Monday, October 5, 2015

The Movie-TV Connection Game (October Edition)

What do James Stewart and Sal Mineo
have in common?
Welcome to the October edition! As always, you will be given a pair or trio of films or performers. Your task is to find the common connection. It could be anything--two stars who acted in the same movie, two movies that share a common theme, etc. As always, don't answer all the questions so others can play, too. There is a single best answer for each question.

1.  Billy Wilder and Bewitched director William Asher.

2. James Stewart and Sal Mineo.

3. Errol Flynn and Robert De Niro.

4. Julie Andrews and Bette Davis.

5. Richard Basehart and Lloyd Bridges.

6. Martin Landau and Ross Martin.

7. Robert Fuller and Steve McQueen.

8. Christopher George and Clint Walker.

9. Errol Flynn and John Barrymore.

10. Chuck Connors and Kurt Russell.

11. Oliver Reed and Michael Landon.

12. Them! and The Third Man.

13. One Touch of Venus and Burn, Witch, Burn.

14. Jack Lemmon, Burt Lancaster, and Robert Wagner.

15. Judy Garland and Peggy Lee.

43 comments:

  1. 4. Both played nannies, though I would much prefer Mary Poppins as my nanny to Ms. Davis'.

    12. Both were partially set in sewers.

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    1. Well done, Toto! Thanks for getting this month's game off to a great start. (And yes, I prefer Ms. Poppins, too.)

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    2. You might also add they both played Queens - Julie Andrews as Queen of Genovia in The Princess Diaries and Bette in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex.

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  2. Stewart and Mineo were in "Cheyenne Autumn" movie.

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    1. Very good! There's also another more challenging connection between them.

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    2. They both appeared in a vehicle titled The Greatest Show on Earth - Mineo in the TV series as a guest star and Stewart in the film (1952)

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    3. They also both played musician's in films, Mineo in the Gene Krupa Story and Stewart as Glenn Miller in the Glenn Miller Story.

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    4. Hooray for beachgal! That musician connection was a toughie.

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  3. Flynn played Barrymore in "Too Much Too Soon" film and/or both under contract with Warner Bros.

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    1. Yes, Flynn played Barrymore. One of his best later performances in my opinion.

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  4. 11. Both played werewolves.
    7. Both play Vin, The Magnificent Seven and Return of the Seven.
    8. Both made wildlife films, Grizzly and Night of the Grizzly.

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  5. Correct on all three questions (as usual!).

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  6. 5. The sea. Basehart in "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"; Bridges in "Sea Hunt."
    --Don Effenberger

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  7. 6. Landau guest-starred as "General Grimm" on a 1965 episode of "The Wild, Wild West," with Martin co-starring as Artemus Gordon.
    --Don Effenberger

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    1. I didn't realize that! I was going for a more general connection (but your answer is correct, of course).

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  8. Peggy Lee guest starred on The Judy Garland show in 1963

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    1. I didn't know that either! There's still another connection.

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  9. 12. They both have pivotal scenes in them that took place in sewer/under street drain systems.

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    1. That's right (Toto had answered this one, too).

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  10. 15. They both were part of films that featured dogs -- Judy with her Toto in The Wizard of Oz and Peggy Lee as part of the voice team (and wrote music for as well) in Lady and the Tramp.

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    1. That's a great connection, but there is yet one more and it does involve LADY AND THE TRAMP.

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    2. Judy was in Words & Music (1948) that Leana Horn sang The Lady Is A Tramp in and Peggy Lee was part of the voice team (and wrote music for as well) in Lady and the Tramp (1955) - Peggy co-wrote the song He's A Tramp used in that film.

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    3. Wow, the connections keep rolling in on this one. There's yet another involving Si and Am.

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  11. Still need answers for 1, 3, 6, 10, 13, 14, and 15 (though some of the answer given are also correct).

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  12. 6. Both were disguise specialists, MI and Wild Wild West.
    3. Taxi Driver, DeNiro is shown a piece of Errol Flynn's bathtub.

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  13. Great job in #6. Your answer to #3 is much better than the one I thought of.

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  14. #10 Both Connors and Russell played professional baseball. Connors played for the Dodgers and I believe the Cubs, while Russell played in the minor leagues, I believe it was an Angels farm system---I seem to remember him playing in El Paso, he then was the DH for his father's Independent League Portland team.

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  15. #6 Landau and Martin both played masters of disguise. Landau in Mission Impossible and Martin in The Wild Wild West.

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  16. #12 Both were voices to animated cats. Judy, in Gay Puree, and Peggy, in Lady & the Tramp.

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  17. 14. They all played in 70s disaster films -- Burt in Airport. RJ Wagner in Towering Inferno and The Concord: Airport 79 and Jack Lemmon in Airport 77

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    1. Hooray! yes, they were all in AIRPORT movies.

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  18. All that remains are answers to 1, 3, and 13.

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  19. #3 Both Flynn in Gentlemen Jim and De Niro in Raging Bull playing boxing champions. Flynn was Jim Corbett, De Niro was Jake LaMotta

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    1. That is really good, Bill! I'm embarrassed to say that I was simply thinking about both working with Harvey Lembeck.

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  21. That concludes this edition of the Connection Game. Thanks everyone for playing!

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