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Katharine Hepburn 9x 25.0% stumper $588 avg J:5 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $100 1985 In 1942 as "Woman of the Year", she was 1st paired with Spencer Tracy

J $600 DD 1997 2 of the movie roles she's played are Ethel Thayer & Rose Sayer

DJ $2,000 2016 This tomboy who became an actress won an Oscar for playing a tomboy who becomes an actress in 1933's "Morning Glory"

Clint Eastwood 8x 12.5% stumper $512 avg J:3 DJ:5

J $100 1993 This actor directed "The Outlaw Josey Wales", but not "The Return of Josey Wales"

DJ $800 1991 "Play Misty for Me" was the first film this actor directed

DJ $1,000 1991 He directed himself playing a director in "White Hunter, Black Heart"

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Tom Cruise 7x $614 avg J:4 DJ:3

J $100 1997 He made the cover of Time in 1989 as "Hollywood's Top Gun"

J $800 2012 Les Grossman &Ethan Hunt

DJ $2,000 2013 He did his own singing as rocker Stacee Jaxx in the movie "Rock Of Ages"

Robert Redford 7x 14.3% stumper $586 avg J:5 DJ:2

J $100 1984 As a ballplayer, he's a “Natural”

J $800 2010 This actor turned to directing & won an Oscar for his first effort--"Ordinary People"

DJ $1,600 2022 As Alexander Pierce in "Captain America: The Winter Soldier", this film legend didn't see eye-to-eye with Nick Fury

Meryl Streep 7x 14.3% stumper $600 avg J:5 DJ:2

J $200 2009 2008:Sister Aloysius, who has doubt

DJ $600 1999 She won her first Oscar, as Best Supporting Actress of 1979, for playing Joanna Kramer

DJ $2,000 DD 1999 With her 11th Oscar nomination in 1999, she has more than any other actress except Katharine Hepburn

Marlon Brando 7x 28.6% stumper $443 avg J:6 DJ:1

J $100 1996 41 years after "On the Waterfront", he played Johnny Depp's therapist in 1995's "Don Juan DeMarco"

J $500 DD 1990 American actor who owns all of the South Seas real estate seen here:

J $1,000 2012 "One-Eyed Jacks"(1961)

Audrey Hepburn 7x $629 avg J:3 DJ:4

J $400 1999 This "Fair Lady" of film starred on Broadway in a non-musical version of "Gigi" in 1951

J $500 1999 In her last years, this chic star of the 1954 film "Sabrina" was a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF

DJ $1,000 1996 Her 1967 film "Wait Until Dark" was produced by her then husband Mel Ferrer

Vanessa Redgrave 6x 16.7% stumper $833 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $200 1985 She's had the title roles as Agatha, Isadora & Julia

DJ $600 1996 Natasha Richardson, who co-starred in "Nell", is the daughter of Tony Richardson & this British actress

DJ $1,000 2000 "Julia"

Sigourney Weaver 6x 16.7% stumper $617 avg J:1 DJ:5

J $300 1994 After playing Dian Fossey, she became honorary chairman of the Digit Fund, dedicated to saving gorillas

DJ $600 1989 Perhaps as an inside joke, she had a stuffed toy gorilla in the film "Working Girl"

DJ $400 2002 In 2001 she denied reports of a $20 million offer to reprise her role as Ripley for "Alien 5"

Kevin Costner 6x $380 avg J:3 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $100 1992 This "Dances with Wolves" star's first film was "Sizzle Beach, U.S.A." made years before its 1986 release

J $600 2010 "Open Range","The Postman" (he's uncredited for "Waterworld")

FJ 1996 This 1990 winner is the most recent to win the Best Director Oscar for his directorial debut

John Travolta 6x $600 avg DJ:5 FJ:1

DJ $200 1997 Karen Lynn Gorney, the first Tara on "All My Children", played his dance partner in "Saturday Night Fever"

DJ $800 2007 (Hi, I'm James Denton.) After I appeared with this actor in "Face/Off", he helped me get a role in "Primary Colors"

DJ $1,200 2010 Tony Manero, Edna Turnblad

Ingrid Bergman 6x $650 avg J:5 DJ:1

J $200 2010 Anastasia & Ilsa Lund Laszlo

J $1,000 2012 This Swedish actress won an Emmy & a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Golda Meir

J $200 1999 She's the only Swedish actress to win 3 Oscars

Glenn Close 6x 50.0% stumper $733 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $100 1997 She plays the dastardly Cruella de Vil in the 1996 remake of "101 Dalmatians"

