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Post by teleadm on Mar 11, 2017 18:54:55 GMT
Let it be sub-titles easy! Just kidding I understand the work you do it putting this games together
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Post by marshamae on Mar 11, 2017 20:59:51 GMT
Matt honestly, do I ever tell you how much I admire the work you do with these quizzes? They are brilliant , complex, and I always learn something.
The last one matching playwrights to actresses was a revelation. All the actresses did serious work in A pictures at a time when plays from Bway and London ,as well as Vienna , Budapest ,Prague and Berlin were commonly sources for the 50-100 films produced by most studios in a year. And yet, as I scanned the list, it was obvious to me that some actresses were much more likely to appear in films that started as plays, than others. Katharine Hepburn ,because even when she was Box office poison, her films tended to be very well written, Bette Davis because she got the best properties at Warner's and she knew good scripts, Margaret Sullavan , because she didn't really like films , and would only appear if it was a very good script, were all much more likely to appear in films that started as plays than,say, Ann Southern or Rita Hayworth.
One of your family oriented contests revealed to me as I scanned the list of actors trying to match fathers and sons, that Frank Sinatra almost never played a father. Even in his 50's he still had parents, as in Come Blow Your Horn. Others like Edward G Robinson often played a father .
The games, besides being fun, challenging and good for our brains, are a way to notice patterns within the body of actors writers and directors that created classic film. Thanks Matt!
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Post by marshamae on Mar 12, 2017 2:15:27 GMT
There's others. Mickey Rooney of course. Sometimes it's the studios way of making the leading man seem young. Gregory Peck, even when he played a father, had a mother in the story.
Some actresses, like Fay Baintor, Beulah Bondi, Ann Revere, almost never played daughters. It wasn't really about age, but about type.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 12, 2017 13:05:52 GMT
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