Does fancy dress count?
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I'll accept all your answers to date. But from here on in, we'll use this definition:
Masquerade: a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises.
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Masquerade: a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises.
1. Amadeus
2. An American in Paris
3. Tom Jones
4. To Catch A Thief
5. The Phantom of the Opera
6. Le Bal masqué (1981), about the assassination of Gustav III, king of Sweden, during a masquerade (in 1792)
7. Labyrinth (masquerade ball)
8. Dangerous Liaisons (1988), also a ball masqué
9. A Clockwork Orange (1971), thugs use masks as disguise (does that count?)
10. Domino (2005), a bunch of unfortunate robbers wears "First Ladies" masks
11. The Mask (1994), Jim Carrey putting on a show
12. The Cask of Amontillado (1998), masks during the Carnival of Venice
13. The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (a masked Russ Tamblyn dances with Yvette Mimieux)
14. Masque of the Red Death (Vincent Price)
Nice picture, bree.
Welcome to the game JPB. I'll make that no. 17.
17. Everafter
18. Gilda
19. Start the Revolution Without Me (king arrives at the royal ball in a chicken costume; all the other guests are dressed formally)
Ah yes, Wandeljw.
and how about when Barbra Streisand dresses like Groucho at the costume party in "The Way We Were". (I think everyone was to dress as a Marx Brother, but I'm not positive. )
20. The Way We Were
22. Karate Kid (Daniel san in a shower costume and Ali with a mask)
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23. Romeo + Juliet (DiCaprio/Danes)
24. Everyone Says I Love You (there's a Marx Brothers party - even Goldie Hawn wears a Groucho mustache)
25. The Man in the Iron Mask
Good ones, all. Here's a recap:
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Masquerade: a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises.
1. Amadeus
2. An American in Paris
3. Tom Jones
4. To Catch A Thief
5. The Phantom of the Opera
6. Le Bal masqué (1981), about the assassination of Gustav III, king of Sweden, during a masquerade (in 1792)
7. Labyrinth (masquerade ball)
8. Dangerous Liaisons (1988), also a ball masqué
9. A Clockwork Orange (1971), thugs use masks as disguise (does that count?)
10. Domino (2005), a bunch of unfortunate robbers wears "First Ladies" masks
11. The Mask (1994), Jim Carrey putting on a show
12. The Cask of Amontillado (1998), masks during the Carnival of Venice
13. The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (a masked Russ Tamblyn dances with Yvette Mimieux)
14. Masque of the Red Death (Vincent Price)
15. Casanova
16. I Vitelloni
17. Everafter
18. Gilda
19. Start the Revolution Without Me (king arrives at the royal ball in a chicken costume; all the other guests are dressed formally)
20. The Way We Were
21. Romeo & Juliet
22. The Karate Kid
23. Romeo + Juliet (DiCaprio/Danes)
24. Everyone Says I Love You (there's a Marx Brothers party - even Goldie Hawn wears a Groucho mustache)
25. The Man in the Iron Mask
26. Trading Places (the gorilla, Dan Ackroyd as the Jamaican etc)
27. Entrapment (I recall Catherine Zeta-Jones wearing a ballgown and mask)
28. The Manchurian Candidate (Angela Lansbury)
I'm out of ideas. Do we want to expand this topic to cover any masks - even if it's not at a party?
"Masks" is fine with me.
And we can stop when we reach 35 if you'd like. The person who submits No 35 may select the next topic if they wish.
Having an actor leave the movie because of a prior commitment, the director plays the rest of the actor's role. But we see only the director's fingers.
(Dorothy Parker was a witty, good writer. A group of literati gathered for lunch every day at the Algonquin Hotel. They played word games. Dorothy's using "horticulture" in a sentence. Her reply? "You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make them think")