J $600 2021 We were unable to ignore her as Sunny von Bulow or Patty Hewes

DJ $1,200 2001 Dalmatian coveter Cruella de Vil

Diane Keaton 6x 33.3% stumper $800 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $200 1999 This "Annie Hall" actress went behind the cameras for the 1995 family drama "Unstrung Heroes"

J $600 2009 "Sleeper","Annie Hall","The Godfather"

DJ $1,200 2002 While studying acting in Manhattan, this "Manhattan" actress sang in a rock band called the Roadrunners

Sylvester Stallone 5x 20.0% stumper $520 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $200 1990 In jr. high school this "Rambo" star was voted the student most likely to end up in the electric chair

DJ $800 1998 In 1997 he married model Jennifer Flavin, the mother of his infant daughter Sophia

DJ $1,200 2009 "Paradise Alley"(1978)

Mel Gibson 5x $360 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $200 1997 He wore a kilt & danced the Highland Fling when his film "Braveheart" premiered in Stirling, Scotland

J $600 2014 He co-wrote "The Passion of the Christ"

DJ $200 1985 He was Max in "Mad Max" & "The Road Warrior"

Marilyn Monroe 5x $280 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $200 1996 On June 1, 1995 this screen goddess who would have turned 69 was honored with a 32¢ stamp

J $200 1988 One biographer said she was named for Norma Talmadge & Jean Harlow

DJ $200 1988 Tony Curtis has painted dozens of pictures of this "Some Like It Hot" co-star

Jessica Lange 5x 20.0% stumper $640 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $200 2000 "Tootsie"

DJ $600 1997 Current biography says her "Film career began & nearly ended, with the 1976 remake of 'King Kong'"

DJ $1,200 2013 She went near the edge herself playing fragile actress Frances Farmer in a 1982 film

Jamie Lee Curtis 5x $550 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $200 2022 J.L.C., back for more in "Halloween Kills"

DJ $1,200 2015 In "A Fish Called Wanda", she's a woman called Wanda

FJ 2023 She made her big screen debut as a teen named Laurie in a 1978 film & in 2022 she played that role for the 7th & last time

James Dean 5x $275 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $100 1994 This actor's last Broadway play, "The Immoralist", led to his starring role in the film "East of Eden"

FJ 2015 Ironically, in the summer of 1955, he gave an interview about the dangers of racing on highways

DJ $200 2000 Later a "rebel", he was playing a wicked Arab boy on Broadway in 1954 when "discovered" by Elia Kazan

Greta Garbo 5x 25.0% stumper $350 avg J:2 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $100 1999 Born September 18, 1905, this glamorous Swede's real last name was Gustafsson

DJ $800 1996 This Swedish star retired from the screen after the release of her 1941 film "Two-Faced Woman"

FJ 1989 In 1955, she was the 1st adult actress to win an honorary Oscar, but she didn't attend the ceremony

George Clooney 5x 20.0% stumper $600 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $400 2014 He co-wrote "Good Night, and Good Luck."

J $600 2013 He played news producer Fred Friendly in "Good Night, and Good Luck."

DJ $400 2007 He was in as Danny Ocean in a 2001 film & its 2 sequels

Bette Davis 5x $575 avg J:3 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $300 1995 In 1977 this "Jezebel" star became the first woman to receive the AFI's Life Achievement Award

J $500 1990 This leading lady said George Brent fell in love with her while they were filming "Dark Victory"

DJ $1,200 2008 "Fasten your seatbelts.It's going to be a bumpy night"

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Sidney Poitier 5x $680 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 1987 With only 1 1/2 years of formal education, he still played a teacher in "To Sir with Love"

DJ $800 2012 "The Measure of a Man" is "a spiritual autobiography" by this actor whose distinguished feature film career began in 1950

J $1,000 2010 1967:Dr. John Wade Prentice, who (guess what?) came to dinner

Whoopi Goldberg 4x $375 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $100 1997 In 1992 she put on a great act in "Sister Act" & in 1996 starred in "The Associate"

DJ $800 2002 Born in NYC in 1955, this Oscar winner has played a thief, a nun, a psychic & an intergalactic bartender

J $200 1988 Star of "The Color Purple", she said early influences included Gracie Allen & C. Colbert

Vivien Leigh 4x 33.3% stumper $400 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $300 1985 Oscar-winning British actress who played 2 most famous Southern belles in American fiction

