Fausterlitz
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9 hours ago, cinemaman said:
next: Flaming Star 1960 How I Won the War 1967 Ned Kelly 1970 Two-Lane Blacktop 1971 The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976
Rock stars in leading roles? (Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, James Taylor, David Bowie) [although Taylor is more of a folk-influenced singer-songwriter]
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5 hours ago, Peebs said:
Oh, I think you're right! Samuel Hinds is in Stage Door but not as her dad.
No, he actually does play her dad in Stage Door, and I wasn't at all implying that you were wrong--I just didn't remember that it was him. I do remember the character, though (a wealthy guy who's hoping his daughter will actually fail and give up the whole acting thing).
Fwiw, none of these actors looked much like Katharine Hepburn's actual father, Thomas Hepburn:
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5 minutes ago, Peebs said:
Played Katherine Hepburn 's father
State Door/Undercurrent/Holiday/Philadelphia Story/Woman of the Year
That's it, Peebs! I didn't realize Hinds and Gwenn had played her father more than once--I actually had different films in mind for the two of them (Little Women and Sylvia Scarlett, respectively). I've seen Stage Door many times, but somehow forgot Hinds was in it.
Nice work, and the ball's in your court. 🙂
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1 hour ago, Peebs said:
I'm not sure about your list. Do they have a role in common?
Hi Peebs, yes: they each acted with another well-known performer, to whom their character bore the same relationship in each film.
I enjoyed your "bed" titles, which must have taken some sleuthing to ferret out! Fortunately, the films in my question are mostly much better-known than those you found. They're also listed in chronological order.
Another example (although in a lesser-known film) would be Leo G. Carroll.
Thus endeth the hints (at least for now)... 🙂
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On 11/4/2021 at 1:05 PM, TopBilled said:
So I guess she dies in two of her films-- HUMORESQUE and I SAW WHAT YOU DID.
She also dies in Queen Bee (unintentional car crash), and in The Story of Esther Costello (intentional, suicidal car crash).
Plus, there's a dream sequence in Sudden Fear where she dies in yet another car crash.
(With our apologies to Miss Wonderly for briefly dragging the thread back to this side topic, we now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.)
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Thanks, Peebs! I've only seen the first of these, and only heard of one of the others before. Which ones have you seen?
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Samuel S. Hinds
Edmund Gwenn
Henry Kolker
John Halliday
Minor Watson
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9 hours ago, Peebs said:
Next:
Patterns (1956)
Saddle the Wind (1958)
The Yellow Canary (1963)
Assault on a Queen (1966)
The Salamander (1981)
Screenplay or adaptation by Rod Serling?
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10 hours ago, Peebs said:
Based on works by Guy de Maupassant?
Vous avez raison, monsieur! As a reward, here's a link to du Maurier's "The Birds":
https://mrnsmith.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/the-birds-by-daphne-du-maurier.pdf
Tag, you're it! 🙂
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Thanks, Peebs! I actually read "The Birds" recently, and was surprised at how vastly different it is from the Hitchcock film, which is a very free adaptation of her short story.
Re Jules Furthman, he also co-wrote the screenplay for The Big Sleep (which doesn't seem to have made the plot any easier to follow!) 😉
Next:
A Day in the Country (1936)
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947)
A Woman Without Love (1952)
Diary of a Madman (1963)
Olivia (1983)
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59 minutes ago, Peebs said:
Next:
Frenchman's Creek (1944)
The Years Between (1946)
The Scapegoat (1959)
The Birds (1963)
Don't Look Now (1973)
Adaptations of works by Daphne du Maurier?
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43 minutes ago, Peebs said:
Screenplay by Jules Furthman?
You got it, Peebs! I was just about to add a hint, so you saved me the trouble... 🙂
Great job, and back to you.
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Maude Fealy
Gladys Cooper
Bette Davis (The Whales of August)
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Winged Victory (1944)
Wings of Courage (1945)
Wings of Desire (1987)
The Wings of the Dove (1997)
Secret of the Wings (2012)
Red Wing (2013)
On Wings of Eagles (2016)
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Thanks, Peebs! Interesting that two of those films are comedies.
Next:
Morocco (1930)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Rio Bravo (1959)
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On 10/31/2021 at 9:05 AM, Peebs said:
Next:
Martha, Marcy, May, Marlene (2011)
Dragnet (1987)
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
Help! (1965)
Midsommar (2017)
Cults (in most cases involving ritual sacrifice)?
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Alec Baldwin
Next: James Mason, Capucine, Shirley MacLaine
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Topper (1937)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Our Town (1940)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990)
Death Becomes Her (1992)
What Dreams May Come (1998)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) (Kenny)
The Lake House (2006)
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Barbra Streisand
Next: John Wayne, Marlon Brando, Paul Giamatti
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53 minutes ago, Peebs said:
Elaine May wrote or in some cases, punched up the script?
Yes: wrote the last two, co-wrote the first, and (as you said) was brought in to "punch up" the dialogue in the other two (at which she was apparently extremely adept).
A unique and (I think) criminally under-used talent, Ishtar notwithstanding. Her daughter, Jeannie Berlin (unforgettable in Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret) is also a superb and rarely-seen actress.
Nice job, Peebs, and back to you. 🙂
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Thanks, Peebs! I overlooked the Oscar-nominated part, but in his case the odds of that being true of any individual film seem to be about 50-50! (Since Schindler's List, for example, he's scored 37 films and been Oscar-nominated for 21 of those, which is pretty staggering.)
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Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Reds (1981) (uncredited)
Tootsie (1982) (uncredited)
The Birdcage (1996)
Primary Colors (1997)
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2 hours ago, Peebs said:
Next: behind the scenes connection
Tom Sawyer (1973)
Cinderella Liberty (1973)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Superman (1978)
Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Music by John Williams?
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20 minutes ago, Peebs said:
Billy titles?
Billy Budd, Billy Jack, Ode to Billy Joe, Billy Elliot, Billy Madison.
Yes, nice work, Peebs! I wasn't sure how tricky that might be. (My next hint would have been "Bathgate.")
Impressively fast! Your thread. 🙂
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2 hours ago, cinemaman said:
next: Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard and Miriam Hopkins
Merle Oberon (The Divorce of Lady X/Wuthering Heights, The Scarlet Pimpernel, These Three)
Next: Laurence Harvey, Vivien Leigh, Katharine Ross
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2 hours ago, Peebs said:
Jack Lemmon : Cowboy (1958), The Player (1992), The Grass Harp (1995)
Wow, I had no idea! (Mine was Gloria Grahame: The Big Heat, Odds Against Tomorrow, Melvin and Howard)
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Rebecca (1940)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Faces (1968)
Two English Girls (1971)
Serpico (1973)
Chinatown (1974)
Being There (1979)
Unforgiven (1992)
City of God (2002)
Phantom Thread (2017)