would later reprise for the actors in clue B-13.
CAPTAIN KIDD
A-54. “Well, I want to die because I feel that a life for me, in this state, has no dignity. I understand that other quadriplegics may take offense to my saying there's no dignity in this, but I'm not trying to judge anyone. Who am I to judge those who choose life? So don't judge me or anyone who wants to help me die.”
WHOSE LIFE IS THIS ANYWAY?
A-55. The character of the alcoholic film producer in this 1932 movie was reportedly based on the alcoholic actor who played the role.
WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD
A-56. “Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against?”
“Whadda you got?”
THE WILD ONE
A-57. In addition to a number of other firsts, this was the first talking film shot outdoors.
THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY?
A-58. “I got scruples too, you know. You know what that is? Scruples?”
“No, I don't know what it is, but if you got 'em, it's a sure bet they belong to somebody else!”
PAPER MOON
A-59. Among the weird characters in this film are a woman who never leaves her bed, a man who never speaks directly to his wife, a woman who always lies, a voodoo priest, and the lead singer of a new wave band. (Only the latter is real.)
A-60. “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
THE DARK KNIGHT
A-61. Hitchcock’s last British film before coming to America, it earned him a listing in The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
A-62. “You love me so much you gotta kill my f**king girlfriend, huh? Speak you f**kin' freak, or I will f**king kill you! Katie. Say it! Say it or you die!”
A-63. This wartime revue featured three of the actresses included on List B – all playing themselves.
STAGE DOOR CANTEEN?
A-64. “Nature all looks alike. Frontiers are an invention of man.”
A-65. This lovely work of docufiction is the nexus where Nanook of the North meets Four Saints in Three Acts meets John D. Rockefeller.
LIST B: ACTORS
B-1. “You know what I believe I'd like? A chocolate fudge sundae with whipped cream and a cherry on top.”
SPENCER TRACY
B-2. Notoriously shy and prone to bouts of stage fright, she made only two movies after her contract with Columbia Pictures expired in 1944 and no movies at all after 1953 – but her last movie was one of the all-time greats.
JEAN ARTHUR
B-3. “Remarkable boy. I do admire your courage. I think I'll eat your heart.”
ANTHONY HOPKINS
B-4. This one-time star of the Ziegfeld Follies was portrayed onscreen by his own son.
Probably WILL ROGERS
B-5. “I don't fear you Michael, I just dread you.”
DIANE KEATON
B-6. Hard to believe, but this actor was originally offered the tv role that was subsequently play by the actor quoted in clue B-97.
BING CROSBY
B-7. “We don't really move. I mean, we'd like to, but – my mom is sort of attached to the house. Attached is, I guess, not the right word. She's pretty much wedged in.”
JOHNNY DEPP
B-8. She and her brother were the first pair of siblings to each receive an Oscar.
NORMA SHEARER? ETHEL BARRYMORE?
B-9. “There's no way I can repay you for all you've done for me, so rather than try, I'm just going to ask you to do something else for me: find the joy in your life. You once said you're not everyone. Well, that's true, you're certainly not everyone, but everyone is everyone. My pastor always says our lives are streams flowing into the same river towards whatever heaven lies in the mist beyond the falls. Find the joy in your life, Edward. My dear friend, close your eyes and let the waters take you home.”
MORGAN FREEMAN
B-10. In two unrelated films made 20 years apart, this actor played men who shaped the life and career of Marilyn Monroe.
LLOYD BRIDGES?
B-11. “Men should be explorers, no matter how old they are. I don't know about anybody else, but I'm going.”
B-12. Best known for solving crimes on tv, this actress has twice been named “Sexiest Vegetarian” by PETA.
B-13. “I know there's no such person as Dracula. You know there's no such person as Dracula.”
“But does Dracula know it?”
BUD ABBOTT AND LOU COSTELLO
B-14. This actress has the same number of Oscar nominations as her father, but one less than her mother.
LAURA DERN? LIZA MINNELLI?
B-15. “You see, Mr. Milton, 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. I tell you this man Novak is okay. His 'collateral' is in his hands, in his heart and his guts. It's in his right as a citizen.”
FREDRIC MARCH
B-16. His movie career might have ended on a higher note if his manager had not insisted on too high a salary as well as top billing over Barbra Streisand – or if his manager had not insisted on too high a salary as well as top billing over John Wayne.
B-17. “You don't understand how I feel! I'm standing there with my pants down and my crotch hung out for the world to see and three guys are sticking it to me, a bunch of other guys are yelling and clapping and you're standing there telling me that that's the best you can do. Well, if that's the best you could do, then your best sucks! Now, I don't know what you got for selling me out, but I sure as s**it hope it was worth it!”
JODIE FOSTER
B-18. Directing a climactic scene in Death Valley, he reportedly told the two actors involved, “Fight! Fight! Try to hate each other as you both hate me.”
ERICH VON STROHEIM
B-19. “Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man... June 8th. My life has taken another turn again. The days can go on with regularity over and over, one day indistinguishable from the next. A long continuous chain. Then suddenly, there is a change.”
ROBERT DE NIRO
B-20. This Oscar-winning actress was later nominated for five Soap Opera Digest awards in the categories Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role and Outstanding Villainess in a Prime Time Serial.
B-21. “I always look well when I'm near death.”
GRETA GARBO
B-22. Oscar-wise, she completes the following list: Woody Allen, Matt Damon, John Huston, Billy Bob Thornton, Orson Welles.
IDA LUPINO? EMMA THOMPSON?
B-23. “I feel sorry for you. What it must feel like to want to pull the switch! Ever since you walked into this room, you've been acting like a self-appointed public avenger. You want to see this boy die because you personally want it, not because of the facts! You're a sadist!”
12 ANGRY MEN
B-24. This actor, known for his ptosis, served as host/narrator for the second revival of my all-time favorite television series.
B-25. “Hey, listen, I want somebody good - and I mean very good - to plant that gun. I don't want my brother coming out of that toilet with just his d**k in his hands, alright?”
JAMES CAAN
B-26. In 2010, this actor was inducted into the same Hall of Fame as Mayor Jimmy Walker and the Marquess of Queensberry.
SYLVESTER STALLONE
B-27. “I got so used to things as they were: Everything so prim, the geranium in the window, the smell of mama's medicines. And then he walked in, and it was different! He clomped through the place like he was still outdoors. There was a man in the place and it seemed good!”
VERNA FELTON
B-28. This actress never had any children with her only husband, but she did have one by a noted dancer and two more by a noted playwright.
JESSICA LANGE
B-29. “I got a weal wed wagon!”
B-30. This actor turned down the lead in Ben-Hur because he was an atheist and the lead in Patton because of his antiwar sympathies.
BURT LANCASTER
B-31. “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
JOAN FONTAINE
B-32. His screen career included adaptations of works by Eugene O’Neill, Euripides, Franz Kafka, Joseph Heller, Agatha Christie, and Ellery Queen.
PETER USTINOV? ANTHONY PERKINS?
B-33. “I'm sorry, your time's run out! What do we have for the losers, judge? Well, for our defendants, it's a lifetime at exotic Fort Leavenworth!”
TOM CRUISE
B-34. This international star has also had a busy music career that has included recording the theme songs for most of his films, as well as the official one-year countdown song to the 2008 Olympics.
B-35. “You know what I'm realizing? My life is just going to go. Like that. This series of milestones. Getting married. Having kids. Getting divorced. The time that we thought you were dyslexic. When I taught you how to ride a bike. Getting divorced – again. Getting my masters degree. Finally getting the job I wanted. Sending Samantha off to college. Sending you off to college. You know what's next? Huh? It's my f**king funeral! Just go, and leave my picture!”
PATRICIA ARQUETTE
B-36. Oscar-wise, he completes the following list: Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, John Huston, Robert Redford.
MEL GIBSON?
B-37. “I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me. Out of my way, a**hole.”
B-38. Though he first won popularity in a series a comic films, this actor went on to build a distinguished career in prestige productions, such as the film version of a novel by Thomas Mann.
B-39. “Thank you. I've never been called a son of God before. I've been called a son of a you-know-what plenty of times, but I've never been called a son of God.”
B-40. After a seven-year film career, this British-Australian actor hanged himself in a Las Vegas hotel room at the age of 25.
B-41. “I'll give ya somethin' to dream about, Mister. Wanna kiss me, ducky?”
MARLENE DIETRICH
B-42. Though he never won an Oscar (or any other award) for his acting, this swashbuckler did pick up a few trinkets for his service during World War II – including the Legion of Merit and Silver Star from the United States, the Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre from France, and the Distinguished Service Cross from Britain.
AUDIE MURPHY? DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR?
B-43. “I blow a hole in your face and then I go in the house – and I sleep like a baby. You can count on that. We used to stack f**ks like you five feet high in Korea. Use ya for sandbags.”
B-44. She was the only Dame Commander of the British Empire to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.
B-45. “It seems it always happens. Whenever we get too high-hat and too sophisticated for flag-waving, some thug nation decides we're a push-over all ready to be blackjacked. And it isn't long before we're looking up, mighty anxiously, to be sure the flag's still waving over us”
JAMES CAGNEY
B-46. After coming to the United States, this future Oscar winner trained at the Joffrey Ballet School until a knee injury ended her dream of becoming a ballerina.
B-47. “He came in to demand an answer and I told him the truth. That I have fought with myself over that night, one half of me swearing blind that I tied a simple slipknot, the other half convinced that I tied the Langford double. I can never know for sure.”
B-48. At the time of his death, this actor was making plans to star in a dream project – a biopic about Fatty Arbuckle. (Somebody should still make that movie.)
JOHN CANDY? CHRIS FARLEY?
B-49. “You don't know what I can do! You don't know what I can do, what I'm gonna do, or what I'm gonna be! I'm good! I have good things and you don't know about! I'm gonna be something! I am! And don't f**king tell me I'm not!”
B-50. He was the first of only two actors to win an Oscar for a role he had originally performed on television. (The other one is lurking elsewhere among these clues.)
It can’t be Borgnine – Marty on TV was Rod Steiger. CLIFT ROBERTSON?
B-51. “I didn't bring your breakfast, because you didn't eat your din-din!”
BETTE DAVIS
B-52. At age 80, she became the oldest winner of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. (And high time, too!)
CAROL BURNETT
B-53. “You brought music back into the house. I had forgotten.”
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER
B-54. Though often cast as vampires or sadists, this Dutch actor is known off-screen for his humanitarian work, such as founding an AIDS research foundation.
RUTGER HAUER
B-55. “We're not talking about his trainer, sweetheart! We're talking about his manager. That's me!”
MELISSA LEO
B-56. In 1988, this singer took on a role that had previously been played by – among others – Telly Savalas, Hurd Hatfield, Arthur Kennedy, Jean Marais, Basil Rathbone, and Jean Gabin.
B-57. “Playwrights teach us nothing about love. They make it pretty, they make it comical, or they make it lust, but they cannot make it true.”
B-58. In 2008, this actor – best known for completing a different kind of adventure – became the first person ever to cross Victoria Falls on ropes.
B-59. “This is a $4,000 sofa, upholstered in Italian silk. This is not just a couch.”
B-60. Before this week, she had been the only Dame Commander of the British Empire to have won the Tony, the Emmy, and the Oscar.
B-61. “Would ya just watch the hair. Ya know, I work on my hair a long time and you hit it. He hits my hair.”
JOHN TRAVOLTA
B-62. On or off screen, he was no fan of the Nazis. During World War II, he deserted the Deutsche Wehrmacht and went into hiding in the Vienna Woods with his Jewish wife. In his first American film, he played a German officer recruited to spy for the Allies.
HARDY KRUGER?
B-63. “All right, I'm in. 'Cause there's some next level s**t going on and I'm OK with that. But before y'all go beaming me up there's one thing you gotta remember: You chose me, so you recognized the skills, so I don't want nobody calling me son or kid or sport or nothing like that, cool?”
WILL SMITH
B-64. When MGM bought the rights to the play Angel Street,, they insisted that all existing prints of the earlier British version starring this actress be destroyed. (They weren’t.)
B-65. “Back to the ship, huh? Just huddle together, until the lights burn out? 'Til you can't see what's eating you? Is that the big plan?”
B-66. With his final film, he became one of only two actors to have been directed by both Alfred Hitchcock and Quentin Tarantino. (The other is the father of someone lurking elsewhere in this puzzle.)
B-67. “I'm poor, black, I might even be ugly, but dear God, I'm here! I'm here!”
WHOOPI GOLDBERG? OPRAH WINFREY?
B-68. In 1939, this reliable British character actor – who was once married to an Indian princess – appeared in seven films, including those referenced in Clues A-12 and A-49.
B-69. “I just met a wonderful new man. He's fictional but you can't have everything.”
MIA FARROW
B-70. In 1974 – the year he appeared in a hit disaster movie – he became the highest-paid movie star in the world … and immediately took a four-year hiatus from acting.
PAUL NEWMAN? GENE HACKMAN? STEVE MCQUEEN?
B-71. “In those moments where you're not quite sure if the undead are really dead, don't get all stingy with your bullets. I mean, one more clean shot to the head, and this lady could have avoided becoming a human Happy Meal. Woulda, coulda, shoulda.”
JESSE EISENBERG
B-72. She was the first African American actress to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio, but found greater success in Europe, where she was dubbed “The Black Garbo.”
B-73. “You cheated! Cheated! I hate you! I refuse to accept! I won't win any way but my way! You've ruined my reputation, do you hear? You I hate! You and your hair that's always combed, your suit that's always white, your car that's always clean! I refuse to accept!”
B-74. One of the high points of his long Hollywood career was playing the title role in Alfred Hitchcock’s second American feature.
B-75. “Let me tell you something, my two fine bedfellows, you're so dumb, there's nothin' to compare ya with, you're dumber than the dumbest jackass! Look at each other, will ya? Did you ever see anything like yourself for bein' dumb specimens? You're so dumb, you don't even see the riches you're treadin' on with your own feet!”
WALTER HUSTON
B-76. During her nearly 60-year movie career, she has worked under the direction of – among many others – Roger Vadim, Roman Polanski, Luis Bunuel, Claude Chabrol, Tony Scott, Agnes Varda, and Francois Truffaut.
CATHERINE DENEUVE?
B-77. “You once said you liked me just as I am and I just wanted to say likewise. I mean there are stupid things your mum buys you, tonight's another – classic. You're haughty, and you always say the wrong thing in every situation and I seriously believe that you should rethink the length of your sideburns. But, you're a nice man and I like you. If you wanted to pop by some time that might be nice. More than nice.”
B-78. She made her film debut in 1917, spent the next 37 years in feature films, moved on to series television for a decade – then, after a 23-year hiatus, popped up in three tv movies between 1986 and 1994.
LORETTA YOUNG?
B-79. “Settle down, are you kidding? I'm at the top of my game! I'm right up there with the big dogs! Girls, come on! Leave the saving of the world to the men? I don't think so!”
B-80. Oscar-wise, she completes the following list: Anne Bancroft, Shirley Booth, Patty Duke, Eileen Heckart, Judy Holliday, Josephine Hull, Barbra Streisand.
KIM HUNTER
B-81. “On a farm, when a pig is born small like that, it's called schtumpig, a runt.”
Frank admitted it’s not Kelly McGIllis so LUKAS HAAS
B-82. After the failure of her Hollywood museum in the 1990s, she ended up auctioning off most of her legendary memorabilia collection – including more than 4,000 costumes. (But she’s still holding on to a Maltese Falcon.)
DEBBIE REYNOLDS
B-83. “And why do I sew each new chapeau/With a style they must look positively grim in?/Strictly between us, entrez-nous/I hate women.”
DANNY KAYE
B-84. Shortly after Four Star Productions was founded in 1952, this actress replaced the actor in Clue B-74 as one of the Four Stars.
IDA LUPINO?
B-85. “I'm talking about the playing around that's going on. I'm talking about the young girls. I'm talking about the cookies. I'm talking about keeping our pants zipped and our wicks dry around here!”
ED HARRIS (right Stuff)
B-86. He made his film debut in 1991 playing the guitarist for an Irish soul band.
B-87. “If only I could find her, so she could see me with such lovely friends here now, perhaps she could love me as I am. I've tried so hard to be good.”
JOHN HURT
B-88. Because her fourth husband was the son of her second husband, her first child was both the half-brother and uncle of her third and fourth children. Got that?
GLORIA GRAHAME?
B-89. “I just wanted to congratulate you on stealing the pyramid. That was you, wasn't it? Or was it a villain who's actually successful?”
B-90. This strong-jawed leading man got an early career boost because he was ineligible for military service, having injured his back while taking dance lessons from Martha Graham. (The studio claimed it was a college rowing injury because – you know – strong-jawed leading men don’t take dance lessons from Martha Graham.)
GREGORY PECK?
B-91. “The war between the sexes is over. We won the second women started doing pole dancing for exercise.”
B-92. Actors Studio co-founder Robert Lewis called the last ten years of this actor’s life “the longest suicide in history,” while Marilyn Monroe described him as "the only person I know who is in worse shape than I am.”
MONTGOMERY CLIFT
B-93. “I found out the way your mind works and the kind of man you are. I know your plans and expectations - you've burbled every bit of strategy you've got. I know exactly what you will do, and exactly what you won't, and I've told you exactly nothing. To these aged eyes, boy, that's what winning looks like!”
B-94. Frank Capra’s last feature film was her first feature film – thus making the combined span of their careers 94 years and counting.
ANN-MARGRET
B-95. “Lord, I'd just like to thank You for that waitress in South Bend. You know who she is - she kept calling Your name.”
B-96. He was the first Welsh-born actor to win an Oscar, and the only Oscar-winning actor whose acceptance “speech” did not include a single word.
JOHN MILLS
B-97. “Serpentine, Shelly. Serpentine!”
PETER FALK
B-98. This actor has another five months to go before his shelf life as Sexiest Man Alive expires.
B-99. “Dear Lord, We've come to the end of our journey, and in a little while we'll stand before you. I pray for you to be merciful. Judge us not for our weaknesses, but for our love and open the doors of heaven for Charlie and me.”
KATHARINE HEPBURN
B-100. This star served as first president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Game #152: Subtitles
Identify the 65 movies in List A and the 100 actors in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, form 78 triples, each consisting of one movie and two actors, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.
7 movies and 28 actors will be used twice.
3 movies and 14 actors will be used three times.
LIST A: MOVIES
A-1. Arguably the single most iconic image in all of 1950s cinema is that of Bengt Ekerot in this film.
THE SEVENTH SEAL
A-2. “You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite! Hannah, can you hear me?”
THE GREAT DICTATOR
A-3. This romantic classic was remade with a different title 18 years after its release and with its original title 55 years after its release.
LOVE AFFAIR
A-4. “I'm not sure George is wrong about automobiles. With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization. May be that they won't add to the beauty of the world or the life of the men's souls, I'm not sure. But automobiles have come and almost all outwards things will be different because of what they bring. They're going to alter war and they're going to alter peace. And I think men's minds are going to be changed in subtle ways because of automobiles. And it may be that George is right. May be that in ten to twenty years from now that if we can see the inward change in men by that time, I shouldn't be able to defend the gasoline engine but agree with George - that automobiles had no business to be invented.”
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
A-5. This movie was MGM’s biggest musical hit of 1939 – which is rather astonishing, considering the other MGM musical released the same year with the same leading lady.
BABES IN ARMS
A-6. “Can I borrow your odorant?”
“Yeah, I got, uh, Smelly Garbage or Old Dumpster.”
MONSTERS, INC.
A-7. The subject of this biopic played for the Chicago Cubs from 1934 to 1938. (The reason he didn’t play longer is what the movie is about.)
THE STRATTON STORY
A-8. “It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.”
SHANGHAI EXPRESS?
A-9. This movie featured the only performance directed by John Sayles to receive an Oscar nomination.
LONE STAR? EIGHT MEN OUT? PASSION FISH?
A-10. “I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun. People always thought I grew up on a farm. And I guess, in a way, I did. But I lived a lifetime before that, in those six weeks on the road in the winter of 1931.”
ROAD TO PERDITION
A-11. In this musical remake, the actor in clue B-83 attempted to step into the size 14 shoes of Coop.
A SONG IS BORN
A-12. “Daddy! Oh, Daddy! It is you! I found you! I found you! They said you were dead, but I knew you weren't! I knew you'd come back! Oh, Daddy, hold me, hold me close. You won't ever go away again, will you? Will you, Daddy? What's the matter, Daddy? Why don't you talk to me?”
THE LITTLE PRINCESS
A-13. This complicated caper flick shares a major plot point – and not much else – with the film Fourteen Hours.
A-14. “But don't get her drunk. If you get her drunk, she loses control.”
“Ted, are we talking a loss of inhibitions here, or does she pee on the floor?”
BLIND DATE?
A-15. This western is the earliest John Ford film selected for preservation by the National Film Registry.
THE IRON HORSE
A-16. “Go ahead, make my day.”
SUDDEN IMPACT
A-17. For the first hour of this film – the third teaming of one of the great screen duos – the leading man’s face is never fully seen: all shots are either from his point of view or show his face covered in bandages.
DARK PASSAGE
A-18. “See, that’s the trouble, it’s exotic, but it’s not honest. I mean, it’s fancy, but it’s not real. I mean, this is honest food. There’s no lying in that beef. There’s no insincerity in those potatoes. There’s no deceit in the cauliflower. This is a totally honest meal. You don’t know what a pleasure it in this day and age to sit down and eat a meal you can believe in.”
THE HEARTBREAK KID?
A-19. Robert Altman’s Thieves Like Us was based on the same novel as this cult classic released 26 years earlier.
A-20. “I'm willing to meet my creator and answer for every shot that I took.”
AMERICAN SNIPER
A-21. Unlike the stage version – which had a score written by the same team that wrote the score for the stage version of the musical referenced in clue A-5 – this movie musical needed just two actors to play the four leading roles.
THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE
A-22. “Well, that's the whole point of the holidays, Paul. So you and your sister can mope around the house, and your mother and I can wait on you hand and foot, while the two of you occasionally grunt for more food from behind the hair in your faces. Believe it or not, we actually enjoy it.”
A-23. There is some dispute as to whether or not this 2007 movie was a remake of Working Girl, but there is no disputing the fact that it was a Grade A dud –it opened at eight theatres in Texas and averaged $48 per screen for a total box office of $384.
A-24. “We'll have a line of low-priced furniture, a new and different line - as different from anything we're making today as a modern automobile is different from a covered wagon. That's what you want Walt, isn't it - what you've always wanted? Merchandise that will sell because it had beauty and function and value - not because the buyers like your scotch or think that you're a good egg. The kind of stuff that you, Jesse, will feel in your guts when you know it's coming off your production line. A kind of product that you will be able to budget to the nearest hundredth of a cent, Shaw, because it will be scientifically and efficiently designed. And something you will be proud to have your name on, Miss Tredway.”
EXECUTIVE SUITE
A-25. The first woman to receive a Saturn Award for Best Director did so for this 1995 movie. (It also earned one of its stars a Saturn for Best Actress, but I refuse to mention that person’s name.)
STRANGE DAYS
A-26. “One day, my wife explained to me that, for the past fifteen years, my output as a poet had dealt entirely with the part of our lives in which we discovered each other.”
“Are you a poet?”
“Was. And so, to give me something new to write about, she left me. A very noble woman, my wife - she left me for the good of literature. And remarkably it worked.”
“What, you wrote a lot of good stuff, did ya?”
“No, I stopped writing altogether.”
EDUCATING RUTA
A-27. This Randolph Scott flick shares its name with the 17th largest city in the United States.
A-28. “What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.”
PATCH ADAMS?
A-29. If you want to see Gracie Allen and Bela Lugosi in the same movie, this will surely be your only chance.
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
A-30. “If only my life could be more like the movies. I want an angel to sweep down to me like it does to Jimmy Stewart in It’s a Wonderful Life and talk me out of suicide. I've always waited for that one moment of truth to set me free and change my life forever, but he won’t come, it doesn’t happen that way. All the drugs, all the therapy, fights, anger, guilt, rage, suicidal thoughts, all of that was part of some slow recovery process. The same way I went down, I came back up, gradually – and then suddenly. The pills weren’t the cure at all, God knows, but they gave me breathing space which allowed me to start writing again, only this time it was not as if my life depended on it.”
A-31. This anthology was the fourth film in what is sometimes referred to as the “Poe-Corman” cycle.
A-32. “But then you go to the police. That's what innocent people do. They go to the police.”
“Sure. And that young man who was just here, he'd believe me over the President, wouldn't he?”
ABSOLUTE POWER
A-33. Francois Truffaut once said he would have given up all his own movies to have directed this two-part classic, filmed during the Nazi occupation of France.
A-34. “Listen. No one could teach you to dance in a million years. Take my advice and save your money!”
SWING TIME
A-35. The star of the previous film received a Golden Turkey nomination for Worst Performance as a Historical Figure for her role as a First Lady in this film. (She couldn’t beat John Wayne’s Genghiz Khan, though.)
The only historic figure I can recall Ginger Rogers playing is Dolley Madison in something – Magnificent Doll?
A-36. “Hello? Hey, don't get shy on me all of a sudden, f**k-face. This is the one about the babysitter, right? She's getting those scary and harassing phone calls and when she traces them back, they are coming from inside the house. But ass-wipe, aren't you forgetting something? I'm not babysitting any kids!”
SCREAM?
A-37. The subject of this Oscar-winning 1979 documentary is now over 80 years old and living in a group home.
A-38. “In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.”
BEING THERE
A-39. This film version of a British play featured a gay actor playing a gay public school student who would grow up to become a real-life gay spy.
A-40. “Hey, Pastor Dan? Mr. Self-righteous? I'm hanging on by a thread here. I lost my sister, my social life, my disposable income, my ability to fit into a size 2, and - this just in - my job. Pretty much the only two things that haven't disappeared are my nicotine fits and a few pounds that have recently taken up residence on my ass. So forgive me if I'm not too thrilled about being lectured, in Queens, about being a lousy legal guardian to three kids who maybe shouldn't have been given to me in the first place.”
RAISING HELEN
A-41. Once considered a lost film, this crime drama marked the screen debut of an actress who would become much better known for her next role – seven years later – as a sinister housekeeper.
A-42. “I won't read the word!”
“I'm your father and I'm telling you to read the word. Cause I can tell you to because I'm your father.”
“I'm stupid.”
“You are not stupid!”
“Yes, I am!”
“No, you are not stupid 'cause you can read that word.”
“I don't wanna read it if you can't.”
“No, because it makes me happy! It makes me happy hearing you read. Yeah, it makes me happy when you're reading.”
I AM SAM
A-43. This film earned its director/writer his 24th – and most recent – Oscar nomination.
BLUE JASMINE?
A-44. “If you're edged 'cause I'm weazin all your grindage, just chill. 'Cause if I had the whole Brady Bunch thing happenin' at my pad, I'd go grind over there, so don’t tax my gig so hard-core cruster.”
A-45. To prepare for his role in this film, Al Pacino spent a lot of time hanging around with Rudy Giuliani.
CITY HALL
A-46. “Our survival hinges on one thing - finding someone who not only can fly this plane, but didn't have fish for dinner.”
(No, not that movie! I want the movie that this line came from originally!)
ZERO HOUR
A-47. This 1940 screen version of what is generally considered to be one of the five Great American Plays was harder to adapt to film than any of the others due to its unusual setting and narrative structure.
OUR TOWN?
A-48. “When I go back in that house, it will be with my son in my arms. I'll have a red coat on him – and red flower trousers – and a hat with a gilded Buddha and tiger-faced shoes, and I'll go into the kitchen where I spent my days as a slave and into the great hall where the old mistress sits with her pipe, and I'll show myself and my son to all of them.”
A-49. The most famous line in this movie – uttered by one of the title characters when he meets the other – was, in real life, spoken on October 27, 1871. (The reply, by the way, was “Yes.”)
STANLEY AND LIVINGSTONE
A-50. “The firing power inside my crater is enough to annihilate a small army. You can watch it all on TV. It's the last program you're likely to see.”
“Well, if I'm going to be forced to watch television, may I smoke?”
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
A-51. This western marked the official screen debut of a young man that director Raoul Walsh had discovered in the props department; the rest is history.
THE BIG TRAIL
A-52. “Come on, group hug! You too, Anger."
“Don’t touch me.”
BEDAZZLED? INSIDE OUT?
A-53. This movie starred my favorite actor in one of his hammiest roles – a role he would later reprise for the actors in clue B-13.
CAPTAIN KIDD
A-54. “Well, I want to die because I feel that a life for me, in this state, has no dignity. I understand that other quadriplegics may take offense to my saying there's no dignity in this, but I'm not trying to judge anyone. Who am I to judge those who choose life? So don't judge me or anyone who wants to help me die.”
