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Lulu in PANDORA'S BOX "There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!" ---Henri Langlois

Correct, visualfeast! That didn't take long! Your turn . . .

Looks like it's time for another plot point: (4) A Chinese idol is reputed to grant wishes.

You made some good points, and I hereby retract my unconditional condemnation of Meeker's Hammer. Now that I think about it, after he learns of Christina's death, he says, "She had the cutest way of needling a guy" -- a very human reaction. And he didn't have to go after the killers -- there was nothing in it for him, except that his professional pride had been hurt (he turned down Paul Stewart's offer to buy him off). And, true, he risked his life to save Velda. Gaby Rodgers is now best remembered for the scene in which she opens "Pandora's Box," but her entire performance is well worth watching. We get some strange vibes from her character right at the start, and it gets more and more strange as the story progresses.

Anita (Rita Moreno) in WEST SIDE STORY Cornelia (Agnes Moorehead) in THE BAT Mrs. Danvers in REBECCA Mrs. Treadwell in LAURA

Arlene Dahl in SLIGHTLY SCARLET Diana Sands in THE LANDLORD Joan Fontaine in ISLAND IN THE SUN Olivia de Havilland in THE SNAKE PIT

Joan Chen in THE HUNTED Esther Williams in any of her "water over the dame" pictures Auntie Entity (Tina Turner) in MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME . . . and two who are pure poison, but who cares: Barbara Stanwyck in DOUBLE INDEMNITY Jane Greer in OUT OF THE PAST

All very ingenious guesses, and ones that I wouldn't have thought of myself, but: no. Next clue: (3) The female lead role was played by an actress who co-starred with John Garfield.

I remember Dietrich's eulogy for Quinlan -- and she could have been speaking of Welles, too -- "He was something of a man. What does it matter what you say about him?" Off camera, on another occasion, she said of Welles that when we speak of him we should cross ourselves. (And I don't think she meant that he was a vampire.)

I would have mentioned Queen Christina, but you don't have a crush on a goddess. And maybe that was the problem that Garbo had in her personal life.

That's a great picture, and it certainly looks as though it belongs in the group that Genthe took in 1925. If you Google: leninimports.com/garbo/genthe . . . you'll get four results. Click on the first and you'll see the photo I was talking about. Garbo's hand is at her throat, as in this one, but it's a full face portrait, and she's looking straight at the camera.

No, it wasn't any of the duos you mentioned. The word "team" may have been misleading; I should have just said that they often appeared together. I'll make the next clue more specific: (2) A horse race is an element of the plot (but the movie is not about horse racing). Message was edited by: faceinthecrowd

Despite its flaws, THINGS TO COME remains my favorite sci-fi movie. My reasons: The acting. Raymond Massey! Ralph Richardson! Cedric Hardwicke! The music, by Arthur Bliss, is so much better than what we usually get in s-f movies that it's in another dimension. This film actually has something to say -- not surprising, with a screenplay by H. G. Wells. The opening sequence is stunning, cutting back and forth between scenes of happy holiday shoppers and grim headlines warning of impending war. When the war begins, we see a little boy marching back and forth, with the shadows of real soldiers behind him -- one of many scenes that show the great visual imagination of William Cameron Menzies. If the special effects are primitive by today's standards, they are effective for a film made in 1936. The final scene, with Massey and Edward Chapman looking up at the stars after their daughter and son have embarked on the first moon shot, and Massey delivering his great final speech, always gives me goose bumps.

Nastassja Kinski in CAT PEOPLE

Thank you. It was the bullet in the family jewels that tipped it. My first clue: (1) The two male leads often appeared together; they made a famous team.

I'm looking at a photo of Garbo taken by Arnold Genthe in 1925. It's one of several that are credited with convincing MGM to sign up "that blonde Swede." It doesn't look anything like what they turned her into -- she's even more breathtaking in Genthe's pictures than she was in her films, if you can believe such a thing. (Genthe said, "One can forgive Hollywood its crassness -- but not its blindness.") The picture appears in the November 1938 issue of Coronet. If it hasn't already been posted here, you can see it at leninimports.com/garbo/genthe Message was edited by: faceinthecrowd

Sudden Impact?

Zohra Lampert in PAY OR DIE Gloria Grahame in THE BIG HEAT--HUMAN DESIRE--NOT AS A STRANGER--ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW--THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL Helen Mirren in anything, at any age Viveca Lindfors in almost anything Anjelica Huston in THE GRIFTERS Gail Russell in THE ANGEL AND THE BADMAN (she was the angel!) Isabelle Huppert in LA CEREMONIE--MA MERE--THE PIANO TEACHER--HEAVEN'S GATE Marta Toren in CASBAH Hedy Lamarr in ALGIERS Hazel Court in THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH Ann Sheridan in THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT--KINGS ROW Lilli Palmer in BODY AND SOUL Claudette Colbert in CLEOPATRA--SIGN OF THE CROSS Ida Lupino in ROAD HOUSE--DEEP VALLEY--THE HARD WAY Suzanne Pleshette in WALL OF NOISE Message was edited by: faceinthecrowd Message was edited by: faceinthecrowd

Barbara Apolonia Chalupiec = Pola Negri new name: Ira Grossel

I can understand your being disappointed that someone thought that Scott was the "original" Scrooge. It's not a question of which one is considered the "best," it's a matter of being aware of the different versions so as to make up one's own mind.

Tula Finklea = Cyd Charisse nn Vincent Zoimo

Aaron Chwatt = Red Buttons nn... Jeanette Helen Morrison

Jeff Chandler played Cochise in BROKEN ARROW, THE BATTLE AT APACHE PASS, and TAZA, SON OF COCHISE (cameo). AFAIK, none of these were sequels, but I could be wrong.

Phyllis Isley = Jennifer Jones nn: Joanne LaCock

I agree with everyone who praises George C. Scott -- he was a first rate actor. It doesn't diminish him in the slightest to say that someone else was the definitive Scrooge. No one but Scott could have played Gen. Patton, or Gen. Buck Turgidson, or many other of his great roles.