Thursday, August 29, 2019

Movie-TV Connection Game (August 2019)

What's the connection between Jerry
Lewis and Robert Wagner?
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. George Sanders and Val Kilmer.

2. Hobson's Choice and The Wizard of Oz.

3. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and James Mason.

4. Gloria Swanson and Gary Cooper (this one may be hard).

5. The directors Billy Wilder and Robert Aldrich.

6. Bing Crosby and Ray Milland.

7. Claude Rains and James Mason.

8. Jeans Simmons and Ellen Burstyn.

9. Charlton Heston and James Caan.

10. Rex Harrison and Lou Costello.

11. Jerry Lewis and Robert Wagner.

12. Kirk Douglas and Lee Majors.

13. Clu Gulager and Kris Kristofferson.

14. William Conrad and Clu Gulager.

15. Joanne Woodward and Steve McQueen.

29 comments:

  1. #5. Directed movies where James Stewart was a pilot. Wilder The Spirit of St. Louis, Aldrich The Flight of the Phoenix.
    #6. Both played alcoholics - Milland in The Lost Weekend, Crosby in The Country Girl.

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    1. Patrick, thanks for getting this month's game off to a quick start with two correct answers!

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  2. #1 Both played The Saint
    #7 Both played the angel Mr. Jordan, Rains in Here Comes Mr. Jordan and Mason in Heaven Can Wait.

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    1. Well done! You couldn't ask for better angels than Claude Rains and James Mason.

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  3. 14 William Conrad and Clu Gulager both played hitmen in The Killers. Conrad in the original and Clu in the remake with Lee Marvin. Both great movies.

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    1. Great job, Randy, and I agree that both versions of Hemingway's story are very good.

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    1. Indeed, they did! I almost added Chuck Courtney from BILLY THE KID VS. DRACULA....

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  5. #11 Both starred in the movie "The Man with the Golden Arm."

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  6. 3. Both played Rupert of Hentzau in "The Prisoner of Zenda", opposite Ronald Colman and Stewart Granger.

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    1. Yes, they did! I thought both of them did a good job in the role.

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  7. Still looking for answers for: 2, 4, 8-12, and 15.

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  8. 4. CB DeMille?
    10.Ghosts.
    11.Golf movies.

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    1. I was looking for a more obscure connection for #4, but well done on 10 and 11 (especially the golf one).

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  9. 15. They played high stakes poker players, McQueen in The Cincinnati Kid and Woodward in A Big Hand For The Little Lady.

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    1. Nice hob, Jerome. Two great movies about high stakes games!

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  10. 12. I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but both starred opposite Barbara Stanwyck. Douglas in The Strange Loves of Martha Ivers ( a great movie by the way) and Majors in The Big Valley.

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    1. That works, but there is another connection.

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    1. And that is the connection we were looking for with #12!

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  12. The only remaining questions are: 2, 4, 8, and 9.

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    1. I'll going to give the "answer" on this one because it's a hard one. Both starred in movies with street names in the title: Coop in TEN NORTH FREDERICK and Gloria in SUNSET BOULEVARD.

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  14. 8. Both played faith healers/evangelists (kind of): Simmons in Elmer Gantry and Burstyn in Resurrection.
    9. Both portrayed football players: Caan in Brian's Song and Heston in Number One.

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    1. Great job, John, especially with #8 which is a pretty loose connection.

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  15. Only unanswered question is #2!

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    1. Well done, Toto! And with your answer, that wraps up another edition of the Movie-TV Connection Game. Thanks to all the big brains that played!

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