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A Movie Scene Quiz

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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Mon 28 Jul, 2008 09:01 pm
This is probably one of the few forties movies I haven't seen. I'll keep a look out for it on TCM. Did you like it?

A Woman's Vengeance (Oldest Oscar winner at that time, Jessica Tandy
Driving Miss Daisy ?
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bree
 
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Reply Mon 28 Jul, 2008 09:09 pm
You got it (including my obscure "driving" hint)!

I liked it a lot. I don't understand why it isn't better known. It was shown as part of a Charles Boyer festival at Lincoln Center (he played the husband).

It's your turn.
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Mon 28 Jul, 2008 09:14 pm
I love Charles Boyer. Can't understand why it hasn't been on TCM.

Logging off now, but will check in early tomorrow morning.

Fifties film:

When he first arrives at the run-down mansion, funeral arrangements are being made for her pet.
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joefromchicago
 
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Reply Tue 29 Jul, 2008 06:16 am
Raggedyaggie wrote:
When he first arrives at the run-down mansion, funeral arrangements are being made for her pet.

Sunset Blvd.
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joefromchicago
 
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Reply Tue 29 Jul, 2008 06:18 am
bree wrote:
Not That Hamilton Woman.

Hint: more than 40 years after this movie was made, the actress who makes the declaration of love in the scene I described became the oldest person to win an Oscar (not counting the honorary Oscar that Groucho Marx got when he was 83).

Didn't Hal Roach get an honorary Oscar when he was over 100?
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Tue 29 Jul, 2008 06:56 am
"Sunset Boulevard" is correct.

Your turn.
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bree
 
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Reply Tue 29 Jul, 2008 07:32 am
joefromchicago wrote:
bree wrote:
Not That Hamilton Woman.

Hint: more than 40 years after this movie was made, the actress who makes the declaration of love in the scene I described became the oldest person to win an Oscar (not counting the honorary Oscar that Groucho Marx got when he was 83).

Didn't Hal Roach get an honorary Oscar when he was over 100?


Edit: (not counting the honorary Oscar that Groucho Marx got when he was 83 or that Hal Roach got when he was 92).
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mac11
 
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Reply Tue 29 Jul, 2008 07:42 am
joefromchicago wrote:
bree wrote:
Not That Hamilton Woman.

Hint: more than 40 years after this movie was made, the actress who makes the declaration of love in the scene I described became the oldest person to win an Oscar (not counting the honorary Oscar that Groucho Marx got when he was 83).

Didn't Hal Roach get an honorary Oscar when he was over 100?

Hal Roach lived to be 100, but he won his honorary Oscar when he was 92. Jessica Tandy was the oldest winner of a competitive Oscar at 80.
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joefromchicago
 
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Reply Tue 29 Jul, 2008 09:28 am
mac11 wrote:
Hal Roach lived to be 100, but he won his honorary Oscar when he was 92.

I knew he was wicked old. I remember when they gave him his Oscar, they expected him to stand up, give a wave to the audience, and then sit down. Instead, he started out giving a rather long acceptance speech, which nobody heard (except the people sitting in his general vicinity) because he didn't have a microphone. Afterwards, the host (Billy Crystal?) said something like "I want to thank Hal Roach for his tribute to the silent movies."

Anyway ...

1920s film: a young man attempts to give a speech to a crowded auditorium, but he's having trouble because he has to contend with a kitten trapped in his sweater.
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Tue 29 Jul, 2008 01:38 pm
The Freshman?
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joefromchicago
 
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Reply Tue 29 Jul, 2008 02:14 pm
Correct (that was my own tribute to Hal Roach, who was a colleague of Harold Lloyd).
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Tue 29 Jul, 2008 02:20 pm
Sixties movie:

A bachelor, living alone, strains spaghetti through an old tennis racquet.
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joefromchicago
 
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Reply Tue 29 Jul, 2008 03:40 pm
The Apartment
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Tue 29 Jul, 2008 04:17 pm
The "Apartment" is correct.

Your turn.
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joefromchicago
 
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Reply Tue 29 Jul, 2008 08:16 pm
1980s movie: a blind man pulls a handgun and fires at a young boy who is about to steal an item from the man's store.
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Paaskynen
 
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Reply Wed 30 Jul, 2008 12:18 am
Ray Charles in The Blues Brothers
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joefromchicago
 
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Reply Wed 30 Jul, 2008 05:19 am
Blues Brothers it is. Your turn.
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Paaskynen
 
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Reply Wed 30 Jul, 2008 06:29 am
A mother shakes the cot of a sleeping baby and is relieved when the infant starts to cry.

(An 1980's film)
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Wed 30 Jul, 2008 07:14 pm
Terms of Endearment? (At the start of the film, Shirley MacLaine's character would waken the baby to be sure it was OK. Laughing )
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Paaskynen
 
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Reply Wed 30 Jul, 2008 10:42 pm
Yes, you got it. I quite liked that film, even though it had its share of melodrama, but great actors, great acting.
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