A Movie Scene Quiz

I must admit the 'bisexual' is a little obscure, but real, it's from one of her lesser known films, it had a different title in the UK to the USA. It's my brothers favourite. I was searching the net to try and get it on DVD for xmas for him.....no luck, it is known though.

Well, I can think of a bi-sexual and prostitute -

Melina Mercouri - but not a Queen, except her name in Gaily, Gaily was Queen Lil.

And Catherine Deneuve

Prostitute - Belle de jour
Queen - The Musketeer
and
obscure bi-sexual (lol) - The Hunger

but, if this is a new star, I haven't an inkling.

Oh, I forgot Catherine Deneuve was a prostitute in "Hustle", too.

And a third guess for a clue:

Sharon Stone - Can't think of a Queen, but she was a prostitute in Casino
and a bisexual in Basic Instinct.

Those guesses are better than anything I was able to come up with. The best I could do was Vivien Leigh, who was a prostitute in Waterloo Bridge and a queen in Caesar and Cleopatra. I don't think she ever played a bisexual, though: she was in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, which has a character who is probably bisexual, but it isn't her character -- it's the gigolo who was played by Warren Beatty.

Hmm, I'll bet it's Catherine DeNeuve - good guesses, ladies.

prostitute - butterfield 8

queen - cleopatra

bi-sexual - Zee and Co (X, Y and Zee in the UK)

Good Grief.
I thought of Elizabeth Taylor and X,Y and Zee (Zee and Company), but I didn't recall that she played a bisexual in that one. I remembered that Susannah York revealed latent Lesbian tendencies, but hadn't realized that the Elizabeth Taylor character shared her feelings.

You needn't have revealed the answer so soon, Sarah. You could have given us a hint after three guesses.

Sorry, I was a bit premature on that one, i'll do better next time.

Whose turn is it? Raggedy, we need a ruling from you, as creator of this game, on how to deal with this unprecedented situation!

Oh dear. Decisions, Decisions! And I'm still pondering whether Elizabeth Taylor qualifies, considering her intentions/motive, as a bisexual, in X, Y and Zee.

"Synopsis: A cheated-on wife decides to get back at her two-timing architect husband by seducing his mistress in this all-star, sexually charged drama."
(Technically, was she or wasn't she? That is the question. )

Now, as to this unprecedented situation, OK - I've made my decision. Whoever gets here first may ask a question. But, not Sarah, because Sarah jumped the gun on this one. A clue was requested and Sarah did not heed. However, I have the utmost confidence in Sarah and feel certain that she will not place us in such a predicament in the future and, of course, forgive her and look forward to her future questions. (That one was a "stinker". )


However, if anyone feels my decision is unsatisfactory, I am open to suggestions.

A Solomonic decision which I for one am perfectly willing to abide by! However, I'm not going to post a question right now because I'm not going to be online much tomorrow: I'm taking one of those vacation days I have to use up by the end of the year, so I'll probably be out and about during the day, unless the weather turns out to be even worse than predicted.

Oh, and I have no idea what the answer to your question about Elizabeth Taylor's role is!

Thank you Bree.

I don't know what the weather prediction is for here tomorrow, but today was gorgeous - in the mid-fifties, no wind. I hope you have the same in store for you tomorrow. Enjoy your long weekend.

My fault entirely, I didn't start at the beginning of the thread....so I was not aware of the rules. To err is human!

However, I do think the bi-sexual qualifies. :wink:

I'll watch for a while and then have another go........if that's ok.

I do have some ready though, and I will obey the rules.

Have a good weekend, I'm off to my office party tonight, so me thinks I will be in recovery this weekend. :wink:

Oh darn, Sarah. You're leaving for the weekend and I had a question prepared just for you.

OK, here it is:

Sailor (at least twice)
Fictional painter
Newspaper reporter
Fictional movie star

Three guesses for a clue:

Alec Guinness (who was a fictional painter in The Horse's Mouth, and a sailor in Barnacle Bill and The Captain's Paradise)

Clark Gable (who was a sailor in Mutiny on the Bounty and China Seas, and a newspaper reporter in It Happened One Night)

James Mason (who was a fictional movie star in A Star Is Born, and a sailor in Pandora and The Flying Dutchman)

And now, while I'm waiting for a clue, I'll bend your (virtual) ears with a story about the play I saw last night: the Irish Repertory Theatre's production of After the Ball, a musical by Noel Coward based on the Oscar Wilde play, Lady Windermere's Fan. I had never heard of it until this week, and when I first read about it, I thought it sounded like a great idea. I'm sorry to say, the concept was better than the execution. It was a perfectly pleasant evening, but it somehow lacked the sparkle I expected from a show that both Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde were involved with. However, it just started previews this week, so maybe it will find its missing sparkle by the time it opens. Tony Walton, who directed the show, was sitting in the back of the theatre writing notes like mad during the intermission, so there will likely be some changes made before opening night. In a program note, Tony Walton said that he saw the original London production several times in 1954, when he was a teenage art student in London, so this production is clearly a labor of love for him -- I hope he finds a way to pull it off.

Seeing Tony Walton at the theatre completed a "spot-the-director" double bill for me yesterday: earlier in the day, as I was walking along West 57th Street, I saw Martin Scorsese get out of a cab and run (it was raining heavily at the time) into the Directors Guild of America building. He went by me so fast I didn't have time to say, "Yo, Marty" -- as I would of course have addressed him -- "I'm really looking forward to "The Aviator".

I'm laughing not at your excellent review of "After the Ball", Bree, but at your "spot the director" references. Love it. Thank you for such a delightful report.

Were you familiar with any of the music/songs from the show? or performers?

If only you'd had time to belt out "Singin' in the Rain" to Marty. :wink:

Oh, if only I'd thought of that (singing for Scorsese)! It might have been the beginning of a whole new career for me.

The only songs in After the Ball that I had ever heard before were two that, according to the program note, were interpolated from other shows: "Let's Say Goodbye", from Words and Music, and "Never Again", from Set to Music. Some of the other songs in the show included:

Why Is It the Woman Who Pays?
I Knew That You Would Be My Love
Stay on the Side of the Angels (in which the admirer of a fiercely moralistic young woman tells her that it's fine to stay on the side of the angels -- as long as you keep "a compassionate heart")
Clear Bright Morning
Something on a Tray (a comic number for an elderly duchess, a role that was played in this production by Kathleen Widdoes, whom I'll always think of as Beatrice to Sam Waterston's Benedick in a Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing in 1972 -- where did those 32 years go?)

I don't recognize any of those songs and I thought I knew all the songs written in the Fifties. (where did those 50 years go? (lol) )

I just googled for Kathleen Widdoes because her name is so familiar. I have seen two of the movies she was in - Petulia and The Group, but I can't place her face. I notice she was in a TV production of Much Ado About Nothing, too.

And, getting back to "Singin' in the Rain". :wink: :wink:

Oh, duh --

Gene Kelly



Sailor - On the Town and Anchors Aweigh
Fictional painter - An American in Paris
Newspaper reporter - Inherit the Wind (?)
Fictional movie star - Singin' in the Rain