[What Do They Have in Common?]

22 hours ago, Fausterlitz said:

Next:

Reginald Denny

Frank Morgan

William Powell

Conrad Veidt

Roland Young

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Hint 1:  silents

Hint 2:  they all appeared with a certain famous actor (who, like them, also had a significant career in sound films)

[ClassiCategories]

Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

The Passionate Friends (1949)

Goodbye, My Fancy (1951)

Ruby Gentry (1952)

There's Always Tomorrow (1955)

Pauline at the Beach (1983)

Persuasion (1995)

Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

 

[Double Feature]

The Tijuana Story (1957)

Next: The Phenix City Story (1955)

[A to Z for Alliterative named Actors, Characters, and Movies]

no u

Violet Venable (Suddenly, Last Summer)

[ClassiCategories]

Citizen Kane -- scandal ruins his electoral chances

Meet John Doe -- the crowd turns on him for selling out

The Caine Mutiny -- Queeg's insanity is exposed at trial

[What Do They Have in Common?]

Thanks, Terrence, and no worries! I often ask questions that have more than one component myself, so I didn't think you were being "picky." 🙂

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Next:

Reginald Denny

Frank Morgan

William Powell

Conrad Veidt

Roland Young

hint: silents

[TCM's Jacqueline Stewart awarded MacArthur Fellowship]

3 hours ago, unwatchable said:

Why not just "overlooked film makers"? Why does everything have to be about race?

This kind of thing, despite its stated purpose, serves to divide us as a people. It's a form of segregation.

Seriously? It's the filmmakers themselves who were involuntarily segregated during the entire "classic" era, and even in the 70s and 80s were largely obligated to work outside the mainstream. Their work was of necessity directed primarily at a black audience, which inevitably limited its exposure, and thus its ability to be considered an integral part of standard film history. She's not the one "segregating" anything. On the contrary, she's trying to integrate these films back into mainstream consciousness.

More to the point, this subject matter is her particular area of expertise and has formed the primary basis of her life's work. Would you be saying the same thing if Eddie Muller had won a MacArthur fellowship to explore and encourage the appreciation and understanding of film noir? The films she's interested in have been much less thoroughly studied than those (even less so than many mediocre films noirs). So why, exactly, shouldn't she focus on them? As the MacArthur link says, her work "fills critical gaps in the history of American media."

Also, your presumption that the mere act of focusing on these films is tantamount to wallowing in and thus perpetuating racial animus is not borne out by any evidence.  If you've ever seen the TCM short film about the history of blackface, for example, you'll note that her approach to the topic is remarkably objective and clear-headed: she understands it in a larger historical context and argues strenuously against any efforts to censor such material.

As the saying goes, "the only way out is through." (This also applies to your admirable goal of a post-racial society, by the way.) 🙂

[The Seven Degrees of Paul Newman]

Andie MacDowell was in St. Elmo's Fire (1985) with Martin Balsam,

who was in Hombre (1967) with Paul Newman.

Next: Phoebe Cates

[What Do They Have in Common?]

4 hours ago, Terrence1 said:

You're on the right track, Fausterlitz, but it's a little more than that.

OK...they all played Barbara Stanwyck's husband in at least one movie (for Robinson and Boles it's only the second of their two films with her)

[ClassiCategories]

Play It Again, Sam (1972) -- San Francisco Museum of (Modern) Art

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) -- Chicago Art Institute

The International (2009) -- Guggenheim Museum

Mr. Turner (2014) -- Royal Academy of Arts (recreated at Wentworth Woodhouse)

 

 

 

 

 

[What Do They Have in Common?]

13 minutes ago, Terrence1 said:

We're going to try:

Henry Fonda

Kirk Douglas

Burt Lancaster

Edward G. Robinson

John Boles

They all co-starred with Barbara Stanwyck?

Fonda: The Mad Miss Manton (1938), The Lady Eve (1941), You Belong to Me (1941)

Douglas: The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

Lancaster: Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)

Robinson: Double Indemnity (1944), The Violent Men (1955)

Boles: A Message to Garcia (1936), Stella Dallas (1937)

[What Do They Have in Common?]

That's it, Peebs! And the depressing thing is I had to think pretty hard to come up even with those examples, so there probably aren't very many of them, at least not during the studio era.  Maybe you can think of some others.

Nice work as always, + it's your turn again.  🙂

[Your Favorite Film Of These Classic Horror Stars]

31 minutes ago, Det Jim McLeod said:

When I checked their lists, I found I never saw any non horror film by Chaney Sr. or Lugosi.

