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| What do these actors have in common? |
1. Robert Mitchum and Robert Montgomery.
2. Claudette Colbert and Richard Long.
3. Tony Randall and Elton John.
4. Paul Newman and Rob Lowe.
5. Rock Hudson and Dick York.
6. Cary Grant and Dennis O'Keefe.
7. Charles Laughton and Kirk Douglas.
8. Shelley Winters and Fred Astaire.
9. David Hedison and Sean Connery.
10. The Good Earth and The Beginning of the End (1957).
11. Charles Laughton and Lou Costello. (It's not Captain Kidd!)
12. The Shop Around the Corner and Dear Brigitte.
13. Anatomy of a Murder and the quiz show To Tell the Truth.
14. Kenneth More and Burt Reynolds.
15. William Conrad and Thayer David.
1.Mitchum and Montgomery both played Philip Marlowe.
ReplyDeleteIndeed they did! (Although we only see Robert Montgomery when he looks in a mirror.)
Delete4. Both played hockey players, Newman in Slap Shot and Lowe in Youngblood.
ReplyDelete12. This seems too obvious, but Jimmy Stewart?
15. Both played Nero Wolfe.
Well done on both 4 and 15! You're correct on 12, but, yes, there's a less obvious connection.
Delete#2. Claudette Colbert and Richard Long played mother and son in Tomorrow is Forever.
ReplyDelete#8. Oscar-nominated for Irwin Allen disaster movies, Shelley for The Poseidon Adventure and Fred in The Towering Inferno.
#13. Orson Bean.
Great job on #8 and #13! You're right on #2 (I never even thought of that), but there's another connection, too.
Delete9 - both were submarine captains (Voyage and Hunt for Red October) but that seems too easy. Both were in Robin Hood movies? Though Hedison played the son of Robin Hood, where Connery was Robin Hood... Both were in Bond... but not the same Bond movies... I don't think any of these are right... LOL!
ReplyDelete15 - both played Nero Wolfe! (I love Thayer David in Journey to the Center of the Earth, he's so perfectly creepy... I remember trying to find him in other movies.)
DeleteI think this question was too easy--I was going for the submarine connection. I'm a Thayer David fan, too. He was great on the original DARK SHADOWS TV series.
DeleteNothing wrong with an easy one every now and then... look how it kept me hopping! I'm a huge Hedison fan, so I was running everything in my head that would link to Sean Connery. That was fun, so I have no complaints! I've never seen Dark Shadows, but I really need to check that out at some point.
DeleteStill looking for answers for 2, 3, 5-7. 10-12, and 14.
ReplyDeleteOkay, here's my two thoughts:
ReplyDelete7. Both played famous painters in biodramas, Laughton in the title role as "Rembrandt" and Douglas as Van Gogh in "Lust for Life."
10. Both films deal with attacks of locusts/grasshoppers, regular-sized in "The Good Earth" and giant mutants in "Beginning of the End."
Terrific job on both!
Delete7. Naval captains - Laughton as Capt.Bligh in Mutiny On The Bounty; and Douglas in Harm's Way as Paul Eddington and later again as a Naval Captain in Final Countdown.
ReplyDeleteOoh...that's a good one, too.
Delete14. Burt Reynolds and Kenneth More. Both were in movies about cars —- Burt in Smoky and the Bandit; Kenneth in Genevieve.
ReplyDeletePretty different car movies, huh?
Delete5. Dick York and Rock Hudson - advertising - they both worked in that area - York on Bewitched and Hudson in Lover Come Back.
ReplyDeleteAnd I thought that was going to be a hard one! You're just too good.
DeleteLaughton and Costello both played ghosts from earlier centuries (in The Canterville Ghost and The Time of Their Lives, respectively).
ReplyDeleteWell done...and TIME OF THEIR LIVES is my fave A&C movie (though very different from the others).
DeleteHey, there, is the link in #3 movie lions? Elton John supplied the music for Disney's "The Lion King," while Tony Randall was a scientist trying to domesticate a lion in the 1965 comedy "Fluffy."
ReplyDeleteYou are correct...and I'm not lyin'!
DeleteAha! #2. Pa and Ma Kettle! The Egg and I!
ReplyDeleteYes, it was the Kettles!
Delete6. Cary Grant and Dennis O'Keefe - they both were in Topper films. But I think what you are going for is they both played characters named Brewster - Grant in Arsenic & Old Lace; O'Keefe in Brewster's Millions.
ReplyDeleteVery good connections...but there's still another!
Delete12. Are you looking for letters? Shop Around The Corner with it's letters between two who think they don't know each other, Stewart & Sullavan; and in Dear Brigitte, letters to Brigitte Bardot from Bill Mummy's character Erasmus.
ReplyDeleteYes....letters indeed!
Delete11:
ReplyDeleteCharles Laughton and Lou Costello made guest appearances on Wagon Train (Thanx MeTV).
You could have gone for a threefer with Sessue Hayakawa …
Regarding duo #6, Cary Grant and Dennis O'Keefe: both co-starred in films with "Mink" in the title, Grant in 1962's "That Touch of Mink" and O'Keefe in a 1953 comedy, "The Lady Wants Mink." But I think the animal link you're after is leopards: O'Keefe in the Val Lewton thriller "The Leopard Man" and Grant, of course, in "Bringing Up Baby." Both films were RKO releases, by the way.
ReplyDeleteYou are correct...and I am impressed. I was indeed going for leopards.
DeleteAnd that concludes this month's game. Thanks to all you big brains for playing!
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