WHOSE LIFE IS THIS ANYWAY?
A-55. The character of the alcoholic film producer in this 1932 movie was reportedly based on the alcoholic actor who played the role.
WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD
A-56. “Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against?”
“Whadda you got?”
THE WILD ONE
A-57. In addition to a number of other firsts, this was the first talking film shot outdoors.
THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY?
A-58. “I got scruples too, you know. You know what that is? Scruples?”
“No, I don't know what it is, but if you got 'em, it's a sure bet they belong to somebody else!”
PAPER MOON
A-59. Among the weird characters in this film are a woman who never leaves her bed, a man who never speaks directly to his wife, a woman who always lies, a voodoo priest, and the lead singer of a new wave band. (Only the latter is real.)
A-60. “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
THE DARK KNIGHT
A-61. Hitchcock’s last British film before coming to America, it earned him a listing in The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
A-62. “You love me so much you gotta kill my f**king girlfriend, huh? Speak you f**kin' freak, or I will f**king kill you! Katie. Say it! Say it or you die!”
A-63. This wartime revue featured three of the actresses included on List B – all playing themselves.
STAGE DOOR CANTEEN?
A-64. “Nature all looks alike. Frontiers are an invention of man.”
A-65. This lovely work of docufiction is the nexus where Nanook of the North meets Four Saints in Three Acts meets John D. Rockefeller.
LIST B: ACTORS
B-1. “You know what I believe I'd like? A chocolate fudge sundae with whipped cream and a cherry on top.”
SPENCER TRACY
B-2. Notoriously shy and prone to bouts of stage fright, she made only two movies after her contract with Columbia Pictures expired in 1944 and no movies at all after 1953 – but her last movie was one of the all-time greats.
JEAN ARTHUR
B-3. “Remarkable boy. I do admire your courage. I think I'll eat your heart.”
ANTHONY HOPKINS
B-4. This one-time star of the Ziegfeld Follies was portrayed onscreen by his own son.
Probably WILL ROGERS
B-5. “I don't fear you Michael, I just dread you.”
DIANE KEATON
B-6. Hard to believe, but this actor was originally offered the tv role that was subsequently play by the actor quoted in clue B-97.
BING CROSBY
B-7. “We don't really move. I mean, we'd like to, but – my mom is sort of attached to the house. Attached is, I guess, not the right word. She's pretty much wedged in.”
JOHNNY DEPP
B-8. She and her brother were the first pair of siblings to each receive an Oscar.
NORMA SHEARER? ETHEL BARRYMORE?
B-9. “There's no way I can repay you for all you've done for me, so rather than try, I'm just going to ask you to do something else for me: find the joy in your life. You once said you're not everyone. Well, that's true, you're certainly not everyone, but everyone is everyone. My pastor always says our lives are streams flowing into the same river towards whatever heaven lies in the mist beyond the falls. Find the joy in your life, Edward. My dear friend, close your eyes and let the waters take you home.”
MORGAN FREEMAN
B-10. In two unrelated films made 20 years apart, this actor played men who shaped the life and career of Marilyn Monroe.
LLOYD BRIDGES?
B-11. “Men should be explorers, no matter how old they are. I don't know about anybody else, but I'm going.”
B-12. Best known for solving crimes on tv, this actress has twice been named “Sexiest Vegetarian” by PETA.
B-13. “I know there's no such person as Dracula. You know there's no such person as Dracula.”
“But does Dracula know it?”
BUD ABBOTT AND LOU COSTELLO
B-14. This actress has the same number of Oscar nominations as her father, but one less than her mother.
LAURA DERN? LIZA MINNELLI?
B-15. “You see, Mr. Milton, 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. I tell you this man Novak is okay. His 'collateral' is in his hands, in his heart and his guts. It's in his right as a citizen.”
FREDRIC MARCH
B-16. His movie career might have ended on a higher note if his manager had not insisted on too high a salary as well as top billing over Barbra Streisand – or if his manager had not insisted on too high a salary as well as top billing over John Wayne.
B-17. “You don't understand how I feel! I'm standing there with my pants down and my crotch hung out for the world to see and three guys are sticking it to me, a bunch of other guys are yelling and clapping and you're standing there telling me that that's the best you can do. Well, if that's the best you could do, then your best sucks! Now, I don't know what you got for selling me out, but I sure as s**it hope it was worth it!”
JODIE FOSTER
B-18. Directing a climactic scene in Death Valley, he reportedly told the two actors involved, “Fight! Fight! Try to hate each other as you both hate me.”
ERICH VON STROHEIM
B-19. “Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man... June 8th. My life has taken another turn again. The days can go on with regularity over and over, one day indistinguishable from the next. A long continuous chain. Then suddenly, there is a change.”
ROBERT DE NIRO
B-20. This Oscar-winning actress was later nominated for five Soap Opera Digest awards in the categories Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role and Outstanding Villainess in a Prime Time Serial.
B-21. “I always look well when I'm near death.”
GRETA GARBO
B-22. Oscar-wise, she completes the following list: Woody Allen, Matt Damon, John Huston, Billy Bob Thornton, Orson Welles.
IDA LUPINO? EMMA THOMPSON?
B-23. “I feel sorry for you. What it must feel like to want to pull the switch! Ever since you walked into this room, you've been acting like a self-appointed public avenger. You want to see this boy die because you personally want it, not because of the facts! You're a sadist!”
12 ANGRY MEN
B-24. This actor, known for his ptosis, served as host/narrator for the second revival of my all-time favorite television series.
B-25. “Hey, listen, I want somebody good - and I mean very good - to plant that gun. I don't want my brother coming out of that toilet with just his d**k in his hands, alright?”
JAMES CAAN
B-26. In 2010, this actor was inducted into the same Hall of Fame as Mayor Jimmy Walker and the Marquess of Queensberry.
SYLVESTER STALLONE
B-27. “I got so used to things as they were: Everything so prim, the geranium in the window, the smell of mama's medicines. And then he walked in, and it was different! He clomped through the place like he was still outdoors. There was a man in the place and it seemed good!”
VERNA FELTON
B-28. This actress never had any children with her only husband, but she did have one by a noted dancer and two more by a noted playwright.
JESSICA LANGE
B-29. “I got a weal wed wagon!”
B-30. This actor turned down the lead in Ben-Hur because he was an atheist and the lead in Patton because of his antiwar sympathies.
BURT LANCASTER
B-31. “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
JOAN FONTAINE
B-32. His screen career included adaptations of works by Eugene O’Neill, Euripides, Franz Kafka, Joseph Heller, Agatha Christie, and Ellery Queen.
PETER USTINOV? ANTHONY PERKINS?
B-33. “I'm sorry, your time's run out! What do we have for the losers, judge? Well, for our defendants, it's a lifetime at exotic Fort Leavenworth!”
TOM CRUISE
B-34. This international star has also had a busy music career that has included recording the theme songs for most of his films, as well as the official one-year countdown song to the 2008 Olympics.
B-35. “You know what I'm realizing? My life is just going to go. Like that. This series of milestones. Getting married. Having kids. Getting divorced. The time that we thought you were dyslexic. When I taught you how to ride a bike. Getting divorced – again. Getting my masters degree. Finally getting the job I wanted. Sending Samantha off to college. Sending you off to college. You know what's next? Huh? It's my f**king funeral! Just go, and leave my picture!”
PATRICIA ARQUETTE
B-36. Oscar-wise, he completes the following list: Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, John Huston, Robert Redford.
MEL GIBSON?
B-37. “I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me. Out of my way, a**hole.”
B-38. Though he first won popularity in a series a comic films, this actor went on to build a distinguished career in prestige productions, such as the film version of a novel by Thomas Mann.
B-39. “Thank you. I've never been called a son of God before. I've been called a son of a you-know-what plenty of times, but I've never been called a son of God.”
B-40. After a seven-year film career, this British-Australian actor hanged himself in a Las Vegas hotel room at the age of 25.
B-41. “I'll give ya somethin' to dream about, Mister. Wanna kiss me, ducky?”
MARLENE DIETRICH
B-42. Though he never won an Oscar (or any other award) for his acting, this swashbuckler did pick up a few trinkets for his service during World War II – including the Legion of Merit and Silver Star from the United States, the Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre from France, and the Distinguished Service Cross from Britain.
AUDIE MURPHY? DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR?
B-43. “I blow a hole in your face and then I go in the house – and I sleep like a baby. You can count on that. We used to stack f**ks like you five feet high in Korea. Use ya for sandbags.”
B-44. She was the only Dame Commander of the British Empire to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.
B-45. “It seems it always happens. Whenever we get too high-hat and too sophisticated for flag-waving, some thug nation decides we're a push-over all ready to be blackjacked. And it isn't long before we're looking up, mighty anxiously, to be sure the flag's still waving over us”
JAMES CAGNEY
B-46. After coming to the United States, this future Oscar winner trained at the Joffrey Ballet School until a knee injury ended her dream of becoming a ballerina.
B-47. “He came in to demand an answer and I told him the truth. That I have fought with myself over that night, one half of me swearing blind that I tied a simple slipknot, the other half convinced that I tied the Langford double. I can never know for sure.”
B-48. At the time of his death, this actor was making plans to star in a dream project – a biopic about Fatty Arbuckle. (Somebody should still make that movie.)
JOHN CANDY? CHRIS FARLEY?
B-49. “You don't know what I can do! You don't know what I can do, what I'm gonna do, or what I'm gonna be! I'm good! I have good things and you don't know about! I'm gonna be something! I am! And don't f**king tell me I'm not!”
B-50. He was the first of only two actors to win an Oscar for a role he had originally performed on television. (The other one is lurking elsewhere among these clues.)
It can’t be Borgnine – Marty on TV was Rod Steiger. CLIFT ROBERTSON?
B-51. “I didn't bring your breakfast, because you didn't eat your din-din!”
BETTE DAVIS
B-52. At age 80, she became the oldest winner of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. (And high time, too!)
CAROL BURNETT
B-53. “You brought music back into the house. I had forgotten.”
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER
B-54. Though often cast as vampires or sadists, this Dutch actor is known off-screen for his humanitarian work, such as founding an AIDS research foundation.
RUTGER HAUER
B-55. “We're not talking about his trainer, sweetheart! We're talking about his manager. That's me!”
MELISSA LEO
B-56. In 1988, this singer took on a role that had previously been played by – among others – Telly Savalas, Hurd Hatfield, Arthur Kennedy, Jean Marais, Basil Rathbone, and Jean Gabin.
B-57. “Playwrights teach us nothing about love. They make it pretty, they make it comical, or they make it lust, but they cannot make it true.”
B-58. In 2008, this actor – best known for completing a different kind of adventure – became the first person ever to cross Victoria Falls on ropes.
B-59. “This is a $4,000 sofa, upholstered in Italian silk. This is not just a couch.”
B-60. Before this week, she had been the only Dame Commander of the British Empire to have won the Tony, the Emmy, and the Oscar.
B-61. “Would ya just watch the hair. Ya know, I work on my hair a long time and you hit it. He hits my hair.”
JOHN TRAVOLTA
B-62. On or off screen, he was no fan of the Nazis. During World War II, he deserted the Deutsche Wehrmacht and went into hiding in the Vienna Woods with his Jewish wife. In his first American film, he played a German officer recruited to spy for the Allies.
HARDY KRUGER?
B-63. “All right, I'm in. 'Cause there's some next level s**t going on and I'm OK with that. But before y'all go beaming me up there's one thing you gotta remember: You chose me, so you recognized the skills, so I don't want nobody calling me son or kid or sport or nothing like that, cool?”
WILL SMITH
B-64. When MGM bought the rights to the play Angel Street,, they insisted that all existing prints of the earlier British version starring this actress be destroyed. (They weren’t.)
B-65. “Back to the ship, huh? Just huddle together, until the lights burn out? 'Til you can't see what's eating you? Is that the big plan?”
B-66. With his final film, he became one of only two actors to have been directed by both Alfred Hitchcock and Quentin Tarantino. (The other is the father of someone lurking elsewhere in this puzzle.)
B-67. “I'm poor, black, I might even be ugly, but dear God, I'm here! I'm here!”
WHOOPI GOLDBERG? OPRAH WINFREY?
B-68. In 1939, this reliable British character actor – who was once married to an Indian princess – appeared in seven films, including those referenced in Clues A-12 and A-49.
B-69. “I just met a wonderful new man. He's fictional but you can't have everything.”
MIA FARROW
B-70. In 1974 – the year he appeared in a hit disaster movie – he became the highest-paid movie star in the world … and immediately took a four-year hiatus from acting.
PAUL NEWMAN? GENE HACKMAN? STEVE MCQUEEN?
B-71. “In those moments where you're not quite sure if the undead are really dead, don't get all stingy with your bullets. I mean, one more clean shot to the head, and this lady could have avoided becoming a human Happy Meal. Woulda, coulda, shoulda.”
JESSE EISENBERG
B-72. She was the first African American actress to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio, but found greater success in Europe, where she was dubbed “The Black Garbo.”
B-73. “You cheated! Cheated! I hate you! I refuse to accept! I won't win any way but my way! You've ruined my reputation, do you hear? You I hate! You and your hair that's always combed, your suit that's always white, your car that's always clean! I refuse to accept!”
B-74. One of the high points of his long Hollywood career was playing the title role in Alfred Hitchcock’s second American feature.
B-75. “Let me tell you something, my two fine bedfellows, you're so dumb, there's nothin' to compare ya with, you're dumber than the dumbest jackass! Look at each other, will ya? Did you ever see anything like yourself for bein' dumb specimens? You're so dumb, you don't even see the riches you're treadin' on with your own feet!”
WALTER HUSTON
B-76. During her nearly 60-year movie career, she has worked under the direction of – among many others – Roger Vadim, Roman Polanski, Luis Bunuel, Claude Chabrol, Tony Scott, Agnes Varda, and Francois Truffaut.
CATHERINE DENEUVE?
B-77. “You once said you liked me just as I am and I just wanted to say likewise. I mean there are stupid things your mum buys you, tonight's another – classic. You're haughty, and you always say the wrong thing in every situation and I seriously believe that you should rethink the length of your sideburns. But, you're a nice man and I like you. If you wanted to pop by some time that might be nice. More than nice.”
B-78. She made her film debut in 1917, spent the next 37 years in feature films, moved on to series television for a decade – then, after a 23-year hiatus, popped up in three tv movies between 1986 and 1994.
LORETTA YOUNG?
B-79. “Settle down, are you kidding? I'm at the top of my game! I'm right up there with the big dogs! Girls, come on! Leave the saving of the world to the men? I don't think so!”
B-80. Oscar-wise, she completes the following list: Anne Bancroft, Shirley Booth, Patty Duke, Eileen Heckart, Judy Holliday, Josephine Hull, Barbra Streisand.
KIM HUNTER
B-81. “On a farm, when a pig is born small like that, it's called schtumpig, a runt.”
Frank admitted it’s not Kelly McGIllis so LUKAS HAAS
B-82. After the failure of her Hollywood museum in the 1990s, she ended up auctioning off most of her legendary memorabilia collection – including more than 4,000 costumes. (But she’s still holding on to a Maltese Falcon.)
DEBBIE REYNOLDS
B-83. “And why do I sew each new chapeau/With a style they must look positively grim in?/Strictly between us, entrez-nous/I hate women.”
DANNY KAYE
B-84. Shortly after Four Star Productions was founded in 1952, this actress replaced the actor in Clue B-74 as one of the Four Stars.
IDA LUPINO?
B-85. “I'm talking about the playing around that's going on. I'm talking about the young girls. I'm talking about the cookies. I'm talking about keeping our pants zipped and our wicks dry around here!”
ED HARRIS (right Stuff)
B-86. He made his film debut in 1991 playing the guitarist for an Irish soul band.
B-87. “If only I could find her, so she could see me with such lovely friends here now, perhaps she could love me as I am. I've tried so hard to be good.”
JOHN HURT
B-88. Because her fourth husband was the son of her second husband, her first child was both the half-brother and uncle of her third and fourth children. Got that?
GLORIA GRAHAME?
B-89. “I just wanted to congratulate you on stealing the pyramid. That was you, wasn't it? Or was it a villain who's actually successful?”
B-90. This strong-jawed leading man got an early career boost because he was ineligible for military service, having injured his back while taking dance lessons from Martha Graham. (The studio claimed it was a college rowing injury because – you know – strong-jawed leading men don’t take dance lessons from Martha Graham.)
GREGORY PECK?
B-91. “The war between the sexes is over. We won the second women started doing pole dancing for exercise.”
B-92. Actors Studio co-founder Robert Lewis called the last ten years of this actor’s life “the longest suicide in history,” while Marilyn Monroe described him as "the only person I know who is in worse shape than I am.”
MONTGOMERY CLIFT
B-93. “I found out the way your mind works and the kind of man you are. I know your plans and expectations - you've burbled every bit of strategy you've got. I know exactly what you will do, and exactly what you won't, and I've told you exactly nothing. To these aged eyes, boy, that's what winning looks like!”
B-94. Frank Capra’s last feature film was her first feature film – thus making the combined span of their careers 94 years and counting.
ANN-MARGRET
B-95. “Lord, I'd just like to thank You for that waitress in South Bend. You know who she is - she kept calling Your name.”
B-96. He was the first Welsh-born actor to win an Oscar, and the only Oscar-winning actor whose acceptance “speech” did not include a single word.
JOHN MILLS
B-97. “Serpentine, Shelly. Serpentine!”
PETER FALK
B-98. This actor has another five months to go before his shelf life as Sexiest Man Alive expires.
B-99. “Dear Lord, We've come to the end of our journey, and in a little while we'll stand before you. I pray for you to be merciful. Judge us not for our weaknesses, but for our love and open the doors of heaven for Charlie and me.”
KATHARINE HEPBURN
B-100. This star served as first president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Re: Game #152: Subtitles - Tuesday night consolidation
LIST A
Of all the definite answers, only one is wrong. (I think it's a definite answer, anyway.)
Of the answers with a question mark, seven are correct and two are wrong.
ALL of the questions with multiple answers suggested include the correct answer.
LIST B
Of all the definite answers, only one is wrong. (That doesn't include the one where a movie is given instead of an actor.)
Of the answers with a question mark, seven are correct and two are wrong. (Just like the movies!)
ALL of the questions with multiple answers suggested include the correct answer.
Good job!
Of all the definite answers, only one is wrong. (I think it's a definite answer, anyway.)
Of the answers with a question mark, seven are correct and two are wrong.
ALL of the questions with multiple answers suggested include the correct answer.
LIST B
Of all the definite answers, only one is wrong. (That doesn't include the one where a movie is given instead of an actor.)
Of the answers with a question mark, seven are correct and two are wrong. (Just like the movies!)
ALL of the questions with multiple answers suggested include the correct answer.
Good job!
mellytu74 wrote:OK -- I think I have everything from everybody. I am really swamped at work so I hope this isn't all done before tomorrow night.
Game #152: Subtitles
Identify the 65 movies in List A and the 100 actors in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, form 78 triples, each consisting of one movie and two actors, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.
7 movies and 28 actors will be used twice.
3 movies and 14 actors will be used three times.
LIST A: MOVIES
A-1. Arguably the single most iconic image in all of 1950s cinema is that of Bengt Ekerot in this film.
THE SEVENTH SEAL
A-2. “You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite! Hannah, can you hear me?”
THE GREAT DICTATOR
A-3. This romantic classic was remade with a different title 18 years after its release and with its original title 55 years after its release.
LOVE AFFAIR
A-4. “I'm not sure George is wrong about automobiles. With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization. May be that they won't add to the beauty of the world or the life of the men's souls, I'm not sure. But automobiles have come and almost all outwards things will be different because of what they bring. They're going to alter war and they're going to alter peace. And I think men's minds are going to be changed in subtle ways because of automobiles. And it may be that George is right. May be that in ten to twenty years from now that if we can see the inward change in men by that time, I shouldn't be able to defend the gasoline engine but agree with George - that automobiles had no business to be invented.”
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
A-5. This movie was MGM’s biggest musical hit of 1939 – which is rather astonishing, considering the other MGM musical released the same year with the same leading lady.
BABES IN ARMS
A-6. “Can I borrow your odorant?”
“Yeah, I got, uh, Smelly Garbage or Old Dumpster.”
MONSTERS, INC.
A-7. The subject of this biopic played for the Chicago Cubs from 1934 to 1938. (The reason he didn’t play longer is what the movie is about.)
THE STRATTON STORY
A-8. “It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.”
SHANGHAI EXPRESS?
A-9. This movie featured the only performance directed by John Sayles to receive an Oscar nomination.
LONE STAR? EIGHT MEN OUT? PASSION FISH?
A-10. “I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun. People always thought I grew up on a farm. And I guess, in a way, I did. But I lived a lifetime before that, in those six weeks on the road in the winter of 1931.”
ROAD TO PERDITION
A-11. In this musical remake, the actor in clue B-83 attempted to step into the size 14 shoes of Coop.
A SONG IS BORN
A-12. “Daddy! Oh, Daddy! It is you! I found you! I found you! They said you were dead, but I knew you weren't! I knew you'd come back! Oh, Daddy, hold me, hold me close. You won't ever go away again, will you? Will you, Daddy? What's the matter, Daddy? Why don't you talk to me?”
THE LITTLE PRINCESS
A-13. This complicated caper flick shares a major plot point – and not much else – with the film Fourteen Hours.
A-14. “But don't get her drunk. If you get her drunk, she loses control.”
“Ted, are we talking a loss of inhibitions here, or does she pee on the floor?”
BLIND DATE?
A-15. This western is the earliest John Ford film selected for preservation by the National Film Registry.
THE IRON HORSE
A-16. “Go ahead, make my day.”
SUDDEN IMPACT
A-17. For the first hour of this film – the third teaming of one of the great screen duos – the leading man’s face is never fully seen: all shots are either from his point of view or show his face covered in bandages.
DARK PASSAGE
A-18. “See, that’s the trouble, it’s exotic, but it’s not honest. I mean, it’s fancy, but it’s not real. I mean, this is honest food. There’s no lying in that beef. There’s no insincerity in those potatoes. There’s no deceit in the cauliflower. This is a totally honest meal. You don’t know what a pleasure it in this day and age to sit down and eat a meal you can believe in.”
THE HEARTBREAK KID?
A-19. Robert Altman’s Thieves Like Us was based on the same novel as this cult classic released 26 years earlier.
A-20. “I'm willing to meet my creator and answer for every shot that I took.”
AMERICAN SNIPER
A-21. Unlike the stage version – which had a score written by the same team that wrote the score for the stage version of the musical referenced in clue A-5 – this movie musical needed just two actors to play the four leading roles.
THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE
A-22. “Well, that's the whole point of the holidays, Paul. So you and your sister can mope around the house, and your mother and I can wait on you hand and foot, while the two of you occasionally grunt for more food from behind the hair in your faces. Believe it or not, we actually enjoy it.”
A-23. There is some dispute as to whether or not this 2007 movie was a remake of Working Girl, but there is no disputing the fact that it was a Grade A dud –it opened at eight theatres in Texas and averaged $48 per screen for a total box office of $384.
A-24. “We'll have a line of low-priced furniture, a new and different line - as different from anything we're making today as a modern automobile is different from a covered wagon. That's what you want Walt, isn't it - what you've always wanted? Merchandise that will sell because it had beauty and function and value - not because the buyers like your scotch or think that you're a good egg. The kind of stuff that you, Jesse, will feel in your guts when you know it's coming off your production line. A kind of product that you will be able to budget to the nearest hundredth of a cent, Shaw, because it will be scientifically and efficiently designed. And something you will be proud to have your name on, Miss Tredway.”
EXECUTIVE SUITE
A-25. The first woman to receive a Saturn Award for Best Director did so for this 1995 movie. (It also earned one of its stars a Saturn for Best Actress, but I refuse to mention that person’s name.)
STRANGE DAYS
A-26. “One day, my wife explained to me that, for the past fifteen years, my output as a poet had dealt entirely with the part of our lives in which we discovered each other.”
“Are you a poet?”
“Was. And so, to give me something new to write about, she left me. A very noble woman, my wife - she left me for the good of literature. And remarkably it worked.”
“What, you wrote a lot of good stuff, did ya?”
“No, I stopped writing altogether.”
EDUCATING RUTA
A-27. This Randolph Scott flick shares its name with the 17th largest city in the United States.
A-28. “What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.”
PATCH ADAMS?
A-29. If you want to see Gracie Allen and Bela Lugosi in the same movie, this will surely be your only chance.
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
A-30. “If only my life could be more like the movies. I want an angel to sweep down to me like it does to Jimmy Stewart in It’s a Wonderful Life and talk me out of suicide. I've always waited for that one moment of truth to set me free and change my life forever, but he won’t come, it doesn’t happen that way. All the drugs, all the therapy, fights, anger, guilt, rage, suicidal thoughts, all of that was part of some slow recovery process. The same way I went down, I came back up, gradually – and then suddenly. The pills weren’t the cure at all, God knows, but they gave me breathing space which allowed me to start writing again, only this time it was not as if my life depended on it.”
A-31. This anthology was the fourth film in what is sometimes referred to as the “Poe-Corman” cycle.
A-32. “But then you go to the police. That's what innocent people do. They go to the police.”
“Sure. And that young man who was just here, he'd believe me over the President, wouldn't he?”
ABSOLUTE POWER
A-33. Francois Truffaut once said he would have given up all his own movies to have directed this two-part classic, filmed during the Nazi occupation of France.
A-34. “Listen. No one could teach you to dance in a million years. Take my advice and save your money!”
SWING TIME
A-35. The star of the previous film received a Golden Turkey nomination for Worst Performance as a Historical Figure for her role as a First Lady in this film. (She couldn’t beat John Wayne’s Genghiz Khan, though.)
The only historic figure I can recall Ginger Rogers playing is Dolley Madison in something – Magnificent Doll?
A-36. “Hello? Hey, don't get shy on me all of a sudden, f**k-face. This is the one about the babysitter, right? She's getting those scary and harassing phone calls and when she traces them back, they are coming from inside the house. But ass-wipe, aren't you forgetting something? I'm not babysitting any kids!”
SCREAM?
A-37. The subject of this Oscar-winning 1979 documentary is now over 80 years old and living in a group home.
A-38. “In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.”
BEING THERE
A-39. This film version of a British play featured a gay actor playing a gay public school student who would grow up to become a real-life gay spy.
A-40. “Hey, Pastor Dan? Mr. Self-righteous? I'm hanging on by a thread here. I lost my sister, my social life, my disposable income, my ability to fit into a size 2, and - this just in - my job. Pretty much the only two things that haven't disappeared are my nicotine fits and a few pounds that have recently taken up residence on my ass. So forgive me if I'm not too thrilled about being lectured, in Queens, about being a lousy legal guardian to three kids who maybe shouldn't have been given to me in the first place.”
RAISING HELEN
A-41. Once considered a lost film, this crime drama marked the screen debut of an actress who would become much better known for her next role – seven years later – as a sinister housekeeper.
A-42. “I won't read the word!”
“I'm your father and I'm telling you to read the word. Cause I can tell you to because I'm your father.”
“I'm stupid.”
“You are not stupid!”
“Yes, I am!”
“No, you are not stupid 'cause you can read that word.”
“I don't wanna read it if you can't.”
“No, because it makes me happy! It makes me happy hearing you read. Yeah, it makes me happy when you're reading.”
I AM SAM
A-43. This film earned its director/writer his 24th – and most recent – Oscar nomination.
BLUE JASMINE?
A-44. “If you're edged 'cause I'm weazin all your grindage, just chill. 'Cause if I had the whole Brady Bunch thing happenin' at my pad, I'd go grind over there, so don’t tax my gig so hard-core cruster.”
A-45. To prepare for his role in this film, Al Pacino spent a lot of time hanging around with Rudy Giuliani.
CITY HALL
A-46. “Our survival hinges on one thing - finding someone who not only can fly this plane, but didn't have fish for dinner.”
(No, not that movie! I want the movie that this line came from originally!)
ZERO HOUR
A-47. This 1940 screen version of what is generally considered to be one of the five Great American Plays was harder to adapt to film than any of the others due to its unusual setting and narrative structure.
OUR TOWN?
A-48. “When I go back in that house, it will be with my son in my arms. I'll have a red coat on him – and red flower trousers – and a hat with a gilded Buddha and tiger-faced shoes, and I'll go into the kitchen where I spent my days as a slave and into the great hall where the old mistress sits with her pipe, and I'll show myself and my son to all of them.”
A-49. The most famous line in this movie – uttered by one of the title characters when he meets the other – was, in real life, spoken on October 27, 1871. (The reply, by the way, was “Yes.”)
