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Are we using couples who were historic couples but not necessarily married in the legal sense?

I am thinking of Rex Harrison's Caesar and Claudette Colbert's Cleopatra.

mellytu74 wrote: Someone other than Fred Ward must have played Henry Miller. 14. UMA THURMAN played his wife June in Henry and June but the couples must come from different movies. So I don't think Fred is here for Henry Miller.

This should clear a few things up. Rip Torn played Miller in a film called Tropic of Cancer. I thought that the only other historical role Ward played was Gus Grissom, and he and his wife were only featured in The Right Stuff, but I was wrong. Ward played Reagan in a French film called Farewell.

mellytu74 wrote:Are we using couples who were historic couples but not necessarily married in the legal sense?

I am thinking of Rex Harrison's Caesar and Claudette Colbert's Cleopatra.

I was going for married couples. The borderline case was Doc Holliday, since I usually see Big Nose Kate listed as his common law wife.

Forget about Cleopatra. She screwed things up every which was I tried to get her and Antony in here.

58. TOM SELLECK played King Ferdinand in Christopher Columbus: The Discovery.
28. SIGOURNEY WEAVER played Queen Isabella in 1492: Conquest of Paradise.

I just realized that Natalie Portman gives us someone other than Jackie Kennedy, too.

4. CHARLES LAUGHTON & 72. NATALIE PORTMAN (Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn)

Eight Wives of Henry VIII and The Other Boleyn Girl

We’re in the home stretch …

Identify the 90 actors in the clues below. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match them into 48 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Six actors will used twice.

*1. KENNETH BRANAGH
*2. KATHERINE HEPBURN
**3. SUSAN HAYWARD
*4. CHARLES LAUGHTON
*5. GENE TIERNEY
*6. JOHN GOODMAN
7. MARY STEENBURGEN
*8. LUISE RAINIER
*9. RICHARD MULLIGAN
10. HELEN MIRREN
*11. RUBY DEE
12. RICHARD HARRIS
13. NANCY KELLY
*14. UMA THURMAN
*15. BARBARA STANWYCK
*16. FRANK LANGELLA
17. CLAIRE BLOOM
18. REX HARRISON
*19. SALMA HAYEK
*20. ALAN ARKIN
*21. ALEXIS SMITH
*22. HARVEY PRESNELL
*23. ANGELA BASSETT
*24. BILL MURRAY

*25. This British actress – who is still active in her eighties – shares her name with a late American jazz and cabaret singer.
SYLVIA SYMS

*26. JO VAN FLEET

*27. Fans of Doctor Who – and I know you’re out there – may remember this actor from his portrayal of the Valeyard, a manifestation of the Doctor’s dark side
MICHAEL JAYSTON

*28. SIGOURNEY WEAVER
*29. FARLEY GRANGER
*30. JANE FONDA
*31. YVONNE DECARLO
*32. ROBERT LOGGIA
*33. KIRSTEN DUNST
*34. DANIEL DAY LEWIS
*35. BLYTHE DANNER
*36. JUDITH ANDERSON
*37. CLIFF ROBERTSON
*38. MORGAN FREEMAN
*39. MERLE OBERON
*40. ED HARRIS
*41. GREER GARSON
*42. VIVECA LINDFORS
*43. SAM JAFFE
*44. PETER USTINOV
*45. MIRANDA RICHARDSON
*46. DAME JUDI DENCH
*47. COLIN FIRTH
**48. VAL KILMER
*49. ELIZABETH McGOVERN
50. PETER FINCH
*51. ETHEL BARRYMORE
*52. KEVIN KLINE
*53. NICK NOLTE
*54. NAOMIE HARRIS
*55. ROBERT MORLEY
*56. LIONEL BARRYMORE
*57. CLAIRE TREVOR
*58. TOM SELLECK
59. VIRGINIA McKENNA
60. HARVEY KEITEL
61. BASIL RATHBONE
*62. RUTH GORDON
*63. JAMES REMAR
*64. OLIVIA DeHAVILAND
*65. CHARLES BOYER

*66. “He found me first when I was fifteen. We were hunting; it was nearly dark. My horse fell; I was thrown. I woke to Richard touching me. He asked me if I loved him: 'Philip, do you love me?' And I told him yes. Do you know why I told him yes? So that one day I could tell you all about it. You cannot imagine what that 'yes' cost. Imagine snuggling to a chancred whore, and bending back your lips into something like a smile saying, 'Yes, I love you, and I find you beautiful.’ I don’t know how I did it.”
TIMOTHY DALTON

*67. JOAN ALLEN
*68. SUSAN KOHNER
*69. RUBEN BLADES
*70. KATHY BATES
*71. MARIO VAN PEEBLES

**72. “My family, they got shot down by D.E.A. officers because of a drug problem. I left with the greatest guy on earth. He was a hitman, the best in town, but he died this morning. And if you don't help me, I'll be dead by tonight.”
NATALIE PORTMAN

*73. JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT

*74. “You cannot have it both ways. A dancer who relies upon the doubtful comforts of human love can never be a great dancer. Never.”
ANTON WALBROOK

*75. MORGAN BRITTANY

76. “F**kin' Dante! Poetry-writing faggot! Piece of sh*t mother**ker!”

