Golden Age of Hollywood Book Club discussion

Swift! She pounced on that one. Too easy, eh? I couldn't tell in advance; I only know 'ole Ted very passingly myself.

I will show no mercy in upcoming challenges! Clues will be scanty!

#85 - Charles C. Wilson?

Yes! Deft nab! It is he. Look at that guy's filmography, its as long as an elephant's trunk.

He was also reporter Clark Gable's aggravated newspaper editor in "It Happened One Night"; that's how I came across him.

Good one, Betsy. I had no idea who he was.

Feliks wrote: "I will show no mercy in upcoming challenges! Clues will be scanty!"

You have showed no mercy many times while we had to think for a couple of days before coming up with an answer. :>)

I agree, Jill. I remember several times when we were practically tearing our hair out. So we are caught up now through #86 for Canada Day? :)

One of my favorite places

recent standings:

# 63 Hugh Williams (Welsh idol)
# 64 Constance Cummings (Goldwyn Girl + OBE)
# 65 Linden Travers (Scotswoman)
# 66 Susannah Foster (Phantom, '43)
# 67 Skip Homeier (American TV)
# 68 Frank Overton (American TV)
# 69 Estelle Taylor (silent-era beauty)
# 70 Dabbs Grier (American TV)
# 71 Mari Blanchard (noir star)
#72 Ralph Forbes (1930s Brit theater)
#73 Brenda Forbes (1940s Brit theater family)
#74 Mary Forbes (1920s Brit theater family)
#75 Marie Ney (Jamaica Inn)
#76 Muriel George (Ealing player)
#77 Ruth Chatterton (pioneer airwoman)
#78 William Eythe (Ox-Box Incident)
#79 Richard Ney (Mrs. Miniver)
#80 Frank Craven ('Our Town')
#81 Frank Albertson ('Psycho')
#82 Paul Kelly (Irish thespian)
#83 Irving Bacon (droopy faced comic)
#84 Pierre Watkin (of the 'Daily Planet')
#85 Charles C. Wilson ('It Happened One Night')
#86 Ted del Corsia (noir heavy)

Wow....we have gone through a lot of quizzes. Keep 'em coming, Feliks.

To think some of the early 'challenges' were easy picks like Jack Oakie and Hans Conreid. Feh! I didn't know what savvy lore-masters I was playing with...

#18 Dan Riss was the hardest and most obscure but Betsy finally pulled that one out of her top hat.

Jill wrote: "

One of my favorite places"

Mine too, especially Newfoundand, Nova Scotia, and British Columbia.
Feliks, maybe you could squeeze in a few Canadians for the quiz sometime?

Oh like Glenn Ford? Too easy

Quiz #87, American

It looks like Lee Remick but you might be fooling us.

Not Lee Remick, nope!

#87 - Bethel Leslie?

Oh, I think that is it, Betsy.

Yes. Betsy gets the plum. Talented writer too, besides actress. Where'd you recall her from?

She's in my favorite episode of Perry Mason although she's not the reason I like the episode.

Quiz #88. American. His career began prior to WW1. He has small but important roles in 3-4 very 'big' movies of the 40s.

He looks like a cross between Somerset Maugham and Victor Moore!! One question.....would we know him more at this age or in his earlier years?

he had parts in exactly five *very big* very famous classic films between 1940 and 1944 --and this was his general appearance in all of them.

The *youngest* looking pic I can find of him is this:

#88 - Richard Bennett?

incorrect

The second picture looks a little bit familiar but this one is tough.

Your best bet is probably to sift through the cast lists of the very biggest biggest biggest hits of the early 40s and see if you can spot him

Have tried that, but I'm still looking. He looks a tad like Edward Arnold, but he's probably too well known.

Quiz #89. American.

He looks like Leo Genn but he was too young to be in silent films.

Do you mean Best Picture winning films or just that the film won an award in a category?

Losing my mind. Quiz #89's silent career: none. Nought. Nothing. I got my last two challenges mixed up.

Quiz # 89: His film career started very late in the classic era. 1939 he made his debut. He appears in 21 films between '39 and '44 of which five titles are very well-known to any classics fan. One of them (1942) was a multiple-category Oscar nominee, but the year prior (1941) he was in a flick arguably even more famous. However, the rest of his work were in series (similar to 'Andy Hardy').

Challenge #88 was in one of the major films of the great year of 1939 which was BP nominated.

Meanwhile #89, is as stated above.

So the info in message 1033 refers to #89 only while message 1034 is about #88? Just want to clarify as I am a bit confused.

message #1033 refers to challenge #88. This actor had a vast, long career in silents and sound, including even some British titles, and then in the twilight of his career he makes scads of uncredited appearances in huge movies of the late 30s-early 40s one of which was a Best Picture nominee. His last role was in a Glenn Ford western.

message #1034 refers to challenge #89 who had a very short career mostly in serials --but he does have bit-parts in five BIG classics. One of these classics made in 1942 was nominated for 11 Oscars including Best Picture.

So the two actors each had wildly varying career lengths but each of them managed to get a tiny role in two well-known Oscar contenders.

Glad I checked because I had it backwards.

#88 - Joseph Girard?

non

a few of the flicks #88 and #89 appeared in, are some of the most beloved American productions of all time. They weren't stuff like stodgy Biblical epics, "Watch on the Rhine", or "Forever Amber"

Quiz #90! British and American both. Huge fame, both sides of the pond. Star of stage and screen. Seven silent films (among them some of the biggest) and twenty-one talkies. All genres. One of them a Hitchcock flick; one of them a John Ford flick. Star on the Hollywood walk. Mega-famous in her day; I don't quite know how to describe it.

#90 - Bessie Love?

Could be. I am still trying to figure out 88 and 89.

No hits so far. as agreed, I will keep to only three quizzes per round.

(And I will try to do better keeping my clues assigned correctly).

#90. Constance Collier!!!!

Yes! Good job!

What an impressive woman. That career of hers would choke a horse. And she stood tall physically, too--six foot!

She was 'in' with everybody. D-Griff; BFF with K-Hep; trainer of A-Hep and MM. And not to mention, also a close confidante to one ... Ivor N.!

#89 - Roland Drew?

nyet

Yo, Jill, on #90! You seem to have found the groove.