STANLEY AND LIVINGSTONE
A-50. “The firing power inside my crater is enough to annihilate a small army. You can watch it all on TV. It's the last program you're likely to see.”
“Well, if I'm going to be forced to watch television, may I smoke?”
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
A-51. This western marked the official screen debut of a young man that director Raoul Walsh had discovered in the props department; the rest is history.
THE BIG TRAIL
A-52. “Come on, group hug! You too, Anger."
“Don’t touch me.”
BEDAZZLED? INSIDE OUT?
A-53. This movie starred my favorite actor in one of his hammiest roles – a role he would later reprise for the actors in clue B-13.
CAPTAIN KIDD
A-54. “Well, I want to die because I feel that a life for me, in this state, has no dignity. I understand that other quadriplegics may take offense to my saying there's no dignity in this, but I'm not trying to judge anyone. Who am I to judge those who choose life? So don't judge me or anyone who wants to help me die.”
WHOSE LIFE IS THIS ANYWAY?
A-55. The character of the alcoholic film producer in this 1932 movie was reportedly based on the alcoholic actor who played the role.
WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD
A-56. “Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against?”
“Whadda you got?”
THE WILD ONE
A-57. In addition to a number of other firsts, this was the first talking film shot outdoors.
THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY?
A-58. “I got scruples too, you know. You know what that is? Scruples?”
“No, I don't know what it is, but if you got 'em, it's a sure bet they belong to somebody else!”
PAPER MOON
A-59. Among the weird characters in this film are a woman who never leaves her bed, a man who never speaks directly to his wife, a woman who always lies, a voodoo priest, and the lead singer of a new wave band. (Only the latter is real.)
A-60. “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
THE DARK KNIGHT
A-61. Hitchcock’s last British film before coming to America, it earned him a listing in The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
A-62. “You love me so much you gotta kill my f**king girlfriend, huh? Speak you f**kin' freak, or I will f**king kill you! Katie. Say it! Say it or you die!”
A-63. This wartime revue featured three of the actresses included on List B – all playing themselves.
STAGE DOOR CANTEEN?
A-64. “Nature all looks alike. Frontiers are an invention of man.”
A-65. This lovely work of docufiction is the nexus where Nanook of the North meets Four Saints in Three Acts meets John D. Rockefeller.
LIST B: ACTORS
B-1. “You know what I believe I'd like? A chocolate fudge sundae with whipped cream and a cherry on top.”
SPENCER TRACY
B-2. Notoriously shy and prone to bouts of stage fright, she made only two movies after her contract with Columbia Pictures expired in 1944 and no movies at all after 1953 – but her last movie was one of the all-time greats.
JEAN ARTHUR
B-3. “Remarkable boy. I do admire your courage. I think I'll eat your heart.”
ANTHONY HOPKINS
B-4. This one-time star of the Ziegfeld Follies was portrayed onscreen by his own son.
Probably WILL ROGERS
B-5. “I don't fear you Michael, I just dread you.”
DIANE KEATON
B-6. Hard to believe, but this actor was originally offered the tv role that was subsequently play by the actor quoted in clue B-97.
BING CROSBY
B-7. “We don't really move. I mean, we'd like to, but – my mom is sort of attached to the house. Attached is, I guess, not the right word. She's pretty much wedged in.”
JOHNNY DEPP
B-8. She and her brother were the first pair of siblings to each receive an Oscar.
NORMA SHEARER? ETHEL BARRYMORE?
B-9. “There's no way I can repay you for all you've done for me, so rather than try, I'm just going to ask you to do something else for me: find the joy in your life. You once said you're not everyone. Well, that's true, you're certainly not everyone, but everyone is everyone. My pastor always says our lives are streams flowing into the same river towards whatever heaven lies in the mist beyond the falls. Find the joy in your life, Edward. My dear friend, close your eyes and let the waters take you home.”
MORGAN FREEMAN
B-10. In two unrelated films made 20 years apart, this actor played men who shaped the life and career of Marilyn Monroe.
LLOYD BRIDGES?
B-11. “Men should be explorers, no matter how old they are. I don't know about anybody else, but I'm going.”
B-12. Best known for solving crimes on tv, this actress has twice been named “Sexiest Vegetarian” by PETA.
B-13. “I know there's no such person as Dracula. You know there's no such person as Dracula.”
“But does Dracula know it?”
BUD ABBOTT AND LOU COSTELLO
B-14. This actress has the same number of Oscar nominations as her father, but one less than her mother.
LAURA DERN? LIZA MINNELLI?
B-15. “You see, Mr. Milton, 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. I tell you this man Novak is okay. His 'collateral' is in his hands, in his heart and his guts. It's in his right as a citizen.”
FREDRIC MARCH
B-16. His movie career might have ended on a higher note if his manager had not insisted on too high a salary as well as top billing over Barbra Streisand – or if his manager had not insisted on too high a salary as well as top billing over John Wayne.
B-17. “You don't understand how I feel! I'm standing there with my pants down and my crotch hung out for the world to see and three guys are sticking it to me, a bunch of other guys are yelling and clapping and you're standing there telling me that that's the best you can do. Well, if that's the best you could do, then your best sucks! Now, I don't know what you got for selling me out, but I sure as s**it hope it was worth it!”
JODIE FOSTER
B-18. Directing a climactic scene in Death Valley, he reportedly told the two actors involved, “Fight! Fight! Try to hate each other as you both hate me.”
ERICH VON STROHEIM
B-19. “Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man... June 8th. My life has taken another turn again. The days can go on with regularity over and over, one day indistinguishable from the next. A long continuous chain. Then suddenly, there is a change.”
ROBERT DE NIRO
B-20. This Oscar-winning actress was later nominated for five Soap Opera Digest awards in the categories Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role and Outstanding Villainess in a Prime Time Serial.
B-21. “I always look well when I'm near death.”
GRETA GARBO
B-22. Oscar-wise, she completes the following list: Woody Allen, Matt Damon, John Huston, Billy Bob Thornton, Orson Welles.
IDA LUPINO? EMMA THOMPSON?
B-23. “I feel sorry for you. What it must feel like to want to pull the switch! Ever since you walked into this room, you've been acting like a self-appointed public avenger. You want to see this boy die because you personally want it, not because of the facts! You're a sadist!”
12 ANGRY MEN
B-24. This actor, known for his ptosis, served as host/narrator for the second revival of my all-time favorite television series.
B-25. “Hey, listen, I want somebody good - and I mean very good - to plant that gun. I don't want my brother coming out of that toilet with just his d**k in his hands, alright?”
JAMES CAAN
B-26. In 2010, this actor was inducted into the same Hall of Fame as Mayor Jimmy Walker and the Marquess of Queensberry.
SYLVESTER STALLONE
B-27. “I got so used to things as they were: Everything so prim, the geranium in the window, the smell of mama's medicines. And then he walked in, and it was different! He clomped through the place like he was still outdoors. There was a man in the place and it seemed good!”
VERNA FELTON
B-28. This actress never had any children with her only husband, but she did have one by a noted dancer and two more by a noted playwright.
JESSICA LANGE
B-29. “I got a weal wed wagon!”
B-30. This actor turned down the lead in Ben-Hur because he was an atheist and the lead in Patton because of his antiwar sympathies.
BURT LANCASTER
B-31. “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
JOAN FONTAINE
B-32. His screen career included adaptations of works by Eugene O’Neill, Euripides, Franz Kafka, Joseph Heller, Agatha Christie, and Ellery Queen.
PETER USTINOV? ANTHONY PERKINS?
B-33. “I'm sorry, your time's run out! What do we have for the losers, judge? Well, for our defendants, it's a lifetime at exotic Fort Leavenworth!”
TOM CRUISE
B-34. This international star has also had a busy music career that has included recording the theme songs for most of his films, as well as the official one-year countdown song to the 2008 Olympics.
B-35. “You know what I'm realizing? My life is just going to go. Like that. This series of milestones. Getting married. Having kids. Getting divorced. The time that we thought you were dyslexic. When I taught you how to ride a bike. Getting divorced – again. Getting my masters degree. Finally getting the job I wanted. Sending Samantha off to college. Sending you off to college. You know what's next? Huh? It's my f**king funeral! Just go, and leave my picture!”
PATRICIA ARQUETTE
B-36. Oscar-wise, he completes the following list: Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, John Huston, Robert Redford.
MEL GIBSON?
B-37. “I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me. Out of my way, a**hole.”
B-38. Though he first won popularity in a series a comic films, this actor went on to build a distinguished career in prestige productions, such as the film version of a novel by Thomas Mann.
B-39. “Thank you. I've never been called a son of God before. I've been called a son of a you-know-what plenty of times, but I've never been called a son of God.”
B-40. After a seven-year film career, this British-Australian actor hanged himself in a Las Vegas hotel room at the age of 25.
B-41. “I'll give ya somethin' to dream about, Mister. Wanna kiss me, ducky?”
MARLENE DIETRICH
B-42. Though he never won an Oscar (or any other award) for his acting, this swashbuckler did pick up a few trinkets for his service during World War II – including the Legion of Merit and Silver Star from the United States, the Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre from France, and the Distinguished Service Cross from Britain.
AUDIE MURPHY? DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR?
B-43. “I blow a hole in your face and then I go in the house – and I sleep like a baby. You can count on that. We used to stack f**ks like you five feet high in Korea. Use ya for sandbags.”
B-44. She was the only Dame Commander of the British Empire to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.
B-45. “It seems it always happens. Whenever we get too high-hat and too sophisticated for flag-waving, some thug nation decides we're a push-over all ready to be blackjacked. And it isn't long before we're looking up, mighty anxiously, to be sure the flag's still waving over us”
JAMES CAGNEY
B-46. After coming to the United States, this future Oscar winner trained at the Joffrey Ballet School until a knee injury ended her dream of becoming a ballerina.
B-47. “He came in to demand an answer and I told him the truth. That I have fought with myself over that night, one half of me swearing blind that I tied a simple slipknot, the other half convinced that I tied the Langford double. I can never know for sure.”
B-48. At the time of his death, this actor was making plans to star in a dream project – a biopic about Fatty Arbuckle. (Somebody should still make that movie.)
JOHN CANDY? CHRIS FARLEY?
B-49. “You don't know what I can do! You don't know what I can do, what I'm gonna do, or what I'm gonna be! I'm good! I have good things and you don't know about! I'm gonna be something! I am! And don't f**king tell me I'm not!”
B-50. He was the first of only two actors to win an Oscar for a role he had originally performed on television. (The other one is lurking elsewhere among these clues.)
It can’t be Borgnine – Marty on TV was Rod Steiger. CLIFT ROBERTSON?
B-51. “I didn't bring your breakfast, because you didn't eat your din-din!”
BETTE DAVIS
B-52. At age 80, she became the oldest winner of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. (And high time, too!)
CAROL BURNETT
B-53. “You brought music back into the house. I had forgotten.”
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER
B-54. Though often cast as vampires or sadists, this Dutch actor is known off-screen for his humanitarian work, such as founding an AIDS research foundation.
RUTGER HAUER
B-55. “We're not talking about his trainer, sweetheart! We're talking about his manager. That's me!”
MELISSA LEO
B-56. In 1988, this singer took on a role that had previously been played by – among others – Telly Savalas, Hurd Hatfield, Arthur Kennedy, Jean Marais, Basil Rathbone, and Jean Gabin.
B-57. “Playwrights teach us nothing about love. They make it pretty, they make it comical, or they make it lust, but they cannot make it true.”
B-58. In 2008, this actor – best known for completing a different kind of adventure – became the first person ever to cross Victoria Falls on ropes.
B-59. “This is a $4,000 sofa, upholstered in Italian silk. This is not just a couch.”
B-60. Before this week, she had been the only Dame Commander of the British Empire to have won the Tony, the Emmy, and the Oscar.
B-61. “Would ya just watch the hair. Ya know, I work on my hair a long time and you hit it. He hits my hair.”
JOHN TRAVOLTA
B-62. On or off screen, he was no fan of the Nazis. During World War II, he deserted the Deutsche Wehrmacht and went into hiding in the Vienna Woods with his Jewish wife. In his first American film, he played a German officer recruited to spy for the Allies.
HARDY KRUGER?
B-63. “All right, I'm in. 'Cause there's some next level s**t going on and I'm OK with that. But before y'all go beaming me up there's one thing you gotta remember: You chose me, so you recognized the skills, so I don't want nobody calling me son or kid or sport or nothing like that, cool?”
WILL SMITH
B-64. When MGM bought the rights to the play Angel Street,, they insisted that all existing prints of the earlier British version starring this actress be destroyed. (They weren’t.)
B-65. “Back to the ship, huh? Just huddle together, until the lights burn out? 'Til you can't see what's eating you? Is that the big plan?”
B-66. With his final film, he became one of only two actors to have been directed by both Alfred Hitchcock and Quentin Tarantino. (The other is the father of someone lurking elsewhere in this puzzle.)
B-67. “I'm poor, black, I might even be ugly, but dear God, I'm here! I'm here!”
WHOOPI GOLDBERG? OPRAH WINFREY?
B-68. In 1939, this reliable British character actor – who was once married to an Indian princess – appeared in seven films, including those referenced in Clues A-12 and A-49.
B-69. “I just met a wonderful new man. He's fictional but you can't have everything.”
MIA FARROW
B-70. In 1974 – the year he appeared in a hit disaster movie – he became the highest-paid movie star in the world … and immediately took a four-year hiatus from acting.
PAUL NEWMAN? GENE HACKMAN? STEVE MCQUEEN?
B-71. “In those moments where you're not quite sure if the undead are really dead, don't get all stingy with your bullets. I mean, one more clean shot to the head, and this lady could have avoided becoming a human Happy Meal. Woulda, coulda, shoulda.”
JESSE EISENBERG
B-72. She was the first African American actress to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio, but found greater success in Europe, where she was dubbed “The Black Garbo.”
B-73. “You cheated! Cheated! I hate you! I refuse to accept! I won't win any way but my way! You've ruined my reputation, do you hear? You I hate! You and your hair that's always combed, your suit that's always white, your car that's always clean! I refuse to accept!”
B-74. One of the high points of his long Hollywood career was playing the title role in Alfred Hitchcock’s second American feature.
B-75. “Let me tell you something, my two fine bedfellows, you're so dumb, there's nothin' to compare ya with, you're dumber than the dumbest jackass! Look at each other, will ya? Did you ever see anything like yourself for bein' dumb specimens? You're so dumb, you don't even see the riches you're treadin' on with your own feet!”
WALTER HUSTON
B-76. During her nearly 60-year movie career, she has worked under the direction of – among many others – Roger Vadim, Roman Polanski, Luis Bunuel, Claude Chabrol, Tony Scott, Agnes Varda, and Francois Truffaut.
CATHERINE DENEUVE?
B-77. “You once said you liked me just as I am and I just wanted to say likewise. I mean there are stupid things your mum buys you, tonight's another – classic. You're haughty, and you always say the wrong thing in every situation and I seriously believe that you should rethink the length of your sideburns. But, you're a nice man and I like you. If you wanted to pop by some time that might be nice. More than nice.”
B-78. She made her film debut in 1917, spent the next 37 years in feature films, moved on to series television for a decade – then, after a 23-year hiatus, popped up in three tv movies between 1986 and 1994.
LORETTA YOUNG?
B-79. “Settle down, are you kidding? I'm at the top of my game! I'm right up there with the big dogs! Girls, come on! Leave the saving of the world to the men? I don't think so!”
B-80. Oscar-wise, she completes the following list: Anne Bancroft, Shirley Booth, Patty Duke, Eileen Heckart, Judy Holliday, Josephine Hull, Barbra Streisand.
KIM HUNTER
B-81. “On a farm, when a pig is born small like that, it's called schtumpig, a runt.”
Frank admitted it’s not Kelly McGIllis so LUKAS HAAS
B-82. After the failure of her Hollywood museum in the 1990s, she ended up auctioning off most of her legendary memorabilia collection – including more than 4,000 costumes. (But she’s still holding on to a Maltese Falcon.)
DEBBIE REYNOLDS
B-83. “And why do I sew each new chapeau/With a style they must look positively grim in?/Strictly between us, entrez-nous/I hate women.”
DANNY KAYE
B-84. Shortly after Four Star Productions was founded in 1952, this actress replaced the actor in Clue B-74 as one of the Four Stars.
IDA LUPINO?
B-85. “I'm talking about the playing around that's going on. I'm talking about the young girls. I'm talking about the cookies. I'm talking about keeping our pants zipped and our wicks dry around here!”
ED HARRIS (right Stuff)
B-86. He made his film debut in 1991 playing the guitarist for an Irish soul band.
B-87. “If only I could find her, so she could see me with such lovely friends here now, perhaps she could love me as I am. I've tried so hard to be good.”
JOHN HURT
B-88. Because her fourth husband was the son of her second husband, her first child was both the half-brother and uncle of her third and fourth children. Got that?
GLORIA GRAHAME?
B-89. “I just wanted to congratulate you on stealing the pyramid. That was you, wasn't it? Or was it a villain who's actually successful?”
B-90. This strong-jawed leading man got an early career boost because he was ineligible for military service, having injured his back while taking dance lessons from Martha Graham. (The studio claimed it was a college rowing injury because – you know – strong-jawed leading men don’t take dance lessons from Martha Graham.)
GREGORY PECK?
B-91. “The war between the sexes is over. We won the second women started doing pole dancing for exercise.”
B-92. Actors Studio co-founder Robert Lewis called the last ten years of this actor’s life “the longest suicide in history,” while Marilyn Monroe described him as "the only person I know who is in worse shape than I am.”
MONTGOMERY CLIFT
B-93. “I found out the way your mind works and the kind of man you are. I know your plans and expectations - you've burbled every bit of strategy you've got. I know exactly what you will do, and exactly what you won't, and I've told you exactly nothing. To these aged eyes, boy, that's what winning looks like!”
B-94. Frank Capra’s last feature film was her first feature film – thus making the combined span of their careers 94 years and counting.
ANN-MARGRET
B-95. “Lord, I'd just like to thank You for that waitress in South Bend. You know who she is - she kept calling Your name.”
B-96. He was the first Welsh-born actor to win an Oscar, and the only Oscar-winning actor whose acceptance “speech” did not include a single word.
JOHN MILLS
B-97. “Serpentine, Shelly. Serpentine!”
PETER FALK
B-98. This actor has another five months to go before his shelf life as Sexiest Man Alive expires.
B-99. “Dear Lord, We've come to the end of our journey, and in a little while we'll stand before you. I pray for you to be merciful. Judge us not for our weaknesses, but for our love and open the doors of heaven for Charlie and me.”
KATHARINE HEPBURN
B-100. This star served as first president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Re: Game #152: Subtitles
Based on this remark I'm thinking that the wrong one is probably:LIST A
Of all the definite answers, only one is wrong. (I think it's a definite answer, anyway.)
A-54. “Well, I want to die because I feel that a life for me, in this state, has no dignity. I understand that other quadriplegics may take offense to my saying there's no dignity in this, but I'm not trying to judge anyone. Who am I to judge those who choose life? So don't judge me or anyone who wants to help me die.”
WHOSE LIFE IS THIS ANYWAY? To make it uncertain let's change it to - then if all the definite answers are now correct -then we found the culprit: Also there are 9 others that are unambiguous with question marks.
'WHOSE LIFE IS THIS ANYWAY?'?
So 2 are wrong and 7 or correct of these 9:
I'm fairly certain these are all correct:
A-14. “But don't get her drunk. If you get her drunk, she loses control.”
“Ted, are we talking a loss of inhibitions here, or does she pee on the floor?”
BLIND DATE
A-18. “See, that’s the trouble, it’s exotic, but it’s not honest. I mean, it’s fancy, but it’s not real. I mean, this is honest food. There’s no lying in that beef. There’s no insincerity in those potatoes. There’s no deceit in the cauliflower. This is a totally honest meal. You don’t know what a pleasure it in this day and age to sit down and eat a meal you can believe in.”
THE HEARTBREAK KID
A-28. “What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.”
PATCH ADAMS
A-43. This film earned its director/writer his 24th – and most recent – Oscar nomination.
BLUE JASMINE
A-47. This 1940 screen version of what is generally considered to be one of the five Great American Plays was harder to adapt to film than any of the others due to its unusual setting and narrative structure.
OUR TOWN
If I had to guess these are probably wrong - I don't think Frank would use Shanghai Lily in the clue if Shanghai was in the title:
A-8. “It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.”
SHANGHAI EXPRESS?
And if this is the version I think you mean - it isn't a talkie although it might have been the first to have been shot outdoors:
A-57. In addition to a number of other firsts, this was the first talking film shot outdoors.
THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY?
So my guess is that these 2 are also correct:
A-36. “Hello? Hey, don't get shy on me all of a sudden, f**k-face. This is the one about the babysitter, right? She's getting those scary and harassing phone calls and when she traces them back, they are coming from inside the house. But ass-wipe, aren't you forgetting something? I'm not babysitting any kids!”
SCREAM
A-63. This wartime revue featured three of the actresses included on List B – all playing themselves.
STAGE DOOR CANTEEN
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Re: Game #152: Subtitles
Your reasoning on this is perfect.frogman042 wrote:Based on this remark I'm thinking that the wrong one is probably:LIST A
Of all the definite answers, only one is wrong. (I think it's a definite answer, anyway.)
A-54. “Well, I want to die because I feel that a life for me, in this state, has no dignity. I understand that other quadriplegics may take offense to my saying there's no dignity in this, but I'm not trying to judge anyone. Who am I to judge those who choose life? So don't judge me or anyone who wants to help me die.”
WHOSE LIFE IS THIS ANYWAY? To make it uncertain let's change it to - then if all the definite answers are now correct -then we found the culprit: Also there are 9 others that are unambiguous with question marks.
'WHOSE LIFE IS THIS ANYWAY?'?
Well, I could have had a moment of weakness. Let's say that I did.frogman042 wrote:So 2 are wrong and 7 are correct of these 9:
I'm fairly certain these are all correct:
A-14. “But don't get her drunk. If you get her drunk, she loses control.”
“Ted, are we talking a loss of inhibitions here, or does she pee on the floor?”
BLIND DATE
A-18. “See, that’s the trouble, it’s exotic, but it’s not honest. I mean, it’s fancy, but it’s not real. I mean, this is honest food. There’s no lying in that beef. There’s no insincerity in those potatoes. There’s no deceit in the cauliflower. This is a totally honest meal. You don’t know what a pleasure it in this day and age to sit down and eat a meal you can believe in.”
THE HEARTBREAK KID
A-28. “What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.”
PATCH ADAMS
A-43. This film earned its director/writer his 24th – and most recent – Oscar nomination.
BLUE JASMINE
A-47. This 1940 screen version of what is generally considered to be one of the five Great American Plays was harder to adapt to film than any of the others due to its unusual setting and narrative structure.
OUR TOWN
If I had to guess these are probably wrong - I don't think Frank would use Shanghai Lily in the clue if Shanghai was in the title:
A-8. “It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.”
SHANGHAI EXPRESS?
Yes, I figured someone would notice that.frogman042 wrote:And if this is the version I think you mean - it isn't a talkie although it might have been the first to have been shot outdoors:
A-57. In addition to a number of other firsts, this was the first talking film shot outdoors.
THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY?
Yes and no. Or no and yes.frogman042 wrote:So my guess is that these 2 are also correct:
A-36. “Hello? Hey, don't get shy on me all of a sudden, f**k-face. This is the one about the babysitter, right? She's getting those scary and harassing phone calls and when she traces them back, they are coming from inside the house. But ass-wipe, aren't you forgetting something? I'm not babysitting any kids!”
SCREAM
A-63. This wartime revue featured three of the actresses included on List B – all playing themselves.
STAGE DOOR CANTEEN
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Re: Game #152: Subtitles
As I mentioned, don't have a lot of flexibility for this at work.
1) Never saw "talking" on Great Train Robbery. I'd put the embarrassed emoticon up but I don't know how to put it together.
A-57 IN OLD ARIZONA
2) the actor is HENRY FONDA, where 12 Angry Men is in the B section.
1) Never saw "talking" on Great Train Robbery. I'd put the embarrassed emoticon up but I don't know how to put it together.
A-57 IN OLD ARIZONA
2) the actor is HENRY FONDA, where 12 Angry Men is in the B section.
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Re: Game #152: Subtitles
a-8 IS definitely shanghai express.
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Re: Game #152: Subtitles
Just looked it up
A-36 is URBAN LEGEND
A-36 is URBAN LEGEND
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Re: Game #152: Subtitles
Can B-6 be LEE J. COBB?
I always thought he was never offered the role because he was unavailable so they offered Crosby. But perhaps Der Bingle is the actor who is wrong.
I always thought he was never offered the role because he was unavailable so they offered Crosby. But perhaps Der Bingle is the actor who is wrong.
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Game #152: Subtitles - Wednesday night consolidation
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Game #152: Subtitles
Identify the 65 movies in List A and the 100 actors in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, form 78 triples, each consisting of one movie and two actors, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.
7 movies and 28 actors will be used twice.
3 movies and 14 actors will be used three times.
LIST A: MOVIES
A-1. Arguably the single most iconic image in all of 1950s cinema is that of Bengt Ekerot in this film.
THE SEVENTH SEAL
A-2. “You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite! Hannah, can you hear me?”
THE GREAT DICTATOR
A-3. This romantic classic was remade with a different title 18 years after its release and with its original title 55 years after its release.
LOVE AFFAIR
A-4. “I'm not sure George is wrong about automobiles. With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization. May be that they won't add to the beauty of the world or the life of the men's souls, I'm not sure. But automobiles have come and almost all outwards things will be different because of what they bring. They're going to alter war and they're going to alter peace. And I think men's minds are going to be changed in subtle ways because of automobiles. And it may be that George is right. May be that in ten to twenty years from now that if we can see the inward change in men by that time, I shouldn't be able to defend the gasoline engine but agree with George - that automobiles had no business to be invented.”
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
A-5. This movie was MGM’s biggest musical hit of 1939 – which is rather astonishing, considering the other MGM musical released the same year with the same leading lady.
BABES IN ARMS
A-6. “Can I borrow your odorant?”
“Yeah, I got, uh, Smelly Garbage or Old Dumpster.”
MONSTERS, INC.
A-7. The subject of this biopic played for the Chicago Cubs from 1934 to 1938. (The reason he didn’t play longer is what the movie is about.)
THE STRATTON STORY
A-8. “It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.”
SHANGHAI EXPRESS
A-9. This movie featured the only performance directed by John Sayles to receive an Oscar nomination.
LONE STAR? EIGHT MEN OUT? PASSION FISH?
A-10. “I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun. People always thought I grew up on a farm. And I guess, in a way, I did. But I lived a lifetime before that, in those six weeks on the road in the winter of 1931.”
ROAD TO PERDITION
A-11. In this musical remake, the actor in clue B-83 attempted to step into the size 14 shoes of Coop.
A SONG IS BORN
A-12. “Daddy! Oh, Daddy! It is you! I found you! I found you! They said you were dead, but I knew you weren't! I knew you'd come back! Oh, Daddy, hold me, hold me close. You won't ever go away again, will you? Will you, Daddy? What's the matter, Daddy? Why don't you talk to me?”
THE LITTLE PRINCESS
A-13. This complicated caper flick shares a major plot point – and not much else – with the film Fourteen Hours.
A-14. “But don't get her drunk. If you get her drunk, she loses control.”
“Ted, are we talking a loss of inhibitions here, or does she pee on the floor?”
BLIND DATE
A-15. This western is the earliest John Ford film selected for preservation by the National Film Registry.
THE IRON HORSE
A-16. “Go ahead, make my day.”
SUDDEN IMPACT
A-17. For the first hour of this film – the third teaming of one of the great screen duos – the leading man’s face is never fully seen: all shots are either from his point of view or show his face covered in bandages.
DARK PASSAGE
A-18. “See, that’s the trouble, it’s exotic, but it’s not honest. I mean, it’s fancy, but it’s not real. I mean, this is honest food. There’s no lying in that beef. There’s no insincerity in those potatoes. There’s no deceit in the cauliflower. This is a totally honest meal. You don’t know what a pleasure it in this day and age to sit down and eat a meal you can believe in.”
THE HEARTBREAK KID
A-19. Robert Altman’s Thieves Like Us was based on the same novel as this cult classic released 26 years earlier.
A-20. “I'm willing to meet my creator and answer for every shot that I took.”
AMERICAN SNIPER
A-21. Unlike the stage version – which had a score written by the same team that wrote the score for the stage version of the musical referenced in clue A-5 – this movie musical needed just two actors to play the four leading roles.
THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE
A-22. “Well, that's the whole point of the holidays, Paul. So you and your sister can mope around the house, and your mother and I can wait on you hand and foot, while the two of you occasionally grunt for more food from behind the hair in your faces. Believe it or not, we actually enjoy it.”
A-23. There is some dispute as to whether or not this 2007 movie was a remake of Working Girl, but there is no disputing the fact that it was a Grade A dud –it opened at eight theatres in Texas and averaged $48 per screen for a total box office of $384.
A-24. “We'll have a line of low-priced furniture, a new and different line - as different from anything we're making today as a modern automobile is different from a covered wagon. That's what you want Walt, isn't it - what you've always wanted? Merchandise that will sell because it had beauty and function and value - not because the buyers like your scotch or think that you're a good egg. The kind of stuff that you, Jesse, will feel in your guts when you know it's coming off your production line. A kind of product that you will be able to budget to the nearest hundredth of a cent, Shaw, because it will be scientifically and efficiently designed. And something you will be proud to have your name on, Miss Tredway.”
EXECUTIVE SUITE
A-25. The first woman to receive a Saturn Award for Best Director did so for this 1995 movie. (It also earned one of its stars a Saturn for Best Actress, but I refuse to mention that person’s name.)
STRANGE DAYS
A-26. “One day, my wife explained to me that, for the past fifteen years, my output as a poet had dealt entirely with the part of our lives in which we discovered each other.”
“Are you a poet?”
“Was. And so, to give me something new to write about, she left me. A very noble woman, my wife - she left me for the good of literature. And remarkably it worked.”
“What, you wrote a lot of good stuff, did ya?”
“No, I stopped writing altogether.”
EDUCATING RITA
A-27. This Randolph Scott flick shares its name with the 17th largest city in the United States.
A-28. “What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.”
PATCH ADAMS
A-29. If you want to see Gracie Allen and Bela Lugosi in the same movie, this will surely be your only chance.
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
A-30. “If only my life could be more like the movies. I want an angel to sweep down to me like it does to Jimmy Stewart in It’s a Wonderful Life and talk me out of suicide. I've always waited for that one moment of truth to set me free and change my life forever, but he won’t come, it doesn’t happen that way. All the drugs, all the therapy, fights, anger, guilt, rage, suicidal thoughts, all of that was part of some slow recovery process. The same way I went down, I came back up, gradually – and then suddenly. The pills weren’t the cure at all, God knows, but they gave me breathing space which allowed me to start writing again, only this time it was not as if my life depended on it.”
A-31. This anthology was the fourth film in what is sometimes referred to as the “Poe-Corman” cycle.
A-32. “But then you go to the police. That's what innocent people do. They go to the police.”
“Sure. And that young man who was just here, he'd believe me over the President, wouldn't he?”
ABSOLUTE POWER
A-33. Francois Truffaut once said he would have given up all his own movies to have directed this two-part classic, filmed during the Nazi occupation of France.
A-34. “Listen. No one could teach you to dance in a million years. Take my advice and save your money!”
SWING TIME
A-35. The star of the previous film received a Golden Turkey nomination for Worst Performance as a Historical Figure for her role as a First Lady in this film. (She couldn’t beat John Wayne’s Genghiz Khan, though.)
MAGNIFICENT DOLL?
A-36. “Hello? Hey, don't get shy on me all of a sudden, f**k-face. This is the one about the babysitter, right? She's getting those scary and harassing phone calls and when she traces them back, they are coming from inside the house. But ass-wipe, aren't you forgetting something? I'm not babysitting any kids!”
URBAN LEGEND
A-37. The subject of this Oscar-winning 1979 documentary is now over 80 years old and living in a group home.
A-38. “In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.”
BEING THERE
A-39. This film version of a British play featured a gay actor playing a gay public school student who would grow up to become a real-life gay spy.
A-40. “Hey, Pastor Dan? Mr. Self-righteous? I'm hanging on by a thread here. I lost my sister, my social life, my disposable income, my ability to fit into a size 2, and - this just in - my job. Pretty much the only two things that haven't disappeared are my nicotine fits and a few pounds that have recently taken up residence on my ass. So forgive me if I'm not too thrilled about being lectured, in Queens, about being a lousy legal guardian to three kids who maybe shouldn't have been given to me in the first place.”
RAISING HELEN
A-41. Once considered a lost film, this crime drama marked the screen debut of an actress who would become much better known for her next role – seven years later – as a sinister housekeeper.
A-42. “I won't read the word!”
“I'm your father and I'm telling you to read the word. Cause I can tell you to because I'm your father.”
“I'm stupid.”
“You are not stupid!”
“Yes, I am!”
“No, you are not stupid 'cause you can read that word.”
“I don't wanna read it if you can't.”
“No, because it makes me happy! It makes me happy hearing you read. Yeah, it makes me happy when you're reading.”
I AM SAM
A-43. This film earned its director/writer his 24th – and most recent – Oscar nomination.
BLUE JASMINE
A-44. “If you're edged 'cause I'm weazin all your grindage, just chill. 'Cause if I had the whole Brady Bunch thing happenin' at my pad, I'd go grind over there, so don’t tax my gig so hard-core cruster.”
A-45. To prepare for his role in this film, Al Pacino spent a lot of time hanging around with Rudy Giuliani.
CITY HALL
A-46. “Our survival hinges on one thing - finding someone who not only can fly this plane, but didn't have fish for dinner.”
(No, not that movie! I want the movie that this line came from originally!)
ZERO HOUR
A-47. This 1940 screen version of what is generally considered to be one of the five Great American Plays was harder to adapt to film than any of the others due to its unusual setting and narrative structure.
OUR TOWN?
A-48. “When I go back in that house, it will be with my son in my arms. I'll have a red coat on him – and red flower trousers – and a hat with a gilded Buddha and tiger-faced shoes, and I'll go into the kitchen where I spent my days as a slave and into the great hall where the old mistress sits with her pipe, and I'll show myself and my son to all of them.”
A-49. The most famous line in this movie – uttered by one of the title characters when he meets the other – was, in real life, spoken on October 27, 1871. (The reply, by the way, was “Yes.”)
STANLEY AND LIVINGSTONE
A-50. “The firing power inside my crater is enough to annihilate a small army. You can watch it all on TV. It's the last program you're likely to see.”
“Well, if I'm going to be forced to watch television, may I smoke?”
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
A-51. This western marked the official screen debut of a young man that director Raoul Walsh had discovered in the props department; the rest is history.
THE BIG TRAIL
A-52. “Come on, group hug! You too, Anger."
“Don’t touch me.”
BEDAZZLED? INSIDE OUT?
A-53. This movie starred my favorite actor in one of his hammiest roles – a role he would later reprise for the actors in clue B-13.
CAPTAIN KIDD
A-54. “Well, I want to die because I feel that a life for me, in this state, has no dignity. I understand that other quadriplegics may take offense to my saying there's no dignity in this, but I'm not trying to judge anyone. Who am I to judge those who choose life? So don't judge me or anyone who wants to help me die.”
A-55. The character of the alcoholic film producer in this 1932 movie was reportedly based on the alcoholic actor who played the role.
WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD
A-56. “Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against?”
“Whadda you got?”
THE WILD ONE
A-57. In addition to a number of other firsts, this was the first talking film shot outdoors.
IN OLD ARIZONA
A-58. “I got scruples too, you know. You know what that is? Scruples?”
“No, I don't know what it is, but if you got 'em, it's a sure bet they belong to somebody else!”
PAPER MOON
A-59. Among the weird characters in this film are a woman who never leaves her bed, a man who never speaks directly to his wife, a woman who always lies, a voodoo priest, and the lead singer of a new wave band. (Only the latter is real.)
A-60. “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
THE DARK KNIGHT
A-61. Hitchcock’s last British film before coming to America, it earned him a listing in The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
A-62. “You love me so much you gotta kill my f**king girlfriend, huh? Speak you f**kin' freak, or I will f**king kill you! Katie. Say it! Say it or you die!”
A-63. This wartime revue featured three of the actresses included on List B – all playing themselves.
STAGE DOOR CANTEEN
A-64. “Nature all looks alike. Frontiers are an invention of man.”
A-65. This lovely work of docufiction is the nexus where Nanook of the North meets Four Saints in Three Acts meets John D. Rockefeller.
LIST B: ACTORS
B-1. “You know what I believe I'd like? A chocolate fudge sundae with whipped cream and a cherry on top.”
SPENCER TRACY
B-2. Notoriously shy and prone to bouts of stage fright, she made only two movies after her contract with Columbia Pictures expired in 1944 and no movies at all after 1953 – but her last movie was one of the all-time greats.
JEAN ARTHUR
B-3. “Remarkable boy. I do admire your courage. I think I'll eat your heart.”
ANTHONY HOPKINS
B-4. This one-time star of the Ziegfeld Follies was portrayed onscreen by his own son.
Probably WILL ROGERS
B-5. “I don't fear you Michael, I just dread you.”
DIANE KEATON
B-6. Hard to believe, but this actor was originally offered the tv role that was subsequently play by the actor quoted in clue B-97.
BING CROSBY? LEE J. COBB
B-7. “We don't really move. I mean, we'd like to, but – my mom is sort of attached to the house. Attached is, I guess, not the right word. She's pretty much wedged in.”
JOHNNY DEPP
B-8. She and her brother were the first pair of siblings to each receive an Oscar.
NORMA SHEARER? ETHEL BARRYMORE?
B-9. “There's no way I can repay you for all you've done for me, so rather than try, I'm just going to ask you to do something else for me: find the joy in your life. You once said you're not everyone. Well, that's true, you're certainly not everyone, but everyone is everyone. My pastor always says our lives are streams flowing into the same river towards whatever heaven lies in the mist beyond the falls. Find the joy in your life, Edward. My dear friend, close your eyes and let the waters take you home.”
MORGAN FREEMAN
B-10. In two unrelated films made 20 years apart, this actor played men who shaped the life and career of Marilyn Monroe.
LLOYD BRIDGES?
B-11. “Men should be explorers, no matter how old they are. I don't know about anybody else, but I'm going.”
B-12. Best known for solving crimes on tv, this actress has twice been named “Sexiest Vegetarian” by PETA.
B-13. “I know there's no such person as Dracula. You know there's no such person as Dracula.”
“But does Dracula know it?”
BUD ABBOTT AND LOU COSTELLO
B-14. This actress has the same number of Oscar nominations as her father, but one less than her mother.
LAURA DERN? LIZA MINNELLI?
B-15. “You see, Mr. Milton, 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. I tell you this man Novak is okay. His 'collateral' is in his hands, in his heart and his guts. It's in his right as a citizen.”
FREDRIC MARCH
B-16. His movie career might have ended on a higher note if his manager had not insisted on too high a salary as well as top billing over Barbra Streisand – or if his manager had not insisted on too high a salary as well as top billing over John Wayne.
B-17. “You don't understand how I feel! I'm standing there with my pants down and my crotch hung out for the world to see and three guys are sticking it to me, a bunch of other guys are yelling and clapping and you're standing there telling me that that's the best you can do. Well, if that's the best you could do, then your best sucks! Now, I don't know what you got for selling me out, but I sure as s**it hope it was worth it!”
JODIE FOSTER
B-18. Directing a climactic scene in Death Valley, he reportedly told the two actors involved, “Fight! Fight! Try to hate each other as you both hate me.”
ERICH VON STROHEIM
B-19. “Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man... June 8th. My life has taken another turn again. The days can go on with regularity over and over, one day indistinguishable from the next. A long continuous chain. Then suddenly, there is a change.”
ROBERT DE NIRO
B-20. This Oscar-winning actress was later nominated for five Soap Opera Digest awards in the categories Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role and Outstanding Villainess in a Prime Time Serial.
B-21. “I always look well when I'm near death.”
GRETA GARBO
B-22. Oscar-wise, she completes the following list: Woody Allen, Matt Damon, John Huston, Billy Bob Thornton, Orson Welles.
IDA LUPINO? EMMA THOMPSON?
B-23. “I feel sorry for you. What it must feel like to want to pull the switch! Ever since you walked into this room, you've been acting like a self-appointed public avenger. You want to see this boy die because you personally want it, not because of the facts! You're a sadist!”
HENRY FONDA
B-24. This actor, known for his ptosis, served as host/narrator for the second revival of my all-time favorite television series.
B-25. “Hey, listen, I want somebody good - and I mean very good - to plant that gun. I don't want my brother coming out of that toilet with just his d**k in his hands, alright?”
JAMES CAAN
B-26. In 2010, this actor was inducted into the same Hall of Fame as Mayor Jimmy Walker and the Marquess of Queensberry.
SYLVESTER STALLONE
B-27. “I got so used to things as they were: Everything so prim, the geranium in the window, the smell of mama's medicines. And then he walked in, and it was different! He clomped through the place like he was still outdoors. There was a man in the place and it seemed good!”
VERNA FELTON
B-28. This actress never had any children with her only husband, but she did have one by a noted dancer and two more by a noted playwright.
JESSICA LANGE
B-29. “I got a weal wed wagon!”
B-30. This actor turned down the lead in Ben-Hur because he was an atheist and the lead in Patton because of his antiwar sympathies.
BURT LANCASTER
B-31. “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
JOAN FONTAINE
B-32. His screen career included adaptations of works by Eugene O’Neill, Euripides, Franz Kafka, Joseph Heller, Agatha Christie, and Ellery Queen.
PETER USTINOV? ANTHONY PERKINS?
B-33. “I'm sorry, your time's run out! What do we have for the losers, judge? Well, for our defendants, it's a lifetime at exotic Fort Leavenworth!”
TOM CRUISE
B-34. This international star has also had a busy music career that has included recording the theme songs for most of his films, as well as the official one-year countdown song to the 2008 Olympics.
B-35. “You know what I'm realizing? My life is just going to go. Like that. This series of milestones. Getting married. Having kids. Getting divorced. The time that we thought you were dyslexic. When I taught you how to ride a bike. Getting divorced – again. Getting my masters degree. Finally getting the job I wanted. Sending Samantha off to college. Sending you off to college. You know what's next? Huh? It's my f**king funeral! Just go, and leave my picture!”
PATRICIA ARQUETTE
B-36. Oscar-wise, he completes the following list: Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, John Huston, Robert Redford.
MEL GIBSON?
B-37. “I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me. Out of my way, a**hole.”
B-38. Though he first won popularity in a series a comic films, this actor went on to build a distinguished career in prestige productions, such as the film version of a novel by Thomas Mann.
B-39. “Thank you. I've never been called a son of God before. I've been called a son of a you-know-what plenty of times, but I've never been called a son of God.”
B-40. After a seven-year film career, this British-Australian actor hanged himself in a Las Vegas hotel room at the age of 25.
B-41. “I'll give ya somethin' to dream about, Mister. Wanna kiss me, ducky?”
MARLENE DIETRICH
B-42. Though he never won an Oscar (or any other award) for his acting, this swashbuckler did pick up a few trinkets for his service during World War II – including the Legion of Merit and Silver Star from the United States, the Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre from France, and the Distinguished Service Cross from Britain.
AUDIE MURPHY? DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR?
B-43. “I blow a hole in your face and then I go in the house – and I sleep like a baby. You can count on that. We used to stack f**ks like you five feet high in Korea. Use ya for sandbags.”
B-44. She was the only Dame Commander of the British Empire to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.
B-45. “It seems it always happens. Whenever we get too high-hat and too sophisticated for flag-waving, some thug nation decides we're a push-over all ready to be blackjacked. And it isn't long before we're looking up, mighty anxiously, to be sure the flag's still waving over us”
JAMES CAGNEY
B-46. After coming to the United States, this future Oscar winner trained at the Joffrey Ballet School until a knee injury ended her dream of becoming a ballerina.
B-47. “He came in to demand an answer and I told him the truth. That I have fought with myself over that night, one half of me swearing blind that I tied a simple slipknot, the other half convinced that I tied the Langford double. I can never know for sure.”
B-48. At the time of his death, this actor was making plans to star in a dream project – a biopic about Fatty Arbuckle. (Somebody should still make that movie.)
JOHN CANDY? CHRIS FARLEY?
B-49. “You don't know what I can do! You don't know what I can do, what I'm gonna do, or what I'm gonna be! I'm good! I have good things and you don't know about! I'm gonna be something! I am! And don't f**king tell me I'm not!”
B-50. He was the first of only two actors to win an Oscar for a role he had originally performed on television. (The other one is lurking elsewhere among these clues.)
It can’t be Borgnine – Marty on TV was Rod Steiger.
CLIFT ROBERTSON?
B-51. “I didn't bring your breakfast, because you didn't eat your din-din!”
BETTE DAVIS
B-52. At age 80, she became the oldest winner of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. (And high time, too!)
CAROL BURNETT
B-53. “You brought music back into the house. I had forgotten.”
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER
B-54. Though often cast as vampires or sadists, this Dutch actor is known off-screen for his humanitarian work, such as founding an AIDS research foundation.
RUTGER HAUER
B-55. “We're not talking about his trainer, sweetheart! We're talking about his manager. That's me!”
MELISSA LEO
B-56. In 1988, this singer took on a role that had previously been played by – among others – Telly Savalas, Hurd Hatfield, Arthur Kennedy, Jean Marais, Basil Rathbone, and Jean Gabin.
B-57. “Playwrights teach us nothing about love. They make it pretty, they make it comical, or they make it lust, but they cannot make it true.”
B-58. In 2008, this actor – best known for completing a different kind of adventure – became the first person ever to cross Victoria Falls on ropes.
B-59. “This is a $4,000 sofa, upholstered in Italian silk. This is not just a couch.”
B-60. Before this week, she had been the only Dame Commander of the British Empire to have won the Tony, the Emmy, and the Oscar.
B-61. “Would ya just watch the hair. Ya know, I work on my hair a long time and you hit it. He hits my hair.”
JOHN TRAVOLTA
B-62. On or off screen, he was no fan of the Nazis. During World War II, he deserted the Deutsche Wehrmacht and went into hiding in the Vienna Woods with his Jewish wife. In his first American film, he played a German officer recruited to spy for the Allies.
HARDY KRUGER?
B-63. “All right, I'm in. 'Cause there's some next level s**t going on and I'm OK with that. But before y'all go beaming me up there's one thing you gotta remember: You chose me, so you recognized the skills, so I don't want nobody calling me son or kid or sport or nothing like that, cool?”
WILL SMITH
B-64. When MGM bought the rights to the play Angel Street,, they insisted that all existing prints of the earlier British version starring this actress be destroyed. (They weren’t.)
B-65. “Back to the ship, huh? Just huddle together, until the lights burn out? 'Til you can't see what's eating you? Is that the big plan?”
B-66. With his final film, he became one of only two actors to have been directed by both Alfred Hitchcock and Quentin Tarantino. (The other is the father of someone lurking elsewhere in this puzzle.)
B-67. “I'm poor, black, I might even be ugly, but dear God, I'm here! I'm here!”
WHOOPI GOLDBERG? OPRAH WINFREY?
B-68. In 1939, this reliable British character actor – who was once married to an Indian princess – appeared in seven films, including those referenced in Clues A-12 and A-49.
B-69. “I just met a wonderful new man. He's fictional but you can't have everything.”
MIA FARROW
B-70. In 1974 – the year he appeared in a hit disaster movie – he became the highest-paid movie star in the world … and immediately took a four-year hiatus from acting.
PAUL NEWMAN? GENE HACKMAN? STEVE MCQUEEN?
B-71. “In those moments where you're not quite sure if the undead are really dead, don't get all stingy with your bullets. I mean, one more clean shot to the head, and this lady could have avoided becoming a human Happy Meal. Woulda, coulda, shoulda.”
JESSE EISENBERG
B-72. She was the first African American actress to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio, but found greater success in Europe, where she was dubbed “The Black Garbo.”
B-73. “You cheated! Cheated! I hate you! I refuse to accept! I won't win any way but my way! You've ruined my reputation, do you hear? You I hate! You and your hair that's always combed, your suit that's always white, your car that's always clean! I refuse to accept!”
B-74. One of the high points of his long Hollywood career was playing the title role in Alfred Hitchcock’s second American feature.
B-75. “Let me tell you something, my two fine bedfellows, you're so dumb, there's nothin' to compare ya with, you're dumber than the dumbest jackass! Look at each other, will ya? Did you ever see anything like yourself for bein' dumb specimens? You're so dumb, you don't even see the riches you're treadin' on with your own feet!”
WALTER HUSTON
B-76. During her nearly 60-year movie career, she has worked under the direction of – among many others – Roger Vadim, Roman Polanski, Luis Bunuel, Claude Chabrol, Tony Scott, Agnes Varda, and Francois Truffaut.
CATHERINE DENEUVE?
B-77. “You once said you liked me just as I am and I just wanted to say likewise. I mean there are stupid things your mum buys you, tonight's another – classic. You're haughty, and you always say the wrong thing in every situation and I seriously believe that you should rethink the length of your sideburns. But, you're a nice man and I like you. If you wanted to pop by some time that might be nice. More than nice.”
B-78. She made her film debut in 1917, spent the next 37 years in feature films, moved on to series television for a decade – then, after a 23-year hiatus, popped up in three tv movies between 1986 and 1994.
LORETTA YOUNG?
B-79. “Settle down, are you kidding? I'm at the top of my game! I'm right up there with the big dogs! Girls, come on! Leave the saving of the world to the men? I don't think so!”
B-80. Oscar-wise, she completes the following list: Anne Bancroft, Shirley Booth, Patty Duke, Eileen Heckart, Judy Holliday, Josephine Hull, Barbra Streisand.
KIM HUNTER
B-81. “On a farm, when a pig is born small like that, it's called schtumpig, a runt.”
Frank admitted it’s not Kelly McGIllis so LUKAS HAAS
B-82. After the failure of her Hollywood museum in the 1990s, she ended up auctioning off most of her legendary memorabilia collection – including more than 4,000 costumes. (But she’s still holding on to a Maltese Falcon.)
DEBBIE REYNOLDS
B-83. “And why do I sew each new chapeau/With a style they must look positively grim in?/Strictly between us, entrez-nous/I hate women.”
DANNY KAYE
B-84. Shortly after Four Star Productions was founded in 1952, this actress replaced the actor in Clue B-74 as one of the Four Stars.
IDA LUPINO?
B-85. “I'm talking about the playing around that's going on. I'm talking about the young girls. I'm talking about the cookies. I'm talking about keeping our pants zipped and our wicks dry around here!”
ED HARRIS
B-86. He made his film debut in 1991 playing the guitarist for an Irish soul band.
B-87. “If only I could find her, so she could see me with such lovely friends here now, perhaps she could love me as I am. I've tried so hard to be good.”
JOHN HURT
B-88. Because her fourth husband was the son of her second husband, her first child was both the half-brother and uncle of her third and fourth children. Got that?
GLORIA GRAHAME?
B-89. “I just wanted to congratulate you on stealing the pyramid. That was you, wasn't it? Or was it a villain who's actually successful?”
B-90. This strong-jawed leading man got an early career boost because he was ineligible for military service, having injured his back while taking dance lessons from Martha Graham. (The studio claimed it was a college rowing injury because – you know – strong-jawed leading men don’t take dance lessons from Martha Graham.)
GREGORY PECK?
B-91. “The war between the sexes is over. We won the second women started doing pole dancing for exercise.”
B-92. Actors Studio co-founder Robert Lewis called the last ten years of this actor’s life “the longest suicide in history,” while Marilyn Monroe described him as "the only person I know who is in worse shape than I am.”
MONTGOMERY CLIFT
B-93. “I found out the way your mind works and the kind of man you are. I know your plans and expectations - you've burbled every bit of strategy you've got. I know exactly what you will do, and exactly what you won't, and I've told you exactly nothing. To these aged eyes, boy, that's what winning looks like!”
B-94. Frank Capra’s last feature film was her first feature film – thus making the combined span of their careers 94 years and counting.
ANN-MARGRET
B-95. “Lord, I'd just like to thank You for that waitress in South Bend. You know who she is - she kept calling Your name.”
B-96. He was the first Welsh-born actor to win an Oscar, and the only Oscar-winning actor whose acceptance “speech” did not include a single word.
JOHN MILLS
B-97. “Serpentine, Shelly. Serpentine!”
PETER FALK
B-98. This actor has another five months to go before his shelf life as Sexiest Man Alive expires.
B-99. “Dear Lord, We've come to the end of our journey, and in a little while we'll stand before you. I pray for you to be merciful. Judge us not for our weaknesses, but for our love and open the doors of heaven for Charlie and me.”
KATHARINE HEPBURN
B-100. This star served as first president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Game #152: Subtitles
Identify the 65 movies in List A and the 100 actors in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, form 78 triples, each consisting of one movie and two actors, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.
7 movies and 28 actors will be used twice.
3 movies and 14 actors will be used three times.
LIST A: MOVIES
A-1. Arguably the single most iconic image in all of 1950s cinema is that of Bengt Ekerot in this film.
THE SEVENTH SEAL
A-2. “You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite! Hannah, can you hear me?”
THE GREAT DICTATOR
A-3. This romantic classic was remade with a different title 18 years after its release and with its original title 55 years after its release.
LOVE AFFAIR
A-4. “I'm not sure George is wrong about automobiles. With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization. May be that they won't add to the beauty of the world or the life of the men's souls, I'm not sure. But automobiles have come and almost all outwards things will be different because of what they bring. They're going to alter war and they're going to alter peace. And I think men's minds are going to be changed in subtle ways because of automobiles. And it may be that George is right. May be that in ten to twenty years from now that if we can see the inward change in men by that time, I shouldn't be able to defend the gasoline engine but agree with George - that automobiles had no business to be invented.”
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
A-5. This movie was MGM’s biggest musical hit of 1939 – which is rather astonishing, considering the other MGM musical released the same year with the same leading lady.
BABES IN ARMS
A-6. “Can I borrow your odorant?”
“Yeah, I got, uh, Smelly Garbage or Old Dumpster.”
MONSTERS, INC.
A-7. The subject of this biopic played for the Chicago Cubs from 1934 to 1938. (The reason he didn’t play longer is what the movie is about.)
THE STRATTON STORY
A-8. “It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.”
SHANGHAI EXPRESS
A-9. This movie featured the only performance directed by John Sayles to receive an Oscar nomination.
LONE STAR? EIGHT MEN OUT? PASSION FISH?
A-10. “I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun. People always thought I grew up on a farm. And I guess, in a way, I did. But I lived a lifetime before that, in those six weeks on the road in the winter of 1931.”
ROAD TO PERDITION
A-11. In this musical remake, the actor in clue B-83 attempted to step into the size 14 shoes of Coop.
A SONG IS BORN
A-12. “Daddy! Oh, Daddy! It is you! I found you! I found you! They said you were dead, but I knew you weren't! I knew you'd come back! Oh, Daddy, hold me, hold me close. You won't ever go away again, will you? Will you, Daddy? What's the matter, Daddy? Why don't you talk to me?”
THE LITTLE PRINCESS
A-13. This complicated caper flick shares a major plot point – and not much else – with the film Fourteen Hours.
A-14. “But don't get her drunk. If you get her drunk, she loses control.”
“Ted, are we talking a loss of inhibitions here, or does she pee on the floor?”
BLIND DATE
A-15. This western is the earliest John Ford film selected for preservation by the National Film Registry.
THE IRON HORSE
A-16. “Go ahead, make my day.”
SUDDEN IMPACT
A-17. For the first hour of this film – the third teaming of one of the great screen duos – the leading man’s face is never fully seen: all shots are either from his point of view or show his face covered in bandages.
DARK PASSAGE
A-18. “See, that’s the trouble, it’s exotic, but it’s not honest. I mean, it’s fancy, but it’s not real. I mean, this is honest food. There’s no lying in that beef. There’s no insincerity in those potatoes. There’s no deceit in the cauliflower. This is a totally honest meal. You don’t know what a pleasure it in this day and age to sit down and eat a meal you can believe in.”
THE HEARTBREAK KID
A-19. Robert Altman’s Thieves Like Us was based on the same novel as this cult classic released 26 years earlier.
A-20. “I'm willing to meet my creator and answer for every shot that I took.”
AMERICAN SNIPER
A-21. Unlike the stage version – which had a score written by the same team that wrote the score for the stage version of the musical referenced in clue A-5 – this movie musical needed just two actors to play the four leading roles.
THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE
A-22. “Well, that's the whole point of the holidays, Paul. So you and your sister can mope around the house, and your mother and I can wait on you hand and foot, while the two of you occasionally grunt for more food from behind the hair in your faces. Believe it or not, we actually enjoy it.”
A-23. There is some dispute as to whether or not this 2007 movie was a remake of Working Girl, but there is no disputing the fact that it was a Grade A dud –it opened at eight theatres in Texas and averaged $48 per screen for a total box office of $384.
