Thursday, 14 January 2021—DAY FOUR

 

Hello everyone.  Welcome to the dreaded Thursday edition of BOOKMAN'S MOVIE SCREENSHOT GAME.  

Before we get to those screenshots, let's recap yesterday's lineup.

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It Happened One Night (1934)

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Mister Roberts (1955)

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My Man Godfrey (1936)

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Psycho (1960)

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The King's Speech (2010)

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Stagecoach (1939)

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Wuthering Heights (1939)

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Schindler's List (1993)

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All About Eve (1950)

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Charade (1963)

Congratulations to catbert and Fred for once again correctly identifying all 10 movies.  And a shoutout to Ruth for coming very close.

ON THIS DAY IN MOVIE HISTORY, January 14 …

Bebe Daniels in 42nd Street (1933).

… Bebe Daniels was born Phyllis Virginia Daniels in 1901 in Dallas, Texas.  She and her parents moved to California in her toddler years, and she began her acting career on stage at the age of four.  Her first screen appearance came at age nine in a short film, The Courtship of Miles Standish (1910).  Between 1910 and 1930, Daniels appeared in 208 films, including a series of 49 Harold Lloyd shorts in which Lloyd played a hapless character named Luke.

Her first big break came when Paramount Pictures did not renew her contract in 1929 and she signed with RKO.  She then starred in successful musicals like Rio Rita (1929)  and Love Comes Along (1930).  Her second big break came when RKO failed to renew her contract and she signed with Warner Brothers.

Warner provided Daniels with her two most memorable roles.  In 1931, she played Brigid O'Shaughnessey in the first filmed version of The Maltese Falcon.  (This version follows Dahsiell Hammett's novel more closely than the 1941 John Huston classic.  Also, this 1931 version being pre-Code, the sexual relationship between O'Shaugnessey and Spade is more obvious, as is the true relationship between Gutman and Wilmer.)  And in 1933 she starred in one of the great pre-Code talkies and one of the few pre-Code musicals you can find on Blu-ray, 42nd Street.

Meanwhile, Daniels married fellow actor Ben Lyon in 1930.  They had one child on their own and then adopted another.  They moved to London in 1935, after which Daniels made only a handful of movies, all in the UK.  She spent most of the remainder of her career working with her husband at the BBC, first on radio and then on the telly.

Bebe Daniels died in London in 1971, was cremated there, and her remains were brought to the U.S. where she was interred.  Lyon died in 1979, was cremated, and was interred next to his wife.

And here are today's buffer images.

All right, are you ready to play?  Then let's play!  Good luck and have fun.

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