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You're a brave one, vallo! And you are correct!
All of these actors played the multi-faceted Benjamin Franklin in these movies:
Lee Beggs in JANICE MEREDITH (1924)
Thomas Pogue in LLOYDS OF LONDON (1936)
Walter Walker in MARIE ANTOINETTE (1938)
Orson Welles in ROYAL AFFAIR AT VERSAILLES (1954) and LA FAYETTE (1961)
Howard DaSilva in 1776 (1972)
Eli Wallach in INDEPENDENCE (1976)
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Monday's question: In which of his films did Bob Hope play a role originally played by H. B. Warner and Wallace Reid?
Good luck!
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Good morning, everybody! Winter is an odd thing in the Ohio Valley -- a few days of warmth are followed by bitter cold, and vice versa. The saying here is if you don't like the weather, just wait a few days. There's something for everybody here.
And what a preamble for this week's movie trivia . . .
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I haven't been able to confirm this, but I've also heard that SHANGHAI EXPRESS will be getting the Criterion treatment at some future date . . . THE SCARLET EMPRESS is currently available from Criterion.
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Friday's question: The popular song "When Your Lover Has Gone" was introduced in what James Cagney film?
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Chico Marx's name was originally spelled "Chicko." (Somewhere in my vast, unorganized archives I have an old newspaper ad with that spelling.) But, for unknown reasons, theater managers and the Marxes' agents kept dropping the "k" in their promotions, so Chico just gave up and spelled it that way ever since.
Incidentally, the boy vocalist in the band that Chico formed in the early 1940s was the teenaged Mel Torme.
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I remember some of the details differently, but the movie is YOU NEVER CAN TELL (1951). Dick Powell plays the murdered German shepherd who comes back to earth in human form to find his killer, as a detective named Rex Shepherd. I think Joyce Holden played his assistant, who had been a horse during her previous life.
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Thursday's question: What movie star's autobiography was entitled It Sure Beats Working?
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Good job, feaito! You are correct!
Gloria Swanson sang the song in her 1929 film THE TRESPASSER, later recorded it commercially, and it became a big hit for her. Afterward, she requested that "Love" be played wherever she made a personal appearance. I remember seeing her on Dick Cavett's show in the late 1970s, and "Love" was played as she came on stage.
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Hey everybody, Universal will be releasing Marlene Dietrich: The Glamour Collection in April. The two-DVD set includes MOROCCO, BLONDE VENUS, THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN, THE FLAME OF NEW ORLEANS, and GOLDEN EARRINGS. Line forms on the right . . .
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Wednesday's question: What film actress's theme song was "Love (Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere)"?
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Yesterday's answer: Woody Allen's MANHATTAN (1979).
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Tuesday's question: In what picture does Diane Keaton own a dachshund named Waffles?
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Vallo, you are correct! Fields played both of the Bellows brothers in this picture.
And be wary, my boy -- you're addressing a former letter carrier . . .
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Monday's question: In what film does W. C. Fields play a double role?
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Greetings, everybody! Just wrote a dozen checks today, and didn't date any of them 2005. I think that's a record for me -- nine days into the new year, and I'm used to it already! Hope you're enjoying the passage of time, too.
Now, let's move on to this week's movie trivia . . .
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You mean he was streaking? That's scary.
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Friday's question: In the 1955 movie GUYS AND DOLLS, what were the names of the three horses touted by the trio of singers in the song "Fugue for Tinhorns"?
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And it's coming out on DVD next week!
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The problem now is that there's no way to download it. Where's the PC icon?
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Thursday's question: Who was the last actor to portray detective Philo Vance on the big screen?
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Correct again, feaito! You're too good!
Yes, Fitzgerald tried to adapt Babylon Revisited to concentrate on Honoria, the child in the story, as a vehicle for Shirley Temple, but the project never properly jelled.
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No, I think you're right about Fred Astaire. It sounds like YOU'LL NEVER GET RICH (1941), one of the two films he made with Rita Hayworth, the other one being YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER (1942).
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Wednesday's question: Author F. Scott Fitzgerald once tried to adapt his short story Babylon Revisited as a vehicle for what actress?
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Trivia -- Week of January 16, 2006
in Games and Trivia
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Wednesday's question: What film actress said the following: "When I first went into the movies, Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later, he played my father, and finally, my husband. If he had lived, I'm sure I would have played his mother . . ."?
Good luck!