A-24. “We'll have a line of low-priced furniture, a new and different line - as different from anything we're making today as a modern automobile is different from a covered wagon. That's what you want Walt, isn't it - what you've always wanted? Merchandise that will sell because it had beauty and function and value - not because the buyers like your scotch or think that you're a good egg. The kind of stuff that you, Jesse, will feel in your guts when you know it's coming off your production line. A kind of product that you will be able to budget to the nearest hundredth of a cent, Shaw, because it will be scientifically and efficiently designed. And something you will be proud to have your name on, Miss Tredway.”
EXECUTIVE SUITE
A-25. The first woman to receive a Saturn Award for Best Director did so for this 1995 movie. (It also earned one of its stars a Saturn for Best Actress, but I refuse to mention that person’s name.)
STRANGE DAYS
A-26. “One day, my wife explained to me that, for the past fifteen years, my output as a poet had dealt entirely with the part of our lives in which we discovered each other.”
“Are you a poet?”
“Was. And so, to give me something new to write about, she left me. A very noble woman, my wife - she left me for the good of literature. And remarkably it worked.”
“What, you wrote a lot of good stuff, did ya?”
“No, I stopped writing altogether.”
EDUCATING RITA
A-27. This Randolph Scott flick shares its name with the 17th largest city in the United States.
A-28. “What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.”
PATCH ADAMS
A-29. If you want to see Gracie Allen and Bela Lugosi in the same movie, this will surely be your only chance.
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
A-30. “If only my life could be more like the movies. I want an angel to sweep down to me like it does to Jimmy Stewart in It’s a Wonderful Life and talk me out of suicide. I've always waited for that one moment of truth to set me free and change my life forever, but he won’t come, it doesn’t happen that way. All the drugs, all the therapy, fights, anger, guilt, rage, suicidal thoughts, all of that was part of some slow recovery process. The same way I went down, I came back up, gradually – and then suddenly. The pills weren’t the cure at all, God knows, but they gave me breathing space which allowed me to start writing again, only this time it was not as if my life depended on it.”
A-31. This anthology was the fourth film in what is sometimes referred to as the “Poe-Corman” cycle.
A-32. “But then you go to the police. That's what innocent people do. They go to the police.”
“Sure. And that young man who was just here, he'd believe me over the President, wouldn't he?”
ABSOLUTE POWER
A-33. Francois Truffaut once said he would have given up all his own movies to have directed this two-part classic, filmed during the Nazi occupation of France.
A-34. “Listen. No one could teach you to dance in a million years. Take my advice and save your money!”
SWING TIME
A-35. The star of the previous film received a Golden Turkey nomination for Worst Performance as a Historical Figure for her role as a First Lady in this film. (She couldn’t beat John Wayne’s Genghiz Khan, though.)
MAGNIFICENT DOLL?
A-36. “Hello? Hey, don't get shy on me all of a sudden, f**k-face. This is the one about the babysitter, right? She's getting those scary and harassing phone calls and when she traces them back, they are coming from inside the house. But ass-wipe, aren't you forgetting something? I'm not babysitting any kids!”
URBAN LEGEND
A-37. The subject of this Oscar-winning 1979 documentary is now over 80 years old and living in a group home.
A-38. “In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.”
BEING THERE
A-39. This film version of a British play featured a gay actor playing a gay public school student who would grow up to become a real-life gay spy.
A-40. “Hey, Pastor Dan? Mr. Self-righteous? I'm hanging on by a thread here. I lost my sister, my social life, my disposable income, my ability to fit into a size 2, and - this just in - my job. Pretty much the only two things that haven't disappeared are my nicotine fits and a few pounds that have recently taken up residence on my ass. So forgive me if I'm not too thrilled about being lectured, in Queens, about being a lousy legal guardian to three kids who maybe shouldn't have been given to me in the first place.”
RAISING HELEN
A-41. Once considered a lost film, this crime drama marked the screen debut of an actress who would become much better known for her next role – seven years later – as a sinister housekeeper.
A-42. “I won't read the word!”
“I'm your father and I'm telling you to read the word. Cause I can tell you to because I'm your father.”
“I'm stupid.”
“You are not stupid!”
“Yes, I am!”
“No, you are not stupid 'cause you can read that word.”
“I don't wanna read it if you can't.”
“No, because it makes me happy! It makes me happy hearing you read. Yeah, it makes me happy when you're reading.”
I AM SAM
A-43. This film earned its director/writer his 24th – and most recent – Oscar nomination.
BLUE JASMINE
A-44. “If you're edged 'cause I'm weazin all your grindage, just chill. 'Cause if I had the whole Brady Bunch thing happenin' at my pad, I'd go grind over there, so don’t tax my gig so hard-core cruster.”
A-45. To prepare for his role in this film, Al Pacino spent a lot of time hanging around with Rudy Giuliani.
CITY HALL
A-46. “Our survival hinges on one thing - finding someone who not only can fly this plane, but didn't have fish for dinner.”
(No, not that movie! I want the movie that this line came from originally!)
ZERO HOUR
A-47. This 1940 screen version of what is generally considered to be one of the five Great American Plays was harder to adapt to film than any of the others due to its unusual setting and narrative structure.
OUR TOWN?
A-48. “When I go back in that house, it will be with my son in my arms. I'll have a red coat on him – and red flower trousers – and a hat with a gilded Buddha and tiger-faced shoes, and I'll go into the kitchen where I spent my days as a slave and into the great hall where the old mistress sits with her pipe, and I'll show myself and my son to all of them.”
A-49. The most famous line in this movie – uttered by one of the title characters when he meets the other – was, in real life, spoken on October 27, 1871. (The reply, by the way, was “Yes.”)
STANLEY AND LIVINGSTONE
A-50. “The firing power inside my crater is enough to annihilate a small army. You can watch it all on TV. It's the last program you're likely to see.”
“Well, if I'm going to be forced to watch television, may I smoke?”
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
A-51. This western marked the official screen debut of a young man that director Raoul Walsh had discovered in the props department; the rest is history.
THE BIG TRAIL
A-52. “Come on, group hug! You too, Anger."
“Don’t touch me.”
BEDAZZLED? INSIDE OUT?
A-53. This movie starred my favorite actor in one of his hammiest roles – a role he would later reprise for the actors in clue B-13.
CAPTAIN KIDD
A-54. “Well, I want to die because I feel that a life for me, in this state, has no dignity. I understand that other quadriplegics may take offense to my saying there's no dignity in this, but I'm not trying to judge anyone. Who am I to judge those who choose life? So don't judge me or anyone who wants to help me die.”
A-55. The character of the alcoholic film producer in this 1932 movie was reportedly based on the alcoholic actor who played the role.
WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD
A-56. “Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against?”
“Whadda you got?”
THE WILD ONE
A-57. In addition to a number of other firsts, this was the first talking film shot outdoors.
IN OLD ARIZONA
A-58. “I got scruples too, you know. You know what that is? Scruples?”
“No, I don't know what it is, but if you got 'em, it's a sure bet they belong to somebody else!”
PAPER MOON
A-59. Among the weird characters in this film are a woman who never leaves her bed, a man who never speaks directly to his wife, a woman who always lies, a voodoo priest, and the lead singer of a new wave band. (Only the latter is real.)
A-60. “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
THE DARK KNIGHT
A-61. Hitchcock’s last British film before coming to America, it earned him a listing in The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
A-62. “You love me so much you gotta kill my f**king girlfriend, huh? Speak you f**kin' freak, or I will f**king kill you! Katie. Say it! Say it or you die!”
A-63. This wartime revue featured three of the actresses included on List B – all playing themselves.
STAGE DOOR CANTEEN
A-64. “Nature all looks alike. Frontiers are an invention of man.”
A-65. This lovely work of docufiction is the nexus where Nanook of the North meets Four Saints in Three Acts meets John D. Rockefeller.
LIST B: ACTORS
B-1. “You know what I believe I'd like? A chocolate fudge sundae with whipped cream and a cherry on top.”
SPENCER TRACY
B-2. Notoriously shy and prone to bouts of stage fright, she made only two movies after her contract with Columbia Pictures expired in 1944 and no movies at all after 1953 – but her last movie was one of the all-time greats.
JEAN ARTHUR
B-3. “Remarkable boy. I do admire your courage. I think I'll eat your heart.”
ANTHONY HOPKINS
B-4. This one-time star of the Ziegfeld Follies was portrayed onscreen by his own son.
Probably WILL ROGERS
B-5. “I don't fear you Michael, I just dread you.”
DIANE KEATON
B-6. Hard to believe, but this actor was originally offered the tv role that was subsequently play by the actor quoted in clue B-97.
BING CROSBY? LEE J. COBB
B-7. “We don't really move. I mean, we'd like to, but – my mom is sort of attached to the house. Attached is, I guess, not the right word. She's pretty much wedged in.”
JOHNNY DEPP
B-8. She and her brother were the first pair of siblings to each receive an Oscar.
NORMA SHEARER? ETHEL BARRYMORE?
B-9. “There's no way I can repay you for all you've done for me, so rather than try, I'm just going to ask you to do something else for me: find the joy in your life. You once said you're not everyone. Well, that's true, you're certainly not everyone, but everyone is everyone. My pastor always says our lives are streams flowing into the same river towards whatever heaven lies in the mist beyond the falls. Find the joy in your life, Edward. My dear friend, close your eyes and let the waters take you home.”
MORGAN FREEMAN
B-10. In two unrelated films made 20 years apart, this actor played men who shaped the life and career of Marilyn Monroe.
LLOYD BRIDGES?
B-11. “Men should be explorers, no matter how old they are. I don't know about anybody else, but I'm going.”
B-12. Best known for solving crimes on tv, this actress has twice been named “Sexiest Vegetarian” by PETA.
B-13. “I know there's no such person as Dracula. You know there's no such person as Dracula.”
“But does Dracula know it?”
BUD ABBOTT AND LOU COSTELLO
B-14. This actress has the same number of Oscar nominations as her father, but one less than her mother.
LAURA DERN? LIZA MINNELLI?
B-15. “You see, Mr. Milton, 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. I tell you this man Novak is okay. His 'collateral' is in his hands, in his heart and his guts. It's in his right as a citizen.”
FREDRIC MARCH
B-16. His movie career might have ended on a higher note if his manager had not insisted on too high a salary as well as top billing over Barbra Streisand – or if his manager had not insisted on too high a salary as well as top billing over John Wayne.
B-17. “You don't understand how I feel! I'm standing there with my pants down and my crotch hung out for the world to see and three guys are sticking it to me, a bunch of other guys are yelling and clapping and you're standing there telling me that that's the best you can do. Well, if that's the best you could do, then your best sucks! Now, I don't know what you got for selling me out, but I sure as s**it hope it was worth it!”
JODIE FOSTER
B-18. Directing a climactic scene in Death Valley, he reportedly told the two actors involved, “Fight! Fight! Try to hate each other as you both hate me.”
ERICH VON STROHEIM
B-19. “Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man... June 8th. My life has taken another turn again. The days can go on with regularity over and over, one day indistinguishable from the next. A long continuous chain. Then suddenly, there is a change.”
ROBERT DE NIRO
B-20. This Oscar-winning actress was later nominated for five Soap Opera Digest awards in the categories Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role and Outstanding Villainess in a Prime Time Serial.
B-21. “I always look well when I'm near death.”
GRETA GARBO
B-22. Oscar-wise, she completes the following list: Woody Allen, Matt Damon, John Huston, Billy Bob Thornton, Orson Welles.
IDA LUPINO? EMMA THOMPSON?
B-23. “I feel sorry for you. What it must feel like to want to pull the switch! Ever since you walked into this room, you've been acting like a self-appointed public avenger. You want to see this boy die because you personally want it, not because of the facts! You're a sadist!”
HENRY FONDA
B-24. This actor, known for his ptosis, served as host/narrator for the second revival of my all-time favorite television series.
B-25. “Hey, listen, I want somebody good - and I mean very good - to plant that gun. I don't want my brother coming out of that toilet with just his d**k in his hands, alright?”
JAMES CAAN
B-26. In 2010, this actor was inducted into the same Hall of Fame as Mayor Jimmy Walker and the Marquess of Queensberry.
SYLVESTER STALLONE
B-27. “I got so used to things as they were: Everything so prim, the geranium in the window, the smell of mama's medicines. And then he walked in, and it was different! He clomped through the place like he was still outdoors. There was a man in the place and it seemed good!”
VERNA FELTON
B-28. This actress never had any children with her only husband, but she did have one by a noted dancer and two more by a noted playwright.
JESSICA LANGE
B-29. “I got a weal wed wagon!”
B-30. This actor turned down the lead in Ben-Hur because he was an atheist and the lead in Patton because of his antiwar sympathies.
BURT LANCASTER
B-31. “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
JOAN FONTAINE
B-32. His screen career included adaptations of works by Eugene O’Neill, Euripides, Franz Kafka, Joseph Heller, Agatha Christie, and Ellery Queen.
PETER USTINOV? ANTHONY PERKINS?
B-33. “I'm sorry, your time's run out! What do we have for the losers, judge? Well, for our defendants, it's a lifetime at exotic Fort Leavenworth!”
TOM CRUISE
B-34. This international star has also had a busy music career that has included recording the theme songs for most of his films, as well as the official one-year countdown song to the 2008 Olympics.
B-35. “You know what I'm realizing? My life is just going to go. Like that. This series of milestones. Getting married. Having kids. Getting divorced. The time that we thought you were dyslexic. When I taught you how to ride a bike. Getting divorced – again. Getting my masters degree. Finally getting the job I wanted. Sending Samantha off to college. Sending you off to college. You know what's next? Huh? It's my f**king funeral! Just go, and leave my picture!”
PATRICIA ARQUETTE
B-36. Oscar-wise, he completes the following list: Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, John Huston, Robert Redford.
MEL GIBSON?
B-37. “I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me. Out of my way, a**hole.”
B-38. Though he first won popularity in a series a comic films, this actor went on to build a distinguished career in prestige productions, such as the film version of a novel by Thomas Mann.
B-39. “Thank you. I've never been called a son of God before. I've been called a son of a you-know-what plenty of times, but I've never been called a son of God.”
B-40. After a seven-year film career, this British-Australian actor hanged himself in a Las Vegas hotel room at the age of 25.
B-41. “I'll give ya somethin' to dream about, Mister. Wanna kiss me, ducky?”
MARLENE DIETRICH
B-42. Though he never won an Oscar (or any other award) for his acting, this swashbuckler did pick up a few trinkets for his service during World War II – including the Legion of Merit and Silver Star from the United States, the Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre from France, and the Distinguished Service Cross from Britain.
AUDIE MURPHY? DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR?
B-43. “I blow a hole in your face and then I go in the house – and I sleep like a baby. You can count on that. We used to stack f**ks like you five feet high in Korea. Use ya for sandbags.”
B-44. She was the only Dame Commander of the British Empire to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.
B-45. “It seems it always happens. Whenever we get too high-hat and too sophisticated for flag-waving, some thug nation decides we're a push-over all ready to be blackjacked. And it isn't long before we're looking up, mighty anxiously, to be sure the flag's still waving over us”
JAMES CAGNEY
B-46. After coming to the United States, this future Oscar winner trained at the Joffrey Ballet School until a knee injury ended her dream of becoming a ballerina.
B-47. “He came in to demand an answer and I told him the truth. That I have fought with myself over that night, one half of me swearing blind that I tied a simple slipknot, the other half convinced that I tied the Langford double. I can never know for sure.”
B-48. At the time of his death, this actor was making plans to star in a dream project – a biopic about Fatty Arbuckle. (Somebody should still make that movie.)
JOHN CANDY? CHRIS FARLEY?
B-49. “You don't know what I can do! You don't know what I can do, what I'm gonna do, or what I'm gonna be! I'm good! I have good things and you don't know about! I'm gonna be something! I am! And don't f**king tell me I'm not!”
B-50. He was the first of only two actors to win an Oscar for a role he had originally performed on television. (The other one is lurking elsewhere among these clues.)
It can’t be Borgnine – Marty on TV was Rod Steiger.
CLIFT ROBERTSON?
B-51. “I didn't bring your breakfast, because you didn't eat your din-din!”
BETTE DAVIS
B-52. At age 80, she became the oldest winner of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. (And high time, too!)
CAROL BURNETT
B-53. “You brought music back into the house. I had forgotten.”
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER
B-54. Though often cast as vampires or sadists, this Dutch actor is known off-screen for his humanitarian work, such as founding an AIDS research foundation.
RUTGER HAUER
B-55. “We're not talking about his trainer, sweetheart! We're talking about his manager. That's me!”
MELISSA LEO
B-56. In 1988, this singer took on a role that had previously been played by – among others – Telly Savalas, Hurd Hatfield, Arthur Kennedy, Jean Marais, Basil Rathbone, and Jean Gabin.
B-57. “Playwrights teach us nothing about love. They make it pretty, they make it comical, or they make it lust, but they cannot make it true.”
B-58. In 2008, this actor – best known for completing a different kind of adventure – became the first person ever to cross Victoria Falls on ropes.
B-59. “This is a $4,000 sofa, upholstered in Italian silk. This is not just a couch.”
B-60. Before this week, she had been the only Dame Commander of the British Empire to have won the Tony, the Emmy, and the Oscar.
B-61. “Would ya just watch the hair. Ya know, I work on my hair a long time and you hit it. He hits my hair.”
JOHN TRAVOLTA
B-62. On or off screen, he was no fan of the Nazis. During World War II, he deserted the Deutsche Wehrmacht and went into hiding in the Vienna Woods with his Jewish wife. In his first American film, he played a German officer recruited to spy for the Allies.
HARDY KRUGER?
B-63. “All right, I'm in. 'Cause there's some next level s**t going on and I'm OK with that. But before y'all go beaming me up there's one thing you gotta remember: You chose me, so you recognized the skills, so I don't want nobody calling me son or kid or sport or nothing like that, cool?”
WILL SMITH
B-64. When MGM bought the rights to the play Angel Street,, they insisted that all existing prints of the earlier British version starring this actress be destroyed. (They weren’t.)
B-65. “Back to the ship, huh? Just huddle together, until the lights burn out? 'Til you can't see what's eating you? Is that the big plan?”
B-66. With his final film, he became one of only two actors to have been directed by both Alfred Hitchcock and Quentin Tarantino. (The other is the father of someone lurking elsewhere in this puzzle.)
B-67. “I'm poor, black, I might even be ugly, but dear God, I'm here! I'm here!”
WHOOPI GOLDBERG? OPRAH WINFREY?
B-68. In 1939, this reliable British character actor – who was once married to an Indian princess – appeared in seven films, including those referenced in Clues A-12 and A-49.
B-69. “I just met a wonderful new man. He's fictional but you can't have everything.”
MIA FARROW
B-70. In 1974 – the year he appeared in a hit disaster movie – he became the highest-paid movie star in the world … and immediately took a four-year hiatus from acting.
PAUL NEWMAN? GENE HACKMAN? STEVE MCQUEEN?
B-71. “In those moments where you're not quite sure if the undead are really dead, don't get all stingy with your bullets. I mean, one more clean shot to the head, and this lady could have avoided becoming a human Happy Meal. Woulda, coulda, shoulda.”
JESSE EISENBERG
B-72. She was the first African American actress to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio, but found greater success in Europe, where she was dubbed “The Black Garbo.”
B-73. “You cheated! Cheated! I hate you! I refuse to accept! I won't win any way but my way! You've ruined my reputation, do you hear? You I hate! You and your hair that's always combed, your suit that's always white, your car that's always clean! I refuse to accept!”
B-74. One of the high points of his long Hollywood career was playing the title role in Alfred Hitchcock’s second American feature.
B-75. “Let me tell you something, my two fine bedfellows, you're so dumb, there's nothin' to compare ya with, you're dumber than the dumbest jackass! Look at each other, will ya? Did you ever see anything like yourself for bein' dumb specimens? You're so dumb, you don't even see the riches you're treadin' on with your own feet!”
WALTER HUSTON
B-76. During her nearly 60-year movie career, she has worked under the direction of – among many others – Roger Vadim, Roman Polanski, Luis Bunuel, Claude Chabrol, Tony Scott, Agnes Varda, and Francois Truffaut.
CATHERINE DENEUVE?
B-77. “You once said you liked me just as I am and I just wanted to say likewise. I mean there are stupid things your mum buys you, tonight's another – classic. You're haughty, and you always say the wrong thing in every situation and I seriously believe that you should rethink the length of your sideburns. But, you're a nice man and I like you. If you wanted to pop by some time that might be nice. More than nice.”
B-78. She made her film debut in 1917, spent the next 37 years in feature films, moved on to series television for a decade – then, after a 23-year hiatus, popped up in three tv movies between 1986 and 1994.
LORETTA YOUNG?
B-79. “Settle down, are you kidding? I'm at the top of my game! I'm right up there with the big dogs! Girls, come on! Leave the saving of the world to the men? I don't think so!”
B-80. Oscar-wise, she completes the following list: Anne Bancroft, Shirley Booth, Patty Duke, Eileen Heckart, Judy Holliday, Josephine Hull, Barbra Streisand.
KIM HUNTER
B-81. “On a farm, when a pig is born small like that, it's called schtumpig, a runt.”
Frank admitted it’s not Kelly McGIllis so LUKAS HAAS
B-82. After the failure of her Hollywood museum in the 1990s, she ended up auctioning off most of her legendary memorabilia collection – including more than 4,000 costumes. (But she’s still holding on to a Maltese Falcon.)
DEBBIE REYNOLDS
B-83. “And why do I sew each new chapeau/With a style they must look positively grim in?/Strictly between us, entrez-nous/I hate women.”
DANNY KAYE
B-84. Shortly after Four Star Productions was founded in 1952, this actress replaced the actor in Clue B-74 as one of the Four Stars.
IDA LUPINO?
B-85. “I'm talking about the playing around that's going on. I'm talking about the young girls. I'm talking about the cookies. I'm talking about keeping our pants zipped and our wicks dry around here!”
ED HARRIS
B-86. He made his film debut in 1991 playing the guitarist for an Irish soul band.
B-87. “If only I could find her, so she could see me with such lovely friends here now, perhaps she could love me as I am. I've tried so hard to be good.”
JOHN HURT
B-88. Because her fourth husband was the son of her second husband, her first child was both the half-brother and uncle of her third and fourth children. Got that?
GLORIA GRAHAME?
B-89. “I just wanted to congratulate you on stealing the pyramid. That was you, wasn't it? Or was it a villain who's actually successful?”
B-90. This strong-jawed leading man got an early career boost because he was ineligible for military service, having injured his back while taking dance lessons from Martha Graham. (The studio claimed it was a college rowing injury because – you know – strong-jawed leading men don’t take dance lessons from Martha Graham.)
GREGORY PECK?
B-91. “The war between the sexes is over. We won the second women started doing pole dancing for exercise.”
B-92. Actors Studio co-founder Robert Lewis called the last ten years of this actor’s life “the longest suicide in history,” while Marilyn Monroe described him as "the only person I know who is in worse shape than I am.”
MONTGOMERY CLIFT
B-93. “I found out the way your mind works and the kind of man you are. I know your plans and expectations - you've burbled every bit of strategy you've got. I know exactly what you will do, and exactly what you won't, and I've told you exactly nothing. To these aged eyes, boy, that's what winning looks like!”
B-94. Frank Capra’s last feature film was her first feature film – thus making the combined span of their careers 94 years and counting.
ANN-MARGRET
B-95. “Lord, I'd just like to thank You for that waitress in South Bend. You know who she is - she kept calling Your name.”
B-96. He was the first Welsh-born actor to win an Oscar, and the only Oscar-winning actor whose acceptance “speech” did not include a single word.
JOHN MILLS
B-97. “Serpentine, Shelly. Serpentine!”
PETER FALK
B-98. This actor has another five months to go before his shelf life as Sexiest Man Alive expires.
B-99. “Dear Lord, We've come to the end of our journey, and in a little while we'll stand before you. I pray for you to be merciful. Judge us not for our weaknesses, but for our love and open the doors of heaven for Charlie and me.”
KATHARINE HEPBURN
B-100. This star served as first president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Re: Game #152: Subtitles
Filling in some of the blanks
A-19. Robert Altman’s Thieves Like Us was based on the same novel as this cult classic released 26 years earlier.
I don't know how I missed this earlier.
THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (with one of the great all-time names, Keechie, played by Cathy O'Donnell - a far cry from Homer's girlfriend in The Best Years of Our Lives)
A-37. The subject of this Oscar-winning 1979 documentary is now over 80 years old and living in a group home.
This has to be BEST BOY
A-48. “When I go back in that house, it will be with my son in my arms. I'll have a red coat on him – and red flower trousers – and a hat with a gilded Buddha and tiger-faced shoes, and I'll go into the kitchen where I spent my days as a slave and into the great hall where the old mistress sits with her pipe, and I'll show myself and my son to all of them.”
Another one I missed
THE GOOD EARTH
A-19. Robert Altman’s Thieves Like Us was based on the same novel as this cult classic released 26 years earlier.
I don't know how I missed this earlier.
THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (with one of the great all-time names, Keechie, played by Cathy O'Donnell - a far cry from Homer's girlfriend in The Best Years of Our Lives)
A-37. The subject of this Oscar-winning 1979 documentary is now over 80 years old and living in a group home.
This has to be BEST BOY
A-48. “When I go back in that house, it will be with my son in my arms. I'll have a red coat on him – and red flower trousers – and a hat with a gilded Buddha and tiger-faced shoes, and I'll go into the kitchen where I spent my days as a slave and into the great hall where the old mistress sits with her pipe, and I'll show myself and my son to all of them.”
Another one I missed
THE GOOD EARTH
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Re: Game #152: Subtitles
And a couple of actors -- including a couple I missed in the consolidation
B-11. “Men should be explorers, no matter how old they are. I don't know about anybody else, but I'm going.”
This was driving me crazy. It's DON AMECHE in Cocoon
B-39. “Thank you. I've never been called a son of God before. I've been called a son of a you-know-what plenty of times, but I've never been called a son of God.”
SEAN PENN (Dead Man Walking)
B-49. “You don't know what I can do! You don't know what I can do, what I'm gonna do, or what I'm gonna be! I'm good! I have good things and you don't know about! I'm gonna be something! I am! And don't f**king tell me I'm not!”
MARK WAHLBERG (Boogie Night)
B-56. In 1988, this singer took on a role that had previously been played by – among others – Telly Savalas, Hurd Hatfield, Arthur Kennedy, Jean Marais, Basil Rathbone, and Jean Gabin.
DAVID BOWIE?? Are we talking Pilate here?
B-64. When MGM bought the rights to the play Angel Street,, they insisted that all existing prints of the earlier British version starring this actress be destroyed. (They weren’t.)
B-72. She was the first African American actress to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio, but found greater success in Europe, where she was dubbed “The Black Garbo.”
NINA MAE MCKINNEY
B-74. One of the high points of his long Hollywood career was playing the title role in Alfred Hitchcock’s second American feature.
Was this Foreign Correspondent? JOEL MCCREA. of it is
B-84. Shortly after Four Star Productions was founded in 1952, this actress replaced the actor in Clue B-74 as one of the Four Stars.
IDA LUPINO -- if B-74 is McCrea, this IS Ida Lupino
B-93. “I found out the way your mind works and the kind of man you are. I know your plans and expectations - you've burbled every bit of strategy you've got. I know exactly what you will do, and exactly what you won't, and I've told you exactly nothing. To these aged eyes, boy, that's what winning looks like!”
PETER O'TOOLE (Lion in Winter)
B-95. “Lord, I'd just like to thank You for that waitress in South Bend. You know who she is - she kept calling Your name.”
TOM HANKS
B-11. “Men should be explorers, no matter how old they are. I don't know about anybody else, but I'm going.”
This was driving me crazy. It's DON AMECHE in Cocoon
B-39. “Thank you. I've never been called a son of God before. I've been called a son of a you-know-what plenty of times, but I've never been called a son of God.”
SEAN PENN (Dead Man Walking)
B-49. “You don't know what I can do! You don't know what I can do, what I'm gonna do, or what I'm gonna be! I'm good! I have good things and you don't know about! I'm gonna be something! I am! And don't f**king tell me I'm not!”
MARK WAHLBERG (Boogie Night)
B-56. In 1988, this singer took on a role that had previously been played by – among others – Telly Savalas, Hurd Hatfield, Arthur Kennedy, Jean Marais, Basil Rathbone, and Jean Gabin.
DAVID BOWIE?? Are we talking Pilate here?
B-64. When MGM bought the rights to the play Angel Street,, they insisted that all existing prints of the earlier British version starring this actress be destroyed. (They weren’t.)
