[Movies with a State in the Title]

Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)

[The Initial Link--Crack the Initials of the Actor... You'll Get the Gist of It.]

Katherine Borowitz

Next: B. K. 

[Movies with a State in the Title]

Down Missouri Way (1946)

[Actor/Movie Association Game]

Mel Ferrer

[♦ MOVIES released in the 1920s and Before ♦]

La Bohème (1926)

[Movies with a State in the Title]

The Texas Rangers (1936)

[Double Feature]

H. M. Pulham, Esq. (1941) -- another "initial" film with Van Heflin

Next: Duel in the Sun (1946) -- another directed by King Vidor

[A to Z for Alliterative named Actors, Characters, and Movies]

Olive Oyl

[What Do They Have in Common?]

Totally! Thanks, Fausterlitz. Your thread....

[Movies with a State in the Title]

Wyoming Outlaw (1939)

[ClassiCategories]

There are lots of films with Wyoming in the title, but I like those from the '20s and '30s best:

The Man from Wyoming (1924) -- Jack Hoxie and Lillian Rich

The Wyoming Wildcat (1925) -- Tom Tyler and Virginia Southern

 A Man from Wyoming (1930) -- Gary Cooper and June Collyer

The Wyoming Whirlwind (1932) -- Lane Chandler and Adele Lacy

Hills of Old Wyoming (1937) -- William Boyd and Gabby Hayes

The Old Wyoming Trail (1937) -- Charles Starrett and Barbara Weeks

Wyoming Outlaw (1939) -- John Wayne and Ray Corrigan

 

[ClassiCategories]

The Shining (1980)

 

Groundhog Day (1993)

 

 

[ClassiCategories]

Meet John Doe (1941)

 

Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)

 

Ethan Frome (1993)

[What Do They Have in Common?]

Thanks, Fausterlitz!

Richard Burton (TV)

Albert Finney (TV)

Brian Cox

Gary Oldman

Rod Taylor

and a bonus: Simon Ward

[The first actor/actress that comes to mind..]

Gwyneth Paltrow, Best Actress for Shakespeare in Love (1998)

Next: graduated from an ivy league school 

 

[ClassiCategories]

1 hour ago, TopBilled said:

Some of the aging gunslinger stories probably fit this category.

Joel McCrae and Randolph Scott in Ride the High Country (1962) -- but, gosh, I love them! 

[ClassiCategories]

11 minutes ago, cinemaman said:

Martha  (   Elizabeth  Taylor)    in  Who's   Afraid  of  Virginia  Woolf  1966

Not to mention "Swampy" Richard Burton as George!

[ClassiCategories]

Shirley MacLaine's Aurora Greenway is too old for Bill Paxton's Jerry Bruckner in The Evening Star (1996)

[ClassiCategories]

Shirley MacLaine as Doris Mann in Postcards from the Edge (1990)

 

[ClassiCategories]

All of the Space Cowboys (2000)

 

 

Anybody who proclaims he or someone else is "getting too old for this sh*t"...:

Danny Glover in every (I'm pretty sure) iteration of Lethal Weapon

 

Danny Glover as Uncle Russell in Death at a Funeral (2010)

 

John Mahoney to Clint Eastwood as Frank Horrigan in In the Line of Fire (1993)

 

Bill Murray in Stripes (1981)

 

also Warren Oates as Sgt. Hulka in Stripes (1981)

 

Kevin Costner as Crash Davis in Bull Durham (1988)

[*A to Z of actresses and actors*:)]

Franklin, Gretchen 

[Actor/Movie Association Game]

Richard Basehart 

[*A to Z of actresses and actors*:)]

Asner, Ed

[What Do They Have in Common?]

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

          -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3

 

uttered by King Claudius of Denmark:

Joseph Schildkraut -- Hamlet (1953)

Robert Shaw -- Hamlet at Elsinore (1964)

Anthony Hopkins -- Hamlet (1969)

Alan Bates -- Hamlet (1990)

Kyle MacLachlan -- Hamlet (2000)

 

[Actor/Movie Association Game]

The Glass Wall (1953)