lavenderblue19 Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Edy definitely gets the thread. Without her thinking of Gary Lewis, I never would have gotten the other correct movie. Well done Edythe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Edythe, this one is yours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edythevanhopper Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Thanks lav and Miles! Let's try this film: Two of the actresses considered for this role from the 50's were Jayne Mansfield and Lana Turner. Lana was the front runner but demanded gowns designed by her personal designer. The director persisted in refusing her demands as the gowns weren't suitable for the role. Instead gave it to a fairly new face based on a part she had played in a film 2 yrs earlier. When she was called to say he wanted her for this juicy role in this film, she thought it a joke and hung up. The director called back and she accepted. What film and actress? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrence1 Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 My guess would be Lee Remick in "Anatomy of a Murder". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edythevanhopper Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 That was quick...and the right film. Good going, Terrence. Your turn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrence1 Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Thanks, Edythe. This pair of actors have played father and son in one movie, and brothers in another. Name the two actors and the movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 Spencer Tracy and Robert Wagner played father and son in "Broken Lance" and brothers in "The Mountain". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrence1 Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 Right again, Miles. It's yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 Thanks, Terence. Spencer Tracy was about thirty years older than Robert Wagner when they played brothers. However, that's not a Hollywood record. John Wayne was thirty-six years older than Michael Anderson Jr. when they played brothers in "The Sons Of Katie Elder". Now, there was a pretty actress who played the female lead in "B" pictures and second leads in "A" pictures from the mid 1930's until the early 1940's. She was the daughter of a well known sportswriter. Can you name her? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 Thanks, Terence. Spencer Tracy was about thirty years older than Robert Wagner when they played brothers. However, that's not a Hollywood record. John Wayne was thirty-six years older than Michael Anderson Jr. when they played brothers in "The Sons Of Katie Elder". Now, there was a pretty actress who played the female lead in "B" pictures and second leads in "A" pictures from the mid 1930's until the early 1940's. She was the daughter of a well known sportswriter. Can you name her? Frances Mercer, daughter of Sid Mercer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 Sorry, no. This actress worked with Nelson and Jeanette, the Marx brothers, James Stewart, and Robert Young, among others. In fact, she made about five movies with Robert Young. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaGirl Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 Sorry, no. This actress worked with Nelson and Jeanette, the Marx brothers, James Stewart, and Robert Young, among others. In fact, she made about five movies with Robert Young. Florence Rice, daughter of Grantland Rice????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 Florence Rice is the one. If my latest clue was what got you in the right direction, KarmaGirl, you certainly were quick. Florence Rice was Kenny Baker's love interest in the Marx brothers film "At The Circus". She was in "Sweethearts" with Nelson and Jeanette, and "Navy Blue And Gold' with both James Stewart and Robert Young. Her father, Grantland Rice, was known for his elegant prose in his sports reporting. He is famous for the following account of a Notre Dame football game against Army. Outlined against a blue-gray October sky the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. These are only aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden. They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before which another fighting Army team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds this afternoon as 55,000 spectators peered down upon the bewildering panorama spread out upon the green plain below. Sorry, DGF, but Frances Mercer's career went well into the 1960's and I don't know if she ever appeared in an "A" picture. KarmaGirl, you get the thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaGirl Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 Thanks Miles. In the early 1960s, Walt Disney refused to let this director film at Disneyland because of one particular movie the director had made. Name the director and the film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaGirl Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Hint: the movie will be TCM tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaGirl Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 The movie starred the TCM star of the month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 Following Psycho, Hitchcock re-united with Ernest Lehman for an original screenplay idea ("The Blind Man" (1960): A blind pianist, 'Jimmy Shearing' (a role for James Stewart), regains his sight after receiving the eyes of a dead man. Watching a Wild West show at Disneyland with his family, Shearing would have visions of being shot and would come to realize that the dead man was in fact murdered and the image of the murderer is still imprinted on the retina of his eyes. Stewart left the project, Lehman argued with Hitchcock, and the script was never shot - Disney refused Hitchcock Disneyland location after seeing Psycho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaGirl Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 Correct!!! Your thread sixes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 What was the 1st silent film ever aired on TCM? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrence1 Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 The Birth of a Nation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 good try, but no -romantic melodrama (studio made the film in order to capitalize on its winning romantic team) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaGirl Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 good try, but no -romantic melodrama (studio made the film in order to capitalize on its winning romantic team) "Love" with Greta Garbo and John Gilbert?????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 "Love" with Greta Garbo and John Gilbert?????? & there ya go nice goin', Karma -you're up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaGirl Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 Thanks mr6. This actor insisted that one character in every movie and TV show he was in had his family name. Name the actor and the family name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaGirl Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 This actor has won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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