Hi Jim, if you click on any film title listed in their respective Wikipedia filmographies, a box appears that shows the first few sentences of the Wiki article about that film. The first sentence almost always indicates the genre of the film (mystery, crime, comedy, etc.)

Both actors appeared in many non-horror films + roles over the years. A few examples for each:

Chaney: Oliver Twist (1922), The Blackbird (1926), Tell it to the Marines (1926), Mr. Wu (1927), Mockery (1927), While the City Sleeps (1928)

Lugosi: International House (1932), The Mysterious Mr. Wong (1934), The Best Man Wins (1935), Postal Inspector (1936), Ninotchka (1939), You'll Find Out (1940)

🙂

[What Do They Have in Common?]

6 minutes ago, Peebs said:

Not sure, does it have something to do with dancing partners from different worlds/backgrounds?

Well, you're in the ballpark, Peebs, but it's more specific than that.

Hint: ebony and ivory

[♦ MOVIES released in the 1920s and Before ♦]

Sherlock Jr. (1924)

 

[The Initial Link--Crack the Initials of the Actor... You'll Get the Gist of It.]

Michael York

Next:  E. M.

[What Do They Have in Common?]

Thanks, Peebs!  I wasn't sure about The Family Way, but deduced it from this photo:

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Next:

The Little Colonel (1935)

The Pirate (1948)

The Band Wagon (1953)

White Nights (1985)

Save the Last Dance (2001)

[I Just Watched...]

1 hour ago, laffite said:

Is there a place where other such marvels can be found? A list of key strokes. Thanks.

Here's a list of the most common ones for Windows:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/keyboard-shortcuts-to-add-language-accent-marks-in-word-3801b103-6a8d-42a5-b8ba-fdc3774cfc76

And for Mac OS X:

https://www.reed.edu/cis/help/diacritics.html

 

 

[I Just Watched...]

2 hours ago, laffite said:

le Carre (how did you make that accent mark?)

On a Mac, an "acute accent" or accent-aigu (as in John le Carré or René Clair) is option-e + whichever letter needs the accent. (In other words, hold down the option key and the letter e; then release and type the relevant letter, which in French will be an e--in other languages, e.g. Spanish, it can occur over various vowels)

Accent-grave (as in Agnès Varda or là-bas) is option + ` (button to the left of numeral 1), then type whichever letter needs the accent

[What Do They Have in Common?]

3 hours ago, Peebs said:

Next:  

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. (2015)

The Family Way (1966)

Hannah and Her Sisters. (1986)

Pretty in Pink. (1986)

High Fidelity (2000)

Scenes take place in a record shop?

[ClassiCategories]

The Wizard of Oz (1939) -- house spinning

The Great Ziegfeld (1936) -- rotating set

Royal Wedding (1951) -- dancing on the ceiling (he eventually completes a counter-clockwise, 360-degree journey)

Monte Carlo (1930) -- roulette wheel (see also Casablanca, California Split, Croupier)

Psycho (1960) -- whirlpool (also many films titled Whirlpool)

Batman TV series -- camera spins for scene transitions (see also "Girl Hunt" ballet in The Band Wagon, whenever Fred Astaire is knocked out by bad guys)

Seabiscuit (2003) -- horse racing

Prefontaine (1997) -- human racing

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) -- infinite jogging

Marooned (1969) -- trapped in orbit

 

 

[What Do They Have in Common?]

1 hour ago, Peebs said:

Born in South Africa or from South Africa?

Yes, right again, Peebs! I've run out of quiz ideas myself, but hopefully you have something else lined up...  🙂

[What Do They Have in Common?]

Thanks, Peebs! I believe Merle Oberon also had some Eurasian (but not specifically Indian) ancestry via her mother.

Next:

Cecil Kellaway

Basil Rathbone

Glynis Johns

Juliet Prowse

Janet Suzman

 

[What Do They Have in Common?]

2 hours ago, Peebs said:

Next:  

Vivien Leigh

Julie Christie

Joanna Lumley

Merle Oberon

Sabu

 

They were all born in India?

[ClassiCategories]

One Week (1920) -- spinning house

A Damsel in Distress (1937) -- spinning tube, spinning floor

Shall We Dance (1937) -- roller skates, circular ring

I Love Melvin (1953) -- more roller skates in a circle

The Four Hundred Blows (1959) -- spinning amusement park ride

My Sister Eileen (1942/1955) -- conga line

West Side Story (1961) -- dance at the gym ("'round she goes, and where she stops, nobody knows")

8-1/2 (1963) -- final scene

The Third Man (1949) -- ferris wheel

Superman (1978) -- turning back time