Stage, Film, & Television Flashcards
Jennifer Love Hewitt as title psychic Melinda Gordon
2005-2010
THE GHOST WHISPERER
Lifetime film & series
Jennifer Love Hewitt as a “spa” worker
2012-2013
THE CLIENT LIST
British cartoon series about a rodent secret agent with an eye patch
1981-1992
2015-2019
DANGER MOUSE
Villainous spinoff of Danger Mouse
1988-1993
COUNT DUCKULA
1999 film
Based on David Guterson’s novel about Japanese-Americans & internment camps set in the Pacific Northwest
Stars Ethan Hawke
SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS
1985 film starring William Hurt (who won an Oscar for it)
Based on Manuel Puig’s novel
Set in a South American prison
KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
1974 road trip film starring Art Carney & a cat as the title duo
Art Carney won best actor Oscar for it
HARRY & TONTO
1983 film starring Susan Sarandon
Also stars David Bowie & Catherine Deneuve as vampires
THE HUNGER
TikTok influencer
Acting debut in 2021’s “He’s All That”
ADDISON RAE
Played FDR on stage in “Sunrise at Campobello” (1958) & won a Tony for best actor for it
Played the same role in the same-named film (1960)
RALPH BELLAMY
Ontario Mohawk actor
Played Tonto
JAY SILVERHEELS
Played the Lone Ranger on film & television
CLAYTON MOORE
Character that debuted on radio in 1933 on WXYZ, Detroit
Television series 1949-57
Various films, including one in 2013 with Armie Hammer & Johnny Depp
Theme song: “William Tell Overture” (Rossini)
Answer to the question “Who was that masked man?”
Played by Clayton Moore on TV
THE LONE RANGER
TV sidekick of the 50s
Catchphrase “kemo sabe”
Played by Jay Silverheels
TONTO
The Lone Ranger’s horse
“Hi-ho!” or “Hi-yo!”
SILVER
Tonto’s horse on “The Lone Ranger”
SCOUT
Played “I Dream of Jeannie” title role
Memoir “Jeannie Out of the Bottle” (2011)
BARBARA EDEN
Astronaut Captain Tony Nelson on “I Dream of Jeannie” (1960s)
J. R. Ewing on “Dallas” (1980s)
Son of theatre star Mary Martin
LARRY HAGMAN
Originated Nellie (South Pacific) & Maria (Sound of Music) on stage
1955 Tony for “Peter Pan” (the 1st for playing someone of another gender)
MARY MARTIN
Played Addison Montgomery on “Grey’s Anatomy,” then spunoff to lead “Private Practice”
KATE WALSH
1980 film about title pair Dummar (Paul le Mat), a gas station operator, & his (fraudulent) will from Hughes (Jason Robards)
Also stars Mary Steenburgen
MELVIN & HOWARD
1965-1970 sitcom
Pilot: “The Lady in the Bottle”
Set in Cocoa Beach, Florida
Stars Barbara Eden (title role) and Larry Hagman (astronaut Captain Tony Nelson)
I DREAM OF JEANNIE
1939 film starring Robert Donat
1969 remake starring Peter O’Toole
Both adapted from James Hilton’s 1934 novel about a British teacher
GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS
(MR. CHIPPING)
1986 film starring Meryl Streep & Jack Nicholson
Based on Nora Ephron’s 1983 autobiographical novel based on her marriage to Carl Bernstein
HEARTBURN
2006 film starring Anne Hathaway as Andrea, Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly, Emily Blunt, & Stanley Tucci
Based on Lauren Weisburger’s 2003 novel
Set at “Runway” magazine
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
Directed “Meet Me in St. Louis” (1944), where he met Judy Garland, whom he would later marry
Father of Liza
Also directed “An American in Paris” (1951) & “Gigi” (1958)
VINCENTE MINNELLI
Made 1913’s “The Squaw Man”, called Hollywood’s first feature
Famed for Biblical epics like “The Ten Commandments” (1923 & 1956)