*77. HOWARD KEEL
*78. BEVERLY D'ANGELO
*79. JOSH MOSTEL
*80. CLAUDETTE COLBERT
*81. CHADWICK BOSEMAN
*82. ROD TAYLOR
83. JANET LEIGH
*84. FRED WARD
*85. SIOBHAN MCKENNA
86. GLADYS COOPER
*87. RICHARD GERE
*88. WALTER PIDGEON
*89. RIP TORN
*90. BETTE DAVIS

TANGREDI: Actors played a real-life married couple, in different movies.

MATCHES:

42. VIVECA LINDFORS & JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT (Dreyfus)
53. NICK NOLTE & 35. BLYTHE DANNER (Jefferson)
67. JOAN ALLEN & 16. FRANK LANGELLA (Nixon)
68. SUSAN KOHNER & 20. ALAN ARKIN (Freud)
75. MORGAN BRITTANY & 1. KENNETH BRANAGH (Olivier)
19. SALMA HAYEK & 69. RUBEN BLADES (Rivera)
38. MORGAN FREEMAN & 54. NAOMIE HARRIS (Mandela)
82. ROD TAYLOR & 45. MIRANDA RICHARDSON (Churchill)
81. CHADWICK BOSEMAN & 11. RUBY DEE (Robinson)
78. BEVERLY D'ANGELO & 40. ED HARRIS (Patsy Cline & Charlie Dick)
88. WALTER PIDGEON & 8. LUISE RAINIER (Ziegfeld)
49. ELIZABETH McGOVERN & 29. FARLEY GRANGER (Evelyn Nesbit & Harry Thaw)
5. GENE TIERNEY & 63. JAMES REMAR (Starr)
52. KEVIN KLINE & 21. ALEXIS SMITH (Porter)
15. BARBARA STANWYCK & 77. HOWARD KEEL (Annie Oakley & Frank Butler)
24. BILL MURRAY & 41. GREER GARSON (Roosevelt)
22. HARVE PRESNELL & 70. KATHY BATES (Brown)
48. VAL KILMER & 31. YVONNE DECARLO (Moses)
57. CLAIRE TREVOR & 6. JOHN GOODMAN (Ruth)
71. MARIO VAN PEEBLES & 23. ANGELA BASSETT (Shabazz)
62. RUTH GORDON & 34. DANIEL DAY LEWIS (Lincoln)
64. OLIVIA DeHAVILAND & 9. RICHARD MULLIGAN (Custer)
43. SAM JAFFE & 90. BETTE DAVIS (Peter III & Catherine the Great)
36. JUDITH ANDERSON & 79. JOSH MOSTEL (Antipas)
87. RICHARD GERE & 3. SUSAN HAYWARD (David)
26. JO VAN FLEET & 48. VAL KILMER (Holliday)
33. KIRSTEN DUNST & 55. ROBERT MORLEY (Louis XVI)
80. CLAUDETTE COLBERT & 44. PETER USTINOV (Nero)
25. SYLVIA SYMS & 47. COLIN FIRTH (George VI)
37. CLIFF ROBERTSON & 72. NATALIE PORTMAN (Kennedy)
46. DAME JUDI DENCH & 74. ANTON WALBROOK (Victoria)
65. CHARLES BOYER & 39. MERLE OBERON (Napoleon)
27. MICHAEL JAYSTON & 51. ETHEL BARRYMORE (Nicholas II)
56. LIONEL BARRYMORE & 3. SUSAN HAYWARD (Jackson)
32. ROBERT LOGGIA & 85. SIOBHAN MCKENNA (Joseph and Mary)
66. TIMOTHY DALTON & 2. KATHERINE HEPBURN (Mary Queen of Scots)
89. RIP TORN & 14. UMA THURMAN (Miller)
84. FRED WARD & 30. JANE FONDA (Reagan)
58. TOM SELLECK & 28. SIGOURNEY WEAVER (Ferdinand & Isabella)
4. CHARLES LAUGHTON & 72. NATALIE PORTMAN (Henry VIII)

76. “F**kin' Dante! Poetry-writing faggot! Piece of sh*t mother**ker!”

How about BRAD PITT in Se7en?

Gives us 76. BRAD PITT & 13. NANCY KELLY as Mr and Mrs Jesse James.

The Assassination of etc and Jesse James

I am pretty sure we needed a Houdini to go with 83. JANET LEIGH. Turns out, Harvey Keitel played Houdini in A Fairytale.

