Trivia for the other 98% of us

[LawrenceA]

This story has been filmed three times, with Maria Ouspenskaya, Cathleen Nesbitt, and Katharine Hepburn playing basically the same role in each subsequent version. 

 

What are the films?

[starliteyes]

1939 - Love Affair (Irene Dunne & Charles Boyer)

1957 - An Affair to Remember (Cary Grant & Deborah Kerr)

1994 - Love Affair (Warren Beatty & Annette Bening)

[LawrenceA]

Correct!

 

 

Your thread, starliteyes!

[starliteyes]

Thank you, Lawrence.

 

Continuing along the same line of questioning, another story was filmed 3 times and the same part was played by, respectively, Edward Everett Horton, Ernest Truex and David Wayne.

 

Name the films.

[starliteyes]

Hint:  The films were an adaptation of a 1929 Broadway play. 

[film lover 293]

Starlit--

 

Edward Everett Horton was Roy V. Bensinger in "The Front Page" (1931).

 

Ernest Truex was Roy B. Bensinger in "His Girl Friday" (1940).

 

David Wayne was Bensinger in "The Front Page" (1974).

[starliteyes]

That is exactly right, film lover, and you have the floor - or, as we say here, the thread.  (Can't help wondering why Bensinger's middle initial was changed from V in the 1931 film to B in the 1940 one.)

[film lover 293]

This actor played multiple roles in at least two films, and made a memorable appearance as a laundress in another film.  Name him, the three films, and as many of the roles as you can (there are more than ten).

[DownGoesFrazier]

This actor played multiple roles in at least two films, and made a memorable appearance as a laundress in another film.  Name him, the three films, and as many of the roles as you can (there are more than ten).

You must be looking for either Peter Sellers or Aled Guinness.

[film lover 293]

DownGoesFrazier--In you choices, you mentioned the actor. Name him.