Here's an easier one (at least more Topical)!

This actor started as a stunt man for the Marx Brothers and was in Spartacus and received a Nomination for Best actor seven months before his death. Who was he?

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We can't hug children with nuclear arms;
but we can shoot 'em with automatic weapons.

[This message has been edited by Cohalen (edited 10-11-2000).]

(and if for some odd reason i'm right, someone will have to pick up on the next riddle - i'm so not prepared to stump you guys yet)

Read all about him in the tread in this forum under "Richard Farnsworth"

I even have a link to his credits list @ IMDB!

And ethel...c'mon...give us a question. It's kinda like the old saying "Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time!"
You go, girl!

Later...(but not much)

This actress (b. 1903) was born in the U.S. and had in her family some political male relatives (U.S. Reps, senators, etc.).

At 15, she won a movie magazine beauty contest and convinced her family to let her move to New York. She quickly won bit parts and made her major role debut in 1921.

During these early N.Y. years, she became a peripheral member of the Algonquin Roundtable and known as a hard-partying girl about town.

In 1923, she made her debut on the London stage, where she was to appear in over a dozen plays in the next eight years. Famous as an actress, she was famous, too, for her drinking, drug taking ("Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years."), and many affairs with men and women. By the end of the decade she was one of England's best-known celebrities.

She returned to the U.S. in 1931 to be Paramount's "next Marlene Deitrich", but Hollywood success eluded her in her first four films of the 30's. Critics agree that her acting was flat and she was unable to dominate the camera.

She was considered David O. Selznick's first choice for Scarlett O'Hara, but polled moviegoers thought otherwise. Her screen test put her out of the running because, at 34, she was too old for the part.

She returned to Broadway and had success and made a successful Hitchcock film for which she won the N.Y. Screen Critics Award.
She continued to perform in the 50's and 60's on Broadway, in the occasional film, as a highly popular radio show host, and in the new medium of television. She even appeared, drunk, on the Lucy show.

Her career was in decline by the mid-50's. Her outrageous behavior, fueled by a 2 bottle-a-day consumption of Old Grand Dad, continued unabated. She never faded from the public eye, but was increasingly a caricature of her former self.

Do you know who she is?

Yup, it was Tallulah. Who's up?

You're up LoneRanger, since you were the first one to post the correct answer.

In a 1985 movie a highly regarded actress portrayed an attorney. While this actress delivered her opening statement to the jury, her clothes somehow managed to change several times.
Who was the actress? What was the movie?

The answer is Glenn Close. The movie is Jagged Edge.

I'm so happy I knew one! Give me a few minutes and I'll post one for you guys to answer.

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By the age of 14 he was in trouble with the law and sentenced to a chain gang---from which he escaped.

He once suffered from temporary blindness due to job stress.

He left behind the 9 to 5 when he began acting in small productions in Long Beach California.

In 1945 he was cast in a role that brought him to the public eye and rewarded him with an Oscar nominaton.

In 1949 he was briefly sentenced to prison for marijuana usage.

Here is a quote from the actor:

"I gave up being serious about making pictures around the time I made a film with Greer Garson and she took 125 days to say no."

David Lean once said about this actor:

" ____________ can, just by being there make almost any other actor look like a hole in the screen."

Can you name this Hollywood legend?

Go ahead and give us one....

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I saw that movie and don't remember either one in it. Thank God for the Internet.

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I Need Some Partners!
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"Sometimes nothin' is a real cool hand."?

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I Need Some Partners!
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We can't hug children with nuclear arms;
but we can shoot 'em with automatic weapons.

Ren, it'll be your turn to ask a question in the new thread.

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