A Movie Scene Quiz

Not Jodi Foster, Bree. The poet's name is the title of the movie.

Do you mean the artist's name? There's no poet in your question.

Oops. Yes, I mean the "artist". As you can see, I posted way past my bedtime.

Oh, and don't forget to tell us what you've been listening to at work.

As you said in the last round,

I'm stumped.

So three guesses for a clue, please:

Gregory Peck
Ronald Colman (not just because you also guessed him, but because he was an amnesiac shell-shocked WWI veteran in Random Harvest, although I have to say, I can't picture him playing an FBI agent)
Salma Hayek (Frida)

Oh, and I'm currently listening to some Schumann pieces for cello and piano. The CD includes the "Adagio and Allegro", "Fantasiestucke" (that really should have an umlaut over the "u", but I don't know how to make one), and "Stucke im Volkston". I love the cello -- I even played it briefly, in grammar school, but somehow the piano was a better fit for me.

Oh, cello music. I fell in love with the cello when I bought a record of Pablo Casals many years ago. I have a CD of cello music , but the only Schumann selection is "Traumeri" performed by the Budapest Strings. I'm listening to Rubinstein"s Melody in F, Op. 3 No. 1 now. Beautiful. Traumeri's next.

Now, getting back to the game, neither can I imagine this two-time Oscar winner playing an FBI agent, but I didn't see the movie inasmuch as I avoid movies dealing with an act of betrayal.

Also, in one of the movies a real-life husband and wife played dual roles.

Tricky indeed, since Emma Thompson is a two-time Oscar winner, but only once for her acting (having won her other Oscar for her screenwriting of Sense and Sensibility)!

Real-life artist - Carrington
FBI agent - Judas Kiss (your "act of betrayal" clue was very subtle)
Doctor/Scientist - Junior
Amnesiac - Dead Again (in which she and then-husband Kenneth Branagh played dual roles)

When I was in London last month, I went to the National Portrait Gallery (it's one of my favorite museums -- I try to get there every time I go to London). One of their new acquisitions is Dora Carrington's portrait of Lytton Strachey, which was recently bequeathed to the NPG by Frances Partridge, who owned it until her death earlier this year. It must have been reproduced often, because it looked very familiar. Here it is:

It only looks familiar to me because it is exactly what Jonathan Pryce looked like in the movie!

Was Frances Partridge a relation?

Oh, now you've put me on the spot! Frances Partridge was connected to the Bloomsbury group in some way (of course, they were such an incestuous group, that could be said of just about everyone in England), but I can't remember exactly how. I'll have to look her up.

Feel free to get some sleep before you do that research! I'm heading that way now myself.

Thanks, but I had to find the answer tonight, if only to satisfy my own curiosity! As I said, they were an incestuous group: Frances Partridge was married to Ralph Partridge, whose first wife was Dora Carrington. Before Frances came on the scene, Strachey, Carrington, and Ralph lived together in what one of the articles I found referred to as a "strangulated triangle": Carrington was in love with Strachey, who was in love with Ralph, who was "hopelessly heterosexual".

Here's the obituary of Frances Partridge that ran in the Guardian when she died last February at the age of 103:

Frances Partridge obituary

And since I didn't fall asleep as I usually do when watching a movie (this one was Love Affair with Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne and I was fascinated), I thought I'd stop in here for a short while. It looks like I just missed you two. Thanks for posting the link and picture, Bree. You might find Ebert's review of Carrington interesting also. And, I don't want to spook you Bree, but I had a feeling you might have seen a Dora Carrington painting recently.

Did I mention that painting in one of my earlier posts about my London trip, or are you a mindreader?

I'm still exhausted from the effort of finding the answer to your question (joking), but I'll try to come up with a new one as soon as I recover.

I'm a mindreader with a little ESP help. (My daughter really believes that I have ESP. ) So now that you know my secret, beware. (lol)

I sense that your question will be posted at approximately 2PM when I return from shopping.

Thank you very much bree, for the helpful research and link to Frances' obituary.

I saw the movie recently enough to vividly recall the details as they were shown there. I have no idea how much that film strayed from reality, but I found it fascinating.

Raggedy, can I hire you to pick my lottery numbers for me?

Our next performer has been:

Real-life artist
Real-life writer (twice)
Fictional actor (twice)
Reporter

While you're pondering my question (above), here's today's music report and an amusing (I hope) anecdote.

Today I'm listening to a CD called "Encore!" on which the young violinist Midori plays several short pieces of salon music for violin, including several Fritz Kreisler pieces.

One of the pieces on the CD is Elgar's "Salut d'amour" (which I love). Elgar wrote "Salut d'amour" when he was a young man (before he had the bargaining power his fame later brought him), and he sold it to a music publisher for a small sum up front, with no royalties. As a result, the publisher reaped all the profits when "Salut d'amour" became a huge popular hit. Years later, Elgar was walking down a London street when he passed a busker who was playing "Salut d'amour" on his violin. Dropping a sixpence into the cap the busker had placed on the sidewalk in front of him, Elgar said, "Now you've made more money out of it than I ever did."

Oh, I love the Elgar story, Bree. Very funny.

I'm not familiar with Elgars Salut d'amour and will check it out, however Gounod's Salut d'amour from Faust is one of my favorite opera arias.

I loved Elgar's Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in E Minor, Op. 85 in the Hilary and Jackie movie and added that CD soundtrack to my collection.

As for the lottery, unfortunately, my perception will only permit three numbers. The three numbers hit here last night, but since I'd already hit on them 4 times in the past (daily lottery) and was dissatisfied with the winnings, (I'm after big bucks), I gave up playing them some time ago. (lol)

I think your movie question is going to require much pondering.

Still thinking.

Want a clue?