J $500 1988 She played a ballerina-turned-prostitute in the 1940 classic "Waterloo Bridge"

FJ 2021 In 2013 the Victoria & Albert Museum acquired her archives, including letters from Laurence Olivier & Tennessee Williams

Steve McQueen 4x $567 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $100 1986 A NYC 2nd Avenue Yiddish theater is where this star of "The Great Escape" made his great debut

DJ $1,200 2016 He performed his own motorcycle stunts as P.O.W. "Cooler King" Hilts in "The Great Escape"

FJ 2008 He never won an Oscar, but this 1960s movie star got a patent for a low-slung bucket seat for race cars

Rita Hayworth 4x $500 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $300 1989 Other actresses have been called sex goddesses, but this redheaded star of the '40s was "The Love Goddess"

J $500 1986 "If I'd been a ranch they would have called me the bar nothing" she said as "Gilda" in 1946

J $400 1988 Princess Yasmin Aga Khan is the daughter of this late sex symbol

Michelle Pfeiffer 4x 25.0% stumper $825 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 1994 In 1989 she played Olivia in "Twelfth Night" onstage & Susie Diamond in "The Fabulous Baker Boys" on film

J $500 1986 Half the time her character in "Ladyhawke" was a lady hawk

DJ $1,000 1989 She was one of "The Witches of Eastwick" before she was "Married to the Mob"

Michael J. Fox 4x $250 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 2010 (James Lipton delivers the clue.)Hetold us, as a struggling actor, he used the pay phone at Pioneer Chicken as his office, before he got "Family Ties"

DJ $200 1990 Matthew Broderick was the 1st choice for the role of Alex on "Family Ties", but he got the part

DJ $200 1989 At the 1988 Emmy Awards he compared the character he played on "Family Ties" to Dan Quayle

Michael Douglas 4x $250 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1998 45 seconds of Sharon Stone & this naked actor were cut from "Basic Instinct" to get an R rating

J $200 1997 This star of "The American President" was an assistant director on his father's 1962 film "Lonely Are the Brave"

DJ $200 1996 This star was sexually harrassed by Demi Moore in the 1994 film "Disclosure"

Michael Caine 4x $333 avg J:3 FJ:1

J $200 1988 This "Alfie" star didn't learn to drive until he was 50

J $500 1986 He said of his role in "Deathtrap" that he is now one of few men in the world to have kissed Superman

FJ 1993 He called his 1992 autobiography "What's It All About?"

Mae West 4x 25.0% stumper $350 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $100 1995 The welcome mat outside her Paramount dressing room said "Come up and see me sometime"

DJ $800 2022 Shehit the big time with Paramount Pictures in the 1930s

DJ $200 1989 When she guest starred on Mister Ed's show, Ed said, "Maybe she can come up and shoe me some time"

Liam Neeson 4x $650 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 1999 Factory owner Oskar Schindler

DJ $600 1996 In a 1995 film this Irish actor portrayed Scottish outlaw Rob Roy

DJ $1,200 2002 He played the lead in the movies "Rob Roy", "Michael Collins" & "Schindler's List"

Jodie Foster 4x $850 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 1996 In 1995 this "Silence of the Lambs" star directed her second film, "Home for the Holidays"

DJ $800 2008 In the 2008 adventure "Nim's Island", she played reclusive author Alexandra Rover

DJ $1,600 2008 "Contact","The Accused","The Brave One"

Jimmy Stewart 4x $725 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 1994 This actor's hometown, Indiana, Penn., named part of a street for him; what a "Wonderful Life"

DJ $800 2005 An Oscar winner for 1940, he'sseenhereplaying his accordion on stage at Princeton in the 1930s

DJ $1,600 DD 2007 He was detective Scottie Ferguson, whose vertigo caused him to leave the police force

Jane Seymour 4x $300 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 1997 She played Solitaire in the 007 film "Live and Let Die" long before she became a frontier doctor on TV

DJ $600 1996 Born Joyce Frankenberg, she took her stage name from one of Henry VIII's wives

J $200 1996 She was once romantically involved with Joe Lando, who plays her husband on "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman"

Holly Hunter 4x $775 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $300 1995 Beth Henley wrote a leading role in her play "Control Freaks" for this actress who starred in "The Piano"

DJ $800 2019 In 2004 she provided the voice of Elastigirl, the wife of Mr. Incredible

DJ $1,200 2020 She voiced a superhero in "The Incredibles" & was blown up by a supervillain in "Batman v Superman"

