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Rebecca (1940) (Rebecca de Winter's death haunts many of the other characters) The Big Chill (1983) ("Alex Marshall"--the whole film is motivated by his death) Frankenstein (1931) (death of a little girl incites an angry mob, who wrongly assume the monster deliberately killed her) The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) (lynching of three innocent men leads to much soul-searching) Saving Private Ryan (1998) (entire mission is motivated by the death of Ryan's three brothers) The Third Man (1949) (several characters' actions are motivated by the mistaken belief that Harry Lime is dead) Atonement (2007) (Briony's rewriting of history is an attempt to "atone" for Robbie Turner's death) Murder on the Orient Express (1974) (Ratchett's death directly affects all twelve suspects) September 30, 1955 (1977) (characters affected by James Dean's death) Love Field (1992) (characters affected by JFK assassination)

Reefer Madness (1936) (marijuana) The Man With the Golden Arm (1955) (not specified, but presumably heroin) Bigger Than Life (1956) (cortisone) The Tingler (1959) (Vincent Price on LSD) The Trip (1967) (LSD) I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968) (marijuana brownies) Easy Rider (1969) (marijuana, LSD, cocaine) Altered States (1980) (mescaline, ket*mine, LSD) Trainspotting (1996) (heroin) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) (LSD, mescaline, diethyl ether, adrenochrome)

Yes, Peebs, perfect answer! And thanks for the accompanying photos. 🙂 Since What's Up, Doc? is a direct homage to Bringing Up Baby, the re-appearance of that moment was perhaps somewhat inevitable. Your turn...

Thanks, Peebs. I think after this one I'm going to bow out for a while! ------------------- The Freshman (1925) Bringing Up Baby (1938) Saboteur (1942) Singin' in the Rain (1952) What's Up, Doc? (1972) hint: "Farewell, Ethel Barrymore"

They all played Count Dracula?

Yes, exactly. I thought that one might be a quickie (especially because The Glass Wall was on TCM recently). Nice work, Peebs. The bad news is now you already have to come up with another clue! 🙂

Thanks, Peebs! I remember seeing Oscar Wilde's grave in Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris many years ago. It's all covered with red kiss markings (a practice that's apparently no longer allowed). ---------------------------------------------- Next: The Glass Wall (1953) Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) The Interpreter (2005) Che (2008) In the Loop (2009)

They all portrayed Oscar Wilde?

Hands Up! (1926) Black Hand (1950) The Left Handed Gun (1958) I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) A Handful of Dust (1988) Edward Scissorhands (1990) Fingers (1978) Fingers at the Window (1942) Five Finger Exercise (1962) The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)

Yes! (That was Emma-zingly fast, too!) 😉 I remember the first time I heard Marie Dressler had made a movie called Emma, I assumed it was a Jane Austen adaptation and thought, "isn't she a little old for that part?" I also love the idea of Pola Negri as a French woman. I guess this was still the era when all European accents were considered roughly the same, or close enough that no one really complained. Great job, Peebs, and your thread. 🙂

Thanks, Peebs! There are probably lots of escalator scenes in movies (especially criminal chase scenes). I haven't seen the last two films, so wouldn't have gotten it without your hint. 🙂 ------------------------------------ Next: Marie Dressler Pola Negri Jennifer Jones Isabelle Huppert Gwyneth Paltrow hint: these are listed in chronological order (by film year); films 2, 3, and 4 are related directly to each other

Ah, scenes on an escalator? (e.g., in What's Up, Doc?, where they're going up the down escalator)

Dialogue scenes that take place in a bathroom or shower? If that's not correct, I would like to humbly request a hint. Thanks! 🙂

Mayim Bialik (especially without makeup) and Margaret Hamilton:

Ah, I did think of Anthony Perkins, but didn't realize he had worked with Bardot. Was that a French film? (I know he spoke French.) For Boyer/Colman/Dietrich, I was actually thinking of Jean Arthur (History is Made at Night, The Talk of the Town, A Foreign Affair). 🙂

Alain Delon (incidentally, Charles Boyer was my intended answer for Arthur/Bergman/Caron. Cary Grant is just as good, if not better!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Next: Charles Boyer, Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich

Mickey Rooney Next: Jean Arthur, Ingrid Bergman, Leslie Caron

Albert Finney Next: Grace Kelly, Sessue Hayakawa, Mark Hamill

There ya go! I thought of it as "these actresses all played Bette Davis's sister," but your answer is effectively the same. Nice work, Peebs, and the floor is yours. 🙂

Janeane Garofalo was in Now and Then (1995) with Melanie Griffith, who was in Nobody's Fool (1994) with Paul Newman. Next: Victor Sjöström

In that case, here's the last hint I can offer without totally giving away the answer: The actress (yes, it's an actress) who appears in every film...is also one of the four actresses on the list. How is this possible, you ask? Well, that's the "trick" (which was created by the screenwriters, not by me). 🙂

Well, Peebs, I gotta admit that's a very clever solution (it's even in chronological order!), but unfortunately not what I had in mind. Hint: the same famous leading "actor" (not giving away yet whether that means an actor or actress) appears in each film. Each actress on the list plays a character with the same relationship to that certain leading "actor." There is a slight "trick" involved with the second and fourth films, which is unavoidable (i.e. it occurs not because I'm trying to be deliberately misleading, but because it's inherent to the nature of the films themselves).

Sterling Hayden Next: Judy Garland, Fredric March, Olivia Newton-John

Cool! My connector was actually Dean Martin, so it's fun that's there's a whole other Rat Pack connection. 🙂

Thanks, Peebs! Not silly. 🙂 Next: Olivia de Havilland Bette Davis Joan Crawford Bette Davis (again, 18 years later) Lillian Gish Hint: these refer to individual films, listed chronologically