B-72. She was the first African American actress to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio, but found greater success in Europe, where she was dubbed “The Black Garbo.”
NINA MAE MCKINNEY
B-74. One of the high points of his long Hollywood career was playing the title role in Alfred Hitchcock’s second American feature.
Was this Foreign Correspondent? JOEL MCCREA. of it is
B-84. Shortly after Four Star Productions was founded in 1952, this actress replaced the actor in Clue B-74 as one of the Four Stars.
IDA LUPINO -- if B-74 is McCrea, this IS Ida Lupino
B-93. “I found out the way your mind works and the kind of man you are. I know your plans and expectations - you've burbled every bit of strategy you've got. I know exactly what you will do, and exactly what you won't, and I've told you exactly nothing. To these aged eyes, boy, that's what winning looks like!”
PETER O'TOOLE (Lion in Winter)
B-95. “Lord, I'd just like to thank You for that waitress in South Bend. You know who she is - she kept calling Your name.”
TOM HANKS
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Re: Game #152: Subtitles
B-13. “I know there's no such person as Dracula. You know there's no such person as Dracula.”
“But does Dracula know it?”
BUD ABBOTT AND LOU COSTELLO
I would think this would have to be just Lou and not Bud (I believe Lou said both lines).
“But does Dracula know it?”
BUD ABBOTT AND LOU COSTELLO
I would think this would have to be just Lou and not Bud (I believe Lou said both lines).
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Re: Game #152: Subtitles - Wednesday night consolidation
All of the definites on both lists are correct.
Among the movies, all the answers with question marks are either correct or include the correct answer.
Among the actors, those questions with multiple suggestions all include the correct answer.
Of the actors with a single question, five are correct and four are wrong. One of the ones that's wrong is the correct answer for another of the ones that's wrong.
Among the movies, all the answers with question marks are either correct or include the correct answer.
Among the actors, those questions with multiple suggestions all include the correct answer.
Of the actors with a single question, five are correct and four are wrong. One of the ones that's wrong is the correct answer for another of the ones that's wrong.
mellytu74 wrote:Latest, taking TLITF's changes
Game #152: Subtitles
Identify the 65 movies in List A and the 100 actors in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, form 78 triples, each consisting of one movie and two actors, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.
7 movies and 28 actors will be used twice.
3 movies and 14 actors will be used three times.
LIST A: MOVIES
A-1. Arguably the single most iconic image in all of 1950s cinema is that of Bengt Ekerot in this film.
THE SEVENTH SEAL
A-2. “You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite! Hannah, can you hear me?”
THE GREAT DICTATOR
A-3. This romantic classic was remade with a different title 18 years after its release and with its original title 55 years after its release.
LOVE AFFAIR
A-4. “I'm not sure George is wrong about automobiles. With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization. May be that they won't add to the beauty of the world or the life of the men's souls, I'm not sure. But automobiles have come and almost all outwards things will be different because of what they bring. They're going to alter war and they're going to alter peace. And I think men's minds are going to be changed in subtle ways because of automobiles. And it may be that George is right. May be that in ten to twenty years from now that if we can see the inward change in men by that time, I shouldn't be able to defend the gasoline engine but agree with George - that automobiles had no business to be invented.”
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
A-5. This movie was MGM’s biggest musical hit of 1939 – which is rather astonishing, considering the other MGM musical released the same year with the same leading lady.
BABES IN ARMS
A-6. “Can I borrow your odorant?”
“Yeah, I got, uh, Smelly Garbage or Old Dumpster.”
MONSTERS, INC.
A-7. The subject of this biopic played for the Chicago Cubs from 1934 to 1938. (The reason he didn’t play longer is what the movie is about.)
THE STRATTON STORY
A-8. “It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.”
SHANGHAI EXPRESS
A-9. This movie featured the only performance directed by John Sayles to receive an Oscar nomination.
LONE STAR? EIGHT MEN OUT? PASSION FISH?
A-10. “I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun. People always thought I grew up on a farm. And I guess, in a way, I did. But I lived a lifetime before that, in those six weeks on the road in the winter of 1931.”
ROAD TO PERDITION
A-11. In this musical remake, the actor in clue B-83 attempted to step into the size 14 shoes of Coop.
A SONG IS BORN
A-12. “Daddy! Oh, Daddy! It is you! I found you! I found you! They said you were dead, but I knew you weren't! I knew you'd come back! Oh, Daddy, hold me, hold me close. You won't ever go away again, will you? Will you, Daddy? What's the matter, Daddy? Why don't you talk to me?”
THE LITTLE PRINCESS
A-13. This complicated caper flick shares a major plot point – and not much else – with the film Fourteen Hours.
A-14. “But don't get her drunk. If you get her drunk, she loses control.”
“Ted, are we talking a loss of inhibitions here, or does she pee on the floor?”
BLIND DATE
A-15. This western is the earliest John Ford film selected for preservation by the National Film Registry.
THE IRON HORSE
A-16. “Go ahead, make my day.”
SUDDEN IMPACT
A-17. For the first hour of this film – the third teaming of one of the great screen duos – the leading man’s face is never fully seen: all shots are either from his point of view or show his face covered in bandages.
DARK PASSAGE
A-18. “See, that’s the trouble, it’s exotic, but it’s not honest. I mean, it’s fancy, but it’s not real. I mean, this is honest food. There’s no lying in that beef. There’s no insincerity in those potatoes. There’s no deceit in the cauliflower. This is a totally honest meal. You don’t know what a pleasure it in this day and age to sit down and eat a meal you can believe in.”
THE HEARTBREAK KID
A-19. Robert Altman’s Thieves Like Us was based on the same novel as this cult classic released 26 years earlier.
A-20. “I'm willing to meet my creator and answer for every shot that I took.”
AMERICAN SNIPER
A-21. Unlike the stage version – which had a score written by the same team that wrote the score for the stage version of the musical referenced in clue A-5 – this movie musical needed just two actors to play the four leading roles.
THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE
A-22. “Well, that's the whole point of the holidays, Paul. So you and your sister can mope around the house, and your mother and I can wait on you hand and foot, while the two of you occasionally grunt for more food from behind the hair in your faces. Believe it or not, we actually enjoy it.”
A-23. There is some dispute as to whether or not this 2007 movie was a remake of Working Girl, but there is no disputing the fact that it was a Grade A dud –it opened at eight theatres in Texas and averaged $48 per screen for a total box office of $384.
A-24. “We'll have a line of low-priced furniture, a new and different line - as different from anything we're making today as a modern automobile is different from a covered wagon. That's what you want Walt, isn't it - what you've always wanted? Merchandise that will sell because it had beauty and function and value - not because the buyers like your scotch or think that you're a good egg. The kind of stuff that you, Jesse, will feel in your guts when you know it's coming off your production line. A kind of product that you will be able to budget to the nearest hundredth of a cent, Shaw, because it will be scientifically and efficiently designed. And something you will be proud to have your name on, Miss Tredway.”
EXECUTIVE SUITE
A-25. The first woman to receive a Saturn Award for Best Director did so for this 1995 movie. (It also earned one of its stars a Saturn for Best Actress, but I refuse to mention that person’s name.)
STRANGE DAYS
A-26. “One day, my wife explained to me that, for the past fifteen years, my output as a poet had dealt entirely with the part of our lives in which we discovered each other.”
“Are you a poet?”
“Was. And so, to give me something new to write about, she left me. A very noble woman, my wife - she left me for the good of literature. And remarkably it worked.”
“What, you wrote a lot of good stuff, did ya?”
“No, I stopped writing altogether.”
EDUCATING RITA
A-27. This Randolph Scott flick shares its name with the 17th largest city in the United States.
A-28. “What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.”
PATCH ADAMS
A-29. If you want to see Gracie Allen and Bela Lugosi in the same movie, this will surely be your only chance.
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
A-30. “If only my life could be more like the movies. I want an angel to sweep down to me like it does to Jimmy Stewart in It’s a Wonderful Life and talk me out of suicide. I've always waited for that one moment of truth to set me free and change my life forever, but he won’t come, it doesn’t happen that way. All the drugs, all the therapy, fights, anger, guilt, rage, suicidal thoughts, all of that was part of some slow recovery process. The same way I went down, I came back up, gradually – and then suddenly. The pills weren’t the cure at all, God knows, but they gave me breathing space which allowed me to start writing again, only this time it was not as if my life depended on it.”
A-31. This anthology was the fourth film in what is sometimes referred to as the “Poe-Corman” cycle.
A-32. “But then you go to the police. That's what innocent people do. They go to the police.”
“Sure. And that young man who was just here, he'd believe me over the President, wouldn't he?”
ABSOLUTE POWER
A-33. Francois Truffaut once said he would have given up all his own movies to have directed this two-part classic, filmed during the Nazi occupation of France.
A-34. “Listen. No one could teach you to dance in a million years. Take my advice and save your money!”
SWING TIME
A-35. The star of the previous film received a Golden Turkey nomination for Worst Performance as a Historical Figure for her role as a First Lady in this film. (She couldn’t beat John Wayne’s Genghiz Khan, though.)
MAGNIFICENT DOLL?
A-36. “Hello? Hey, don't get shy on me all of a sudden, f**k-face. This is the one about the babysitter, right? She's getting those scary and harassing phone calls and when she traces them back, they are coming from inside the house. But ass-wipe, aren't you forgetting something? I'm not babysitting any kids!”
URBAN LEGEND
A-37. The subject of this Oscar-winning 1979 documentary is now over 80 years old and living in a group home.
A-38. “In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.”
BEING THERE
A-39. This film version of a British play featured a gay actor playing a gay public school student who would grow up to become a real-life gay spy.
A-40. “Hey, Pastor Dan? Mr. Self-righteous? I'm hanging on by a thread here. I lost my sister, my social life, my disposable income, my ability to fit into a size 2, and - this just in - my job. Pretty much the only two things that haven't disappeared are my nicotine fits and a few pounds that have recently taken up residence on my ass. So forgive me if I'm not too thrilled about being lectured, in Queens, about being a lousy legal guardian to three kids who maybe shouldn't have been given to me in the first place.”
RAISING HELEN
A-41. Once considered a lost film, this crime drama marked the screen debut of an actress who would become much better known for her next role – seven years later – as a sinister housekeeper.
A-42. “I won't read the word!”
“I'm your father and I'm telling you to read the word. Cause I can tell you to because I'm your father.”
“I'm stupid.”
“You are not stupid!”
“Yes, I am!”
“No, you are not stupid 'cause you can read that word.”
“I don't wanna read it if you can't.”
“No, because it makes me happy! It makes me happy hearing you read. Yeah, it makes me happy when you're reading.”
I AM SAM
A-43. This film earned its director/writer his 24th – and most recent – Oscar nomination.
BLUE JASMINE
A-44. “If you're edged 'cause I'm weazin all your grindage, just chill. 'Cause if I had the whole Brady Bunch thing happenin' at my pad, I'd go grind over there, so don’t tax my gig so hard-core cruster.”
A-45. To prepare for his role in this film, Al Pacino spent a lot of time hanging around with Rudy Giuliani.
CITY HALL
A-46. “Our survival hinges on one thing - finding someone who not only can fly this plane, but didn't have fish for dinner.”
(No, not that movie! I want the movie that this line came from originally!)
ZERO HOUR
A-47. This 1940 screen version of what is generally considered to be one of the five Great American Plays was harder to adapt to film than any of the others due to its unusual setting and narrative structure.
OUR TOWN?
A-48. “When I go back in that house, it will be with my son in my arms. I'll have a red coat on him – and red flower trousers – and a hat with a gilded Buddha and tiger-faced shoes, and I'll go into the kitchen where I spent my days as a slave and into the great hall where the old mistress sits with her pipe, and I'll show myself and my son to all of them.”
A-49. The most famous line in this movie – uttered by one of the title characters when he meets the other – was, in real life, spoken on October 27, 1871. (The reply, by the way, was “Yes.”)
STANLEY AND LIVINGSTONE
A-50. “The firing power inside my crater is enough to annihilate a small army. You can watch it all on TV. It's the last program you're likely to see.”
“Well, if I'm going to be forced to watch television, may I smoke?”
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
A-51. This western marked the official screen debut of a young man that director Raoul Walsh had discovered in the props department; the rest is history.
THE BIG TRAIL
A-52. “Come on, group hug! You too, Anger."
“Don’t touch me.”
BEDAZZLED? INSIDE OUT?
A-53. This movie starred my favorite actor in one of his hammiest roles – a role he would later reprise for the actors in clue B-13.
CAPTAIN KIDD
A-54. “Well, I want to die because I feel that a life for me, in this state, has no dignity. I understand that other quadriplegics may take offense to my saying there's no dignity in this, but I'm not trying to judge anyone. Who am I to judge those who choose life? So don't judge me or anyone who wants to help me die.”
A-55. The character of the alcoholic film producer in this 1932 movie was reportedly based on the alcoholic actor who played the role.
WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD
A-56. “Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against?”
“Whadda you got?”
THE WILD ONE
A-57. In addition to a number of other firsts, this was the first talking film shot outdoors.
IN OLD ARIZONA
A-58. “I got scruples too, you know. You know what that is? Scruples?”
“No, I don't know what it is, but if you got 'em, it's a sure bet they belong to somebody else!”
PAPER MOON
A-59. Among the weird characters in this film are a woman who never leaves her bed, a man who never speaks directly to his wife, a woman who always lies, a voodoo priest, and the lead singer of a new wave band. (Only the latter is real.)
A-60. “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
THE DARK KNIGHT
A-61. Hitchcock’s last British film before coming to America, it earned him a listing in The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
A-62. “You love me so much you gotta kill my f**king girlfriend, huh? Speak you f**kin' freak, or I will f**king kill you! Katie. Say it! Say it or you die!”
A-63. This wartime revue featured three of the actresses included on List B – all playing themselves.
STAGE DOOR CANTEEN
A-64. “Nature all looks alike. Frontiers are an invention of man.”
A-65. This lovely work of docufiction is the nexus where Nanook of the North meets Four Saints in Three Acts meets John D. Rockefeller.
LIST B: ACTORS
B-1. “You know what I believe I'd like? A chocolate fudge sundae with whipped cream and a cherry on top.”
SPENCER TRACY
B-2. Notoriously shy and prone to bouts of stage fright, she made only two movies after her contract with Columbia Pictures expired in 1944 and no movies at all after 1953 – but her last movie was one of the all-time greats.
JEAN ARTHUR
B-3. “Remarkable boy. I do admire your courage. I think I'll eat your heart.”
ANTHONY HOPKINS
B-4. This one-time star of the Ziegfeld Follies was portrayed onscreen by his own son.
Probably WILL ROGERS
B-5. “I don't fear you Michael, I just dread you.”
DIANE KEATON
B-6. Hard to believe, but this actor was originally offered the tv role that was subsequently play by the actor quoted in clue B-97.
BING CROSBY? LEE J. COBB
B-7. “We don't really move. I mean, we'd like to, but – my mom is sort of attached to the house. Attached is, I guess, not the right word. She's pretty much wedged in.”
JOHNNY DEPP
B-8. She and her brother were the first pair of siblings to each receive an Oscar.
NORMA SHEARER? ETHEL BARRYMORE?
B-9. “There's no way I can repay you for all you've done for me, so rather than try, I'm just going to ask you to do something else for me: find the joy in your life. You once said you're not everyone. Well, that's true, you're certainly not everyone, but everyone is everyone. My pastor always says our lives are streams flowing into the same river towards whatever heaven lies in the mist beyond the falls. Find the joy in your life, Edward. My dear friend, close your eyes and let the waters take you home.”
MORGAN FREEMAN
B-10. In two unrelated films made 20 years apart, this actor played men who shaped the life and career of Marilyn Monroe.
LLOYD BRIDGES?
B-11. “Men should be explorers, no matter how old they are. I don't know about anybody else, but I'm going.”
B-12. Best known for solving crimes on tv, this actress has twice been named “Sexiest Vegetarian” by PETA.
B-13. “I know there's no such person as Dracula. You know there's no such person as Dracula.”
“But does Dracula know it?”
BUD ABBOTT AND LOU COSTELLO
B-14. This actress has the same number of Oscar nominations as her father, but one less than her mother.
LAURA DERN? LIZA MINNELLI?
B-15. “You see, Mr. Milton, 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. I tell you this man Novak is okay. His 'collateral' is in his hands, in his heart and his guts. It's in his right as a citizen.”
FREDRIC MARCH
B-16. His movie career might have ended on a higher note if his manager had not insisted on too high a salary as well as top billing over Barbra Streisand – or if his manager had not insisted on too high a salary as well as top billing over John Wayne.
B-17. “You don't understand how I feel! I'm standing there with my pants down and my crotch hung out for the world to see and three guys are sticking it to me, a bunch of other guys are yelling and clapping and you're standing there telling me that that's the best you can do. Well, if that's the best you could do, then your best sucks! Now, I don't know what you got for selling me out, but I sure as s**it hope it was worth it!”
JODIE FOSTER
B-18. Directing a climactic scene in Death Valley, he reportedly told the two actors involved, “Fight! Fight! Try to hate each other as you both hate me.”
ERICH VON STROHEIM
B-19. “Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man... June 8th. My life has taken another turn again. The days can go on with regularity over and over, one day indistinguishable from the next. A long continuous chain. Then suddenly, there is a change.”
ROBERT DE NIRO
B-20. This Oscar-winning actress was later nominated for five Soap Opera Digest awards in the categories Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role and Outstanding Villainess in a Prime Time Serial.
B-21. “I always look well when I'm near death.”
GRETA GARBO
B-22. Oscar-wise, she completes the following list: Woody Allen, Matt Damon, John Huston, Billy Bob Thornton, Orson Welles.
IDA LUPINO? EMMA THOMPSON?
B-23. “I feel sorry for you. What it must feel like to want to pull the switch! Ever since you walked into this room, you've been acting like a self-appointed public avenger. You want to see this boy die because you personally want it, not because of the facts! You're a sadist!”
HENRY FONDA
B-24. This actor, known for his ptosis, served as host/narrator for the second revival of my all-time favorite television series.
B-25. “Hey, listen, I want somebody good - and I mean very good - to plant that gun. I don't want my brother coming out of that toilet with just his d**k in his hands, alright?”
JAMES CAAN
B-26. In 2010, this actor was inducted into the same Hall of Fame as Mayor Jimmy Walker and the Marquess of Queensberry.
SYLVESTER STALLONE
B-27. “I got so used to things as they were: Everything so prim, the geranium in the window, the smell of mama's medicines. And then he walked in, and it was different! He clomped through the place like he was still outdoors. There was a man in the place and it seemed good!”
VERNA FELTON
B-28. This actress never had any children with her only husband, but she did have one by a noted dancer and two more by a noted playwright.
JESSICA LANGE
B-29. “I got a weal wed wagon!”
B-30. This actor turned down the lead in Ben-Hur because he was an atheist and the lead in Patton because of his antiwar sympathies.
BURT LANCASTER
B-31. “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
JOAN FONTAINE
B-32. His screen career included adaptations of works by Eugene O’Neill, Euripides, Franz Kafka, Joseph Heller, Agatha Christie, and Ellery Queen.
PETER USTINOV? ANTHONY PERKINS?
B-33. “I'm sorry, your time's run out! What do we have for the losers, judge? Well, for our defendants, it's a lifetime at exotic Fort Leavenworth!”
TOM CRUISE
B-34. This international star has also had a busy music career that has included recording the theme songs for most of his films, as well as the official one-year countdown song to the 2008 Olympics.
B-35. “You know what I'm realizing? My life is just going to go. Like that. This series of milestones. Getting married. Having kids. Getting divorced. The time that we thought you were dyslexic. When I taught you how to ride a bike. Getting divorced – again. Getting my masters degree. Finally getting the job I wanted. Sending Samantha off to college. Sending you off to college. You know what's next? Huh? It's my f**king funeral! Just go, and leave my picture!”
PATRICIA ARQUETTE
B-36. Oscar-wise, he completes the following list: Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, John Huston, Robert Redford.
MEL GIBSON?
B-37. “I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me. Out of my way, a**hole.”
B-38. Though he first won popularity in a series a comic films, this actor went on to build a distinguished career in prestige productions, such as the film version of a novel by Thomas Mann.
B-39. “Thank you. I've never been called a son of God before. I've been called a son of a you-know-what plenty of times, but I've never been called a son of God.”
B-40. After a seven-year film career, this British-Australian actor hanged himself in a Las Vegas hotel room at the age of 25.
B-41. “I'll give ya somethin' to dream about, Mister. Wanna kiss me, ducky?”
MARLENE DIETRICH
B-42. Though he never won an Oscar (or any other award) for his acting, this swashbuckler did pick up a few trinkets for his service during World War II – including the Legion of Merit and Silver Star from the United States, the Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre from France, and the Distinguished Service Cross from Britain.
AUDIE MURPHY? DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR?
B-43. “I blow a hole in your face and then I go in the house – and I sleep like a baby. You can count on that. We used to stack f**ks like you five feet high in Korea. Use ya for sandbags.”
B-44. She was the only Dame Commander of the British Empire to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.
B-45. “It seems it always happens. Whenever we get too high-hat and too sophisticated for flag-waving, some thug nation decides we're a push-over all ready to be blackjacked. And it isn't long before we're looking up, mighty anxiously, to be sure the flag's still waving over us”
JAMES CAGNEY
B-46. After coming to the United States, this future Oscar winner trained at the Joffrey Ballet School until a knee injury ended her dream of becoming a ballerina.
B-47. “He came in to demand an answer and I told him the truth. That I have fought with myself over that night, one half of me swearing blind that I tied a simple slipknot, the other half convinced that I tied the Langford double. I can never know for sure.”
B-48. At the time of his death, this actor was making plans to star in a dream project – a biopic about Fatty Arbuckle. (Somebody should still make that movie.)
JOHN CANDY? CHRIS FARLEY?
B-49. “You don't know what I can do! You don't know what I can do, what I'm gonna do, or what I'm gonna be! I'm good! I have good things and you don't know about! I'm gonna be something! I am! And don't f**king tell me I'm not!”
B-50. He was the first of only two actors to win an Oscar for a role he had originally performed on television. (The other one is lurking elsewhere among these clues.)
It can’t be Borgnine – Marty on TV was Rod Steiger.
CLIFT ROBERTSON?
B-51. “I didn't bring your breakfast, because you didn't eat your din-din!”
BETTE DAVIS
B-52. At age 80, she became the oldest winner of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. (And high time, too!)
CAROL BURNETT
B-53. “You brought music back into the house. I had forgotten.”
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER
B-54. Though often cast as vampires or sadists, this Dutch actor is known off-screen for his humanitarian work, such as founding an AIDS research foundation.
RUTGER HAUER
B-55. “We're not talking about his trainer, sweetheart! We're talking about his manager. That's me!”
MELISSA LEO
B-56. In 1988, this singer took on a role that had previously been played by – among others – Telly Savalas, Hurd Hatfield, Arthur Kennedy, Jean Marais, Basil Rathbone, and Jean Gabin.
B-57. “Playwrights teach us nothing about love. They make it pretty, they make it comical, or they make it lust, but they cannot make it true.”
B-58. In 2008, this actor – best known for completing a different kind of adventure – became the first person ever to cross Victoria Falls on ropes.
B-59. “This is a $4,000 sofa, upholstered in Italian silk. This is not just a couch.”
B-60. Before this week, she had been the only Dame Commander of the British Empire to have won the Tony, the Emmy, and the Oscar.
B-61. “Would ya just watch the hair. Ya know, I work on my hair a long time and you hit it. He hits my hair.”
JOHN TRAVOLTA
B-62. On or off screen, he was no fan of the Nazis. During World War II, he deserted the Deutsche Wehrmacht and went into hiding in the Vienna Woods with his Jewish wife. In his first American film, he played a German officer recruited to spy for the Allies.
HARDY KRUGER?
B-63. “All right, I'm in. 'Cause there's some next level s**t going on and I'm OK with that. But before y'all go beaming me up there's one thing you gotta remember: You chose me, so you recognized the skills, so I don't want nobody calling me son or kid or sport or nothing like that, cool?”
WILL SMITH
B-64. When MGM bought the rights to the play Angel Street,, they insisted that all existing prints of the earlier British version starring this actress be destroyed. (They weren’t.)
B-65. “Back to the ship, huh? Just huddle together, until the lights burn out? 'Til you can't see what's eating you? Is that the big plan?”
B-66. With his final film, he became one of only two actors to have been directed by both Alfred Hitchcock and Quentin Tarantino. (The other is the father of someone lurking elsewhere in this puzzle.)
B-67. “I'm poor, black, I might even be ugly, but dear God, I'm here! I'm here!”
WHOOPI GOLDBERG? OPRAH WINFREY?
B-68. In 1939, this reliable British character actor – who was once married to an Indian princess – appeared in seven films, including those referenced in Clues A-12 and A-49.
B-69. “I just met a wonderful new man. He's fictional but you can't have everything.”
MIA FARROW
B-70. In 1974 – the year he appeared in a hit disaster movie – he became the highest-paid movie star in the world … and immediately took a four-year hiatus from acting.
PAUL NEWMAN? GENE HACKMAN? STEVE MCQUEEN?
B-71. “In those moments where you're not quite sure if the undead are really dead, don't get all stingy with your bullets. I mean, one more clean shot to the head, and this lady could have avoided becoming a human Happy Meal. Woulda, coulda, shoulda.”
JESSE EISENBERG
B-72. She was the first African American actress to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio, but found greater success in Europe, where she was dubbed “The Black Garbo.”
B-73. “You cheated! Cheated! I hate you! I refuse to accept! I won't win any way but my way! You've ruined my reputation, do you hear? You I hate! You and your hair that's always combed, your suit that's always white, your car that's always clean! I refuse to accept!”
B-74. One of the high points of his long Hollywood career was playing the title role in Alfred Hitchcock’s second American feature.
B-75. “Let me tell you something, my two fine bedfellows, you're so dumb, there's nothin' to compare ya with, you're dumber than the dumbest jackass! Look at each other, will ya? Did you ever see anything like yourself for bein' dumb specimens? You're so dumb, you don't even see the riches you're treadin' on with your own feet!”
WALTER HUSTON
B-76. During her nearly 60-year movie career, she has worked under the direction of – among many others – Roger Vadim, Roman Polanski, Luis Bunuel, Claude Chabrol, Tony Scott, Agnes Varda, and Francois Truffaut.
CATHERINE DENEUVE?
B-77. “You once said you liked me just as I am and I just wanted to say likewise. I mean there are stupid things your mum buys you, tonight's another – classic. You're haughty, and you always say the wrong thing in every situation and I seriously believe that you should rethink the length of your sideburns. But, you're a nice man and I like you. If you wanted to pop by some time that might be nice. More than nice.”
B-78. She made her film debut in 1917, spent the next 37 years in feature films, moved on to series television for a decade – then, after a 23-year hiatus, popped up in three tv movies between 1986 and 1994.
LORETTA YOUNG?
B-79. “Settle down, are you kidding? I'm at the top of my game! I'm right up there with the big dogs! Girls, come on! Leave the saving of the world to the men? I don't think so!”
B-80. Oscar-wise, she completes the following list: Anne Bancroft, Shirley Booth, Patty Duke, Eileen Heckart, Judy Holliday, Josephine Hull, Barbra Streisand.
KIM HUNTER
B-81. “On a farm, when a pig is born small like that, it's called schtumpig, a runt.”
Frank admitted it’s not Kelly McGIllis so LUKAS HAAS
B-82. After the failure of her Hollywood museum in the 1990s, she ended up auctioning off most of her legendary memorabilia collection – including more than 4,000 costumes. (But she’s still holding on to a Maltese Falcon.)
DEBBIE REYNOLDS
B-83. “And why do I sew each new chapeau/With a style they must look positively grim in?/Strictly between us, entrez-nous/I hate women.”
DANNY KAYE
B-84. Shortly after Four Star Productions was founded in 1952, this actress replaced the actor in Clue B-74 as one of the Four Stars.
IDA LUPINO?
B-85. “I'm talking about the playing around that's going on. I'm talking about the young girls. I'm talking about the cookies. I'm talking about keeping our pants zipped and our wicks dry around here!”
ED HARRIS
B-86. He made his film debut in 1991 playing the guitarist for an Irish soul band.
B-87. “If only I could find her, so she could see me with such lovely friends here now, perhaps she could love me as I am. I've tried so hard to be good.”
JOHN HURT
B-88. Because her fourth husband was the son of her second husband, her first child was both the half-brother and uncle of her third and fourth children. Got that?
GLORIA GRAHAME?
