You are correct.
I've never seen Room at the Top and I really liked Simone Signoret in "Ship of Fools".
Your turn.
Willem Dafoe (1) + Harrison Ford (1)
Would it be one of your favorites:
Tom & Viv (Dafoe) + Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade or that other Jones movie Ford was in?
Oooh. I'll be not, because the book is Tom Jones, a Foundling. Back to the drawing board?
No, you were right the first time: I think the title of the movie is just Tom Jones, and that's what I was going for. Your turn.
Sad news: Geraldine Fitzgerald died on Sunday. In addition to playing Isabella Linton in Wuthering Heights (which I'm sure is how some of us best remember her), she had a varied career which included taking up singing later in her life. She recorded one album, "Streetsongs", which I will have to play when I get home tonight. Here's the obituary from the New York Times:
July 19, 2005
Geraldine Fitzgerald, 91, Star of Stage and Film, Dies
By RICK LYMAN
Geraldine Fitzgerald, a feisty, gravel-voiced Dublin redhead who drew instant acclaim in her first Hollywood films, including a 1939 Oscar nomination for "Wuthering Heights," before carving out a long, varied career in films, television, cabaret and theater, died on Sunday afternoon at her home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She was 91.
She had Alzheimer's disease for more than a decade and was essentially incapacitated in recent years, leading to a respiratory infection that finally killed her, said her daughter, Susan Scheftel, a clinical psychologist in New York.
Ms. Fitzgerald appeared on the New York stage and as a highly coveted character actress in dozens of Hollywood films, including "Watch on the Rhine" in 1943, "Ten North Frederick" in 1958, "The Pawnbroker" in 1964, "Harry and Tonto" in 1974 and "Arthur" in 1981. But she may have been best known in New York for what many critics considered one of the definitive Mary Tyrones, opposite Robert Ryan, in a 1971 revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night."
Witty and intelligent, she was also notoriously combative and blamed herself for sabotaging her early Hollywood success by battling with studio executives over roles. "My mother was just way too feisty to be in bondage to the Warner Brothers," Ms. Scheftel said.
Born in 1913, the daughter of a Dublin solicitor, Geraldine Fitzgerald was drawn into the legendary Gate Theater by her aunt, Shelagh Richards, one of its stars. Ms. Fitzgerald performed there alongside James Mason and Orson Welles. She married Edward Lindsay-Hogg, an Irish aristocrat, and after a stint at art school in England she moved to New York in 1938 to further her husband's songwriting ambitions.
Money grew tight, and she noted that her old friend Welles was directing something called the Mercury Theater. She called and he hired her for a role in "Heartbreak House."
Norman Lloyd, a longtime friend and founding member of the Mercury Theater, described the effect she had. "She was a staggeringly beautiful girl with the most delightful speech, a slight Irish tinge, not a thick brogue, and this glorious red hair," he said.
Hal Wallis, a major Hollywood producer, saw her in Shaw's "Heartbreak House" and signed her to a Warner Brothers contract. She was told to play best friend to the dying Bette Davis in "Dark Victory" (1939), and her performance persuaded Samuel Goldwyn to cast her as the tragic Isabella Linton in "Wuthering Heights."
In the 1940's she mingled with Hollywood's intellectual elite, counting among her friends Laurence Olivier, Charlie Chaplin, Davis, Welles and the screenwriter Charles Lederer.
When World War II separated Ms. Fitzgerald from her husband, then back in England, she stayed in Los Angeles with their son, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, later to become an acclaimed film, television and Broadway director. Her first marriage ended in 1946.
By then, she had worked her way up to leading roles. A performance as Woodrow Wilson's wife, Edith, in "Wilson" (1944) earned her a glamorous photo on the cover of Life magazine. It also attracted the attention of Stuart Scheftel, the grandson of Isador Straus, the co-owner of the R. H. Macy Co. who went down with the Titanic. Scheftel asked a friend to introduce them, and they were married in 1946.
They moved to New York and joined the rarefied circles in which the city's cultural and political worlds mingled. The couple stayed together until his death in 1994.
She continued to work steadily and in the 1960's formed the Everyman Street Theater, which ventured into the city's poorest neighborhoods to recruit and train street performers. This led to an interest in directing, and she staged several productions, including all-black productions of O'Neill classics. In 1982, she received her only Tony nomination, as a director, for "Mass Appeal." Among the directors she aced out of a nomination that year was her son, who staged "Agnes of God" a couple of blocks away. He survives her, along with Ms. Scheftel, two grandchildren and one step-grandchild.
In the 1970's, after a small role in "Rachel, Rachel" required her to sing on camera, the unpleasant results caused her to take voice lessons. Thus she began yet another career, as a cabaret artist. Her show "Streetsongs" was a nightclub hit and appeared three times in Broadway theaters over the years.
When young actresses went to her for advice, she remembered her own regrets about having looked down her nose at early Hollywood offers. "Her advice to young actresses was to always say yes," Ms. Scheftel said. "She had learned that the hard way by saying no all the time. So she would tell them, when offered work, always say yes."
That's sad to hear, although Alzheimer's for 10 years...
I most remember her in Ten North Frederick (I can still see the title shot from the movie!), which I loved, and Dark Victory and Watch on the Rhine and another light hearted fare--The Pawnbroker. I never heard her singing though, wish I had.
On a much lighter note, and back a post, Tom Jones! God, I loved that movie--Finney was so charming and rakish, in that sweet way! I still love watching him act!
Yes, very sad about Geraldine - both that she had Alzheimer's for a decade and that she has left us. She was wonderful in so many films.
Thanks for posting the article about Geraldine Fitzgerald, bree.
When I hear her name, I, of course, think of Wuthering Heights, but the role she played, even though it was a very small one, that impressed me the most was that of Harry's (Art Carney) long-ago dancer/love in "Harry and Tonto". During his travels (after the death of his wife), Harry decides to look her up and finds her in a nursing home. She is befuddled and can barely remember anything of the past (shades of Alzheimer's), but when Harry mentions how he had loved the way she danced, she smiles, the most beautiful smile, and asks him to dance with her, and we know it will be the last time she will ever dance ---- and that dance breaks me up every time I see that movie.
Oh, I think it's my turn.
New question:
Jeff Chandler (2) + Jeff Chandler (1)
(No, I didn't make a mistake.
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Wow, that scene from "Harry and Tonto" sounds wonderful! I haven't seen the movie since it first came out, so I didn't even remember she was in it.
Now to work on your question.
Wild guess:
The Great Sioux Uprising + Iron Man
That's a good answer, and not such a wild guess, because it would apply if I were not looking for another book/movie.
How about a hint in exchange for my not-so-bad guess?
A deserved clue:
I once read that Jonathan Swift used the words that are the title of this book/novel as a humorous metaphor for "sleep" . Thinking about it has me nodding at this very moment.
Brushing up on the bible might lead you in the right direction for the book and movie I have in mind.
Wo, Aggie--you've stumped me! Not that this is the hardest thing to do, but so many films...and Jeff Chandler...
hmmm. Well, I see I'm not going in the right direction with the "sleepy" and bible stuff, but when you guess the right answer, you'll understand my clues.
The movie I'm looking for introduced a young actor who would become a screen icon/legend after appearing in only three major films.
East of Sumatra + Raw Wind in Eden
Thanks for the excellent clues!