60. HARVEY KEITEL & 83. JANET LEIGH (Houdini)

Helen Mirren gives us an enormous number of possibilities

We could be looking for

Alfred Hitchock (for her Alma)
DeWolfe Hopper (for her Hedda)
King George (for her Charlotte)
Prince Phillip
Caligula

Could we be looking for someone who made a cameo as Hopper doing Casey at the Bat, say?

Hmmm

mellytu74 wrote:Helen Mirren gives us an enormous number of possibilities

We could be looking for

Alfred Hitchock (for her Alma)
DeWolfe Hopper (for her Hedda)
King George (for her Charlotte)
Prince Phillip
Caligula

Could we be looking for someone who made a cameo as Hopper doing Casey at the Bat, say?

Hmmm

turns out we are looking for 55. ROBERT MORLEY, who played George III in Beau Brummell

Second use for Morley

10. HELEN MIRREN & 55. ROBERT MORLEY (George III + Charlotte)

50. PETER FINCH played Lord Horatio Nelson in Bequest to the Nation (with which I was unfamiliar until this moment)

86. GLADYS COOPER played Mrs. Nelson in That Hamilton Woman

So ...

50. PETER FINCH & 86. GLADYS COOPER (Nelson)

That Frank! He is a clever one.

The only famous couple thing I could think of for Claire Bloom was Hera in Clash of the Titans.

89. RIP TORN voices Zeus in Disney's Hercules.

17. CLAIRE BLOOM & 89. RIP TORN (Hera and Zeus)

Second use of Torn. One more for second use.

mellytu74 wrote:That Frank! He is a clever one.

The only famous couple thing I could think of for Claire Bloom was Hera in Clash of the Titans.

89. RIP TORN voices Zeus in Disney's Hercules.

17. CLAIRE BLOOM & 89. RIP TORN (Hera and Zeus)

Second use of Torn. One more for second use.

I'm not that clever! That was a total accident. I considered using mythological couples, then decided against it. The Claire Bloom character is a perfectly legit historical figure.

franktangredi wrote:

mellytu74 wrote:That Frank! He is a clever one.

The only famous couple thing I could think of for Claire Bloom was Hera in Clash of the Titans.

89. RIP TORN voices Zeus in Disney's Hercules.

17. CLAIRE BLOOM & 89. RIP TORN (Hera and Zeus)

Second use of Torn. One more for second use.

I'm not that clever! That was a total accident. I considered using mythological couples, then decided against it. The Claire Bloom character is a perfectly legit historical figure.

Oh for heaven's sake.... I wasn't even thinking.

Bloom plays Anne in Richard III and Basil Rathbone plays Richard in Tower of London.

12. RICHARD HARRIS played George Adamson in To Walk with Lions. 59. VRGINIA MCKENNA played his wife Joy in Born Free.

41. Greer Garson played Calpurnia in the 1953 version of Julius Caesar. 18. Harrison played him in Cleopatra.

I believe that leaves us with Mary Steenburgen and someone who's already been used once for our last matchup.

mrkelley23 wrote:I believe that leaves us with Mary Steenburgen and someone who's already been used once for our last matchup.

Yep - the second use of Garson was the fifth second use.

Did anyone play Norton Baskin besides Peter Coyote in Cross Creek? Or Melvin Dummar besides Paul Le Mat?

Or am I missing something?

Wow. There's a Duh moment for me. 82. Rod Taylor played H.G. Wells in The Time Machine, and 7. Steenburgen played his wife Amy Robbins in Time After Time.

Did we get em all?

mrkelley23 wrote:Wow. There's a Duh moment for me. 82. Rod Taylor played H.G. Wells in The Time Machine, and 7. Steenburgen played his wife Amy Robbins in Time After Time.

Did we get em all?

Oh, for heaven's sake! Duh for me as well!

WE ARE DONE!

Nice Job, Mr K!!

mrkelley23 wrote:Wow. There's a Duh moment for me. 82. Rod Taylor played H.G. Wells in The Time Machine, and 7. Steenburgen played his wife Amy Robbins in Time After Time.

Did we get em all?

And I should have figured that when I noted that Taylor played Churchill, since I thought it odd at the time Frank would pick Taylor, since a number of more prominent actors had played him over the years, but now it makes sense.

Good job, everyone! I had fun with this one, and I was relieve no legit alternates surfaced.

I have a lyrics game ready to go on Monday with a strong dose of holiday songs included.

Thanks for the game, Frank! --Bob

franktangredi wrote:Good job, everyone! I had fun with this one, and I was relieve no legit alternates surfaced.

I have a lyrics game ready to go on Monday with a strong dose of holiday songs included.

I'm awake and I'm ready to go.

What fun, Frank!!