Dothery

They all directed the "Fly" movies.

Hint #2: The heroine finds herself in love with a third, mysterious man in her exile. A wig plays a part in the plot a little later on.

Hint #2: This gent finds himself living in durance vile in a foreign country, and he's not happy.

Hint #1: The song is about a southerner.

Hint #1: The only picture where the actors who play the husband and the predator don't play their usual roles as partners. And it ain't Laurel and Hardy.

A married woman with an indifferent husband runs away to escape his predatory friend.

It was one of her favorite roles along with The Constant Nymph from what I've read...... I've heard that, from a costar of hers in that picture whom I knew years ago. She believed it was because of Charles Boyer, who she said was a dream to work with. She said they used to wait for him to come in every day and jump all over him, they loved him so much. I guess it can make all the difference. But her performance in it was great and she may have liked it because of that too.

A Woman's Face ... Joan Crawford, Conrad Veidt.

This is by a composer whose songs invariably stole the movies from the stars, in this case one of them a gorgeous teenaged newcomer. Composer, movie, performer?

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Yeah! It's "I'm Like a Fish Out of Water," sung by Dick Powell and Rosemary Lane, in "Hollywood Hotel." The song writers were I believe Johnny Mercer and Dick Whiting, Margaret Whiting's father. I loved both those writers.

That's Jane Frazee. She had a very long career, starting out at the age of six, billed with her sister as The Frazee Sisters.

Cary Grant and Myrna Loy in The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer?

Yes. That's Lupe Velez, poor girl. A terribly sad case ... she was the Mexican Spitfire and had a pretty good career going. Cut a wide swath among men in the community. Then she got pregnant by a guy named Harald Ramon. Apparently he wouldn't marry her. She left a note saying he didn't want her or her baby, and killed herself with sleeping pills.

19 down: The Million Pound Note

That young fellow is Ted Donaldson, who had a dancing caterpillar named (I think) Curly, who would dance only to "Yes Sir, That's My Baby." Cary Grant was his partner in the movie, and the name of it was "Once Upon a Time."

3 Down: Black Narcissus

I was going to post this as a question, but it would be 400 years before anyone got it, so I'll just tell the story and plead that it IS trivial, and it IS about a movie, and that's the name of the thread ... Minny minny years ago, I think 25 or so, I was approached by a secretarial service client of mine to do some transcription which would, indirectly, end up being part of a movie script. The idea was that I would do it on spec, and be paid down the line sometime, when the project was in production. I said sure. The subject was a solar car, which was being built by students at Konawaena High School, down the road from Kona. The authors of the script were interested in getting the students to the solar car race in Australia, the World Solar Challenge, and finally succeeded in doing so. The car was a fragile, cobbled-together thing but worked reasonably well if they could get it to hold together long enough. When they got to Australia they had qualifying runs and the car made it just to the finish line and then fell apart. But it did qualify. They fixed it (they fixed it about every twenty minutes for weeks, before and during the race). The race went on, with several multimillion-dollar cars (Mitsubishi had two cars which cost $6 million each). The little solar car from Konawaena finished, I think, 18th in a field of 75 or so. Don't quote me; I'm just doing this from memory. The kids raced the car themselves, the girls driving faster than the boys, since they were lighter, and every ounce counted. One girl was particularly skillful. Nobody could touch her for endurance and courage. It was grueling, and the kids did a masterful job, since they were riding about a couple inches off the pavement all the way, hot, sweaty, exhausted at the end of their segment, but very positive. They drove a very long way, from Darwin to Adelaide. My client came back from Australia with a finished script and backing from several car manufacturers, who had contributed several millions for the privilege of having their names on the car during the race. He approached several movie companies, one of which (Tristar) bought the script and eventually made the movie, as "Race The Sun." He then told me I was going to be compensated for my work to the tune of $10,000, which was just short of twenty times more than the value of the work I had done. He got the same deal from Tristar for all the students who had been involved in the building of the car and racing it. Tristar was quite amenable to these arrangements. You were in the script, and even though you might not make it to the movie itself, if you were still in the script ten days before principal photography began, you got your money. I was depicted in the script, and made it to the ten days before. Then apparently I must have been cut, because no matter how many times I've seen the picture, I can't find me. My movie career died a-borning. I didn't mind, because the authors had been feeding me bits from the script that made me feel pretty uncomfortable, like "She stood on a table wearing only a string bikini ..." The movie was nothing like what really happened. The kids were far from being misfits at the high school, the teacher was a really solid man who knew how to work with the kids and who had flawless credentials. There were no cockroaches involved (why they put that idea in the screenplay I will never know). The authors found out the studio cared nothing about authenticity, but not until after they'd sold it and a writer did the screenplay. By that time they were out of the picture. They did get an "Executive Producers" credit, for the blink of an eye at the end of the picture. But they got a satisfactory deal. They were a little disappointed that it wasn't what they'd written, but that's show business. I still have the T-shirt, which was designed by one of the script authors, who was also an artist. Anyway, a couple months later I got $10,000 from Tristar.

Wow. I just finished watching it and I'm all wrung out. I'd forgotten how brutal it was. And I'd forgotten too how great the cast was. All headliners. Amazing. I was a little startled to see Nancy Sinatra with a screen credit for the footage of her with her father when he got the award. Must be a SAG rule. Stephen Boyd was good when he was given the chance. This one was too over the top to be really good, but there were some moments where he was a tiny bit subtle. I keep connecting him with Dolores Hart, the nun who was his friend for so many years. She said he was very spiritual and was a lovely man. I got a kick out of the interview with her that I read a while ago. She said the only thing the other sisters in the convent wanted to know about her Hollywood years was, what was Elvis like? She said she always told them her thoughts about him, that he was polite and nice and she liked him. Where was I? Oh. Stephen Boyd. Yeah. He was onscreen the whole time, it seemed. Must have been a hard job, being in almost every scene.

My favorite has always been *Advise and Consent*. As an old Washington denizen, it rings more true than any of the others I've seen. Good solid stuff. Of the more recent ones, *All the President's Men* gets me where I live. Perfect picture.

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That's Mona Freeman. Good actress. Beautiful girl.

That's it. "Stella by Starlight" was played by Victor Young as a theme in "The Uninvited." It had no words in the movie, nor did it have any until Ned Washington was commissioned to write a lyric for it. The unwelcome presence was the ghost that haunted the room where Gail Russell and Ray Milland sat, when the tune suddenly went from a gentle major key to a sinister minor with a lot of flats in it. It was a marvelous device that gave you the shivers. A great picture, as well. I remember when the song suddenly became famous, after the movie had been out for a while, and was taken up by just about every artist who sang or played. The jazz community latched onto it quickly and it became a huge moneymaker for a lot of artists ,,, Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Ray Charles, and later Dick Haymes and other pop stars recorded it. Your turn, my dear.

Hint #3: The movie is set in England.

Actually, I'd like to have been in any movie with Walter Pidgeon in it, particularly when he was singing. Loved that voice. He had such presence.