“The Greatest Show on Earth” (1952)
Uncle of choreographer Agnes
Name of a Golden Globe award
CECIL B. DE MILLE
MGM’s “Boy Wonder”
Produced “A Night at the Opera” (1935)
Name of an Academy Awards “memorial award”
Inspiration for Fitzgerald’s “The Last Tycoon”
IRVING G. THALBERG
Dashiell Hammett in “Julia” (1977)
Ben Bradlee in “All the President’s Men” (1976)
Howard Hughes in “Melvin & Howard” (1980)
Married & divorced Lauren Bacall
JASON ROBARDS
Japanese actor
Worked with Kurosawa on 16 films
Played Lord Yoshi Toranaga in 1980’s “Shogun” miniseries
TOSHIRO MIFUNE
Played Laverne DeFazio (Laverne & Shirley)
Director of “Big”, “Awakenings”, & “A League of Their Own”
Sister of Garry
PENNY MARSHALL
1975 film starring Robert Redford as a barnstorming pilot
THE GREAT WALDO PEPPER
1990 film directed by Penny Marshall, starring Robin Williams as a doctor & Robert De Niro as a patient
Catatonic patients come out of their comas thanks to L-DOPA treatment
Based on Oliver Sacks’ 1973 memoir
AWAKENINGS
1954 film starring Dorothy Dandridge & Harry Belafonte
Based on Bizet’s opera
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein
Set at a boxing arena with a black cast
Dandridge received the first Best Actress nomination for a black actress
CARMEN JONES
British director
“Mahler” (1974, about the composer)
“Lisztomania” (1975, starring Roger Daltrey as the title composer)
“Tommy” (1975, The Who operetta)
“Valentino” (1977, about Rudolph)
“Gothic” (1986, horror)
KEN RUSSELL
American ballet choreographer
“Fancy Free” (1943), about sailors
“West Side Story” (1957, stage)
For the 1961 film, shared the “Best Director” Oscar with Robert Wise
Worked with the NYC Ballet
JEROME ROBBINS
Japanese director
“Throne of Blood” (1957), a Macbeth adaptation
“The Hidden Fortress” (1958)
“Ran” (1985), a King Lear adaptation
AKIRA KUROSAWA
1950 Akira Kurosawa film about differing accounts of a murder
RASHOMON
1954 Akira Kurosawa film about title warriors defending a village
“Numerical” title
SEVEN SAMURAI
First black actress to receive an Academy Award nomination (for Carmen Jones in 1955)
Played by Halle Berry in “Introducing ____ ____” (1999 TV movie)
DOROTHY DANDRIDGE
Puerto Rican actor
Emmys for “The Muppet Show” & “The Rockford Files”
The Electric Company’s “Carmela” (“Hey you guys!”) - Grammy
“West Side Story” (1961) - Oscar
“The Ritz” (1972) - Tony
Voiced Carmen Sandiego in 1990s cartoon
2017 version of “One Day At a Time”
RITA MORENO
Played J. J. Evans on “Good Times”
“Dy-no-mite!”
Name sounds like a corrupt New York mayor
JIMMIE WALKER
Daughter of Judy Garland & director Vincente
Sally Bowles in “Cabaret” (1972 Fosse film)
Married & divorced David Guest
“____ With a Z” (1972 Fosse concert film)
LIZA MINNELLI
Played Almira Gulch & the Wicked Witch of the West in 1939
“I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!”
MARGARET HAMILTON
American stand-up & actor
“Fluffy”
Speedy Gonzalez in “Space Jam: Legacy”
Stars as a teacher in a Netflix sitcom
GABRIEL IGLESIAS
(series “MR. IGLESIAS”)
Melinda Gordon of “Ghost Whisperer”
Lifetime’s “The Client List”
“I Know What You Did Last Summer” (1997)
“9-1-1”
JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT
French actress, nee “Dorleac”
“Beauty” of Truffaut & Polanski
Polanski’s “Repulsion” (1965)
“The Hunger” (1983)
“Indochine” (1992)
CATHERINE DENEUVE
Family high-wire & tightrope act
Famed for 7-person pyramid
Founded by Karl
Nik is a currently famous member
FLYING WALLENDAS
Born Joe Yule, Jr.
