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Among the actors, one of the definite answers is wrong.
Of those with a question mark, 7 are right and 2 are wrong.
Of those with alternate answers, 4 include the correct answer and 1 does not.
Among the movies, the same movie has been inadvertently included as the answer to two different question. It's right once.
Of those with a question mark, 3 are right and 2 are wrong.
My bad. B-8 was a typo, so B-10 and the rest of the definite movies must be correct. Updating…
Identify the 65 actors in List A and the 40 movies in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, form 66 pairs, each consisting of one movie and one actor, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. The same basic Tangredi applies to all pairs, but some of them go one way and some of them go the other way. You’ll see.
One actor will be used twice.
Sixteen movies will be used twice and five movies will be used three times.
There will be no alternate answers.
LIST A: ACTORS
A-1. “I want to save part of my life for myself. There's a catch to it, though: it's got to be part of the young part. You know, retire young, work old. Come back and work when I know what I'm working for. Does that make any sense?”
CARY GRANT
A-2. This knight’s film career included adaptations of works by Leo Tolstoy, Eugene O’Neill, H.G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Robert Louis Stevenson, Boris Pasternak, Edgar Rice Burroughs – and, of course, Shakespeare.
RALPH RICHARDSON
A-3. “Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.”
MARTIN SHEEN?
*A-4. JAMES DEAN
A-5. “Mama! Oh, Mama, just think of it! I shall be queen! Queen of France!”
NORMA SHEARER?
A-6. This actor appeared in the last film of a trilogy about a popular superhero and the first film in a continuing franchise about a popular doll.
A-7. “He knew what I was even before I did. The morning I left for college, he walked into my room and held out his hand and it was filled with money, a big sweaty wad of money, and he said, ‘Take this and I don't want you ever to come back.’ I grabbed him and hugged him and he turned around and walked out. I haven't seen him or talked to him since.”
*A-8. NICK NOLTE
A-9. “Let me tell you something, my two fine bedfellows, you're so dumb, there's nothin' to compare ya with! You're dumber than the dumbest jackass. Look at each other, will ya? Did you ever see anything like yourself for bein' dumb specimens? You're so dumb, you don't even see the riches you're treadin' on with your own feet.”
WALTER HUSTON
A-10. He was easily the most distinguished actor to appear in a certain 2013 made-for-television movie that – along with its sequels – has become a byword for bizarrely-conceived schlock.
JOHN HEARD?
A-11. “This is some rescue! You came in here, but didn't you have a plan for getting out?”
CARRIE FISHER
A-12. In 1940, she made her film debut – and got her only Oscar nomination – for recreating her stage role in a Pulitzer Prize-winning classic.
MARTHA SCOTT? JUDY HOLIDAY?
A-13. “Josh? He's nobody's boyfriend. He's just this guy that Becky and I like to torture.”
A-14. The day after this actress died at the age of 82, Bette Davis paid tribute to her, telling Dick Cavett she was a “gorgeous woman … the most beautiful person as well as actress,” and praising her for being a thorough professional who was never late and never missed a line.
GLADYS COOPER
A-15. “Gretchen, I'm sorry I laughed at you that time you got diarrhea at Barnes & Nobles…. And I'm sorry for telling everyone about it…. And I'm sorry for repeating it now.”
AMANDA SEYFRIED
A-16. The character that this actor played in a Best Picture Oscar winner was based on a real life British lord who refused to allow his name to be used – and who regretted the decision after he saw the movie.
NIGEL HAVERS
A-17. “You think I would let my kids near you? Look at yourself! You know what my lawyer said? My lawyer said that you're going to prison for 20 years, Jordan! Twenty f**king years! You're never gonna see the kids again! No, I'm not f**king letting you near my kids!”
A-18. This Canadian actor is perhaps best remembered today for playing a particularly repellent overseer, but it was his role as a vicious killer stalking two children in a cave that really gave me nightmares as a kid.
