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Today's hint: Though a prolific and highly respected actor, Husband's Oscars were not for acting.

Maurice (1987) [Kings College, Cambridge] Next: Asylum

Freda Jackson's main career took place on stage in the classics, with the Royal Shakespeare Company and with the Old Vic. I saw her on stage once, as Marina, the old nurse in Uncle Vanya, at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 1982, also starring Donald Sinden and Frances de la Tour. Her memorable film performances include Letitia Witley, Boris Karloff's wife, in Die Monster Die, in which she has a terrifying scene coming out of her bedroom, all deformed by the radiation and ready to kill anyone in her path. She also played Mistress Quickly, a role she had played on stage, in Laurence Olivier's Henry V.

Bob Rafelson, who directed Five Easy Pieces and several other seminal films of our time, has left us. My particular favorite among his films is Mountains of the Moon (1990), a masterly film depicting the story of Burton and Speke and their expedition to Central Africa, a film that should make any sane person stuff their ears with cotton whilst traveling to tropical climes. Bob Rafelson https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jul/24/bob-rafelson-monkees-hollywood-new-wave-director-jack-nicholson-dies

This couple was married for nearly 70 years, until Husband's death. Husband was an Oscar-winner and about as distinguished as they come; wife appeared in a modest number of movies. Each had family/relatives in the business. Their children are in the business as well; in fact, one of their sons is currently co-producing a film based on a novel that was previously adapted for film, that his father starred in and that was nominated for its leading actress. Husband and Wife appeared together on stage in the premiere cast of one of the most famous plays in theater history, a play which is particularly renowned for one thing. When you name Husband and Wife, name anything else I've referred to.

Perhaps Kay Lenz and David Cassidy, her miniseries and sequel being Rich Man, Poor Man?

Supporting icons of the Broadway musical who reprised their roles in the film The Pajama Game (1957) Thelma Pelish Damn Yankees (1958) Rae Allen How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967) Ruth Kobart

Edward G. Robinson Next: Loved to cook

"Call Me Irresponsible" -- Papa's Delicate Condition ("More" from Mondo Cane should have won that year.) Next: Song from a movie directed by Federico Fellini

"The Little Things We Used to Do" -- sung by Denis Quilley in Privates on Parade (1983) Next: Oscar nominated losing song that should have won

Of course the ending of Dr. Strangelove is one of the great endings:

"If You Knew," sung by Fabian in North to Alaska (1960) Next: Sung by Irene Dunne in a 1930s non-musical

Sylvia Sidney and Henry Fonda: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) You Only Live Once (1937)

Well, for all its flaws, this thread has rekindled my interest in the film. I just checked the description in Wikipedia and am amused by this line: "Taken to the House of Fear, where a mad scientist turns slaves into mindless beast-humans, Demetrios is saved by being given the chance to undergo the ordeal of fire and water." Demetrious is played by Anthony Hall, whose real name was Sal Ponti. According to IMDB, he wrote Fabian's first recorded song, "I'm in Love." https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-01-27-mn-25736-story.html

My favorite film as a kid was Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959), still one of my top ten. One of the final scenes takes place in the ruins of Atlantis.

I forgot that A Clockwork Orange was directed by Kubrick. I guess that's my favorite of his films. I'm sorry I missed Eyes Wide Shut, which I have never seen. Killer's Kiss is on my TCM On Demand, so perhaps I'll have a look at that.

I used to enjoy seeing Atlantis, The Lost Continent when it was on our local stations in the wee hours, when I was a kid. It would have been suitable for the fashion series. One of the few things I remember about it, is Edward Platt wearing a dress.

Years later, I confirmed what my teacher said by checking a biography of Kubrick. Indeed, it makes a point of saying he was not a good student. I just found this on a website. The two movie theaters mentioned are ones that I frequented as well. Our graduation was actually held at the Loews Paradise! "At William Howard Taft High School Stanley was a member of the band and the photography club where he was assigned to take pictures of sporting events and school sponsored events for the school magazine. Although his attendance at school was still very poor, Stanley never failed to miss a movie at the local theaters. He would go to the Loew’s Paradise and RKO Fordham twice a week to see double features."

Stanley Kubrick went to my high school, about twenty years before I did. He was there at the time Eydie Gorme was there. One of my teachers said Kubrick wasn't a good student, "so there's hope for you all." I want to like his movies more than I do (though I do like them). They just don't always "connect," in the sense that E.M. Forster used the term. “Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.” ― E.M. Forster, Howards End There are moments in Kubrick's films that I do love, however.

King of the Zombies (1941) (Although if there's one thing I wouldn't want to be twice, zombies is both of them!) Next: Favorite movie featuring a snake or snakes

On Svengoolie tomorrow, July 23, 2022: Brides of Dracula (1960)

Rochelle Hudson was in She Done Him Wrong with Louise Beavers.

I'd like to see the 1938 Kidnapped again. C. Aubrey Smith plays the Duke of Argyle. As always, he's quite wonderful.

"We're a Couple of Swells" sung by Bud (Leigh McCormick) and his sister Helen (Ayse Owens) in The Long Day Closes (1992) Next: Sung in a movie directed by Herbert Wilcox