B-89. “I just wanted to congratulate you on stealing the pyramid. That was you, wasn't it? Or was it a villain who's actually successful?”
B-90. This strong-jawed leading man got an early career boost because he was ineligible for military service, having injured his back while taking dance lessons from Martha Graham. (The studio claimed it was a college rowing injury because – you know – strong-jawed leading men don’t take dance lessons from Martha Graham.)
GREGORY PECK?
B-91. “The war between the sexes is over. We won the second women started doing pole dancing for exercise.”
B-92. Actors Studio co-founder Robert Lewis called the last ten years of this actor’s life “the longest suicide in history,” while Marilyn Monroe described him as "the only person I know who is in worse shape than I am.”
MONTGOMERY CLIFT
B-93. “I found out the way your mind works and the kind of man you are. I know your plans and expectations - you've burbled every bit of strategy you've got. I know exactly what you will do, and exactly what you won't, and I've told you exactly nothing. To these aged eyes, boy, that's what winning looks like!”
B-94. Frank Capra’s last feature film was her first feature film – thus making the combined span of their careers 94 years and counting.
ANN-MARGRET
B-95. “Lord, I'd just like to thank You for that waitress in South Bend. You know who she is - she kept calling Your name.”
B-96. He was the first Welsh-born actor to win an Oscar, and the only Oscar-winning actor whose acceptance “speech” did not include a single word.
JOHN MILLS
B-97. “Serpentine, Shelly. Serpentine!”
PETER FALK
B-98. This actor has another five months to go before his shelf life as Sexiest Man Alive expires.
B-99. “Dear Lord, We've come to the end of our journey, and in a little while we'll stand before you. I pray for you to be merciful. Judge us not for our weaknesses, but for our love and open the doors of heaven for Charlie and me.”
KATHARINE HEPBURN
B-100. This star served as first president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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B-62. On or off screen, he was no fan of the Nazis. During World War II, he deserted the Deutsche Wehrmacht and went into hiding in the Vienna Woods with his Jewish wife. In his first American film, he played a German officer recruited to spy for the Allies.
HARDY KRUGER?
How about OSKAR WERNER?
HARDY KRUGER?
How about OSKAR WERNER?
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Re: Game #152: Subtitles - Wednesday night consolidation
Picking up a bit of what's left over.franktangredi wrote:A-27. This Randolph Scott flick shares its name with the 17th largest city in the United States.
ALBUQUERQUE
A-39. This film version of a British play featured a gay actor playing a gay public school student who would grow up to become a real-life gay spy.
ANOTHER COUNTRY
B-20. This Oscar-winning actress was later nominated for five Soap Opera Digest awards in the categories Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role and Outstanding Villainess in a Prime Time Serial.
JANE WYMAN
B-32. His screen career included adaptations of works by Eugene O’Neill, Euripides, Franz Kafka, Joseph Heller, Agatha Christie, and Ellery Queen.
PETER USTINOV? ANTHONY PERKINS?
It's definitely Perkins. The Ellery Queen film is Ten Days Wonder.
B-50. He was the first of only two actors to win an Oscar for a role he had originally performed on television. (The other one is lurking elsewhere among these clues.)
It can’t be Borgnine – Marty on TV was Rod Steiger.
MAXIMILLIAN SCHELL
B-66. With his final film, he became one of only two actors to have been directed by both Alfred Hitchcock and Quentin Tarantino. (The other is the father of someone lurking elsewhere in this puzzle.)
ROD TAYLOR
B-73. “You cheated! Cheated! I hate you! I refuse to accept! I won't win any way but my way! You've ruined my reputation, do you hear? You I hate! You and your hair that's always combed, your suit that's always white, your car that's always clean! I refuse to accept!”
JACK LEMMON
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Game #152: Subtitles - THURSDAY night consolidation
Since Frank said all the definites were correct, I am taking the clues away from the ones he confirmed. I have not taken them away from my later additions and sss's contributions today.
Updated through sss's contributions today.
Game #152: Subtitles
Identify the 65 movies in List A and the 100 actors in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, form 78 triples, each consisting of one movie and two actors, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.
7 movies and 28 actors will be used twice.
3 movies and 14 actors will be used three times.
There’s a lot here, but I think I can predict exactly which movie or actor will unlock the Tangredi.
Oh, and there’s one movie on here that nobody has seen, but I think you’ll get it anyway.
LIST A: MOVIES
A-1. THE SEVENTH SEAL
A-2. THE GREAT DICTATOR
A-3. LOVE AFFAIR
A-4. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
A-5. BABES IN ARMS
A-6. MONSTERS, INC.
A-7. THE STRATTON STORY
A-8. SHANGHAI EXPRESS
A-9. This movie featured the only performance directed by John Sayles to receive an Oscar nomination.
LONE STAR? EIGHT MEN OUT? PASSION FISH?
A-10. ROAD TO PERDITION
A-11. A SONG IS BORN
A-12. THE LITTLE PRINCESS
A-13. This complicated caper flick shares a major plot point – and not much else – with the film Fourteen Hours.
A-14. BLIND DATE
A-15. THE IRON HORSE
A-16. SUDDEN IMPACT
A-17. DARK PASSAGE
A-18. THE HEARTBREAK KID
A-19. Robert Altman’s Thieves Like Us was based on the same novel as this cult classic released 26 years earlier.
THEY LIVE BY NIGHT
A-20. AMERICAN SNIPER
A-21. THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE
A-22. “Well, that's the whole point of the holidays, Paul. So you and your sister can mope around the house, and your mother and I can wait on you hand and foot, while the two of you occasionally grunt for more food from behind the hair in your faces. Believe it or not, we actually enjoy it.”
A-23. There is some dispute as to whether or not this 2007 movie was a remake of Working Girl, but there is no disputing the fact that it was a Grade A dud –it opened at eight theatres in Texas and averaged $48 per screen for a total box office of $384.
A-24. EXECUTIVE SUITE
A-25. STRANGE DAYS
A-26. EDUCATING RITA
A-27. This Randolph Scott flick shares its name with the 17th largest city in the United States.
ALBUQUERQUE
A-28. PATCH ADAMS
A-29. INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
A-30. “If only my life could be more like the movies. I want an angel to sweep down to me like it does to Jimmy Stewart in It’s a Wonderful Life and talk me out of suicide. I've always waited for that one moment of truth to set me free and change my life forever, but he won’t come, it doesn’t happen that way. All the drugs, all the therapy, fights, anger, guilt, rage, suicidal thoughts, all of that was part of some slow recovery process. The same way I went down, I came back up, gradually – and then suddenly. The pills weren’t the cure at all, God knows, but they gave me breathing space which allowed me to start writing again, only this time it was not as if my life depended on it.”
A-31. This anthology was the fourth film in what is sometimes referred to as the “Poe-Corman” cycle.
A-32. ABSOLUTE POWER
A-33. Francois Truffaut once said he would have given up all his own movies to have directed this two-part classic, filmed during the Nazi occupation of France.
A-34. SWING TIME
A-35. The star of the previous film received a Golden Turkey nomination for Worst Performance as a Historical Figure for her role as a First Lady in this film. (She couldn’t beat John Wayne’s Genghiz Khan, though.)
MAGNIFICENT DOLL?
A-36. URBAN LEGEND
A-37. The subject of this Oscar-winning 1979 documentary is now over 80 years old and living in a group home.
BEST BOY
A-38. BEING THERE
A-39. This film version of a British play featured a gay actor playing a gay public school student who would grow up to become a real-life gay spy.
ANOTHER COUNTRY
A-40. RAISING HELEN
A-41. Once considered a lost film, this crime drama marked the screen debut of an actress who would become much better known for her next role – seven years later – as a sinister housekeeper.
This HAS to be whatever Judith Anderson's debut was.
A-42. I AM SAM
A-43. BLUE JASMINE
A-44. “If you're edged 'cause I'm weazin all your grindage, just chill. 'Cause if I had the whole Brady Bunch thing happenin' at my pad, I'd go grind over there, so don’t tax my gig so hard-core cruster.”
A-45. CITY HALL
A-46. ZERO HOUR
A-47. OUR TOWN
A-48. “When I go back in that house, it will be with my son in my arms. I'll have a red coat on him – and red flower trousers – and a hat with a gilded Buddha and tiger-faced shoes, and I'll go into the kitchen where I spent my days as a slave and into the great hall where the old mistress sits with her pipe, and I'll show myself and my son to all of them.”
THE GOOD EARTH
A-49. STANLEY AND LIVINGSTONE
A-50. YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
A-51. THE BIG TRAIL
A-52. “Come on, group hug! You too, Anger."
“Don’t touch me.”
INSIDE OUT
This has to be right because it's most likely the one that on one's seen yet.
A-53. CAPTAIN KIDD
A-54. “Well, I want to die because I feel that a life for me, in this state, has no dignity. I understand that other quadriplegics may take offense to my saying there's no dignity in this, but I'm not trying to judge anyone. Who am I to judge those who choose life? So don't judge me or anyone who wants to help me die.”
A-55. WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD
A-56. THE WILD ONE
A-57. IN OLD ARIZONA
A-58. PAPER MOON
A-59. Among the weird characters in this film are a woman who never leaves her bed, a man who never speaks directly to his wife, a woman who always lies, a voodoo priest, and the lead singer of a new wave band. (Only the latter is real.)
A-60. THE DARK KNIGHT
A-61. Hitchcock’s last British film before coming to America, it earned him a listing in The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
A-62. “You love me so much you gotta kill my f**king girlfriend, huh? Speak you f**kin' freak, or I will f**king kill you! Katie. Say it! Say it or you die!”
A-63. STAGE DOOR CANTEEN
A-64. “Nature all looks alike. Frontiers are an invention of man.”
A-65. This lovely work of docufiction is the nexus where Nanook of the North meets Four Saints in Three Acts meets John D. Rockefeller.
LIST B: ACTORS
B-1. SPENCER TRACY
B-2. JEAN ARTHUR
B-3. ANTHONY HOPKINS
B-4. WILL ROGERS
B-5. DIANE KEATON
B-6. Hard to believe, but this actor was originally offered the tv role that was subsequently play by the actor quoted in clue B-97.
BING CROSBY? LEE J. COBB? - I lean toward Cobb because Frank said one definite was wrong before and I added Cobb since then.
B-7. JOHNNY DEPP
B-8. NORMA SHEARER
This HAS to be Shearer -- Ethel Barrymore's Oscar wasn't until 1944.
B-9. MORGAN FREEMAN
B-10. In two unrelated films made 20 years apart, this actor played men who shaped the life and career of Marilyn Monroe.
LLOYD BRIDGES?
B-11. “Men should be explorers, no matter how old they are. I don't know about anybody else, but I'm going.”
DON AMECHE
B-12. Best known for solving crimes on tv, this actress has twice been named “Sexiest Vegetarian” by PETA.
B-13. BUD ABBOTT AND LOU COSTELLO
B-14. This actress has the same number of Oscar nominations as her father, but one less than her mother.
LAURA DERN? LIZA MINNELLI?
B-15. FREDRIC MARCH
B-16. His movie career might have ended on a higher note if his manager had not insisted on too high a salary as well as top billing over Barbra Streisand – or if his manager had not insisted on too high a salary as well as top billing over John Wayne.
B-17. JODIE FOSTER
B-18. ERICH VON STROHEIM
B-19. ROBERT DE NIRO
B-20. This Oscar-winning actress was later nominated for five Soap Opera Digest awards in the categories Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role and Outstanding Villainess in a Prime Time Serial.
JANE WYMAN
B-21. GRETA GARBO
B-22. Oscar-wise, she completes the following list: Woody Allen, Matt Damon, John Huston, Billy Bob Thornton, Orson Welles.
IDA LUPINO? EMMA THOMPSON?
B-23. HENRY FONDA
B-24. This actor, known for his ptosis, served as host/narrator for the second revival of my all-time favorite television series.
B-25. JAMES CAAN
B-26. SYLVESTER STALLONE
B-27. VERNA FELTON
B-28. JESSICA LANGE
B-29. “I got a weal wed wagon!”
B-30. BURT LANCASTER
B-31. JOAN FONTAINE
B-32. His screen career included adaptations of works by Eugene O’Neill, Euripides, Franz Kafka, Joseph Heller, Agatha Christie, and Ellery Queen.
ANTHONY PERKINS
B-33. TOM CRUISE
B-34. This international star has also had a busy music career that has included recording the theme songs for most of his films, as well as the official one-year countdown song to the 2008 Olympics.
B-35. PATRICIA ARQUETTE
B-36. Oscar-wise, he completes the following list: Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, John Huston, Robert Redford.
MEL GIBSON?
B-37. “I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me. Out of my way, a**hole.”
B-38. Though he first won popularity in a series a comic films, this actor went on to build a distinguished career in prestige productions, such as the film version of a novel by Thomas Mann.
B-39. “Thank you. I've never been called a son of God before. I've been called a son of a you-know-what plenty of times, but I've never been called a son of God.”
SEAN PENN
B-40. After a seven-year film career, this British-Australian actor hanged himself in a Las Vegas hotel room at the age of 25.
B-41. MARLENE DIETRICH
B-42. Though he never won an Oscar (or any other award) for his acting, this swashbuckler did pick up a few trinkets for his service during World War II – including the Legion of Merit and Silver Star from the United States, the Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre from France, and the Distinguished Service Cross from Britain.
AUDIE MURPHY? DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR?
B-43. “I blow a hole in your face and then I go in the house – and I sleep like a baby. You can count on that. We used to stack f**ks like you five feet high in Korea. Use ya for sandbags.”
B-44. She was the only Dame Commander of the British Empire to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.
B-45. JAMES CAGNEY
B-46. After coming to the United States, this future Oscar winner trained at the Joffrey Ballet School until a knee injury ended her dream of becoming a ballerina.
B-47. “He came in to demand an answer and I told him the truth. That I have fought with myself over that night, one half of me swearing blind that I tied a simple slipknot, the other half convinced that I tied the Langford double. I can never know for sure.”
B-48. At the time of his death, this actor was making plans to star in a dream project – a biopic about Fatty Arbuckle. (Somebody should still make that movie.)
JOHN CANDY? CHRIS FARLEY?
B-49. “You don't know what I can do! You don't know what I can do, what I'm gonna do, or what I'm gonna be! I'm good! I have good things and you don't know about! I'm gonna be something! I am! And don't f**king tell me I'm not!”
MARK WAHLBERG
B-50. B-50. He was the first of only two actors to win an Oscar for a role he had originally performed on television. (The other one is lurking elsewhere among these clues.)
MAXIMILLIAN SCHELL
B-51. BETTE DAVIS
B-52. CAROL BURNETT
B-53. CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER
B-54. RUTGER HAUER
B-55. MELISSA LEO
B-56. In 1988, this singer took on a role that had previously been played by – among others – Telly Savalas, Hurd Hatfield, Arthur Kennedy, Jean Marais, Basil Rathbone, and Jean Gabin.
DAVID BOWIE?
B-57. “Playwrights teach us nothing about love. They make it pretty, they make it comical, or they make it lust, but they cannot make it true.”
B-58. In 2008, this actor – best known for completing a different kind of adventure – became the first person ever to cross Victoria Falls on ropes.
B-59. “This is a $4,000 sofa, upholstered in Italian silk. This is not just a couch.”
B-60. Before this week, she had been the only Dame Commander of the British Empire to have won the Tony, the Emmy, and the Oscar.
B-61. JOHN TRAVOLTA
B-62. On or off screen, he was no fan of the Nazis. During World War II, he deserted the Deutsche Wehrmacht and went into hiding in the Vienna Woods with his Jewish wife. In his first American film, he played a German officer recruited to spy for the Allies.
HARDY KRUGER? OSKAR WERNER?
B-63. WILL SMITH
B-64. When MGM bought the rights to the play Angel Street,, they insisted that all existing prints of the earlier British version starring this actress be destroyed. (They weren’t.)
B-65. “Back to the ship, huh? Just huddle together, until the lights burn out? 'Til you can't see what's eating you? Is that the big plan?”
B-66. With his final film, he became one of only two actors to have been directed by both Alfred Hitchcock and Quentin Tarantino. (The other is the father of someone lurking elsewhere in this puzzle.)
ROD TAYLOR
B-67. WHOOPI GOLDBERG
B-68. In 1939, this reliable British character actor – who was once married to an Indian princess – appeared in seven films, including those referenced in Clues A-12 and A-49.
B-69. MIA FARROW
B-70. In 1974 – the year he appeared in a hit disaster movie – he became the highest-paid movie star in the world … and immediately took a four-year hiatus from acting.
PAUL NEWMAN? GENE HACKMAN? STEVE MCQUEEN?
B-71. JESSE EISENBERG
B-72. She was the first African American actress to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio, but found greater success in Europe, where she was dubbed “The Black Garbo.”
NINA MAE MCKINNEY
B-73. “You cheated! Cheated! I hate you! I refuse to accept! I won't win any way but my way! You've ruined my reputation, do you hear? You I hate! You and your hair that's always combed, your suit that's always white, your car that's always clean! I refuse to accept!”
JACK LEMMON
B-74. One of the high points of his long Hollywood career was playing the title role in Alfred Hitchcock’s second American feature.
JOEL MCCREA
B-75. WALTER HUSTON
B-76. During her nearly 60-year movie career, she has worked under the direction of – among many others – Roger Vadim, Roman Polanski, Luis Bunuel, Claude Chabrol, Tony Scott, Agnes Varda, and Francois Truffaut.
CATHERINE DENEUVE?
B-77. “You once said you liked me just as I am and I just wanted to say likewise. I mean there are stupid things your mum buys you, tonight's another – classic. You're haughty, and you always say the wrong thing in every situation and I seriously believe that you should rethink the length of your sideburns. But, you're a nice man and I like you. If you wanted to pop by some time that might be nice. More than nice.”
B-78. She made her film debut in 1917, spent the next 37 years in feature films, moved on to series television for a decade – then, after a 23-year hiatus, popped up in three tv movies between 1986 and 1994.
LORETTA YOUNG?
B-79. “Settle down, are you kidding? I'm at the top of my game! I'm right up there with the big dogs! Girls, come on! Leave the saving of the world to the men? I don't think so!”
B-80. KIM HUNTER
B-81. LUKAS HAAS
B-82. DEBBIE REYNOLDS
B-83. DANNY KAYE
B-84. Shortly after Four Star Productions was founded in 1952, this actress replaced the actor in Clue B-74 as one of the Four Stars.
IDA LUPINO?
B-85. ED HARRIS
B-86. He made his film debut in 1991 playing the guitarist for an Irish soul band.
B-87. JOHN HURT
B-88. Because her fourth husband was the son of her second husband, her first child was both the half-brother and uncle of her third and fourth children. Got that?
GLORIA GRAHAME?
B-89. “I just wanted to congratulate you on stealing the pyramid. That was you, wasn't it? Or was it a villain who's actually successful?”
B-90. This strong-jawed leading man got an early career boost because he was ineligible for military service, having injured his back while taking dance lessons from Martha Graham. (The studio claimed it was a college rowing injury because – you know – strong-jawed leading men don’t take dance lessons from Martha Graham.)
GREGORY PECK?
B-91. “The war between the sexes is over. We won the second women started doing pole dancing for exercise.”
B-92. MONTGOMERY CLIFT
B-93. “I found out the way your mind works and the kind of man you are. I know your plans and expectations - you've burbled every bit of strategy you've got. I know exactly what you will do, and exactly what you won't, and I've told you exactly nothing. To these aged eyes, boy, that's what winning looks like!”
PETER O'TOOLE
B-94. ANN-MARGRET
B-95. “Lord, I'd just like to thank You for that waitress in South Bend. You know who she is - she kept calling Your name.”
TOM HANKS
B-96. JOHN MILLS
B-97. PETER FALK
B-98. This actor has another five months to go before his shelf life as Sexiest Man Alive expires.
B-99. KATHARINE HEPBURN
B-100. This star served as first president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Game #152: Subtitles
Identify the 65 movies in List A and the 100 actors in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, form 78 triples, each consisting of one movie and two actors, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.
7 movies and 28 actors will be used twice.
3 movies and 14 actors will be used three times.
There’s a lot here, but I think I can predict exactly which movie or actor will unlock the Tangredi.
Oh, and there’s one movie on here that nobody has seen, but I think you’ll get it anyway.
LIST A: MOVIES
A-1. THE SEVENTH SEAL
A-2. THE GREAT DICTATOR
A-3. LOVE AFFAIR
A-4. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
A-5. BABES IN ARMS
A-6. MONSTERS, INC.
A-7. THE STRATTON STORY
A-8. SHANGHAI EXPRESS
A-9. This movie featured the only performance directed by John Sayles to receive an Oscar nomination.
LONE STAR? EIGHT MEN OUT? PASSION FISH?
A-10. ROAD TO PERDITION
A-11. A SONG IS BORN
A-12. THE LITTLE PRINCESS
A-13. This complicated caper flick shares a major plot point – and not much else – with the film Fourteen Hours.
A-14. BLIND DATE
A-15. THE IRON HORSE
A-16. SUDDEN IMPACT
A-17. DARK PASSAGE
A-18. THE HEARTBREAK KID
A-19. Robert Altman’s Thieves Like Us was based on the same novel as this cult classic released 26 years earlier.
THEY LIVE BY NIGHT
A-20. AMERICAN SNIPER
A-21. THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE
A-22. “Well, that's the whole point of the holidays, Paul. So you and your sister can mope around the house, and your mother and I can wait on you hand and foot, while the two of you occasionally grunt for more food from behind the hair in your faces. Believe it or not, we actually enjoy it.”
A-23. There is some dispute as to whether or not this 2007 movie was a remake of Working Girl, but there is no disputing the fact that it was a Grade A dud –it opened at eight theatres in Texas and averaged $48 per screen for a total box office of $384.
A-24. EXECUTIVE SUITE
A-25. STRANGE DAYS
A-26. EDUCATING RITA
A-27. This Randolph Scott flick shares its name with the 17th largest city in the United States.
ALBUQUERQUE
A-28. PATCH ADAMS
A-29. INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
A-30. “If only my life could be more like the movies. I want an angel to sweep down to me like it does to Jimmy Stewart in It’s a Wonderful Life and talk me out of suicide. I've always waited for that one moment of truth to set me free and change my life forever, but he won’t come, it doesn’t happen that way. All the drugs, all the therapy, fights, anger, guilt, rage, suicidal thoughts, all of that was part of some slow recovery process. The same way I went down, I came back up, gradually – and then suddenly. The pills weren’t the cure at all, God knows, but they gave me breathing space which allowed me to start writing again, only this time it was not as if my life depended on it.”
A-31. This anthology was the fourth film in what is sometimes referred to as the “Poe-Corman” cycle.
A-32. ABSOLUTE POWER
A-33. Francois Truffaut once said he would have given up all his own movies to have directed this two-part classic, filmed during the Nazi occupation of France.
A-34. SWING TIME
A-35. The star of the previous film received a Golden Turkey nomination for Worst Performance as a Historical Figure for her role as a First Lady in this film. (She couldn’t beat John Wayne’s Genghiz Khan, though.)
MAGNIFICENT DOLL?
A-36. URBAN LEGEND
A-37. The subject of this Oscar-winning 1979 documentary is now over 80 years old and living in a group home.
BEST BOY
A-38. BEING THERE
A-39. This film version of a British play featured a gay actor playing a gay public school student who would grow up to become a real-life gay spy.
ANOTHER COUNTRY
A-40. RAISING HELEN
A-41. Once considered a lost film, this crime drama marked the screen debut of an actress who would become much better known for her next role – seven years later – as a sinister housekeeper.
This HAS to be whatever Judith Anderson's debut was.
A-42. I AM SAM
A-43. BLUE JASMINE
A-44. “If you're edged 'cause I'm weazin all your grindage, just chill. 'Cause if I had the whole Brady Bunch thing happenin' at my pad, I'd go grind over there, so don’t tax my gig so hard-core cruster.”
A-45. CITY HALL
A-46. ZERO HOUR
A-47. OUR TOWN
A-48. “When I go back in that house, it will be with my son in my arms. I'll have a red coat on him – and red flower trousers – and a hat with a gilded Buddha and tiger-faced shoes, and I'll go into the kitchen where I spent my days as a slave and into the great hall where the old mistress sits with her pipe, and I'll show myself and my son to all of them.”
THE GOOD EARTH
A-49. STANLEY AND LIVINGSTONE
A-50. YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
A-51. THE BIG TRAIL
A-52. “Come on, group hug! You too, Anger."
“Don’t touch me.”
INSIDE OUT
This has to be right because it's most likely the one that on one's seen yet.
A-53. CAPTAIN KIDD
A-54. “Well, I want to die because I feel that a life for me, in this state, has no dignity. I understand that other quadriplegics may take offense to my saying there's no dignity in this, but I'm not trying to judge anyone. Who am I to judge those who choose life? So don't judge me or anyone who wants to help me die.”
A-55. WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD
A-56. THE WILD ONE
A-57. IN OLD ARIZONA
A-58. PAPER MOON
A-59. Among the weird characters in this film are a woman who never leaves her bed, a man who never speaks directly to his wife, a woman who always lies, a voodoo priest, and the lead singer of a new wave band. (Only the latter is real.)
A-60. THE DARK KNIGHT
A-61. Hitchcock’s last British film before coming to America, it earned him a listing in The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
A-62. “You love me so much you gotta kill my f**king girlfriend, huh? Speak you f**kin' freak, or I will f**king kill you! Katie. Say it! Say it or you die!”
A-63. STAGE DOOR CANTEEN
A-64. “Nature all looks alike. Frontiers are an invention of man.”
A-65. This lovely work of docufiction is the nexus where Nanook of the North meets Four Saints in Three Acts meets John D. Rockefeller.
LIST B: ACTORS
B-1. SPENCER TRACY
B-2. JEAN ARTHUR
B-3. ANTHONY HOPKINS
B-4. WILL ROGERS
B-5. DIANE KEATON
B-6. Hard to believe, but this actor was originally offered the tv role that was subsequently play by the actor quoted in clue B-97.
BING CROSBY? LEE J. COBB? - I lean toward Cobb because Frank said one definite was wrong before and I added Cobb since then.
B-7. JOHNNY DEPP
B-8. NORMA SHEARER
This HAS to be Shearer -- Ethel Barrymore's Oscar wasn't until 1944.
B-9. MORGAN FREEMAN
B-10. In two unrelated films made 20 years apart, this actor played men who shaped the life and career of Marilyn Monroe.
LLOYD BRIDGES?
B-11. “Men should be explorers, no matter how old they are. I don't know about anybody else, but I'm going.”
DON AMECHE
B-12. Best known for solving crimes on tv, this actress has twice been named “Sexiest Vegetarian” by PETA.
B-13. BUD ABBOTT AND LOU COSTELLO
B-14. This actress has the same number of Oscar nominations as her father, but one less than her mother.
LAURA DERN? LIZA MINNELLI?
B-15. FREDRIC MARCH
B-16. His movie career might have ended on a higher note if his manager had not insisted on too high a salary as well as top billing over Barbra Streisand – or if his manager had not insisted on too high a salary as well as top billing over John Wayne.
B-17. JODIE FOSTER
B-18. ERICH VON STROHEIM
B-19. ROBERT DE NIRO
B-20. This Oscar-winning actress was later nominated for five Soap Opera Digest awards in the categories Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role and Outstanding Villainess in a Prime Time Serial.
JANE WYMAN
B-21. GRETA GARBO
B-22. Oscar-wise, she completes the following list: Woody Allen, Matt Damon, John Huston, Billy Bob Thornton, Orson Welles.
IDA LUPINO? EMMA THOMPSON?
B-23. HENRY FONDA
B-24. This actor, known for his ptosis, served as host/narrator for the second revival of my all-time favorite television series.
B-25. JAMES CAAN
B-26. SYLVESTER STALLONE
B-27. VERNA FELTON
B-28. JESSICA LANGE
B-29. “I got a weal wed wagon!”
B-30. BURT LANCASTER
B-31. JOAN FONTAINE
B-32. His screen career included adaptations of works by Eugene O’Neill, Euripides, Franz Kafka, Joseph Heller, Agatha Christie, and Ellery Queen.
ANTHONY PERKINS
B-33. TOM CRUISE
B-34. This international star has also had a busy music career that has included recording the theme songs for most of his films, as well as the official one-year countdown song to the 2008 Olympics.
B-35. PATRICIA ARQUETTE
B-36. Oscar-wise, he completes the following list: Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, John Huston, Robert Redford.
MEL GIBSON?
B-37. “I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me. Out of my way, a**hole.”
B-38. Though he first won popularity in a series a comic films, this actor went on to build a distinguished career in prestige productions, such as the film version of a novel by Thomas Mann.