VICTOR JORY
*A-19. MARK WAHLBERG
A-20. Being a direct descendant of a beloved hero of the American Revolution did not save this Oscar-winning character actress from the Hollywood Blacklist.
ANNE REVERE
A-21. “I'm somebody now, Harry. Everybody likes me. Soon, millions of people will see me and they'll all like me. I'll tell them about you, and your father, how good he was to us. Remember? It's a reason to get up in the morning. It's a reason to lose weight, to fit in the red dress. It's a reason to smile. It makes tomorrow all right.”
A-22. This performer is the youngest actor ever nominated for an Oscar in a leading role.
ADRIAN BRODY? JACKIE COOPER? JUSTIN HENRY?
*A-23. AL PACINO
A-24. JOHN DEREK
A-25. “So you're Lonesome's new tootsie, huh? ‘Lonesome,’ that's a hot one. I hope you have better luck keeping him lonesome than I did.”
PATRICIA NEAL? KAY MEDFORD?
A-26. After appearing in the last of her six films opposite the same leading man, she went on to play a wide variety of stage and screen roles for five decades, while he continued to play the same role six more times without her.
MYRNA LOY? MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN?
A-27. “There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, seven hundred and fifty miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass.”
SAM SHEPHERD?
A-28. In a 1997 television movie, he took on a role that had previously been played by Walter Abel and E.G. Marshall.
DUSTIN HOFFMAN
A-29. “You can sew almost anything into the canvas of a coat.”
DANIEL DAY LEWIS
A-30. In a few weeks – unless the Tangredi curse gets to her – this actress will turn ninety – which is considerably younger than the character she played on a creepy episode of
The Twilight Zone.
A-31. “We're not just an uncle and a niece. It's something else. I know you. I know you don't tell people a lot of things. I don't either. I have a feeling that inside you there's something nobody knows about ... something secret and wonderful. I'll find it out.”
TERESA WRIGHT
A-32. For a time, this actress took on a new name when a bird was killed during the filming of one of her early movies and she felt the spirit of the bird enter her.
BARBARA HERSHEY
*A-33. DEBRA WINGER
A-34. When this distinguished Scottish-born stage actress took a role in a popular soap opera at the age of 58, it was only supposed to be for the duration of a single story line, but she was brought back by popular demand and was still playing the role when she died – 32 years later.
EILEEN HERLIE?
A-35. “We're the victims of a foul disease called social prejudice, my child. These dear ladies of the Law and Order League are scouring out the dregs of the town. Come on. Be a proud, glorified dreg like me.”
THOMAS MITCHELL
A-36. As far as I know, she was the only actress ever to play a nude love scene with Vincent Price’s wife.
SUSANNAH YORK
*A-37. EWAN McGREGOR
A-38. One of the oddest moments of this British actor’s career found him raising his voice in song with Bing Crosby and William Bendix. (William Bendix?)
CEDRIC HARDWICKE
A-39. “Níor lig mé m'fhear chéile isteach i mo leaba liom aréir. Chuir mé fuinneamh air a chodladh i - Ó, i mála codlata! Mála codlata!”
MAUREEN O’HARA
*A-40. CHUCK CONNORS
A-41. “Vince threw hot coffee in my face. I'm gonna' be scarred. The whole side of my face will be scarred.”
GLORIA GRAHAME
A-42. She is best known for her role on an action/sci fi program that – rather surprisingly – won her an Emmy as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
GILLIAN ANDERSON? LINDSAY WAGNER?
*A-43. DAN AYKROYD
A-44. She was the second of three actresses to receive the Kennedy Center Honors in tandem with her husband.
ANNE BANCROFT? JESSICA TANDY?
A-45. “You're impossibly fast. And strong. Your skin is pale white, and ice cold. Your eyes change color and sometimes you speak like - like you're from a different time. You never eat or drink anything; you don't go into the sunlight. How old are you?”
A-46. He was in the midst of filming a Biblical epic when he died of a heart attack at the age of 44.