American child actor
8 spouses, the first of which was Ava Gardner
Since 1937, played Andy Hardy in 16 films (in 3 of them, opposite Judy Garland as Betsy Booth)
Whitey Marsh opposite Spencer Tracy’s Father Flanagan in “Boys Town” (1938)
MICKEY ROONEY
Played lawyer Miranda Hobbes
Ran for NY governor in 2018
2017 Tony for “The Little Foxes”
Eleanor Roosevelt in “Warm Springs”
CYNTHIA NIXON
Born Frances Ethel Gumm
“Meet Me in St. Louis” (1944) star; she & director Vincente Minnelli later married & had a daughter before separating
“Summer Stock”
“A Star is Born” (1954)
“The Wizard of Oz” (1939)
Mother of Lorna & Joey Luft
JUDY GARLAND
1948 musical film starring Judy Garland & Fred Astaire
Music by Irving Berlin
Lyrics mention a “bonnet… with frills up on it”
EASTER PARADE
1944 musical film starring Judy Garland
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Songs:
“The Trolley Song”
“The Boy Next Door”
“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”,
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
Born Margarita Carmen Cansino
“The Love Goddess”
“Gilda” (1946), most famous role
“Salome”
“Charlie Chan in Egypt”
“The Lady from Shanghai”, directed by Orson Welles (who also co-starred with her); shortly after release, the two divorced
Made 2 films with Fred Astaire
RITA HAYWORTH
Author:
“I Feel Bad About My Neck” (2006), essays
“Heartburn” (1983), about her marriage to Carl Bernstein
Screenwriter:
“Silkwood” (1983)
“Heartburn” (1986)
“When Harry Met Sally” (1989)
NORA EPHRON
Screenwriter & director:
“Sleepless in Seattle” (1993)
“You’ve Got Mail” (1998)
“Bewitched” (2005)
“Julie & Julia” (2009)
Younger sisters Delia, Amy, & Hallie write as well
NORA EPHRON
Stage musical & film based on Christopher Isherwood’s “Berlin Stories”, set in the 1930s
Characters: Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli); Master of Ceremonies, aka Emcee (Joel Grey)
“Wilkommen” (opening number, Emcee & co)
“Tomorrow Belongs to Me”
“Money” or “The Money Song”
“Maybe This Time” (Sally)
“Cabaret” (Sally)
Film won 8 Oscars (not best picture though), including Best Director for Bob Fosse
CABARET
Played the Master of Ceremonies, aka Emcee, in both the stage & film versions of “Cabaret”
Won a Tony & an Oscar for the same role
JOEL GREY
Venue at which the musical Cabaret is set
KIT KAT KLUB
American actor
“You Can’t Take It With You”
“Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” (1939)
“The Shop Around the Corner”
“The Philadelphia Story”
“Harvey”
JAMES “JIMMY” STEWART
American actor
“It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946), as George Bailey
“The Greatest Show on Earth” as Buttons the Clown
“The Glenn Miller Story” in the title role
JAMES “JIMMY” STEWART
American actor
“Bell, Book, & Candle”
“Anatomy of a Murder”
“Vertigo”
“Rear Window”
“The Man Who Knew Too Much”
“The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”
JAMES “JIMMY” STEWART
1976 film about Washington Post breaking Watergate
Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein
Robert Redford as Bob Woodward
Jason Robards as Ben Bradlee (won Supporting Actor Oscar)
“Follow the money.”
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN
American actress
“The World According to Garp” (1982, with Robin Williams)
“The Big Chill” (1983, with Kevin Kline)
“Jagged Edge” (1985, with Jeff Bridges)
“Dangerous Liaisons” (1988, with Malkovich & Pfeiffer)
“Air Force One” (1997, with Harrison Ford)
GLENN CLOSE
American actress
Lawyer Patty Hewes on “Damages” (2007-2012) - won 2 Emmys
Mona Simpson, Homer’s mother on “The Simpsons”
Nora Desmond in “Sunset Boulevard” on Broadway (1994 & 2017)
Nova Prime in “Guardians of the Galaxy” (2014)
GLENN CLOSE
American actress
8 oscar nominations, no wins
Title roles:
“Sarah, Plain & Tall” (1991, Hallmark)
“Albert Nobbs” (2011)
GLENN CLOSE
American actress
Alex Forrest in “Fatal Attraction” (1987)
- “I’m not going to be ignored, Dan.”
