BOOKMAN'S MOVIE SCREENSHOT GAME—DAY 3 (16 June 2021)

 

Hello again.  It's Wednesday, which means we're ramping up the difficulty a bit more.  

Here are the titles for yesterday's movies:

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Annie Hall (1977)

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Chicago (2002)

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Field of Dreams (1989)

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Cape Fear (1962)

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Gilda (1946)

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Damn Yankees! (1958)

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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

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The Artist (2011)

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The Alamo (1960)

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Lifeboat (1944)

Congratulations to catbert once again for getting all 10 of yesterday's movies.

On This Day in Movie History, …

… Stan Laurel was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson in 1890 in Ulverston, Lancashire, in the north of England.  One half of the legendary duo of Laurel & Hardy, Laurel was a comic genius.  

He and Charlie Chaplin performed in the same music-hall comedy troupe in the UK before crossing the Atlantic Ocean together in a cattle boat in 1910.  Laurel made his first movie with Oliver Hardy in 1921, the same year that Chaplin made The Kid.

Laurel appeared in 118 films, 107 of them with Hardy.  He conceived and directed all his and Hardy's gags, never receiving credit.  He often worked late into the night, rewriting scripts and blocking his slapstick moves.  He worked around the clock editing the Laurel & Hardy Oscar-winning short, The Music Box (1932).

After WWII, with their film careers in decline, Laurel & Hardy toured the UK and mainland Europe in a series of comedy-sketch theatre performances.  They visited and performed in Laurel's hometown of Ulverston.  They even gave a Royal Variety Performance in front of King George VI and his wife-consort Elizabeth.  The boys spent 7 years in the UK and Europe, returning periodically and briefly to the US before crossing the pond again.

Hardy suffered a debilitating heart attack in 1954 and they had to cancel their tour and return home.  Laurel suffered a stroke in 1955.  Hardy died in 1957.  By all accounts, Laurel never recovered from his partner's death.

In his later years he was befriended by Jerry Lewis, Dick Van Dyke, and a young comic named Dick Cavett.  Each called Laurel at home after having found his name and number in the phone book. Stan Laurel died in 1965.

A bronze statue of Laurel & Hardy prominently stands outside the Laurel & Hardy Museum in Ulverston, UK.

Now here are today's buffer images.

Ginger Rogers in Roberta, one of five Rogers movies released in 1935.

Humphrey Bogart posing with "the dingus" for The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Are you ready to play?  Then let's play!  Good luck and have fun.

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