mudskipper
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Question:
Bernard Herrmann was originally hired to compose the original music for this wonderful movie but quit because of David Selznick's interference. Dmitri Tiomkin was then hired and, at Selznick's insistence, he ended up using various themes by Claude Debussy...which was a real blessing because the music was perfect for the movie's atmosphere (I guess Selznick knew what he wanted..)...All that remains of Herrmann's contribution is a terrible song which nobody would remember except for the lyrics....Name the movie and you'll know what I'm talking about....
Cujas, you should know this one...
Edited by: mudskipper on Nov 27, 2010 11:36 AM
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Here:
"FROM HERE TO ETERNITY" ( or as the Mad Magazine satire says, "From Eternity To Here".):
Nominated Best Actors: Burt Lancaster and Montgomery Clift (lost to William Holden)
Nominated Best Actress: Deborah Kerr (lost to Audrey Hepburn)
Won Best Supporting Actor: Frank
Won Best Supporting Actress: Donna Reed
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That's right. Frank played a downed pilot who was captured by the Germans...While running and trying to catch up with the escaping prisoners who were on a train (Von Ryan's Express), he got shot.
Your thread, C.
Edited by: mudskipper on Nov 27, 2010 10:48 AM
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The Odd Couple?
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Nope .This one is a colored film done years later...and he was wearing a leather jacket.
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That's her, Fi...Your thread.
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Hint: Being from Europe, I have a foreign accent...
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More letters:
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Hints:-- The book was published in 1963, the movie, with the same title, came out in 1969... and the TV series in Japan was in 1977...
Edited by: mudskipper on Nov 26, 2010 11:21 PM
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Hint:.. Stars William Holden...
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Ossie Davis holds and looks at a woman's palm and tells her fortune... In doing so, he mentions the planet Pluto...But the movie was set 70 years before the planet was discovered...Name the movie this goof was in.
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The two films and the performers are:
1952-- A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE:
Marlon Brando- Nominated Best Actor
Vivien Leigh-----Won Best Actress
Karl Malden------Won Best Supporting Actor
Kim Hunter-------Won Best Supporting Actress
1967--WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?:
Richard Burton---Nominated Best Actor
Elizabeth Taylor--Won Best Actress
George Segal----Nominated Best Supporting Actor
Sandy Dennis----Won Best Supporting Actress
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Not the "Gold Rush", but another Chaplin classic....and this is one of the funniest scenes in the movie...
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Here's a nice one from the forties:
" I wonder why does everybody look at me,
And then begin to talk about a Christmas tree.
I hope that means everybody is glad to see...."
This was a famous song and the title is revealed in the next line...Once you know the title, the singer will be obvious...Movie?...Now, Miles, contain yourself. Ha..ha..
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Of course that's Jack Lemmon, who played a tenderfoot from Chicago on his first cattle drive from Mexico with Glenn Ford in "Cowboy"(1958). The other cowboy with the pole was played by Richard Jaeckel. The unfortunate cowhand who died when bitten on the neck by the snake was Strother ("What we have here is a failure to communicate"...) Martin who was, of course, in "Cool Hand Luke"...
Your turn...
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That's the prelude to Pennies From Heaven...
Then it goes:
"Everytime it rains,
It rains pennies from heaven?
Don't you know each cloud contains
Pennies from heaven?
You'll find your fortune falling
All over town
Be sure that your umbrella
Is upside down....
Sung by Bing Crosby in "Pennies From Heaven"...Music by Arthur Johnson and Lyrics by Johnny Burke.
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Richard Burton ?
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That was easy...I'll try a more challenging one next time, if there is such a thing...Your thread, Miles.
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Thanks...
"Come closer, young man. My eyes aren't what they used to be...nothing's like it used to be. My legs are crippled with rheumatism; my heart flutters like a jumping fish most of the time; I've lost every tooth in my head--plates, upper and lower; My left ear's stone deaf....And if I didn't feel so good, I'd think that old age is comin' on me."
Clue: Musical bio from the forties
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In the first episode of this
In the first episode of this TV series, a future Oscar Winner guest stars as a radioman who contacts a being from the Andromeda Galaxy by radio waves, then inadvertently transports the alien to earth when his radio announcer increases the power of the radio waves to maximum....Guest star, episode, TV show..
tv
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Frank Sinatra runs after a train and is shot...Name of the movie?
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Thanks...Charlie Chaplin spits out a few coins after eating several slices of cake.
Title of the movie ?
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Here's another beautiful song from a black and white musical of the thirties, sung as a duet by two great singers . The composer considered this operetta his best...
"Our love is so sweet in the springtime,
When blossoms are fragrant in May;
No years that are coming can bring time
To make me forget, dear, this day.
I'll love you in life's gray December
The same as I love you today;
My heart ever young will remember
The thrill it knew, this day in May."....
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There's something else beyond just working with James Dean that he brings out and improves some of the people he worked with...you can add Sal Mineo and Rock Hudson to that list....What is it?
Do You Know This Song?
in Games and Trivia
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That's her, Six. I have her DVD set and watched two of her movies recently. And actually, she's an underrated performer in my opinion. She dances the Samba with her hips and hands while singing. They say that back in the forties the President wanted to increase ties with Central and South America so he encouraged Hollywood and the media to invite many of the Latin performers to the U.S. Too bad she died of a heart attack at 46, a few hours after performing in the Jimmy Durante show.....Your turn.