B-39. “Thank you. I've never been called a son of God before. I've been called a son of a you-know-what plenty of times, but I've never been called a son of God.”
SEAN PENN
B-40. After a seven-year film career, this British-Australian actor hanged himself in a Las Vegas hotel room at the age of 25.
B-41. MARLENE DIETRICH
B-42. Though he never won an Oscar (or any other award) for his acting, this swashbuckler did pick up a few trinkets for his service during World War II – including the Legion of Merit and Silver Star from the United States, the Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre from France, and the Distinguished Service Cross from Britain.
AUDIE MURPHY? DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR?
B-43. “I blow a hole in your face and then I go in the house – and I sleep like a baby. You can count on that. We used to stack f**ks like you five feet high in Korea. Use ya for sandbags.”
B-44. She was the only Dame Commander of the British Empire to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.
B-45. JAMES CAGNEY
B-46. After coming to the United States, this future Oscar winner trained at the Joffrey Ballet School until a knee injury ended her dream of becoming a ballerina.
B-47. “He came in to demand an answer and I told him the truth. That I have fought with myself over that night, one half of me swearing blind that I tied a simple slipknot, the other half convinced that I tied the Langford double. I can never know for sure.”
B-48. At the time of his death, this actor was making plans to star in a dream project – a biopic about Fatty Arbuckle. (Somebody should still make that movie.)
JOHN CANDY? CHRIS FARLEY?
B-49. “You don't know what I can do! You don't know what I can do, what I'm gonna do, or what I'm gonna be! I'm good! I have good things and you don't know about! I'm gonna be something! I am! And don't f**king tell me I'm not!”
MARK WAHLBERG
B-50. B-50. He was the first of only two actors to win an Oscar for a role he had originally performed on television. (The other one is lurking elsewhere among these clues.)
MAXIMILLIAN SCHELL
B-51. BETTE DAVIS
B-52. CAROL BURNETT
B-53. CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER
B-54. RUTGER HAUER
B-55. MELISSA LEO
B-56. In 1988, this singer took on a role that had previously been played by – among others – Telly Savalas, Hurd Hatfield, Arthur Kennedy, Jean Marais, Basil Rathbone, and Jean Gabin.
DAVID BOWIE?
B-57. “Playwrights teach us nothing about love. They make it pretty, they make it comical, or they make it lust, but they cannot make it true.”
B-58. In 2008, this actor – best known for completing a different kind of adventure – became the first person ever to cross Victoria Falls on ropes.
B-59. “This is a $4,000 sofa, upholstered in Italian silk. This is not just a couch.”
B-60. Before this week, she had been the only Dame Commander of the British Empire to have won the Tony, the Emmy, and the Oscar.
B-61. JOHN TRAVOLTA
B-62. On or off screen, he was no fan of the Nazis. During World War II, he deserted the Deutsche Wehrmacht and went into hiding in the Vienna Woods with his Jewish wife. In his first American film, he played a German officer recruited to spy for the Allies.
HARDY KRUGER? OSKAR WERNER?
B-63. WILL SMITH
B-64. When MGM bought the rights to the play Angel Street,, they insisted that all existing prints of the earlier British version starring this actress be destroyed. (They weren’t.)
B-65. “Back to the ship, huh? Just huddle together, until the lights burn out? 'Til you can't see what's eating you? Is that the big plan?”
B-66. With his final film, he became one of only two actors to have been directed by both Alfred Hitchcock and Quentin Tarantino. (The other is the father of someone lurking elsewhere in this puzzle.)
ROD TAYLOR
B-67. WHOOPI GOLDBERG
B-68. In 1939, this reliable British character actor – who was once married to an Indian princess – appeared in seven films, including those referenced in Clues A-12 and A-49.
B-69. MIA FARROW
B-70. In 1974 – the year he appeared in a hit disaster movie – he became the highest-paid movie star in the world … and immediately took a four-year hiatus from acting.
PAUL NEWMAN? GENE HACKMAN? STEVE MCQUEEN?
B-71. JESSE EISENBERG
B-72. She was the first African American actress to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio, but found greater success in Europe, where she was dubbed “The Black Garbo.”
NINA MAE MCKINNEY
B-73. “You cheated! Cheated! I hate you! I refuse to accept! I won't win any way but my way! You've ruined my reputation, do you hear? You I hate! You and your hair that's always combed, your suit that's always white, your car that's always clean! I refuse to accept!”
JACK LEMMON
B-74. One of the high points of his long Hollywood career was playing the title role in Alfred Hitchcock’s second American feature.
JOEL MCCREA
B-75. WALTER HUSTON
B-76. During her nearly 60-year movie career, she has worked under the direction of – among many others – Roger Vadim, Roman Polanski, Luis Bunuel, Claude Chabrol, Tony Scott, Agnes Varda, and Francois Truffaut.
CATHERINE DENEUVE?
B-77. “You once said you liked me just as I am and I just wanted to say likewise. I mean there are stupid things your mum buys you, tonight's another – classic. You're haughty, and you always say the wrong thing in every situation and I seriously believe that you should rethink the length of your sideburns. But, you're a nice man and I like you. If you wanted to pop by some time that might be nice. More than nice.”
B-78. She made her film debut in 1917, spent the next 37 years in feature films, moved on to series television for a decade – then, after a 23-year hiatus, popped up in three tv movies between 1986 and 1994.
LORETTA YOUNG?
B-79. “Settle down, are you kidding? I'm at the top of my game! I'm right up there with the big dogs! Girls, come on! Leave the saving of the world to the men? I don't think so!”
B-80. KIM HUNTER
B-81. LUKAS HAAS
B-82. DEBBIE REYNOLDS
B-83. DANNY KAYE
B-84. Shortly after Four Star Productions was founded in 1952, this actress replaced the actor in Clue B-74 as one of the Four Stars.
IDA LUPINO?
B-85. ED HARRIS
B-86. He made his film debut in 1991 playing the guitarist for an Irish soul band.
B-87. JOHN HURT
B-88. Because her fourth husband was the son of her second husband, her first child was both the half-brother and uncle of her third and fourth children. Got that?
GLORIA GRAHAME?
B-89. “I just wanted to congratulate you on stealing the pyramid. That was you, wasn't it? Or was it a villain who's actually successful?”
B-90. This strong-jawed leading man got an early career boost because he was ineligible for military service, having injured his back while taking dance lessons from Martha Graham. (The studio claimed it was a college rowing injury because – you know – strong-jawed leading men don’t take dance lessons from Martha Graham.)
GREGORY PECK?
B-91. “The war between the sexes is over. We won the second women started doing pole dancing for exercise.”
B-92. MONTGOMERY CLIFT
B-93. “I found out the way your mind works and the kind of man you are. I know your plans and expectations - you've burbled every bit of strategy you've got. I know exactly what you will do, and exactly what you won't, and I've told you exactly nothing. To these aged eyes, boy, that's what winning looks like!”
PETER O'TOOLE
B-94. ANN-MARGRET
B-95. “Lord, I'd just like to thank You for that waitress in South Bend. You know who she is - she kept calling Your name.”
TOM HANKS
B-96. JOHN MILLS
B-97. PETER FALK
B-98. This actor has another five months to go before his shelf life as Sexiest Man Alive expires.
B-99. KATHARINE HEPBURN
B-100. This star served as first president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Re: Game #152: Subtitles
B-100. This star served as first president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS
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"In times of crisis, the wise build bridges. The foolish build barriers." --Chadwick Boseman (1976-2020)
"In times of crisis, the wise build bridges. The foolish build barriers." --Chadwick Boseman (1976-2020)
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Re: Game #152: Subtitles
Adding some definites and some guesses ...
A-22. “Well, that's the whole point of the holidays, Paul. So you and your sister can mope around the house, and your mother and I can wait on you hand and foot, while the two of you occasionally grunt for more food from behind the hair in your faces. Believe it or not, we actually enjoy it.”
THE ICE STORM?
A-61. Hitchcock’s last British film before coming to America, it earned him a listing in The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
JAMAICA INN? I didn't think it was that bad.
B-34. This international star has also had a busy music career that has included recording the theme songs for most of his films, as well as the official one-year countdown song to the 2008 Olympics.
JACKIE CHAN??
B-43. “I blow a hole in your face and then I go in the house – and I sleep like a baby. You can count on that. We used to stack f**ks like you five feet high in Korea. Use ya for sandbags.”
Is this CLINT EASTWOOD in Gran Torino?
B-57. “Playwrights teach us nothing about love. They make it pretty, they make it comical, or they make it lust, but they cannot make it true.”
this sounds like DAME JUDI DENCH in Shakespeare in Love
B-64. When MGM bought the rights to the play Angel Street,, they insisted that all existing prints of the earlier British version starring this actress be destroyed. (They weren’t.)
DIANA WYNYARD - There's a FB discussion about Cimarron -- and Cavalcade -- and I realized Wynyard was in the Bergman role.
A-22. “Well, that's the whole point of the holidays, Paul. So you and your sister can mope around the house, and your mother and I can wait on you hand and foot, while the two of you occasionally grunt for more food from behind the hair in your faces. Believe it or not, we actually enjoy it.”
THE ICE STORM?
A-61. Hitchcock’s last British film before coming to America, it earned him a listing in The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
JAMAICA INN? I didn't think it was that bad.
B-34. This international star has also had a busy music career that has included recording the theme songs for most of his films, as well as the official one-year countdown song to the 2008 Olympics.
JACKIE CHAN??
B-43. “I blow a hole in your face and then I go in the house – and I sleep like a baby. You can count on that. We used to stack f**ks like you five feet high in Korea. Use ya for sandbags.”
Is this CLINT EASTWOOD in Gran Torino?
B-57. “Playwrights teach us nothing about love. They make it pretty, they make it comical, or they make it lust, but they cannot make it true.”
this sounds like DAME JUDI DENCH in Shakespeare in Love
B-64. When MGM bought the rights to the play Angel Street,, they insisted that all existing prints of the earlier British version starring this actress be destroyed. (They weren’t.)
DIANA WYNYARD - There's a FB discussion about Cimarron -- and Cavalcade -- and I realized Wynyard was in the Bergman role.
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Re: Game #152: Subtitles - THURSDAY night consolidation
There is only one definite answer on the actor list that is incorrect, and that answer has had the question mark removed. That is my fault, since I should not have okayed it on the last consolidation. Mea Culpa. I don't want Melly to go to the trouble of adding in all the questions again, so let me just add this:
(You know I love to get Maggie into my games anyway!)
There is now one definite on the movie list that's incorrect. There are no other incorrect answers on the movie list except in the one case where there are multiple answers suggested -- and that one includes the correct answer as well.
In fact, ALL of the questions that have alternate answers include the correct answer. In one case, the alternate that is incorrect is the correct answer to a different question. (The name is currently listed in both places.)
In the case of B-6, I now realize that there were two equally viable answers. Since this was also a corollary of my earlier mistake, I'll just come right out and state that I intended the answer to be Bing Crosby.
Of those actors with a question mark, only two are incorrect. In one case, you might find a hint at the correct answer by looking at Clue B-50.
The actor who I think is going to unlock the Tangredi has not been identified yet. He's probably going to end up being IMDBd.
(You know I love to get Maggie into my games anyway!)
There is now one definite on the movie list that's incorrect. There are no other incorrect answers on the movie list except in the one case where there are multiple answers suggested -- and that one includes the correct answer as well.
In fact, ALL of the questions that have alternate answers include the correct answer. In one case, the alternate that is incorrect is the correct answer to a different question. (The name is currently listed in both places.)
In the case of B-6, I now realize that there were two equally viable answers. Since this was also a corollary of my earlier mistake, I'll just come right out and state that I intended the answer to be Bing Crosby.
Of those actors with a question mark, only two are incorrect. In one case, you might find a hint at the correct answer by looking at Clue B-50.
The actor who I think is going to unlock the Tangredi has not been identified yet. He's probably going to end up being IMDBd.
mellytu74 wrote:Since Frank said all the definites were correct, I am taking the clues away from the ones he confirmed. I have not taken them away from my later additions and sss's contributions today.
Updated through sss's contributions today.
Game #152: Subtitles
Identify the 65 movies in List A and the 100 actors in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, form 78 triples, each consisting of one movie and two actors, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.
7 movies and 28 actors will be used twice.
3 movies and 14 actors will be used three times.
There’s a lot here, but I think I can predict exactly which movie or actor will unlock the Tangredi.
Oh, and there’s one movie on here that nobody has seen, but I think you’ll get it anyway.
LIST A: MOVIES
A-1. THE SEVENTH SEAL
A-2. THE GREAT DICTATOR
A-3. LOVE AFFAIR
A-4. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
A-5. BABES IN ARMS
A-6. MONSTERS, INC.
A-7. THE STRATTON STORY
A-8. SHANGHAI EXPRESS
A-9. This movie featured the only performance directed by John Sayles to receive an Oscar nomination.
LONE STAR? EIGHT MEN OUT? PASSION FISH?
A-10. ROAD TO PERDITION
A-11. A SONG IS BORN
A-12. THE LITTLE PRINCESS
A-13. This complicated caper flick shares a major plot point – and not much else – with the film Fourteen Hours.
A-14. BLIND DATE
A-15. THE IRON HORSE
A-16. SUDDEN IMPACT
A-17. DARK PASSAGE
A-18. THE HEARTBREAK KID
A-19. Robert Altman’s Thieves Like Us was based on the same novel as this cult classic released 26 years earlier.
THEY LIVE BY NIGHT
A-20. AMERICAN SNIPER
A-21. THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE
A-22. “Well, that's the whole point of the holidays, Paul. So you and your sister can mope around the house, and your mother and I can wait on you hand and foot, while the two of you occasionally grunt for more food from behind the hair in your faces. Believe it or not, we actually enjoy it.”
A-23. There is some dispute as to whether or not this 2007 movie was a remake of Working Girl, but there is no disputing the fact that it was a Grade A dud –it opened at eight theatres in Texas and averaged $48 per screen for a total box office of $384.
A-24. EXECUTIVE SUITE
A-25. STRANGE DAYS
A-26. EDUCATING RITA
A-27. This Randolph Scott flick shares its name with the 17th largest city in the United States.
ALBUQUERQUE
A-28. PATCH ADAMS
A-29. INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
A-30. “If only my life could be more like the movies. I want an angel to sweep down to me like it does to Jimmy Stewart in It’s a Wonderful Life and talk me out of suicide. I've always waited for that one moment of truth to set me free and change my life forever, but he won’t come, it doesn’t happen that way. All the drugs, all the therapy, fights, anger, guilt, rage, suicidal thoughts, all of that was part of some slow recovery process. The same way I went down, I came back up, gradually – and then suddenly. The pills weren’t the cure at all, God knows, but they gave me breathing space which allowed me to start writing again, only this time it was not as if my life depended on it.”
A-31. This anthology was the fourth film in what is sometimes referred to as the “Poe-Corman” cycle.
A-32. ABSOLUTE POWER
A-33. Francois Truffaut once said he would have given up all his own movies to have directed this two-part classic, filmed during the Nazi occupation of France.
A-34. SWING TIME
A-35. The star of the previous film received a Golden Turkey nomination for Worst Performance as a Historical Figure for her role as a First Lady in this film. (She couldn’t beat John Wayne’s Genghiz Khan, though.)
MAGNIFICENT DOLL?
A-36. URBAN LEGEND
A-37. The subject of this Oscar-winning 1979 documentary is now over 80 years old and living in a group home.
BEST BOY
A-38. BEING THERE
A-39. This film version of a British play featured a gay actor playing a gay public school student who would grow up to become a real-life gay spy.
ANOTHER COUNTRY
A-40. RAISING HELEN
A-41. Once considered a lost film, this crime drama marked the screen debut of an actress who would become much better known for her next role – seven years later – as a sinister housekeeper.
This HAS to be whatever Judith Anderson's debut was.
A-42. I AM SAM
A-43. BLUE JASMINE
A-44. “If you're edged 'cause I'm weazin all your grindage, just chill. 'Cause if I had the whole Brady Bunch thing happenin' at my pad, I'd go grind over there, so don’t tax my gig so hard-core cruster.”
A-45. CITY HALL
A-46. ZERO HOUR
A-47. OUR TOWN
A-48. “When I go back in that house, it will be with my son in my arms. I'll have a red coat on him – and red flower trousers – and a hat with a gilded Buddha and tiger-faced shoes, and I'll go into the kitchen where I spent my days as a slave and into the great hall where the old mistress sits with her pipe, and I'll show myself and my son to all of them.”
THE GOOD EARTH
A-49. STANLEY AND LIVINGSTONE
A-50. YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
A-51. THE BIG TRAIL
A-52. “Come on, group hug! You too, Anger."
“Don’t touch me.”
INSIDE OUT
This has to be right because it's most likely the one that on one's seen yet.
A-53. CAPTAIN KIDD
A-54. “Well, I want to die because I feel that a life for me, in this state, has no dignity. I understand that other quadriplegics may take offense to my saying there's no dignity in this, but I'm not trying to judge anyone. Who am I to judge those who choose life? So don't judge me or anyone who wants to help me die.”
A-55. WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD
A-56. THE WILD ONE
A-57. IN OLD ARIZONA
A-58. PAPER MOON
A-59. Among the weird characters in this film are a woman who never leaves her bed, a man who never speaks directly to his wife, a woman who always lies, a voodoo priest, and the lead singer of a new wave band. (Only the latter is real.)
A-60. THE DARK KNIGHT
A-61. Hitchcock’s last British film before coming to America, it earned him a listing in The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
A-62. “You love me so much you gotta kill my f**king girlfriend, huh? Speak you f**kin' freak, or I will f**king kill you! Katie. Say it! Say it or you die!”
A-63. STAGE DOOR CANTEEN
A-64. “Nature all looks alike. Frontiers are an invention of man.”
A-65. This lovely work of docufiction is the nexus where Nanook of the North meets Four Saints in Three Acts meets John D. Rockefeller.
LIST B: ACTORS
B-1. SPENCER TRACY
B-2. JEAN ARTHUR
B-3. ANTHONY HOPKINS
B-4. WILL ROGERS
B-5. DIANE KEATON
B-6. Hard to believe, but this actor was originally offered the tv role that was subsequently play by the actor quoted in clue B-97.
BING CROSBY? LEE J. COBB? - I lean toward Cobb because Frank said one definite was wrong before and I added Cobb since then.
B-7. JOHNNY DEPP
B-8. NORMA SHEARER
This HAS to be Shearer -- Ethel Barrymore's Oscar wasn't until 1944.
B-9. MORGAN FREEMAN
B-10. In two unrelated films made 20 years apart, this actor played men who shaped the life and career of Marilyn Monroe.
LLOYD BRIDGES?
B-11. “Men should be explorers, no matter how old they are. I don't know about anybody else, but I'm going.”
DON AMECHE
B-12. Best known for solving crimes on tv, this actress has twice been named “Sexiest Vegetarian” by PETA.
B-13. BUD ABBOTT AND LOU COSTELLO
B-14. This actress has the same number of Oscar nominations as her father, but one less than her mother.
LAURA DERN? LIZA MINNELLI?
B-15. FREDRIC MARCH
B-16. His movie career might have ended on a higher note if his manager had not insisted on too high a salary as well as top billing over Barbra Streisand – or if his manager had not insisted on too high a salary as well as top billing over John Wayne.
B-17. JODIE FOSTER
B-18. ERICH VON STROHEIM
B-19. ROBERT DE NIRO
B-20. This Oscar-winning actress was later nominated for five Soap Opera Digest awards in the categories Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role and Outstanding Villainess in a Prime Time Serial.
JANE WYMAN
B-21. GRETA GARBO
B-22. Oscar-wise, she completes the following list: Woody Allen, Matt Damon, John Huston, Billy Bob Thornton, Orson Welles.
IDA LUPINO? EMMA THOMPSON?
B-23. HENRY FONDA
B-24. This actor, known for his ptosis, served as host/narrator for the second revival of my all-time favorite television series.
B-25. JAMES CAAN
B-26. SYLVESTER STALLONE
B-27. VERNA FELTON
B-28. JESSICA LANGE
B-29. “I got a weal wed wagon!”
B-30. BURT LANCASTER
B-31. JOAN FONTAINE
B-32. His screen career included adaptations of works by Eugene O’Neill, Euripides, Franz Kafka, Joseph Heller, Agatha Christie, and Ellery Queen.
ANTHONY PERKINS
B-33. TOM CRUISE
B-34. This international star has also had a busy music career that has included recording the theme songs for most of his films, as well as the official one-year countdown song to the 2008 Olympics.
B-35. PATRICIA ARQUETTE
B-36. Oscar-wise, he completes the following list: Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, John Huston, Robert Redford.
MEL GIBSON?
B-37. “I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me. Out of my way, a**hole.”
B-38. Though he first won popularity in a series a comic films, this actor went on to build a distinguished career in prestige productions, such as the film version of a novel by Thomas Mann.
B-39. “Thank you. I've never been called a son of God before. I've been called a son of a you-know-what plenty of times, but I've never been called a son of God.”
SEAN PENN
B-40. After a seven-year film career, this British-Australian actor hanged himself in a Las Vegas hotel room at the age of 25.
B-41. MARLENE DIETRICH
B-42. Though he never won an Oscar (or any other award) for his acting, this swashbuckler did pick up a few trinkets for his service during World War II – including the Legion of Merit and Silver Star from the United States, the Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre from France, and the Distinguished Service Cross from Britain.
AUDIE MURPHY? DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR?
B-43. “I blow a hole in your face and then I go in the house – and I sleep like a baby. You can count on that. We used to stack f**ks like you five feet high in Korea. Use ya for sandbags.”
B-44. She was the only Dame Commander of the British Empire to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.
B-45. JAMES CAGNEY
B-46. After coming to the United States, this future Oscar winner trained at the Joffrey Ballet School until a knee injury ended her dream of becoming a ballerina.
B-47. “He came in to demand an answer and I told him the truth. That I have fought with myself over that night, one half of me swearing blind that I tied a simple slipknot, the other half convinced that I tied the Langford double. I can never know for sure.”
B-48. At the time of his death, this actor was making plans to star in a dream project – a biopic about Fatty Arbuckle. (Somebody should still make that movie.)
JOHN CANDY? CHRIS FARLEY?
B-49. “You don't know what I can do! You don't know what I can do, what I'm gonna do, or what I'm gonna be! I'm good! I have good things and you don't know about! I'm gonna be something! I am! And don't f**king tell me I'm not!”
MARK WAHLBERG
B-50. B-50. He was the first of only two actors to win an Oscar for a role he had originally performed on television. (The other one is lurking elsewhere among these clues.)
MAXIMILLIAN SCHELL
B-51. BETTE DAVIS
B-52. CAROL BURNETT
B-53. CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER
B-54. RUTGER HAUER
B-55. MELISSA LEO
B-56. In 1988, this singer took on a role that had previously been played by – among others – Telly Savalas, Hurd Hatfield, Arthur Kennedy, Jean Marais, Basil Rathbone, and Jean Gabin.
DAVID BOWIE?
B-57. “Playwrights teach us nothing about love. They make it pretty, they make it comical, or they make it lust, but they cannot make it true.”
B-58. In 2008, this actor – best known for completing a different kind of adventure – became the first person ever to cross Victoria Falls on ropes.
B-59. “This is a $4,000 sofa, upholstered in Italian silk. This is not just a couch.”
B-60. Before this week, she had been the only Dame Commander of the British Empire to have won the Tony, the Emmy, and the Oscar.
B-61. JOHN TRAVOLTA
B-62. On or off screen, he was no fan of the Nazis. During World War II, he deserted the Deutsche Wehrmacht and went into hiding in the Vienna Woods with his Jewish wife. In his first American film, he played a German officer recruited to spy for the Allies.
HARDY KRUGER? OSKAR WERNER?
B-63. WILL SMITH
B-64. When MGM bought the rights to the play Angel Street,, they insisted that all existing prints of the earlier British version starring this actress be destroyed. (They weren’t.)
B-65. “Back to the ship, huh? Just huddle together, until the lights burn out? 'Til you can't see what's eating you? Is that the big plan?”
B-66. With his final film, he became one of only two actors to have been directed by both Alfred Hitchcock and Quentin Tarantino. (The other is the father of someone lurking elsewhere in this puzzle.)
ROD TAYLOR
B-67. WHOOPI GOLDBERG
B-68. In 1939, this reliable British character actor – who was once married to an Indian princess – appeared in seven films, including those referenced in Clues A-12 and A-49.
B-69. MIA FARROW
B-70. In 1974 – the year he appeared in a hit disaster movie – he became the highest-paid movie star in the world … and immediately took a four-year hiatus from acting.
PAUL NEWMAN? GENE HACKMAN? STEVE MCQUEEN?
B-71. JESSE EISENBERG
B-72. She was the first African American actress to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio, but found greater success in Europe, where she was dubbed “The Black Garbo.”
NINA MAE MCKINNEY
B-73. “You cheated! Cheated! I hate you! I refuse to accept! I won't win any way but my way! You've ruined my reputation, do you hear? You I hate! You and your hair that's always combed, your suit that's always white, your car that's always clean! I refuse to accept!”
JACK LEMMON
B-74. One of the high points of his long Hollywood career was playing the title role in Alfred Hitchcock’s second American feature.
JOEL MCCREA
B-75. WALTER HUSTON
B-76. During her nearly 60-year movie career, she has worked under the direction of – among many others – Roger Vadim, Roman Polanski, Luis Bunuel, Claude Chabrol, Tony Scott, Agnes Varda, and Francois Truffaut.
CATHERINE DENEUVE?
B-77. “You once said you liked me just as I am and I just wanted to say likewise. I mean there are stupid things your mum buys you, tonight's another – classic. You're haughty, and you always say the wrong thing in every situation and I seriously believe that you should rethink the length of your sideburns. But, you're a nice man and I like you. If you wanted to pop by some time that might be nice. More than nice.”
B-78. She made her film debut in 1917, spent the next 37 years in feature films, moved on to series television for a decade – then, after a 23-year hiatus, popped up in three tv movies between 1986 and 1994.
LORETTA YOUNG?
B-79. “Settle down, are you kidding? I'm at the top of my game! I'm right up there with the big dogs! Girls, come on! Leave the saving of the world to the men? I don't think so!”
B-80. KIM HUNTER
B-81. LUKAS HAAS
B-82. DEBBIE REYNOLDS
B-83. DANNY KAYE
B-84. Shortly after Four Star Productions was founded in 1952, this actress replaced the actor in Clue B-74 as one of the Four Stars.
IDA LUPINO?
B-85. ED HARRIS
B-86. He made his film debut in 1991 playing the guitarist for an Irish soul band.
B-87. JOHN HURT
B-88. Because her fourth husband was the son of her second husband, her first child was both the half-brother and uncle of her third and fourth children. Got that?
GLORIA GRAHAME?
B-89. “I just wanted to congratulate you on stealing the pyramid. That was you, wasn't it? Or was it a villain who's actually successful?”
B-90. This strong-jawed leading man got an early career boost because he was ineligible for military service, having injured his back while taking dance lessons from Martha Graham. (The studio claimed it was a college rowing injury because – you know – strong-jawed leading men don’t take dance lessons from Martha Graham.)
GREGORY PECK?
B-91. “The war between the sexes is over. We won the second women started doing pole dancing for exercise.”
B-92. MONTGOMERY CLIFT
B-93. “I found out the way your mind works and the kind of man you are. I know your plans and expectations - you've burbled every bit of strategy you've got. I know exactly what you will do, and exactly what you won't, and I've told you exactly nothing. To these aged eyes, boy, that's what winning looks like!”
PETER O'TOOLE
B-94. ANN-MARGRET
B-95. “Lord, I'd just like to thank You for that waitress in South Bend. You know who she is - she kept calling Your name.”
TOM HANKS
B-96. JOHN MILLS
B-97. PETER FALK
B-98. This actor has another five months to go before his shelf life as Sexiest Man Alive expires.
B-99. KATHARINE HEPBURN
B-100. This star served as first president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Re: Game #152: Subtitles
And everything suggested since the last consolidation is correct.
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mellytu74
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Re: Game #152: Subtitles
B-96. He was the first Welsh-born actor to win an Oscar, and the only Oscar-winning actor whose acceptance “speech” did not include a single word.
JOHN MILLS
Oh, for sweet heaven's sakes ....
RAY MILLAND was Welsh.
Why did I not remember that until now?
JOHN MILLS
Oh, for sweet heaven's sakes ....
RAY MILLAND was Welsh.
Why did I not remember that until now?
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mellytu74
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Re: Game #152: Subtitles
Hefner, JFK, Maggie Smith, Ray Milland ... all sorts of stuff, Frank.