The Lady Eve
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No, I?m not the towering goddess type, I generally played ing?nues, girls who looked like they spent the day at the beach?
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*It?s Always Fair Weather*
CBS (or NBC or ABC or Fox)
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Thanks phroso, they may not have spoken to each other in the film, but all three of them had some of the best lines of their careers in *Network*. It?s hard to beat Paddy Chayefsky for dark satire. I?ll be back?
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*LeMaire, Charles* - Oscar-winning costume design, *All About Eve*
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Dustin Hoffman turned down the lead role in Terrence Malick?s *Days of Heaven* and the role ultimately went to
*Richard Gere*
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Jeakins, Dorothy ? Oscar-winning costume design, *The Night of the Iguana*
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*Young at Heart*
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Oswald, Lee Harvey ? Gary Oldman in *JFK*
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Thanks, Miles. I made a point of clarifying the story about the piano playing in *The Great Lie* because others have also attributed the actual playing to Astor but she refutes it, so?
Here?s what Bette Davis had to say when another of her co-stars passed away??? the most beautiful person as well as actress, and a professional. With all her fame and theaters named after her?never was she late one minute, never didn?t she know every line??
Who was the actress and for what film did both of them receive Oscar nods?
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*Tortilla Flat* ?
Darling, a downpour?s definite
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*Dieterle, William* - director *Portrait of Jenny*
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Benton directed a film in the late 90s that wasn?t a hit, but I like it - *Twilight* (no vampires) with Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, James Garner, Stockard Channing, Reese Witherspoon and the great
*Gene Hackman*
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Bannister, Guy ? Edward Asner in *JFK*
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Lloyd Nolan was in *Hannah and her Sisters* with *Michael Caine*
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TCM occasionally runs a short piece on Bette Davis ? the narrator, a brilliant actress in her own right, once received a complimentary letter from BD?she is the incomparable
*Meryl Streep*
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Zorro ? Tyrone Power in *The Mark of Zorro*
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O - *Ocean?s Eleven*
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Altman, Robert ? director *Gosford Park*
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The role of George M. Cohan in *Yankee Doodle Dandy* brought his one and only Best Actor Oscar to the inimitable
*James Cagney*
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*Jezebel*
Nix, M.D.
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*The Citadel*
Farewell, Mr. Chaplin
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Writer/director/actor John Huston was arguably the most gifted member of his very gifted family ? one of his sons is the currently active Danny Huston, his daughter is Oscar winner Angjelica Huston and his father was Oscar winner
Walter Huston
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*A Star is Born*
That fantastic falsehood
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Madeleine Carroll became a naturalized US citizen when she married
*Sterling Hayden*
GENERAL TRIVIA QUESTION THREAD
in Games and Trivia
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You?re right, it?s Bette Davis talking about Dame Gladys Cooper. Though neither won an Oscar for *Now, Voyager* they both were nominated?that quote is from Dick Cavett?s interview with Bette Davis in 1971, it was taped the day after Gladys Cooper died (and can be seen on YouTube)?fast work, cujas, it?s all yours?