Tuesday, 12 January 2021—DAY TWO

 

Welcome back, movie buffs.  This is the first of two Tuesday editions of BOOKMAN'S MOVIE SCREENSHOT GAME.  Today's game should be slightly more challenging than yesterday's.  But speaking of yesterday's game, here are the correct titles for yesterday's movies.

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Gone with the Wind (1939)

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The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

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Batman (1989)

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Jaws (1975)

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

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Lincoln (2012)

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Lady and the Tramp (1955)

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Dances with Wolves (1990)

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

Yesterday's image from Lincoln (2012) appears misleading upon reflection, and I am removing it belatedly from the lineup.  Congratulations to catbert, Ruth, and Fred for correctly identifying all nine of the remaining movies.

ON THIS DAY IN MOVIE HISTORY,

January 12 …

William Powell and Luise Rainer in The Great Ziegfeld (1936),

… the legendary actor Luise Rainer was born in 1910 in Düsseldorf, Germany. She studied acting under Max Reinhardt and acted in several of his stage productions in Germany before being "discovered" by M.G.M. scouts in 1935.  Louis B. Mayer signed her to a three-year contract.  The Hollywood press dubbed her "the next Garbo."

She was the first actor in film history to win back-to-back Oscars for leading performances—Best Actress of 1936, for her portrayal of Anna Held in her second American film, The Great Ziegfeld; and Best Actress of 1937, for her performance opposite the great Paul Muni in the adaptation of Pearl S. Buck's Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, The Good Earth.  Rainer was married to playwright Clifford Odets at the height of his career and was active with him in left-wing causes.

Until his death in 1937, "the boy genius," Irving Thalberg, was her protector at M.G.M.  And she needed one.  She used her Oscar statuettes as doorstops.  She refused to cater to M.G.M.'s or Hollywood's image of how a star should look in public—appearing without makeup, wearing dilapidated clothing, including trousers.  Among other things, she said, "Stardom is bad because Hollywood makes too much of it."  Her left-wing politics also hurt her with studio boss Louis B. Mayer.  Without Thalberg around to plead her case, Mayer did not renew her contract in 1938. She all but walked away from Hollywood at that point.  She died in 2014 having acted in only three theatrical films since 1938.

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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