allaboutlana Posted October 13, 2010 Share Posted October 13, 2010 No, not Hazel Flagg. But very close, you've got the right leading actor. As I say, this actress, the person, is not a household name, but her moniker is. By the way the 1937 film was remade, which made this name even more popular. More clues later, if necessary. Edited by: allaboutlana on Oct 13, 2010 10:27 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted October 13, 2010 Share Posted October 13, 2010 You're talking about A STAR IS BORN (1937), but I'm not quite sure what I have in front of me. Vicki Lester? Esther Blodgett? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allaboutlana Posted October 13, 2010 Share Posted October 13, 2010 Vicki Lester was in fact an actress who was featured in The Mad Miss Manton; Tom, Dick, and Harry; and Fontaine?s Maid?s Night Out, among a few other comedies of the early 40s. And, of course, her name has been used in both the 1937 original and the 1954 musical remake of "A Star is Born." I believe Miss Lester is still living. Thanks for playing. Your turn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted October 13, 2010 Share Posted October 13, 2010 This film was based on a hit Broadway play. Almost all of the principals in the Broadway cast were in the cast of the film. The reason why all of them were anxious to also appear in the film is because one of the members of the Broadway cast was replaced by someone else for the film version. What is the movie? Edited by: finance on Oct 13, 2010 3:28 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 Hint: This movie made the lead actor a significant film star. Edited by: finance on Oct 14, 2010 10:50 AM Edited by: finance on Oct 14, 2010 11:18 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 Hint: 1950s film Edited by: finance on Oct 15, 2010 3:12 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 Correct, 6s. Yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted October 16, 2010 Share Posted October 16, 2010 "Cutthroat Island", starring Matthew Modine and Geena Davis...The flop sank the independent film company Carolco... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 The plot of this B&W movie, which starred a singer and a recently deceased actor, is a combination of the often-used storyline of two soldiers falling for the same girl....with a touch of "Pinky"....What is the title of the movie ? Edited by: mudskipper on Oct 16, 2010 8:43 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 KINGS GO FORTH? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 "Kings Go Forth" is correct....with Frank, Tony Curtis, ....and Natalie Wood playing a French girl with a touch of African-American blood.... Your thread, Mr. Bernanke... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 This major star had to adopt a stage name because his real name was the same as another major star's name. Who was he? Edited by: finance on Oct 18, 2010 10:40 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allaboutlana Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Is it James Stewart who had to change his name to Stewart Granger ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Right, Lana. Your thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allaboutlana Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Thanks. This may belong on the Hitchcock thread, but I?m posting here: Name another instance in a Hitchcock film, where a song is performed (other than Doris in TMWKTM.) The one I?m thinking of is stopped abruptly. Can you tell me why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 My memory of the film is hazy. THE 39 STEPS? a murder in the music hall? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allaboutlana Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Not the one I'm thinking of. It was on last week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allaboutlana Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 That's it. Your turn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 "Metropolis" is a 1927 German expressionist film in the science-fiction genre directed by Fritz Lang. Produced in Germany during a stable period of the Weimar Republic, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and makes use of this context to explore a political theme of the day: the social crisis between workers and owners in capitalism. Trivia: this film includes more than 37,000 extras including 25,000 men, 11,000 women, 1,100 bald men, 750 children, 100 dark-skinned people and 25 Asians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 This movie had the same title as the bestseller from 1936 on which it was based. In the late fifties, it was made into a TV series with the same title... which TV Guide heralded as "when the west was in the east"...Three different movies were later released, each with three episodes of the TV series and each with a different title.... Name the original movie ...and the three later movies derived from the TV series... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 More clues:-- One of the stars in the TV series was a former dancer who later became better known for two long-running and entirely different TV shows... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted October 22, 2010 Share Posted October 22, 2010 And more clues:-- The lead actor in the 1940 movie was also the lead actor in a great all-star comedy film from the early sixties...The second lead role was first offered to Robert Taylor who declined. It was then accepted by another star with the same fist name...The hero was based on a historical character during the French-Indian wars of the 1700s... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted October 22, 2010 Share Posted October 22, 2010 Well, I hate to give an incomplete answer, but this is as far as I can go. You are referring to "Northwest Passage", a 1940 movie that starred Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, and Walter Brennan. The TV series starred Keith Larsen, Don Burnett, and Buddy Ebsen. TCM ran one of the movies derived from the TV series a few months ago. Since they were edited from TV episodes, nobody in the world would remember the titles, so I checked IMDB and found only two listed. They are "Frontier Rangers" and "Fury River". The TV series lasted only one season, 1958-1959. It was on opposite "Maverick" and "The Jack Benny Show". I have two questions for you, Skipper. What was the name of the other movie, and what is a fist name? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 That's good, Miles. It is indeed "Northwest Passage", based on the 1936 bestseller by Kenneth Roberts...(.For those interested, the book, in my opinion, is a lot better than the movie.).. .The 1963 comedy all star movie that starred Spencer Tracy was "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"... The three movies derived from the TV episodes starring Keith Larsen, Don Burnett, and Buddy Ebsen are: "Frontier Rangers" (1959); "Mission Of Danger" (1959); and "Fury River" (1961)...You can find them in the Don Burnett website on IMDB.. Now, the fist name--That's the one when, during a drunken brawl, you groggily see a fist and suddenly realize it's got your name on it because it's swinging towards your lower jaw.......Your thread, my friend.. Edited by: mudskipper on Oct 22, 2010 9:29 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 I'm glad you explained it. I thought a fist name was one like the role Mary McDonnell had in "Dances With Wolves". Now, everyone knows Noel Neill from "The Adventures Of Superman" on TV in the fifties. Of course, George Reeves played Superman. Noel Neill also appeared in "Superman" productions on the big screen. Can you name three other actors who played Superman in theatrical releases that Noel Neill was in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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