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Winona Ryder was in The Age of Innocence with Geraldine Chaplin, who was in Buffalo Bill and the Indians with Paul Newman. (I would have used Joanne Woodward, but I don't think of her as having been "in" The Age of Innocence, since she's not onscreen.) Next: Peter Dinklage

(one-directional): Fatal Attraction (1987) The Fan (1981) Sunset Boulevard (1950)

The Best Things in Life Are Free (1956)

Meryl Streep (Postcards from the Edge) Next: another film based on a roman à clef

Mickey Rourke was in The Rainmaker (1997) with Teresa Wright, and in Berlin, I Love You (2019) with Helen Mirren. Next: Robert Redford and Saoirse Ronan

Speaking of Howard Duff, he often does this raised-eyebrow thing that reminds me of Elisha Cook Jr.:

Hi cinemaman, my apologies, please ignore my clue and offer your own new one in its place. I've been playing "Seven Degrees of Paul Newman" a lot (where it's not required to have only one linking actor), and I forgot the rules are different here. (I would just delete my answer, but I can't figure out any way to do that.) One of the things I like about this game is that there is more than one possible correct answer in many cases (but given the title, it does make sense that any correct answer should involve only a single actor, rather than a multi-person chain).

Doris Day was in The Glass Bottom Boat (1966) with Rod Taylor, who was in Inglourious Basterds (2009) with Mélanie Laurent, who was in La Rafle (The Roundup) (2010) with Jean Reno, who was in Léon: The Professional (1994) with Natalie Portman. Next: Robert Redford and Saoirse Ronan

Hints: All four of his daughters are actresses. He is related by marriage to Jeremy Irons.

Lillian Gish was in Hambone and Hillie (1983) with Alan Hale Jr., who was in Johnny Dangerously (1984) with Danny DeVito. (Wow--Francis X. Bushman! What a cool answer. I was thinking of Charles Bickford. Also, who knew Lillian Gish made a movie with O.J. Simpson?) :-) Next: Peggy Ann Garner and Madonna

Tyrone Power Randolph Scott Robert Preston Charles Bronson

Bad Lieutenant (1992) Bad Santa (2003) Bad Teacher (2011)

This is interesting, because even Elia Kazan (when directing the original production of the play) felt that Brando's performance was so magnetic, and Brando himself so charismatic, that it threw off the entire balance of the play and turned Tennessee Williams' intentions upside down. According to a New Yorker profile ("Method Man" by Claudia Roth Pierpont), Jessica Tandy, the original Blanche, was "furious that the audience laughed along with Stanley’s jokes at her expense—as though he were a regular guy putting an uppity woman in her place—and stunned that it openly extended its sympathies more to the executioner than to his victim."

Watched the opening scenes of Detour (1945) just now--when Tom Drake turned towards the camera (while playing the piano), my mind immediately flashed on Kurt Russell. (photos deleted to save attachment space)

It's The House by the Railroad by Edward Hopper. (A wonderful painting--I grew up in NYC and saw it often at the Museum of Modern Art.) Apparently the actual home (in Haverstraw, New York) is still standing today. Ironically, the Psycho house was built using parts from the James Stewart film Harvey, although re-arranged to resemble the house in the Hopper painting.

Yes it would! I'm not sure I agree with him, though. I was always struck by her enormous, expressive eyes, which enabled her to easily convey vulnerability and sadness without resorting to overacting. Your thread, MilesArcher. 🙂

Yes, exactly, good job! (Thankfully, you didn't need my giveaway clue: "was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar six times but never won.") Your move, MilesArcher. :-)

Charles Boyer was in Barefoot in the Park (1967) with Robert Redford, who was in Indecent Proposal (1993) with Woody Harrelson. Next: Marie Dressler and Audrey Hepburn

hint 1: her first U.S. film starred Clark Gable. hint 2: among the directors she worked with were George Cukor, Fred Zinnemann, Vincent Minnelli, John Huston, Leo McCarey, and Elia Kazan.

Michael Redgrave was in The Go-Between (1971) with Julie Christie, who was in The Company You Keep (2013) with Brit Marling. Next: Tab Hunter and Dave Chappelle

The Wrong Man (1956) Next: Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Charles Laughton

Wilfred Hyde-White. News to me: he was declared bankrupt in 1979 and spent his last 25 years living in the U.S. His son Alex Hyde-White is also an actor--mostly on TV, but also occasionally in films, including Ishtar, Pretty Woman, and Catch Me if You Can. (Re Citizen Kane, I sometimes deliberately avoid mentioning someone's best-known film, in order to make the answer less immediately obvious. In this case I hoped the scene in Kiss Me Deadly where Ralph Meeker destroys one of Fortunio Bonanova's beloved Enrico Caruso 78s might be memorable enough.) :-) Next: • Odd Man Out (1947) • The Spanish Gardener (1956) • Farenheit 451 (1966) • The Day of the Jackal (1973) • My Left Foot (1989)

hint 2: the actress herself was not British. Born in the Bronx, in fact.

Ah, that makes more sense, given how different the instrumentation is in the last piece.

Buddy Ebsen in Captain January (1936) Alice Faye and Betty Grable in Tin Pan Alley (1940) Bob Hope in The Road to Singapore (1940)