Wednesday, 13 January 2021—DAY THREE

 

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Wednesday edition of BOOKMAN'S MOVIE SCREENSHOT GAME.  Today's game should be a ramp up to tomorrow's dreaded Thursday edition.  And while we're time-traveling, here are the correct titles to yesterday's movies.

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The Departed (2006).

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Big (1988)

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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

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The Fugitive (1993)

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Damn Yankees! (1958)

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Rollerball (1975)

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Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

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Blade Runner (1982)

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Blue Velvet (1986)

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American Beauty (1999)

Congratulations to catbert and Fred for correctly identifying all 10 movies.

ON THIS DAY IN MOVIE HISTORY, JANUARY 13 …

… Gwen Verdon was born in 1925 in Culver City, California.  Diagnosed with rickets at age three, her mother enrolled her in dancing school, hoping the exercise would straighten her misshapen legs.  She worked hard and appeared in musical productions throughout her childhood, intending to become a professional.  But a teenage pregnancy, followed by a shotgun marriage, interrupted her career.  The marriage lasted five years.

She returned to her passion and appeared on stage and in small film roles.  She also taught dancing to various stars, including Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe for their work in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953).  She caught her first big break that same year when she was cast as Claudine in the Cole Porter Broadway musical, Can-Can, for which she won her first Tony Award.  Her biggest break came two years later when she won the role of the captivating Lola in the Broadway musical Damn Yankees!  She won her second Tony and reprised the role in the film version in 1958.  She also fell for the show's choreographer Bob Fosse.  They married in 1960.

In 1966, Verdon originated the role of Charity in Fosse's Broadway hit Sweet Charity, in which she introduced the world to "Hey Big Spender" and the show-stopper "If My Friends Could See Me Now."

Fosse's overbearing and explosive personality along with his repeated infidelities caused a permanent separation in 1971 but he and Verdon never divorced.  In fact they continued to work together.  Verdon helped choreograph the film musical that earned Fosse his only Oscar, directing Caberet in 1972.  She then continued her career on the stage, originating the Broadway role of Roxie Hart in Fosse's Chicago in 1975, playing opposite Chita Rivera as Velma Kelly.

She died in her sleep on October 18, 2000.

Here are today's buffer images.

Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, and Randolph Scott in My Favorite Wife (1940)

Jean Harlow and Lee Tracy in Bombshell (1933)

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

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