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The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953) Next: staircase

Hi starliteyes, as far as I can tell these three would qualify: Baby Takes a Bow (1934) Our Little Girl (1935) The Littlest Rebel (1935) This also seems to be true of The Little Colonel (1935), although I'm a little vague about that one. Baby Takes a Bow stars James Dunn and Claire Trevor, who won Oscars for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) and Key Largo (1948), respectively. Until you pointed it out, I never realized quite how overwhelmingly she was cast as either an orphan or the child of a single parent. I guess this was assumed to increase the audience's natural impulse to want to "adopt" her, at least in their hearts.

Rita Next: Schell, Bello, Casares

5. Foreman is best-known as the (famously blacklisted) screenwriter of High Noon and The Bridge on the River Kwai. The Victors (which he also wrote and produced) is the only film he ever directed.

9. Remick became lifelong friends with composer Stephen Sondheim after appearing in his ill-fated 1964 musical Anyone Can Whistle, which ran on Broadway for only a week. She later sang in the all-star 1985 concert version of his musical Follies.

It's James Lapine's Impromptu (1991), in which she plays the Comtesse d'Agoult, an author who (like George Sand) found it prudent to publish under a male pen name. She was also a noted lover of Franz Liszt (they lived together for several years) and the mother-in-law of Richard Wagner. This is one of only two commercially released feature films Lapine has directed (he's better-known as a highly-respected stage director and librettist, e.g. of the Stephen Sondheim musicals Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods). Next: John Cassavetes (one of his onscreen deaths was especially dramatic)

Wallace Next: Jeans, Jewell, Sanford

Joan Shawlee. Probably best-remembered as the hard-driving bandleader in Some Like it Hot. Billy Wilder was clearly a fan of her work. Next: Mountain Justice (1937) The Jury's Secret (1938) Naughty But Nice (1939) My Favorite Wife (1940) Private Affairs (1940) (in each of which they played a similar role)

Merrily We Go to Hell (1932) Madame Butterfly (1932) Thirty-Day Princess (1934) Next: Joan Blondell and Warren William

The General (1927) Next: stunts that are more dangerous than they look

In that case, I'll try to keep any future examples on the more accessible side. In the meantime, here's a clue for the above list: these 5 films share a distinctive visual (cinematographic) element that is fairly uncommon.

Well, I love this topic, goshdarnit. Maybe we can revive it? :-) Next: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) Portrait of Jennie (1948) A Man and a Woman (1966) Raging Bull (1980) Wings of Desire (1987)

Forbidden (1932: Barbara Stanwyck and Adolphe Menjou) (1949: Douglass Montgomery and Hazel Court) (1953: Tony Curtis and Joanne Dru) ("Only her kind of woman could give him his kind of love!") (1984: Jacqueline Bisset and Jörgen Prochnow, of Das Boot fame) Betrayed (1954: Clark Gable and Lana Turner) (1988: Debra Winger and Tom Berenger) ("Suspect. Investigator. Passion. Betrayal.") Trapped (1949: Lloyd Bridges and Barbara Payton) ("When a killer dreams of millions...and a girl to spend them on!") (2002: Charlize Theron and Kevin Bacon) Castaway / Cast Away (1986: Oliver Reed and Amanda Donohoe) (Plot: "Middle-aged guy advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island." I guess if you're Oliver Reed you can get away with this.) (2000: Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt)

Maximilian Schell was in A Bridge Too Far (1977) with Michael Caine, who was in The Dark Knight Rises (2012) with Anne Hathaway. (My link for Mickey Rooney + Michelle Williams was Teri Garr: The Black Stallion and Dick.) Next: Zasu Pitts and Sharon Tate

"A Spoonful of Sugar" from Mary Poppins next: another song designed to help someone overcome their fears

Magical Mystery Tour (1967) next: dream sequences involving food

Hint: this fine actress shares a last name with an Oscar-winning (and frequently nominated) American actress, although the actress we're looking for is not herself American. Their first names are also oddly similar (same number of syllables, and starting and ending with the same letters).

Microcosmos (1996) Next: another movie featuring extreme closeups

Leo Genn. Next: The Mugger (1958)

Charade (1963) (of which The Truth About Charlie is a remake) Next: The Manchurian Candidate (1962) (another film later remade by Demme)

Mae West in Go West Young Man (1936) and Every Day's a Holiday (1937) Carole Lombard in The Eagle and the Hawk (1933) Lana Turner in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) Next: Ray Harryhausen collaborates with Bernard Herrmann

Great rock documentaries: The Last Waltz (1978) Next: Stop Making Sense (1984)

Cloris Leachman. Next: The Sorrows of Satan (1917) (first feature film role)

Eva Marie Saint was in Superman Returns (2006) with Frank Langella, who was in 5 to 7 (2014) with Glenn Close. Next: Mickey Rooney and Michelle Williams