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Post by Isapop on Mar 22, 2021 13:06:45 GMT
Part 8 of a possibly irritating series of trifling, minutiae focused, and arguably pointless movie trivia questions.
Here is the question. Good Luck.
Using a bit of trick photography, in what movie does the star, playing a real life person, meet that star, playing themself?
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Post by marianne48 on Mar 22, 2021 14:41:12 GMT
Larry Parks in Jolson Sings Again?
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Post by Isapop on Mar 22, 2021 15:07:54 GMT
Larry Parks in Jolson Sings Again? Marianne, you blow my mind! You're RIGHT! In Jolson Sings Again (1949), Larry Parks, playing Al Jolson, meets Larry Parks, preparing to star in The Jolson Story (1946). A tough question, but made short work of.
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 22, 2021 17:00:52 GMT
The closest I could come up with is Tom Hanks, playing Jim Lovell in Apollo 13, is welcomed aboard by Jim Lovell.  |
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Post by Isapop on Mar 22, 2021 17:17:51 GMT
The closest I could come up with is Tom Hanks, playing Jim Lovell in Apollo 13, is welcomed aboard by Jim Lovell. A nice effort. Now if there had been scene in Apollo 13 where Tom Hanks (playing Jim Lovell) meets Tom Hanks who says, "Hi Jim, I'm gonna play you in the movie!", then there you go!
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 22, 2021 17:23:28 GMT
Aaawww -- I was going with Burt Lancaster meeting up with the real Wyatt Earp at the actual OK Corral
(but that turned out to be Henry Fonda who did that)
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Post by Isapop on Mar 22, 2021 17:42:42 GMT
Aaawww -- I was going with Burt Lancaster meeting up with the real Wyatt Earp at the actual OK Corral (but that turned out to be Henry Fonda who did that) But Henry Fonda meeting the real Wyatt Earp would be wrong. It would have to be Henry Fonda, with mustache and six-shooter meeting up with Henry Fonda thespian, and calling him "some pissant actor". So yours is really a....................halfer!
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 22, 2021 17:50:23 GMT
Kevin Costner, playing Jim Garrison in JFK, might have come across Jim Garrison playing Earl Warren. The former Chief Justice wasn't offered a role, as far as I know.
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 22, 2021 17:52:04 GMT
Aaawww -- I was going with Burt Lancaster meeting up with the real Wyatt Earp at the actual OK Corral (but that turned out to be Henry Fonda who did that) Bravo's godfather, in the religious meaning, met Wyatt Earp. Alas, no one living knows the story - but long may the story be told!
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 22, 2021 17:57:19 GMT
So yours is really a....................halfer!
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'Halfer' -- I like the sound of that word
It means a player can post four
Come and go as they please
Some words give you a feeling
'Halfer' is one of those words
That makes a player tight in the throat
The same tightness a player gets when he makes the DDC
Or signs up for the Bonus Round
Some words can give you a feeling that makes your stomach turn
'Halfer' is one of those words
Say -- I think I'll borrow that word for the next Garth Game
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWFs2tn6jGo
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Post by Isapop on Mar 22, 2021 18:12:02 GMT
Kevin Costner, playing Jim Garrison in JFK, might have come across Jim Garrison playing Earl Warren. The former Chief Justice wasn't offered a role, as far as I know. Real life people playing bits in movies about them do occur from time to time. Lovell (pointed out by Matt) in Apollo 13. Frank Abagnale as a cop in Catch Me If You Can. Erin Brockovich played a waitress in the Julia Roberts movie. And others. But Costner coming across Garrison ain't Costner coming across Costner, like it was with Parks in a role coming across Parks the actor. That, I have to think, is a one and only occurrence.
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Post by Isapop on Mar 22, 2021 18:14:16 GMT
So yours is really a....................halfer!
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Halfer -- I like the sound of that word
It means a player can post four
Come and go as they please
Some words give you a feeling
Halfer is one of those words
That makes a player tight in the throat
The same tightness a player gets when he makes the DDC
Or signs up for the Bonus Round
Some words can give you a feeling that makes your stomach turn
Halfer is one of those words
Say -- I think I'll borrow that word for the next Garth Game
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWFs2tn6jGo I know that's inspired by a movie. It's just that I can never remember the title.
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 22, 2021 18:32:50 GMT
Maybe you can recall it if you ever have to make any alamo-ny payments.
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 22, 2021 18:50:08 GMT
Aaawww -- I was going with Burt Lancaster meeting up with the real Wyatt Earp at the actual OK Corral (but that turned out to be Henry Fonda who did that) Bravo's godfather, in the religious meaning, met Wyatt Earp. Alas, no one living knows the story - but long may the story be told! Thanks for sharing, Bravo -- that was brave, courageous and bold.
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Post by Isapop on Mar 22, 2021 18:55:20 GMT
Maybe you can recall it if you ever have to make any alamo-ny payments. The last time I remembered it was when I rented a car. Funny how the mind works.
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 22, 2021 19:01:25 GMT
Maybe you can recall it if you ever have to make any alamo-ny payments. The last time I remembered it was when I rented a car. Funny how the mind works. I don't think that speech is from 'Star Trek: ENTERPRISE' Not even from OH IT HERTZ!
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Post by london777 on Mar 22, 2021 20:36:31 GMT
In American Splendor (2003) dir: Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, Paul Giamatti plays comic book creator Harvey Pekar. The real-life Pekar also appears, meeting Giamatti in some scenes, as does his comic-book persona in animated form.
Watch it for free on YouTube. It is a very funny and ingenious film, but I found it strangely moving at times.
So moving that I am going to do a petrolino and add some music to my post:
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Post by marianne48 on Mar 22, 2021 23:37:44 GMT
Along the same lines--
This actor starred in a film bio of a real-life person whose character also turned up briefly in an earlier film. In both films, their character appears in a scene with another actor portraying another real-life person (in other words, that other actor played the same guy in both films); in the earlier film, the person portrayed in the second film was played by the real-life person's son. Who starred in the second film?
If you can unravel the convoluted clue above, this should be fairly easy, I guess.
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Post by london777 on Mar 22, 2021 23:56:30 GMT
Along the same lines-- This actor starred in a film bio of a real-life person whose character also turned up briefly in an earlier film. In both films, their character appears in a scene with another actor portraying another real-life person; in the earlier film, the person portrayed in the second film was played by the real-life person's son. Who starred in the second film? If you can unravel the convoluted clue above, this should be fairly easy, I guess. Was this one so complicated that you had to post it twice before even you understood it?
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Post by london777 on Mar 22, 2021 23:59:32 GMT
Along the same lines-- This actor starred in a film bio of a real-life person whose character also turned up briefly in an earlier film. In both films, their character appears in a scene with another actor portraying another real-life person; in the earlier film, the person portrayed in the second film was played by the real-life person's son. Who starred in the second film? If you can unravel the convoluted clue above, this should be fairly easy, I guess. Oi lady! You is doin' me 'ead in!
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