TopBilled Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 There are two Sheridans under one roof at Christmas. Which one should stay and which one should leave? Has there ever been another movie where a lead actress shares a name with the main character? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt_Markoff Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 Irene Dunne plays Susan Dunn in 1931's "White Cliffs of Dover" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt_Markoff Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 Anne Shirley plays "Anne of Green Gables" (1934) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted December 13, 2018 Author Share Posted December 13, 2018 2 minutes ago, Sgt_Markoff said: Anne Shirley plays "Anne of Green Gables" (1934) Thanks. Yes, I think she had been billed as Dawn O'Day prior to her lead role in that film. I guess she identified with the character so much, she wanted to make the name her own! Her given name was Dawn Paris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt_Markoff Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 Wow. Dawn Paris is a very elegant monicker. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 Jane Powell took the stage name Jane Powell from the character she played in the film Song of The Open Road. The character's name was Jane Powell. Jane's real name was Suzanne Lorraine Burce. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 9 minutes ago, lavenderblue19 said: Jane Powell took the stage name Jane Powell from the character she played in the film Song of The Open Road. The character's name was Jane Powell. Jane's real name was Suzanne Lorraine Burce. Interesting. I didnt know this. (I figured it wasnt her real name, of course). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 Joan Crawford played a character named Joan in the film Montana Moon. The character did not have a last name, just the name Joan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 1 minute ago, Hibi said: Interesting. I didnt know this. (I figured it wasnt her real name, of course). It was Jane's first film Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 Dick Powell played a Private Dick in Murder, My Sweet ... oh wait, I guess that doesn't count. Never mind. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt_Markoff Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 Jane Powell! My favorite number is her with Fred (Royal Wedding) Astaire... and the song is "I left My Hat in Haiti" https://youtu.be/8GbXh8z7oFU of course today morons leap to call this 'racial'... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewhite2000 Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 19 minutes ago, scsu1975 said: Dick Powell played a Private Dick in Murder, My Sweet ... oh wait, I guess that doesn't count. Never mind. I was about to say Jack Nicholson played Jack Torrance in The Shining, when I remembered the thread was about actresses (but see how I snuck it in there, anyway?). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 This maybe about actresses, but I'll sneak this in, John Wayne played a character named John 30 times in films and he played a character named Duke a few times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 If I recall correctly, actress Bambi Woods is called "Dear" by one of her male costars in Debbie Does Dallas during one particularly intimate scene. (...if that counts at all here) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midwestan Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 In the movie "Separate Tables", Gladys Cooper and Cathleen Nesbitt have several scenes of dialogue with each other. Nesbitt's character in the film is Lady Gladys Matheson. The scene where Cooper's character is trying to engineer the ouster of David Niven's character from the hotel struck me the last time I watched this picture. It went something like, "Don't worry about that now Gladys, we'll inform Mrs. Cooper of our decision later." Pat Cooper, the hotel's owner, was the name of the character played by Wendy Hiller. I thought it was potentially funny and confusing for all the principles in the picture, especially if director Delbert Mann gave instruction by starting with, "Here's how I want you to play this scene, Gladys..." and both Nesbitt and Cooper would respond with "OK" simultaneously! (Or, he could have said, "Now Miss Cooper..." and both Gladys and Wendy said "Yes" at the same time). 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 5 hours ago, TopBilled said: There are two Sheridans under one roof at Christmas. The great British theater/film writer/critic/historian Sheridan Morley was a friend of mine. Sheridan M. was named for Sheridan Whiteside, the role his father Robert Morley played in London, in the original London production of The Man Who Came to Dinner. Sheridan Morley's mother was the daughter of Gladys Cooper. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brrrcold Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 Byron Barr has one line in TMWCTD, uncredited, asking Bette Davis, "How's the ice?". Later he was cast in THE GAY SISTERS as a character named Gig Young. He adopted that as his professional name, used in dozens of feature film and television roles, and won the Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor in 1969 for THE SHOOT HORSES DON'T THEY. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 Shirley Temple played a character named Shirley in 5 of her films and Margaret O'Brien played a character named Margaret in 2 of her films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted December 15, 2018 Author Share Posted December 15, 2018 Evelyn Keyes plays a woman named Bette Logan in HERE COMES MR. JORDAN (1941). Besides Bette Davis (whose real first name was Ruth), did other women use the name Bette at that time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedya Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 How about all those Mabel Normand movies with titles like Mabel's Strange Predicament? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 1 hour ago, TopBilled said: Evelyn Keyes plays a woman named Bette Logan in HERE COMES MR. JORDAN (1941). Besides Bette Davis (whose real first name was Ruth), did other women use the name Bette at that time? Yeah! My Aunt Elizabeth did. And a wonderful old gal she was, I might add. Bless her soul. (...well, you didn't specifically say "actress" here, now did ya, TB?!) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted December 15, 2018 Author Share Posted December 15, 2018 1 hour ago, Dargo said: Yeah! My Aunt Elizabeth did. And a wonderful old gal she was, I might add. Bless her soul. (...well, you didn't specifically say "actress" here, now did ya, TB?!) Did your aunt pronounce it Betty or Bette (like Midler)..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brrrcold Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 This will seem a bit obvious, but Monty Woolley plays a character named 'Monty Woolley' in NIGHT AND DAY, the Cole Porter biopic starring Cary Grant. In that role, he has a short scene commenting how he's off to Hollywood to play in something called THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER. (As the role originated on stage, it's one more fabulist detail in that film biography.) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted December 16, 2018 Author Share Posted December 16, 2018 18 minutes ago, Brrrcold said: This will seem a bit obvious, but Monty Woolley plays a character named 'Monty Woolley' in NIGHT AND DAY, the Cole Porter biopic starring Cary Grant. In that role, he has a short scene commenting how he's off to Hollywood to play in something called THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER. (As the role originated on stage, it's one more fabulist detail in that film biography.) This would be a good primetime double feature on TCM. Start with NIGHT AND DAY, then follow it up with a broadcast of THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brrrcold Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 3 hours ago, TopBilled said: This would be a good primetime double feature on TCM. Start with NIGHT AND DAY, then follow it up with a broadcast of THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER. I missed Woolley's SUTS day last August. That might have induced me to watch it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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