It has been said that movies and literature go together like bananas and sardines1; that banana/sardine synergy is the subject of this week’s Tuesday Trivia quiz. Your task is to identify an actor who has appeared in adaptations of the work of all three listed authors; for example, if I gave you Tom Robbins, William Gibson, and William Shakespeare, you might answer Keanu Reeves (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Johnny Mnemonic, and Much Ado About Nothing or My Own Private Idaho). For extra credit: one of the actors I have in mind also appears in the work of a fourth (unnamed) author (who should be very familiar to Deborah’s readers).
Get it? Got it. Good.
- Dashiell Hammett, Somerset Maugham, Fyodor Dostoevsky
[solved by Maurinsky, comment #6] - Jane Austen, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Leo Tolstoy
[solved by Melville, comment #1] - Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, Lawrence Sterne
[solved by Hogan, comment #3] - Charles Dodgson, Ernest Hemingway, John O’Hara
[solved by Melville, comment #8] - Steven King, Graham Greene, Raymond Chandler
[solved by Hogan, comment #10] - Philip K. Dick, Robert Howard, August Strindberg
[solved by Melville, comment #2] - Samuel Clemens, William Thackeray, John Steinbeck
[solved by Melville, comment #13]
Note: I have one person in mind for each of these, but if you identify someone else who qualifies you will of course get full credit (and the question will remain open).
1I just said it, so it has in fact been said.
Is #2 Maureen O’Sullivan?
#6 is Max Von Sydow.
#3 is Gillian Anderson.
Hogan! (in my Col. Klink voice) You just beat me to it.
All correct! Well done…so far…
Is #1 Peter Lorre?
Maurinsky, that is correct.
# 4 is Gary Cooper.
#5 is Lauren Bacall.
And it’s Max von Sydow who gets the Ian Fleming credit.
Damn. I have a meeting at 10:30 and instead of getting prepped for that I’ve been madly, poorly IMDBing.
#5 is a bitch. Lots of 2/3 of the way there: Harry Dean Stanton, Elliott Gould, Lauren Bacall. Do three 2/3 of the way theres equal one correct answer? We can throw in Flannery O’Connor for Stanton, even.
Bacall: Misery, The Confidential Agent, The Big Sleep
George, it’s entirely possible you’re overlooking one movie there.
And Hogan gets it.
#7 is Myrna Loy.
Okay, all solved…but surely someone can get the extra credit point? (The author’s identity is pretty obvious.)
Also, we can continue this on a round-robin basis if y’all are interested.
Is it Ian Fleming and Max Von Sydow?
Melville gets the extra point. Had to have a Bond connection, don’t you know. 😉
Okay…how about Thomas Hardy, Thomas Middleton, and Jorge Luis Borges? Whoever answers gets to post their own, etc., etc.
Hogan, sorry about that–I should have checked the moderation queue.
Okay…how about Thomas Hardy, Thomas Middleton, and Jorge Luis Borges? Whoever answers gets to post their own, etc., etc.
It’s Christopher Eccleston
If anybody still wants to play, how about Graham Greene, Oscar Wilde, and Anton Chekhov?
I’m gonna say Julianne Moore (An Ideal Husband, End of the Affair, Vanya on 42nd Street).
Back with another in a few minutes…
Okay, let’s try Rafael Sabatini, Leo Tolstoy, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Basil Rathbone?
Captain Blood, Anna Karenina and The Black Cat, btw.
You got it. Your turn, Hogan.
Howard Pyle, Howard Fast, Helen Gurley Brown.
Off to lunch.
It’s Tony Curtis (The Black Shield of Falworth, Spartacus, Sex and the Single Girl).
Tolstoy, George Bernard Shaw, Truman Capote.
Audrey Hepburn (War and Peace, My Fair Lady, Breakfast at Tiffany’s).
Henry James, Ring Lardner, James Thurber.
Olivia de Havilland (The Heiress, The Male Animal, Alibi Ike).
Somerset Maugham, Nikolai Gogol, Charles Dodgson.
Elsa Lanchester (The Razor’s Edge, The Inspector General, Alice in Wonderland). mmmmm Elsa Lanchester.
I really like this game. It makes strange connections.
Rudyard Kipling, William Saroyan, James Michener.
Mickey Rooney (!) (Captains Courageous, The Human Comedy, Bridges at Toko-Ri)
I really like this game. It makes strange connections.
Indeed it does. Some of them are very odd.
This one, not so much: Robert Louis Stevenson, Eugene O’Neill, Leo Tolstoy
Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde, The Iceman Cometh, Anna Karenina)
Jules Verne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Herman Melville (you knew I’d have to include him eventually 🙂 )
And Melville wins the doubloon.