Monday, April 22, 2019

Movie-TV Connection Game (April 2019)

If you're new to this game, here are the rules:  You will be given a pair or trio of films or performers and will be required to 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.  James Mitchum, Frankie Avalon, and Patrick Swayze.

2.  Guy Williams and George Hamilton.

3.  Kirk Douglas and Robert Redford.

4.  Deborah Walley and Raquel Welch.

5.  Burt Lancaster and Maud Adams.

6.  Red Skelton and Robert De Niro.

7.  James Stewart, Grace Kelly, and Barbara Stanwyck.

8.  Myrna Loy and Jo Ann Pflug.

9.  Celeste Holm and Farley Granger.

10. Barbara Stanwyck and David McCallum.

11. Warren Beatty and Boris Karloff.

12. Frank Sinatra and Gene Wilder.

13. Ginger Rogers and Red Skelton.

14. Richard Conte and Patrick Swayze.

15. William Holden and John Garfield.

49 comments:

  1. #2 Both played Zorro. Williams in the Disney TV show and Hamilton in Zorro, the Gay Blade.

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    1. Randy, thanks for getting this month’s game off to a good start!

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    2. #9 Celeste Holm and Fairley Granger both acted in plays at Westport Country Playhouse.

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  2. #1 All three played surfers. Mitchum in Ride the Wild Surf, Avalon in the Beach Blanket movies, and Swayze in Point Blank.

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  3. 3. They both played cowboys on the run, Redford in The Electric Horseman and Douglas in Lonely Are The Brave.

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    1. Well done, Jerome! And there’s another connection, too.

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  4. #15 Boxing films. Garfield in Body and Soul, Holden in Golden Boy.

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    1. That s very good! That’s also another connection between them.

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  5. #8. I remember when Jo Ann Pflug played Nora Charles on TV in a 1970s pilot with Craig Stevens as Nick. We all recall that Myrna was the first Nora.

    #14. Richard Conte and Patrick Swayze both appeared in movies titled Road House. (Guess which one has visited my blog.)

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    1. Well done on Nora Charles. Your connection on Conte and Swayze is much better than mine (but there is another answer). Richard Conte visited your blog? Patrick? How did I miss either one??

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    2. Conte at Caftan Woman: Noir overview, Full of Life, New York Confidential, Hollywood Story,
      Road House: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2016/07/a-road-house-1948-visit.html

      In July: Thieves' Highway

      It appears I'm a fan.

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    3. I just recently saw THIEVES HIGHWAY, an intriguing picture with great atmosphere.

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  6. Oh, oh!

    #6. Both DeNiro and Skelton played taxi drivers. Bobby in ... well... Taxi Driver, and Red in The Yellow Cab Man.

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    1. Great job! One of my favorite questions because who would have thought those two had any kind of connection.

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  7. #5: Burt Lancaster in The Rose Tattoo (1955)
    Maud Adams in Tattoo (1981)

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    1. Nicely done! I also think Maud may have had a tattoo in OCTOPUSSY.

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  8. #11; Warren Beatty in Dick Tracy (1990)
    Boris Karloff in Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)

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  9. #10: Barbara Stanwyck: Titanic (1953)
    David McCallum: A Night to Remember (1958)

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    1. Yes, indeed (and long before that other Titanic movie).

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  10. #13. Could Fred Astaire be the connection between Ginger (10 movies) and Red (Three Little Words)?

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    1. That certainly is a connection, but there's another one, too.

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  11. #4: Deborah Walley and Raquel Welch.
    Spinout (1966) and Roustabout (1964) - Both with Elvis.

    Summer Magic (1963) and A Swingin' Summer (1965)

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    1. Those are two great connections, but there's even a third one!

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  12. 7. John Ford movies. Kelly in Mogambo. Stanwyck in The Plough and the Stars. Stewart in Two Rode Together.

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    1. Nicely done...and glad to see you're playing!

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  13. Still needing answers: 4, 9, and 12. Plus, there are additional connections out there for 3, 13, 14, and 15.

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  14. 4. Beach Party flicks. Raquel in a Swingin' Summer and Deborah in 4 of ' em, Beach Blanket Bingo, Ski Party, Ghost in the Invisible Bikini and It's A Bikini World.


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    1. That is true! They also played the same occupations.

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    2. Skydivers. Deborah Walley in Beach Blanket Bingo and Raquel in Fathom.

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    3. Thanks, nmclain, terrific job answering that one!

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    4. Yay I'm happy I answered one right! ! I always enjoy the game but I usually see the post too late and most of the connections are answered.

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  15. 13. Are you thinking of Lucille Ball as a co-star? Rogers in Stage Door, Follow the Fleet. Skelton in The Fuller Brush Girl, DuBarre Was A Lady.

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    1. No, but that works, too. You are all so close with THE FULLER BRUSH MAN....

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  16. Maybe on 13 you were thinking of jobs in sales. Skelton in The Fuller Brush Man. Rogers in The Traveling Saleslady.

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  17. 12. Western comedy spoofs? Sinatra in 4 For Texas. Wilder in Blazing Saddles.

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    1. And yet another would be trains: Frank in VON RYAN’S EXPRESS and Gene in SILVER STREAK.

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  18. Still looking for the answer to 9 and additional answers to 14 and 15.

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  19. 9. Celest Holm in the TV movie Once You Meet A Stranger - a remake of the Farley Granger/Hitchock classic, Stranger On A Train

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    1. Wow, that is much better than what I originally came up! I was thinking tennis players, with Celeste playing tennis in COME TO THE STABLE and Farley in STRANGERS ON A TRAIN.

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  20. 15. Could it be they are dead at the start of the movie which then flash back over their lives? William Holden in Sunset Boulevard and John Garfield in Between Two Worlds.

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    1. As above, that is better than my connection, which was violinists (which Bill identified below).

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    1. Thanks, Bill, for getting a surprisingly hard one!

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  22. To close this month's game, the other answer to #14 was truckers: Conte played one in THIEVES' HIGHWAY and Swayze in BLACK DOG. Thanks everyone for playing!

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  23. What's the other connection you were thinking of for number 3?

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    1. Skiing: Kirk in HEROES OF TELEMARK and Robert in DOWNHILL RACER.

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