Sunny Von Bulow in “Reversal of Fortune” (1990)
Cruella De Vil in “101 Dalmatians” (1996, live action)
GLENN CLOSE
American actor & director
Played the Sundance Kid to Paul Newman’s Butch Cassidy in 1969
Co-starred with him again in “The Sting” (1973)
Purchased & named Sundance Resort, Utah (1968)
Helped found Sundance Film Festival (1978) in Utah
ROBERT REDFORD
American director of
“Ordinary People” (1980) - won Best Director Oscar
“A River Runs Through It” (1992)
“Quiz Show” (1994)
“The Horse Whisperer” (1998) - also starred in
ROBERT REDFORD
American actor whose title roles include:
“Jeremiah Johnson” (1972), a mountain man
“The Great Gatsby” (1974)
“The Great Waldo Pepper” (1975), a barnstorming pilot
“3 Days of the Condor” (1975), a CIA agent
“The Natural” (1984), baseball player Roy Hobbs
ROBERT REDFORD
American actor
“Barefoot in the Park” (1967) with Jane Fonda
“All the President’s Men” (1976) with Dustin Hoffman
“Out of Africa” (1985) with Meryl Streep
“All is Lost” (2013) with literally nobody else
ROBERT REDFORD
American actress
Lois Lane in 2006’s “Superman Returns”
In “Straw Dogs” (2011) with James Marsden
“Blue Crush” (2002) based on the Orlean novel “Life’s Swell”
KATE BOSWORTH
NYC “Revue” from 1907-31
Started by Florenz Jr.
Stars included Will Rogers & Fanny Brice
ZIEGFELD FOLLIES
Zigfeld Follies headliner
Married & divorced gambler Nicky Arnstein
Portrayed by Streisand in “Funny Girl” (1964) (film 1968) & in “Funny Lady” (1975)
Star of the “Baby Snooks Show” on radio
FANNY BRICE
Two films in which Barbara Streisand portrays Fanny Brice
FUNNY GIRL (1968)
FUNNY LADY (1975)
1972 musical about Charlemagne’s son
Directed by Bob Fosse
PIPPIN
John Steinbeck novel
1939 film based on the play, with Burgess Meredith & Lon Chaney Jr.
1992 film based on the novel, with Gary Sinise & John Malkovich (directed by Sinise)
OF MICE AND MEN
1950 Frank Loesser musical based on Damon Runyon stories, especially “Idylls of Miss Sarah Brown”
Other characters include Miss Adelaide, Nicely-Nicely, and Nathan Detroit (from whom Nathan Lane took his stage name)
“Luck Be a Lady”
“Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat”
“Oldest Established (Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York)”
GUYS AND DOLLS
1946 film (& play, & televised play) by Robert Sherwood
Stars Humphrey Bogart as gangster Duke Mantee
Also stars Bette Davis & Leslie Howard
Named for & set in a national park
THE PETRIFIED FOREST
1942 animated Disney film
Characters include Faline (love interest), Flower (a skunk), & Thumper (a rabbit), although the latter two do not appear in the original novel by Felix Salten
“Little April Shower” (song)
BAMBI
1964 musical film with Catherine Deneuve
UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG
2011 fantasy film with Henry Cavill as Greek hero Theseus
IMMORTALS
1988 Scorsese film based on a Nikos Kazantzakis novel
THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
1985 spy film
Timothy Hutton as Chris Boyce
Sean Penn as Andrew Lee
Real life friends & spies
THE FALCON & THE SNOWMAN
2010 film that won Best Picture Oscar
Colin Firth as George VI
Helena Bonham Carter, Geoffrey Rush
Timothy Spall as Churchill
THE KING’S SPEECH
1980 film that won Best Picture Oscar
Directed by Robert Redford
Based on 1976 Judith Guest novel about a dysfunctional family
Mary Tyler Moore, Donald Sutherland
Timothy Hutton - youngest Supporting Actor Oscar
ORDINARY PEOPLE
“The Beast”
English “occultist” & magician
ALEISTER CROWLEY
Last names Fischbacher & Horn
Used white lions & tigers in their act at the Mirage in Vegas
In 2003, the latter was attacked by a tiger named Mantacore, an event that effectively ended their career
Both now dead.
