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Texas to Bataan (1942) Les Chemins de Katmandou (1969) (aka The Pleasure Pit) w/Jane Birkin Salaam Bombay! (1988)

Mercedes McCambridge

In Old Chicago (1938) Jesse James (1939) Beau Geste (1939) Destry Rides Again (1939) The Virginian (1946) The Big Combo (1955) Next: Evelyn Keyes

Hi starliteyes, no worries and I think I've figured out the source of the confusion. :-) There are actually two scenes in Three Little Words that begin with Red Skelton at the piano, and immediately segue into Astaire and Vera-Ellen singing and/or dancing. But because you wrote "the comic actor plays the tune on the piano while his lyricist, played by a male dancer, sings the song and then dances with his wife, played by another dancer," I chose "Nevertheless I'm In Love With You" -- because that's the sequence of events for that number: Skelton plays, Astaire sings, Vera-Ellen joins him, they dance. (You didn't mention furniture in your original clues, and there isn't any in this scene.) In the "Thinking of You" number, however, Astaire actually doesn't sing at all--only Vera-Ellen (or whoever was dubbing for her) does. Then they both dance (with furniture behind them). So I assume certain aspects of these two scenes understandably got conflated in your memory. As for Ship Ahoy, the music credits for it on imdb don't show "Thinking of You" anywhere, but they do show this (note boldface): I'm Getting Sentimental Over You (1932) (uncredited) Music by George Bassman Lyrics by Ned Washington Performed by Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra at a nightclub in the first scene Reprised as dance music aboard ship and danced by Red Skelton with Eleanor Powell <----Played also as background music ------------------------------------- I think the fact that there are three songs whose titles all end in a preposition + "you" (with you, over you, of you) probably also added to the confusion. I've included links for each scene below, plus Ella Fitzgerald singing "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" for comparison. "Nevertheless I'm in Love With You" from Three Little Words: "Thinking of You" from Three Little Words: Ship Ahoy: Red Skelton dances to "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" with Eleanor Powell (Tommy Dorsey trombone solo at 0:52, = "Never thought I'd fall...") Ella Fitzgerald singing "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You":

hint: the actor who played the villain in this film is still alive (as of 5/9/21)

hint: third of three films

Helen Twelvetrees was in Times Square Lady with Robert Taylor, who was in Conspirator with Elizabeth Taylor, who was in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Paul Newman Next: Miles Mander

Toni Colette was in The Sixth Sense with Bruce Willis, who was in Nobody's Fool with Paul Newman Next: Boris Karloff

hint: saint + small bird

hint: Francis Ford Coppola

Well, I'm still a little confused, but I think this is what you mean: The biopic is Three Little Words (1950), where Red Skelton (the comic actor) plays composer Harry Ruby, while lyricist Fred Kalmar (Fred Astaire) sings "Nevertheless I'm In Love With You" while dancing with his wife, Jessie Brown (Vera-Ellen). I assume the early 1940s musical is Ship Ahoy (1942), where Red Skelton is on deck showing some "breathing exercises" to Eleanor Powell and she deftly takes advantage of the moment so that he's dancing with her before he realizes it. The only problem is that the song being played by the unseen orchestra at that moment is not "Nevertheless I'm in Love With You," but "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" -- which is a rather similar title, but by a different composer/lyricist pair: George Bassman and Ned Washington. (Tommy Dorsey has a trombone solo.) But maybe I'm just in the same boat as Terrence1 and don't realize it yet...

Jocelyn Brando was in The Chase (1966) with Robert Redford, who was in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and The Sting (1973) with Paul Newman. Next: Marlene Dietrich

Heller in Pink Tights (1960) -- Sophia Loren (in about as different a role from Two Women as one can imagine, though released the same year) An American in Paris (1951) -- Gene Kelly proudly displaying one of his best...assets To Be or Not to Be (1942) -- Jack Benny (distracted by Robert Stack's departure)

Thanks, Princess. That was just an educated guess, so if you had a different example in mind I'd still be interested to hear it. Next: which actor and film was Hitchcock referring to here? "________________ played the hero of (Hitchcock film); he's a competent performer, but he belongs to the light-comedy class of actors. Aside from that, he has an amusing face, so that even when he's in desperate straits, his features don't convey any anguish."

Joyce Hyser was in The Hollywood Knights with Michelle Pfeiffer, who was in A Midsummer Night's Dream with Stanley Tucci, who was in Road to Perdition with Paul Newman. Next: Tippi Hedren

OK, I'll take a stab at this, although I suspect my answer may not be exactly what you're looking for. In interviews, Hitchcock often referenced a memorable childhood experience as a way of explaining his lifelong fear of the police: when he was 5 or 6 years old, as a punishment for some minor unspecified offense, his father sent him to the police station with a note. The policeman on duty read the note and locked him in a cell for several minutes, saying, "this is what we do to bad little boys." (In some versions, it's "naughty" boys.) In a memorable scene in Psycho, a highway patrol officer finds Janet Leigh sleeping in her car on the highway as she is fleeing with the stolen cash. He wears dark sunglasses, has a dour, unsmiling facial expression, and speaks in a cool, professional monotone, reinforcing the sense that he is highly suspicious, forbidding, and unsympathetic. Her understandable fear of being caught is palpable in this scene.

Ian Fleming. (No, not that Ian Fleming.) And the first four were uncredited roles (yikes!) I like the bullet-points, though...makes things more legible. :-) Next: • The Power and the Glory (1941) • Red Sky at Morning (1948) • The Wooden Horse (1950) • A Town Like Alice (1956) • Girl With Green Eyes (1964)

9. Director Richard Brooks had originally imagined Tony Franciosa and Ava Gardner in the lead roles (although Gardner was a decade older than Taylor). Both imdb and the Wikipedia entry for Ben Gazzara claim that M-G-M had initially wanted James Dean for the role of Brick. (The original production of the play opened on 3/24/55 and Dean died six months later). Montgomery Clift, Robert Mitchum, and Elvis Presley all reportedly turned down the role, although whether this was because of the character's implied homosexuality in each case is not clear. Lana Turner and Grace Kelly were also considered for the role of Maggie (although the latter obviously proved unfeasible once Kelly became a Princess).

Gloria Grahame Next: Elizabeth Taylor in Suddenly, Last Summer

Keith Carradine Next: Hunter's Blood (1986)

7. All the lead actors from the original stage production who failed to be cast in the film version nevertheless had significant movie careers. Ben Gazzara explicitly turned down the film, which would have been only his second (his prominent role in Anatomy of a Murder came only a year later). Barbara Bel Geddes (Tony-nominated for her stage performance) had already been Oscar-nominated a decade earlier for I Remember Mama . Mildred Dunnock, already Oscar-nominated for Death of A Salesman (1951), was nominated again for the film version of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth (1962). Pat Hingle went on to a long film and television career as a character actor (e.g., in Splendor in the Grass, Norma Rae, and Batman).

Dennis Hopper was in Blood Red (1989) with Aldo Ray, and in True Romance (1993) with Brad Pitt. (Man, Aldo Ray made a lot of bad movies later in his career!) Next: George Arliss and Jim Carrey

Geraldine Chaplin Next: Lily Tomlin

Hi MrMagoo, the correct answer for The Bofors Gun was actually Nicol Williamson (and he was nominated for a BAFTA for it); but since Peebs has already answered your clue, let's just keep movin' right along. No worries. :-)

Denholm Elliott Next: The Bofors Gun (1968) (first credited feature-film role)