TYRONE POWER
A-47. “You know what Maria and me are gonna do out in the country? We're gonna have kids, lots of 'em, and name them all after you - even the girls.”
RICHARD BEYMER
A-48. This actress has played both the daughter of Robert Preston and – regrettably – the mother of Kevin James.
SHIRLEY KNIGHT?
A-49. “He's escaped from the insane asylum. Seven years ago he murdered two children, broke into the house and found them asleep in bed. There was a little boy, four and a half, and his little three year old sister. After the coroner's investigation, their bodies were taken to the mortuary where the undertaker took one look at them and said their bodies couldn't be reconstructed for the burial without six days of steady work. Then he asked what had been the murder weapon, because looking at the mess in front of him, he couldn't imagine what had been used. The coroner told him there had been no weapon, just his hands.”
DONALD PLEASANCE?
A-50. This actress has worked with both Charlie Chaplin and Woody Allen.
CLAIRE BLOOM
A-51. “This business of hating Jews comes in a lot of different sizes. There's the ‘you can't join our country club’ kind and ‘you can't live around here’ kind. Yes, and the ‘you can't work here’ kind. And because we stand for all of these, we get Monty's kind. He's just one guy, we don't get him very often, but he grows out of all the rest.”
ROBERT YOUNG
A-52. This Florida-born actor played the same role in all four installments of the first modern Batman franchise.
PAT HINGLE
A-53. “Top of the world, son!”
MARGARET WYCHERLY
A-54. He started out as a leading man – most notably opposite Greta Garbo – but the extensive neck scarring he suffered after being mauled on a movie set by a lion (I’m not making this up) forced him to move into character roles … quite successfully
CHARLES BICKFORD
A-55. “The first boy I ever kissed ended up in a coma for three weeks. I can still feel him inside my head.”
ANNA PAQUIN
A-56. This onetime ‘Queen of Off-Broadway’ made her screen debut in 1959 playing the Archangel Gabriel.
COLLEEN DEWHURST
A-57. “You tell your boys they better kill me, Bert. They better go all the way with me, 'cause if they just bust me up, I'll put all those pieces back together again, then so help me – so help me God, Bert, I'm gonna come back here and I'm gonna kill you.”
PAUL NEWMAN
A-58. There appears to be no evidence that this actress ever actually underwent the forced surgical procedure depicted in a 1982 biopic.
FRANCES FARMER
A-59. “Quid pro quo. I tell you things, you tell me things.”
ANTHONY HOPKINS
A-60. She has hosted the Tony Awards a record five times – which equals the number of times she has won the award.
ANGELA LANSBURY?
A-61. “Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person!”
MILDRED DUNNOCK
A-62. Her first husband was an Irish actor with whom she has remained on amiable terms; her second husband was an American billionaire with whom she went through a very nasty divorce.
A-63. “Very pretty, Colonel, very pretty. But can they fight?”
DONALD SUTHERLAND
A-64. In 1969, she played the title role in a movie produced by her then-husband; they subsequently named their only child after the movie. (The marriage didn’t last and the child no longer goes by that name.)
CHER
A-65. “You're certainly a funny girl for anybody to meet who's just been up the Amazon for a year.”
HENRY FONDA
LIST B: MOVIES
B-1. GRAND HOTEL
B-2. This 2002 movie completes the following chronological list of Oscar nominees for Best Picture:
Arrowsmith; Alice Adams; The Good Earth; Gone with the Wind; The Grapes of Wrath; The Magnificent Ambersons; The Yearling; All the King’s Men; The Caine Mutiny; To Kill a Mockingbird; The Color Purple.
B-3. GUNGA DIN
*B-4. I’LL CRY TOMORROW
B-5. CAST AWAY
B-6. CITY FOR CONQUEST
B-7. BORN YESTERDAY
B-8. It was the first film adapted from a work by arguably the most influential American novelist of the 20th century. (The second, eleven years later, starred the same leading man.)
*B-9. THE BIRDS
B-10. THE BUCCANEER
B-11. “Do you think they deserved to die?”