German-born
SIGFRIED & ROY
Stage name of Christopher Sarantakos
Star of reality series “Mindfreak” (2005-2010)
CRISS ANGEL
Sleight of hand artist known for his “52 Assistants”
Act includes throwing cards at watermelons
RICKY JAY
French director
Married B. Bardot & J. Fonda
Wrote the memoir “Bardot, Deneuve, Fonda”
ROGER VADIM
American director
“The Rock” (1996)
“Armageddon” (1998)
“Pearl Harbor” (2001)
“Transformers” series
MICHAEL BAY
Armenian executive
Built MGM Grand in Vegas
Bought MGM in 1979, sold it in 2005
KIRK KERKORIAN
American actress of “American Pie” & the “Sharknado” series
TARA REID
1981 film
Best Picture Oscar
About Harold Abrahams, Jewish English runner who wins gold at 1924 Paris Olympics
Vangelis’ won Oscar for Best Score (& had a #1 hit)
CHARIOTS OF FIRE
1964 film based on a Kazantzakis novel
Anthony Quinn as the title peasant, for which he was Oscar-nominated
ZORBA THE GREEK
1988 film set in Connecticut
Julia Roberts’ breakout role, working at title eatery
Debut of Matt Damon in a bit part
MYSTIC PIZZA
Chicago Tribune critic
TV Partner of Roger “At the Movies” - “Two thumbs up!”
Died in 1999
Art institute of Chicago has a film school in his name
GENE SISKEL
Celebrity gossip blogger
Mario Lavandeira
Began as “PageSixSixSix(dot)com”
PEREZ HILTON
Star of “The Simple Life” with friend Paris Hilton
Adopted daughter of singer Lionel
Mother of Harlow
NICOLE RICHIE
1980 Best Supporting Actor (youngest) for Ordinary People
Son of actor Jim
Divorced Debra Winger
Directed The Cars’ “Drive” video
“Taps”
“Leverage” (series)
“American Crime” (series)
TIMOTHY HUTTON
Reporter Tim O’hara in “My Favorite Martian” (1963-66)
Magazine publisher Tom Corbett in “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father” (1969-72) (title character)
Dr. David Banner in “The Incredible Hulk”
BILL BIXBY
Television actress
“The Big Valley” (1960s)
Kristle Carrington on “Dynasty” (1980s) - character ended up in a coma when she left
LINDA EVANS
Former Giants defensive end
“Live with Kelly & ____” (2012-16)
Good Morning America
$100,000 (Hundred thousand dollar) Pyramid
MICHAEL STRAHAN
TNT series from 2008-2012
Crook vengeance
Starred Timothy Hutton
LEVERAGE
2015-2017 on ABC
Anthology series
Regina King, Felicity Huffman, Timothy Hutton
AMERICAN CRIME
(not American Crime Story, that is something else)
2003-2007
Friends Paris Hilton & Nicole Richie
Reality series
THE SIMPLE LIFE
1959 biblical film with Yul Brynner & Gina Lollobrigida as the title King & Queen
SOLOMON & SHEBA
Awards for advertising
Named for muse of history
CLIO AWARDS
Award for worst films of the year
A metallic fruit
GOLDEN RASPBERRIES
“RAZZIES”
1933’s Best Picture Oscar
Based on Noel Coward’s 1931 play
About an English family
CAVALCADE
1986 film based on Jean M. Auel novel
Darryl Hannah as Cro-Magnon girl Ayla
CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR
2007 Oscar for Best Picture, Adapted screenplay & Best director (Coen Brothers), & Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem, as coin-flipping hitman Anton Chigurh)
Josh Brolin & Tommy Lee Jones
Set in West Texas in the 1980s
Based on a Cormac McCarthy novel
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
American actress
“Hitch” (2005)
“The Place Beyond the Pines” (2012)
“Lost River” (2014)
Partner of Ryan Gosling
EVA MENDES
American actor
“Tuskegee Airmen” (1995)
“Snowdogs” (2005)
O.J. Simpson in “American Crime Story”
CUBA GOODING JR.
American actor
Arizona Cardinals player Rod Tidwell in “Jerry Maguire” (1996) for which he won a supporting actor Oscar
CUBA GOODING JR.
American actor
“Boyz n the Hood” (1991)
Title character in “Radio” (2003)
CUBA GOODING JR.
American businessman
“Shark Tank” (2011-present)
Owner of Dallas Mavericks
Sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo in 1999
MARK CUBAN
Rocky’s dog in the films
Shares name with a famous linebacker
BUTKUS
Speed Racer’s car
MACH 5