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Madame X (1937) The Divorce of Lady X (1938)

Ruth Chatterton was in Lilly Turner (1933) with Ruth Donnelly.

All Fall Down (1962) -- commits suicide by driving her car off a cliff, à la Thelma and Louise (although the moment itself isn't shown onscreen) (P. S. Sinatra doesn't die immediately from his beating, but later in the scene with Montgomery Clift.) Next: Geraldine Page

7. As a chorus girl in the 1934 Ziegfeld Follies, she was told to change her name. She studied the cosmetic jars on her dressing table, then "stole my first name from Evening in Paris, and the second from Elizabeth Arden."

The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) That Man from Rio (1964) Three Days of the Condor (1975)

Two directed by Fielder Cook: A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966) Patterns (1956)

Rod La Rocque was in One Romantic Night with Lillian Gish, who was in A Wedding with Geraldine Chaplin, who was in Buffalo Bill and the Indians with Paul Newman OR Rod La Rocque was in Resurrection with Dolores del Rio, who was in Cheyenne Autumn with Sal Mineo, who was in Exodus with Paul Newman (P. S. my link for Camryn Manheim was Philip Seymour Hoffman: Happiness and Nobody's Fool.) Next: Jason Robards, Sr. (father of Jason Robards)

The real dilemma, though: would she take his last name or not? Hmmm... 🙂

hint: this actor died two months ago. Some of his better-known films include The Thomas Crown Affair, Live and Let Die, Blue Collar, Alien, and Midnight Run.

Hint 2: the actress made only one other film after this one.

Brian Cox was in Zodiac (2007) with Dermot Mulroney, who was in Staying Together (1989) with Melinda Dillon, who was in Absence of Malice (1981) with Paul Newman. Next: Camryn Manheim

Day of the Outlaw (1959) Next: Richard Chamberlain, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson

Another way to play this game would be to keep the chain of names going as long as you can. Maybe some Board members would find that more interesting? It's definitely more challenging! For example: Gladys George/ George Montgomery/ Montgomery Clift Aaron Paul/ Paul Stewart/ Stewart Granger Ina Claire/ Claire Trevor/ Trevor Howard/ Howard Keel John Randolph/ Randolph Scott/ Scott Glenn/ Glenn Close Sandy Dennis/ Dennis Christopher/ Christopher Lee/ Lee Patrick/ Patrick Wayne/ Wayne Morris/ Morris Chestnut

The Silence (1963) Next: Winter Light (1962) (Ingmar Bergman directs Ingrid Thulin and Gunnel Lindblom)

Wedding announcements: Fry-Day (Stephen Fry and Doris Day) Burns-Bridges (George Burns and Lloyd Bridges) Dingle-Berry (Charles Dingle and Jules Berry) Foch-Kitt (Nina Foch and Eartha Kitt)

Appointment in London (1953) (Ten years after your 1943 appointment in Berlin. Plenty of time to change planes.)

...the little-known sequel to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, in which the three of them decide, "To hell with this gold prospectin' thing, we ain't made any money anyhow. Let's get stoned!"

It (1927) Children of Divorce (1927) Wings (1927) Next: Mary Astor and Ricardo Cortez (5 possibilities)

San Francisco (1936) Next: an even older film whose special effects were considered impressive at the time

Island of Lost Souls (1934) The Curse of the Cat People (1944) Dillinger (1945) (The 1931 version of Frankenstein is still sometimes listed as being 70 minutes, but this is true only of pre-1986 prints that lack certain previously censored scenes--notably a crucial segment of the scene where the monster accidentally drowns Maria. Most restored versions run 71 or 72 minutes.)

Ethan Hawke was in Dad (1989) with Jack Lemmon, who was in It Should Happen to You (1954) and Phfft (1954) with Judy Holliday. Next: Viola Davis and Laurence Olivier

Doris Day + Chester Morris = Doris Morris Candice Bergen + Joyce Landis = Candice Landis Karen Black + Bobby Darin = Karen Darin Petula Clark + Hanna Schygulla = Petula Schygulla

Hugh Griffith. He often played larger-than-life leading roles on stage (e.g., King Lear and Falstaff), and brought a similar intensity to many of his (inevitably smaller) film roles. Next: Pygmalion (1938) The Long Voyage Home (1940) The Great Mr. Handel (1942) War and Peace (1956) Tom Jones (1963)

Yes, I thought of that too! It reminded me that the actress Joan Perry had the misfortune not only of being married for many years to Harry Cohn, but also of having to change her name to...Joan Cohn: On the plus side, after he died she married Laurence Harvey. (At least I assume that was a plus for her, comparatively speaking, but who knows.)

Louis Gossett Jr. Next: Nothing But a Man (1964) (first credited role)