flashback42
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Excuse me, I guess that seemed ambiguous. Yes, *Roots: The Next Generation*. I opened with a reference to a question posed back in May on the General Trivia thread, about a Bigscreen all-star opus in which a famous actor sought a certain role and did not get it. As for this question about asking to audition and then getting the desired role, one more piece of information. -- It was the same actor.
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I'll pass, and open the thread.
BTW, Noel Coward is credited by IMDb with 17 Acting credits (as compared with 127 Writing credits). I checked that source becaused I did remember *Our Man in Havana*, and the list reminded me of his participation in *Boom!*
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Waco -- Charles Winninger in *A Lady Takes a Chance* (1943)
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slaytonf is correct. I was referencing the movie script, not the historic trial. Bad proofreading; thanks for the correction.
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Uh-huh. Now:
The character was a figure in extreme right-wing politics. It was something of a surprise that he granted an interview to the star.
The actor was not used to having to audition for anything.
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On the right track, remembering that this involves a sequel.
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The miniseries is a sequel to another miniseries, running parallel to history in the form a multi-generational family tree.
The role is that of an actual person who footnoted aspects of the late 20th Century. His sequence was set in the form of being interviewed by the central character.
The performer who sought and got the role was a very big name in the industry.
Edited by: flashback42 on Jun 10, 2013 3:08 PM
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*My Pal Trigger*
*Stagecoach*
*Airplane!*
*Last Train from Gun Hill*
*Titanic*
*The African Queen*
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Thanks, but busy at the moment. Open thread.
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Respectively, John Wayne, his son Patrick Wayne and Ward Bond. *Screen Directors Playhouse*, episode Rookie of the Year, aired 7 Dec 1955. I first posed this title when they started that thread about "Find the movie star in classic TV." And someone posed it again on a later occasion. Also TCM put together a program of some five or six episodes of *Playhouse* at one time. I taped it off the air at that time, but I don't know if TCM preserved it in a form where one can order it from them.
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*The Little Hut*
*The Cabin in the Cotton*
*The Big House (1931)*
*The Big House (2001 TVM)*
*The House of Sand and Fog*
*House of Bamboo*
*The Big Doll House*
*The Haunting of Hell House*
*The House on the Hill*
*Last House on The Left (1972)*
*Last House on The Left (2009)*
*The House Next Door (TVM)*
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Ed Gardner, *Duffy's Tavern*, (1945). Phone-answering patter: "Duffy's tavern, where the elite meet to eat. Archie the Manager speaking. Duffy ain't here." Are you sure it was on TV? I remember it as a radio show, and that opening year would mean a very small TV market.
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"Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. I think there must be a man who sits behind a desk and says, 'All right, you can have a telephone, but you lose privacy, and distance will lose its charm. Madam, you may vote, but at a price. You lose the right to retreat behind your powderpuff and your petticoat. Mister, you may conquer the air, but birds will lose their wonder, and the clouds will smell of gasoline.' "
...Spencer Tracy as Henry Darrow in *Inherit the Wind* (1960)
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"Do you think the sexes should be equal?"
"Heavens no! Men would become unmanageable."
"...I think we'll get along."
...Michelle Pfeiffer and Eva Green in *Dark Shadows* (2012)
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Umber, Greatjon -- Clive Mantle in *Game of Thrones* on Home Box Office
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Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne?
Lunt -- 10 titles, 1923-1963.
Fontanne -- 9 titles, 1924-1967. ??
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> {quote:title=MilesArcher wrote:}{quote}I may be wrong with the answer to this one, but you'll have to prove it. As far as I know, these two U.S. presidents have never been portayed by an actor in a movie or TV show.
...uh, Miles, uh, do you find yourself uh, looking forward to Happy Hour?...
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Googled it and got lucky. This is probably an easy one.
A recent entry on these Boards brought out an incident in which a famous actor lobbied for a central role in a movie and did not get it. The actor who did get that role got an Oscar. This question is about an actor who lobbied for a role in a popular miniseries. The people he talked with were dubious. He then asked (rare for him) to audition, to actually try out for the role with a reading. The audition was granted; he performed beautifully, and got the role.
Actor? Role? Miniseries?
Edited by: flashback42 on Jun 8, 2013 11:32 PM
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*Goldfinger*
*Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine*
*Dr.Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs*
Edited by: flashback42 on Jun 8, 2013 6:03 PM
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"reel two, dialogue two" -- The term was used by George Lucas while working on *American Graffitti*, abbreviated as "R2D2. He later used that as a name for the *Star Wars* droid. ??
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St. Ives, Ashley -- Edy Williams in *Beyond the Valley of the Dolls* (1970)
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*Cross of Iron* (1977)
*The Iron Cross* (1968)
*The Tin Star*
*The Iron Petticoat* (1956)
*Tie naing zi* aka *Iron Petticoat* (1969)
*The Tin Drum*
*Lead Belly: Life, Legend, Legacy*
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Down at 60 Views. I was prompted to this film by the recent sad notice about Ms. Williams, but I lost some time tracking down the title: I was looking at James Darren's filmography, mistakenly crediting him with Saxon's role. The actual MVP of the piece was Edward Andrews in the role of the solid citizen who turned out to be the actual killer.
Miles' thread.
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A teacher in another school has been killed. The teacher being stalked finds out who the lad is when he assaults her and snatches her purse. Later she finds her purse in her home, and her accumulation of threatening notes has been removed. -- He has been in her house. She refuses to name him, reasoning that this is just a matter of a disturbed student, nothing more
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