Two actors. You name the classic film.

[Auggie]

[Graybeard]

1. I've got it.

Top - Jerome Cowan was Miles Archer

Bottom - Elisha Cook, Jr. was Wilmer

The Movie: The Maltese Falcon.

(Let's try another.)

[OswegoAtheist]

3. Aargh!

Oswego "By three minutes!" Atheist

[Auggie]

5. Yep

[OswegoAtheist]

2. The Maltese Falcon

Oswego "Jerome Cowan and Elisha Cook, Jr." Atheist

[rocktivity]

4. I'll give it a go

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[Auggie]

6. Pretty sure I know the actresses

Joan Blondell and Bette Davis

Haven't a clue about the film so I'll take a wild stab: The Letter?

[rocktivity]

7. You're halfway there

Right actresses, wrong movie


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[Graybeard]

8. Three On A Match (1932)

Two great Hollywood dames, Joan Blondell and Bette Davis.

[rocktivity]

9. YAY!!!

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The third on the match was Ann Dvorak.


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[CBHagman]

10. One still from the production, one head shot.

Name the film.

[Graybeard]

11. I've got it.

Top - Edmond Gwenn as the Steward

Bottom - George Tobias played Pete

The movie - Between Two Worlds (1944)

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

12. Kris Kringle and Abner Kravitz

at least in their professional lives.

[CBHagman]

39. Full marks.

Yes, Scrubby and Pete! Just two members in a great cast. We all know the faces, but how many people know the film?

I first saw Between Two Worlds on Canadian TV eons ago, and then again on TCM in more recent years. The last time I checked, it was on YouTube as well. In any event, that's one that deserves some new attention.

[Matilda]

13. Two more.

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[DearHeart]

15. Don't know which movie, but

the two actors are Robert Donat and Laurence Olivier. What's the name of the movie? I would like to try and find it-wasn't aware they were in a movie together.

[Matilda]

16. It was a film in which lots of well-known actors played cameos.

Olivier was very well disguised.

Donat had the lead role.

[Matilda]

17. Okay -

It was "The Magic Box", about William Friese-Greene, who pioneered moving pictures in England (some claim he was ahead of Edison).

It was quite a lot of fun to watch, if only to play "pick the stars". Olivier played a London bobby, and I recognised him only by his eyes - they're unmistakable.

[Matilda]

18. An easy one:

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[Graybeard]

19. The Adventures of Robin Hood

Claude Rains and Errol Flynn.

(They also appeared together
in The Sea Hawk - 1940)

[Auggie]

20. You'll have to know this film well to get it:

[dixiegrrrrl]

21. I am not awake enough yet, but this is a great game!!!!!!!!!

[Graybeard]

22. I've got it.

James Stewart and "Alfalfa" Switzer.

Stewart plays George Bailey in a film that most of us know really well, It's A Wonderful Life. In a small part "Alfalfa", now a teen-ager, is the kid who makes the Gym floor open into a swimming pool.

[Auggie]

23. You're awesome, Graybeard

[Graybeard]

24. Thanks Auggie.

And thanks for starting the thread.

My misspent youth was mostly misspent in movie theaters. In those days families went to the movies at least once a week and often twice or more. When I was old enough to go alone I lived at the movies.

I grew up in Manhattan and there were six theaters within walking distance in my neighborhood.

[Auggie]

25. One more from me today

Not shown: two other cast members that were/would become huge stars (one debuted in this film)

[Graybeard]

28. Good one!

Joan Crawford and Curly Howard (an unlikely pair).

In the movie Dancing Lady the Three Stooges play stagehands.

[Auggie]

29. The film debut of Fred Astaire!

Also starring Clark Gable.

Graybeard ... you are superhuman.

[Matilda]

33. Nelson Eddy also made his debut in this one.

n/t

[Auggie]

35. I didn't know that

Thanks

[padruig]

26. wow ...

You guys are good !

I'm only recognizing about half the actors and more often for their later film roles.

And your going for the publicity shots when some of them were very very young !...


BTW - Elisha Cook Jr., I first saw him in the 1959 "House on Haunted Hill" but most people would remember him from the episode of Star Trek, "Court Martial"

[Auggie]

27. Cook is on my radar because The Maltese Falcon is one my favorite films

I used Jerome Cowan since his role as Archer was so small -- made it more challenging (or so I thought).

[FailureToCommunicate]

30. No G**gle allowed for this one...

[Graybeard]

31. This one is a really great film.

Harold Russell and Myrna Loy.

The movie is the wonderful The Best Years Of Our Lives. Russell received two Oscars for his performance. He was given an Honorary Oscar and then won the Best Supporting Actor award too.

[Martin Eden]

32. What's unique about this movie ...

... is that Harold Russell who "played" a combat veteran who lost both his hands in WWII was in fact a combat veteran who lost both his hands in WWII.

Compared to most WWII movies that were full of action and cliches, The Best Years of Our Lives truly honored the men returning from that war and the families with whom they were reuinted.

[FailureToCommunicate]

37. SO true. Harold Russell was a friend of my father and I was lucky

to spend some laugh filled times with him. He was a very funny, genuine, decent guy... a real hero who went on to help so many returning soldiers thru his advocacy for better treatment of vets.

[FailureToCommunicate]

36. Bravo, Graybeard. Yes, great indeed. It shows that we all need to

look beyond the wounds of war and treat the returning vets as the people they are. Greet the man, not the disability.

Sadly, Harold Russell in later years needed to sell his second Oscar to help pay for his wife's medical expenses...

[Auggie]

34. I got it before seeing Graybeard's response

[FailureToCommunicate]

38. Thumbs up! Thanks for a fun thread!