Princess of Tap

Movie stars have been discovered at drug stores and other odd places. But this movie star was discovered at a ski resort. Well kind of - - the person wasn't actually there, but a photo of the person was on display. A Golden Age movie star saw the photo and voilà-- that person got a Hollywood movie contract and became a major movie star. Sounds easy, doesn't it? Please give us the name of the old movie star, the new movie star and the ski resort.

I think you can be objective about that. It doesn't really matter to other people, but I like Fred Astaire and everything he's ever done. But we still have to be objective and compare him to other actors fairly even if they aren't one of our favorites. But if one of your favorite actors/actresses has two or three movies the same year and they're excellent--there's no reason not to list them.

1939 Best Supporting Actress *1) Hattie McDaniel - - Gone with the Wind* 2)Tie -- Margaret Hamilton - - The Wizard of Oz -- Olivia de Havilland - - Gone with the Wind 3) Marjorie Main - - Another Thin Man 4) Geraldine Fitzgerald - - Dark Victory 5) Edna May Oliver - - The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle 6) Mary Boland- - The Women 1939 Best Supporting Actor *1) Bela Lugosi - - The Son of Frankenstein* 2) Charles Laughton - - The Hunchback of Notre Dame 3) Lionel Atwill - - The Son of Frankenstein 4) Bert Lahr - - The Wizard of Oz 5) Thomas Mitchell - - Gone with the Wind 6) Victor Jory - - Gone with the Wind 7) Victor McLaglen - - Gunga Din

GPF-- My answer would be closer to I've seen all these movies for the last 46 years. As you watch a movie and do study and research about it, the director, the actors, the set design, the writers, etc, and then let's let us never forget people like Edith Head-- over the decades, you may change your opinion or improve your opinion or lower your opinion. Of course, lately I've been able to see more movies because of DVDs in the last time 10 years or so. I would say I've already seen all these movies a number of times, except for the Robert Donat movies which I only recently saw on DVD two or three years ago. It's important that you review movies that you saw when you were a child or a teenager or in your twenties. Because with maturity and more knowledge of Cinema you might change your opinion. And then again you might not.

1939 - - Best Actress: (Ranked according to number--number one is number one) *1) Vivien Leigh- - Gone with the Wind* 2) Bette Davis - - Dark Victory 3) Judy Garland - - The Wizard of Oz 4) Greta Garbo - - Ninotchka 5) Jean Arthur - - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 6) Greer Garson - - Goodbye Mr. Chips 7) Ginger Rogers - - The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle 1939 - - Best Actor: *1) Robert Donat-- Goodbye Mr. Chips* 2) Charles Laughton - - The Hunchback of Notre Dame 3) James Stewart - - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 4) Ray Bolger - - The Wizard of Oz 5) Clark Gable-- Gone with the Wind 6) Basil Rathbone - - The Son of Frankenstein 7) Melvyn Douglas - - Ninotchka

Hint: This well-known French film director's last movie was a homage to Alfred Hitchcock. Reminder: After you identify the director, please name at least one of his films, according to the criteria in the question.

At least Alan Ladd stood on the box as he was told. But Yul Brynner refused to stand on the box in Anastasia. Yul Brynner said he wanted everyone to see just what a big cow Ingrid Bergman was! Doesn't that just make him your favorite movie star!

Napoleon was 5'5".-- Charles de Gaulle was 6'5". Height proves nothing.

If you look at hint number 2, it says this is not an American movie.

Fra-- let's not forget Hal David! Gene Pitney - - Only Love Can break a Heart The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance-- not used in the movie 24 hours from Tulsa True love never runs smooth Bobby Vee - - Be True to Yourself The Iceman Cometh - - Jerry Butler-- A House Is Not a Home/ make it easy on yourself Perry Como - - Magic Moments I just bought the CD - - Jack Jones--Wives and Lovers One more Bobby - - Bobby Vinton - - Blue on Blue The Shirelles - - Baby It's You FRA--SANS Hal David-- small Hit for Andy Williams - - Don't you believe it There are more but these are the records that I bought. And they were all good ones too!

Roger Ebert noted that this legendary film director often made movies about women who killed men. He was quoting Stanley Kauffmann but he did agree with him. On his own, Ebert concluded that this French film director never made a movie about a healthy and mature relationship between a man and a woman. When you name this film director, please also name several films in which women kill men. Then, take on the Ebert challenge- - can you find a film that this director made where there's a healthy relationship between a man and a woman or/en revanche-- go ahead and give us several movies where there were toxic relationships between men and women. This is a fun question, n'est-ce pas?

This famous actress comes from a bi-cultural background. She's known to the world as an English-speaking actress, but has been awarded the Legion of Honor because of her cultural background and work in French Cinema. One French film she made even satirized her situation as a bilingual actress. When your name this actress, please name the iconic film in which she appeared to be challenged by the French language.

Henry Hull was in The Werewolf of London with Warner Oland.

Miss Marple, of course - - Joan Hickson Next: An obnoxious womanizer

Jean Harlow

This movie is world famous for the following quote: Il n'y a pas d'amour, Il n'y a que des preuves d'amour-- (c'est à dire--) which means: There's no such thing as love; only proof of love.

Running across Les jeux sont faits by Sartre, I was trying to figure out why I've never read it. Looking it up, it was an original screenplay that he wrote for a movie directed by Delannoy. It has an uncomfortable similarity to Huis Clos of 1944. I'm looking forward to seeing it.

The first film this later famous director directed, he fell in love with the female star. They had a liasion that lasted a number of years. Until he was directing her in another movie and she fell in love with her leading man, and that permanently ended it. We need One Director, one Leading Lady and one leading man, along with two movies by said director.

Miles, I can't post with my tablet anyway, so someone else can answer the rest of the question and have the thread. But I could immediately see that was Andy Hardy's Ann Rutherford on the right side in sky blue with a big smile. I used to see her occasionally on Perry Mason.

I can never remember when to watch the old TV shows on Me-TV. So when one is coming on I have them call me on my cell phone. And they actually call 15 minutes before the show starts. Even if I don't feel like watching them that night, I start to Remember the Time. I really liked it. I must have missed Svengoolie 4/5 times in a row before they started calling me.

Talking about Hollywood children who committed suicide - - I don't know if anybody's brought this up yet but-- Jennifer Jones and David Selznick had one daughter, Mary Jennifer who committed suicide in her early twenties. Sadly ironic was that Jennifer's third husband also had a son who committed suicide.

Seriously, it was that 1942 movie The Spoilers that made Randolph Scott my favorite Western Star. Something about him seemed more authentic than John Wayne. So I went on to catch Randolph Scott in all those Boetticher westerns. And for a girl who didn't particularly like westerns, that was pretty good.

I have wanted to see George Cukor's A Woman's Face for number of decades. So I'm always trying not to listen too much to the plot. Silly me, I just found out a couple of years ago that Ingrid Bergman did this movie originally in Sweden. So now I've got two reasons not to want to spoil the plot. When I lived in France they used to show her Swedish movies on the late show. That's when I saw the original Intermezzo. It's hard to believe that she was more beautiful before the Hollywood Glamour treatment, but she was.

Can you picture John Wayne playing Lou Gehrig, Sergeant York, Billy Mitchell or a Quaker in Friendly Persuasion? "Pilgrim, I may be a Quaker, so I can't hit you. But I can still beat the **** out of you."

Fra-- what was the name of the song that you were listening to?