I apologize in advance if this one is a little too much of an "in joke". Mac's earlier question in which the link was Philadelphia suggested it to me (except this one doesn't involve birthplaces).
Frances Sternhagen
Jane Fonda
Meryl Streep
Lisa Kudrow
Jon Tenney
Hope Davis
I have to run out to do some errands, but I'll check back in a couple of hours.
They all attended Vassar.
You got it, mac. Extra points for saying "attended," not "graduated", since Ms. Fonda didn't stay around long enough to graduate.
I was a year behind Meryl Streep at Vassar, and I saw her in the title role in a student production of Miss Julie. Although I still have the programs for virtually every play I've seen in my life, I can't find the program for that production. I wonder what it would fetch on eBay....
Wow bree - how was Ms. Streep in Miss Julie? It's a tough role for college, not that that stops colleges from producing it regularly...
Kurt Russell (twice)
Michael Madsen
Burt Lancster
William Holden
Prisons?
William Holden in Stalag 17
Kurt Russell in Escape from New York and L.A.
Burt Lancaster in Birdman of Alcatraz
Michael Madsen I don't know.
mac, I remember Meryl Streep as being a very impressive Miss Julie, for a 20- or 21-year-old. However, that was over 30 years ago (amazing but true), so it's possible that my memory is tinged by the rosy glow of all the work she's done since then.
No, not prisons or any related location. Excellent guess, though, Equus.
Executive
Kurt Russell - Barefoot Executive and Executive Decision
Burt Lancaster - Executive Action
William Holden - Executive Suite
Michael Madsen - Executive Target
You got it, Raggedy - next?
New Q:
James Cagney
Sean Connery
William Holden
Peter O'Toole
This seems a little generic, but MAN:
James Cagney - Man of a Thousand Faces
Sean Connery - Medicine Man
William Holden - The Man from Colorado
Peter O'Toole - The Stunt Man & Man of La Mancha
You're right Mac. They do all have Man in them, but I'm not looking for man or woman. But the film title is the right track.
Second try seems more promising - LION:
James Cagney - A Lion Is in the Streets
Sean Connery - The Wind and the Lion
William Holden - The Lion
Peter O'Toole - The Lion in Winter
Yeppers. Lion is right. Your turn.
Sean Connery
Meryl Streep
Humphrey Bogart
Kim Basinger
Africa 
Connery - A Good Man in Africa
Streep - Out of Africa
Basinger - I Dreamed of Africa
Bogart - The African Queen
Hayley Mills
Tippi Hedren
Jack Lemmon
TIGER:
Hayley Mills - Tiger Bay
Tippi Hedren - Tiger by the Tail
Jack Lemmon - Save the Tiger
(I'm surprised you didn't list Chow Yun Fat!)
