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3. She had a long and incredibly distinguished stage career as a great classical actress who could also play modern roles. Although she often played in Shaw and Shakespeare, her breakthrough role, which earned her superlatives, was in 1924, as Millamant in Congreve's Restoration comedy The Way of the World, at the Lyric Hammersmith.

I haven't made a thorough, scientific study of all the winners and nominees over the decades, but: 1. Harrison plays the role reasonably well. He had already performed it so often on stage; 2. The competition that year was remarkable. In addition to Burton and O'Toole for Becket, the nominees include Anthony Quinn (Zorba the Greek) and Peter Sellers (Dr. Strangelove). Any of those four deserved the Oscar instead of Harrison. There may be other years where I would have preferred a different winner, but it's rare for all four of the other nominees to give such transcendent performances and be more deserving.

King of the Zombies (1941) from Monogram Next: The film is better than the classic novel

You are correct, Princess. Husband also directed 116 episodes of Have Gun --Will Travel. My next clue would have been that Wife had an unusual first name. She had a small role in a very famous movie in which a nasty character has that name, and that the lead in that film won an Oscar for Best Actress. But I didn't need to give that clue, which refers to the film Mildred Pierce. You're up Princess!

Re: Becket, maybe this falls into the politically correct/woke category. Although we don't expect these quasi-historical films to be accurate, making Becket a Saxon in the play and then film was outrageous, and was probably a mistake from Jean Anouilh. Becket was a Norman. If anything, Henry II was partly Saxon, through his material grandmother (Margaret of Wessex). Making Becket a Saxon sets up the whole class consciousness thing that informs some of the movie, so it's just too wrong. (But it is a great movie, and both leads would have been better choices for the Academy Award for Best Actor than the winner that year (possibly the worst Best Actor choice in Oscar history, considering the four other nominees)!

The Long Day Closes (1992) Next: Pretentious movie

Virginia McKenna (turned 90 in June) Next: Aged poorly

Victor Spinetti Next: A little crazy

Husband was a director, particularly in television. He was especially famous for his work in one genre. His father was famous. Wife appeared in more than 100 films, playing mostly small and supporting roles. She segued into television, primarily appearing on single episodes. Wife had nothing to do with any Star Trek characters. 😀 She was, however, on a highly regarded single episode of a very popular 1950s (not comedy) series. Name the couple, a few of Husband's classic TV directorial connections, and some of the wife's credits that you may like.

"Czardas" (Monti) -- played on violin by Dr. M. in Elmer's body in The Black Pit of Dr. M. (1959) (This tips off Dr. M's family that Dr. M has come back. Dr. M explains to his shocked family: "Yes it's me, I came back in Elmer's body.) Next: Played in a movie about sports but the song is not about sports

A quick guess: Howard Hughes and Jean Peters.

Albert Dekker was in Kiss Me Deadly with Ralph Meeker.

Martha Hyer was in The Best of Everything with Diane Baker.

Children of the Corn (1984) Children of the Damned (1964)

More sky and more 1990 Africa The Sheltering Sky (1990) Mountains of the Moon (1990)

I got home late and turned it on well into the film, but it was so talky that I thought I was watching All About Eve! So switched it off and cancelled the DVR recording.

I have a separate PAL DVD player, but I have to hook it up each time I want to use it. So I've dedicated my Apple Super Drive to PAL use, and I generally watch PAL DVDs on my laptop, which I can also hook up to my TV.

I have a modest DVD library (certainly nothing to match the posters above), including some PAL titles as well as some programs recorded from British television. I also had a large number of films and programs on my DVR. But alas! My cable company replaced my cable box, and now I'm back to square one with that part of my library. I do remember the first movie I purchased on video; and the first on DVD: Video: King of the Zombies (1941): I SO had to have this movie, that I purchased it even before I had a VCR, when I was quite young. DVD: Last Year at Marienbad (1961): It sounds like a more sophisticated choice than my first video, but they're really quite similar! 😊 I also have a fair number of videos and DVDs of programs I produced; meaning programs presented live that were recorded.

"The Voice That Breathed O'er Eden" -- sung and played by the church organist in Random Harvest (1942) Next: Another lesser-known hymn from a film set in England

The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) Cairo (1942)

He was the original Emory in the premiere production of The Boys in the Band in 1968, reprising the role in the 1970 film (which I saw in Copenhagen that year, with Danish subtitles!)

Here's a piece about Andy Warhol and his favorite film, Creation of the Humanoids: http://www.rebeatmag.com/fantasia-obscura-story-human-replication-andy-warhols-favorite-film/ "The film had one strong champion, Andy Warhol. The film was his favorite, as stated in a review of one of his openings in The Village Voice from December 3, 1964, and it’s easy to see why: the themes of creation and replication, the inability to divide the natural from the crafted, certainly appealed to his aesthetic, and guided his vision through most of his artistic career. Warhol could take the themes raised in the film and present them in a way that would resonate with the viewer. In his hands, how he tackled the questions raised by The Creation of the Humanoids became art."

The only name I recognize in the credits is the amusingly named Dudley Manlove, who was in Plan 9. But here's something about the film that I found online: “No other effort from the golden age of spacesuit melodrama entranced the 60s avant-garde as deeply as Wesley Barry’s The Creation of the Humanoids, a deadpan talkie set after worldwide nuclear war, in which a shrinking population of radiation-infected humans rely on an army of android servants to maintain their idyllic lifestyle. Andy Warhol called it his favorite movie; Mike Kuchar parodied it in his robots-in-love featurette Sins of the Fleshapoids; Susan Sontag used it to explore the theme of dehumanization in her essay “The Imagination of Disaster;” and Robert Smithson dubbed it one of the ‘landmarks of Sci-fic.'”

Robert Vaughn's performance in The Young Philadelphians (1959) is one of the great supporting performances, for which he was nominated for an Oscar.

On Svengoolie tomorrow, July 31, 2021: I don't remember whether I've seen this film, but one good sign is that the music is by Edward J. Kay, who was nominated for an Oscar for his great score for King of the Zombies (1941). Kay also produced Creation of the Humanoids. Although the date for the film is generally given as 1962, it was probably made in 1960.