“Yes, they deserved to die and I hope they burn in hell!”
*B-12. ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD
B-13. WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
B-14. CRIMES OF THE HEART
B-15. “You count the damn few times we have been together in nearly twenty years and you measure the short f**king leash you keep me on - and then you ask me about Mexico and tell me you'll kill me for needing somethin' I don't hardly never get. You have no idea how bad it gets!”
B-16. The real-life protagonist of this film had previously been the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary called
The Titan.
B-17. SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
B-18. THE GAY DIVORCEE
B-19. BRINGING UP BABY
B-20. This 1994 film was adapted from a 1953 play written by the father-in-law of one of the actors on List A.
B-21. BROADCAST NEWS
B-22. This classic piece of trash – based on an equally trashy best-seller – does have the distinction of earning someone the first of his 51 Oscar nominations.
VALLEY OF THE DOLLS?
B-23. “Who looks after your father? Tell me that. When something terrible happens, what does he do? Fends for himself, he does. Who does he tell about it? No one. Don't blab his troubles at home. He just pushes on at his job, uncomplaining and alone and silent.”
“He’s not very silent.”
MARY POPPINS
*B-24. WHITE DOG
B-25. PARENTHOOD
B-26. This 1951 movie completes the following chronological list of Oscar nominees for Best Picture:
You Can’t Take It With You; Our Town; Picnic; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Diary of Anne Frank; Driving Miss Daisy; Fences.
*B-27. THE BIG SHORT
B-28. Because the 1931 version of the 1925 novel had bombed, this 1951 remake was given a different title and all the characters’ names were changed. (It worked.)
B-29. “Well don't you expect me to come to one of your churches or one of those tent-revivals with all those Bible-beaters doin' God-only-knows-what! They'd probably make me eat a live chicken!”
“Not on your first visit!”
B-30. With a plot that anticipated the later – and far better –
Roman Holiday, this romantic comedy nevertheless holds an important place in Hollywood history, leading as it did to a landmark legal decision.
B-31. 12 ANGRY MEN
B-32. THE SEVEN PERCENT SOLUTION
*B-33. AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY
B-34. This 1975 dystopian actioner was the first major Hollywood production to list the members of its stunt crew in the closing credits.
LOGAN’S RUN?
B-35. “I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here, everything is soft and smooth.”
B-36. According to Sydney Pollack, the more the leading lady of this film rehearsed and discussed, the better she got, while the more the leading man rehearsed and discussed, the staler he got – making it his job to figure out exactly how to catch them both at their best.
OUT OF AFRICA?
B-37. "Where I came from, nobody knows/And where I am going, everyone goes."
PORTRAIT OF JENNIE
B-38. This was the first Disney animated feature to spawn a sequel – thirteen years later.
THE RESCUERS?
B-39. “I'll be back! Ha! You didn't know I was gonna say that, did you?”
“That's what you always say!”
“I do?”
LAST ACTION HERO?
B-40. THE 39 STEPS
TANGREDI:
Actor in List A plays the son, daughter or parent of an Oscar-winning actor, who’s also in a movie in List B.
MATCHES
A-40. CHUCK CONNORS was the son of Burl Ives (B-24. WHITE DOG) The Big Country
A-43. DAN AYKROYD was the son of Jessica Tandy (B-9. THE BIRDS) in Driving Miss Daisy
A-8. NICK NOLTE was the son of James Coburn (B-33. AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY) in Affliction
A-19. MARK WAHLBERG was the son of Melissa Leo (B-27. THE BIG SHORT) in The Fighter
A-4. JAMES DEAN was the son of Jo Van Fleet (B-4. I’LL CRY TOMORROW) in East of Eden
A-37. EWAN McGREGOR was the son of Christopher Plummer (B-12. ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD) in Beginners
PARTIALS
A-23. AL PACINO was the son of Marlon Brando in The Godfather
A-33. DEBRA WINGER was the daughter of Shirley MacLaine in Terms of Endearment