Goldie Hawn 4x $350 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1999 In 1997 this star of "Private Benjamin" made her directing debut with the TV movie "Hope"

J $500 1987 Though "Butterflies are Free", college tuition wasn't, so she paid it by teaching dance classes

J $400 2009 "Laugh-In","Shampoo","Private Benjamin"

Gene Wilder 4x $1,150 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 1989 "Silver Streak" star Jerome Silberman

DJ $1,200 2021 In 1971 he sang "Pure Imagination" playing Willy Wonka

DJ $1,200 2014 The Waco Kid, Willy Wonka

Fay Wray 4x $600 avg J:1 DJ:1 FJ:2

DJ $400 1988 This beauty from Alberta is best known for her date with a beast atop the Empire State Building

J $800 2004 Late actress seenherein the same year she worked with her biggest co-star"Mm! Very tasty, my good man, very tasty."

FJ 2001 In 1999 Liz Smith quoted her as saying, "I look at the Empire State Building and I feel like it belongs to me"

Errol Flynn 4x 25.0% stumper $400 avg J:3 DJ:1

DJ $200 1988 Classified 4-F during WWII, this swashbuckling Tasmanian only fought on film

J $500 1993 In 1939 this Tasmanian devil starred in his first western, "Dodge City" with Olivia de Havilland

J $400 1989 Classified 4-F during WWII, this swashbuckling Tasmanian only fought on film

Denzel Washington 4x 50.0% stumper $1,150 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 2017 On film he's played slain leaders Steve Biko & Malcolm X

J $600 2012 "Antwone Fisher"(2002)

DJ $1,600 2014 Detective Alonzo Harris, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

Demi Moore 4x $375 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $100 1997 For her 1996 film "Striptease" she was paid $12.5 million, making her the highest paid actress in film history

J $1,000 2011 She sported a shaved head & an incredibly buff bod in "G.I. Jane"

DJ $200 1997 Before marrying Bruce Willis, she was engaged to Emilio Estevez

Charlie Chaplin 4x $450 avg J:3 DJ:1

DJ $200 1997 He was a star in British Vaudeville before creating the "Little Tramp" onscreen

J $1,000 2010 Getting caught in the wheels of a machine makes him go berserk in 1936's "Modern Times"

J $200 1985 "The Little Tramp"

Burt Reynolds 4x $400 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1994 This "Evening Shade" star's Institute for Theatre training is in Tequesta, Florida

DJ $800 1991 After wrestling with "Gator", his directorial debut, he got good reviews for "Sharky's Machine"

J $300 1999 Dan August, Wood Newton

Bill Murray 4x 50.0% stumper $800 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $400 2004 2003:Actor Bob Harris, suffering from jet lag in Tokyo

J $800 2020 Groundskeeper Carl Spackler &Franklin D.Roosevelt

DJ $1,600 2008 "Cinderella story.Outta no where. A former groundskeeper, now about to become the Masters champion..."

Ben Affleck 4x $900 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 2016 This future actor-director has been friends with Matt Damon since they were both kids in Cambridge, Mass.

J $800 2013 He directed "Argo" as well as starring in it as Tony Mendez

DJ $1,200 2015 Look, up on the screen! it's a bird! it's a plane! it's "Argo" man, this actor, as George Reeves in "hollywoodland"

Bela Lugosi 4x $950 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 1988 He was born Bela Ferenc Blasko in Lugos, Hungary

DJ $600 1990 Playing a Russian commissar, this Hungarian was seen in "Ninotchka" without fangs

DJ $1,000 1986 As an Indian in 1922's "Last of the Mohicans" he bared his chest, but he gained fame baring his fangs

Barbra Streisand 4x $333 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $200 2001 She directed, co-produced & starred in "The Mirror Has Two Faces"

DJ $600 1989 She was the 1st actress to win an Oscar for composing a song, the 1977 hit "Evergreen"

FJ 2008 The only woman to win a Golden Globe for directing, she won for a 1983 film that she had also co-written

Anthony Perkins 4x $525 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 1989 Not surprisingly, he played the "psycho" in "Crimes of Passion"

J $500 1994 In 1960 he starred in the Broadway musical "Greenwillow" & became a movie "Psycho"

DJ $1,200 2020 As Norman Bates:"A boy's best friend is his mother"

Alec Guinness 4x 50.0% stumper $1,100 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1986 Seeing himself in "A Passage to India", this TV "smiley" lost his smile & left for the men's room

DJ $1,000 1985 He played the 8 murder victims of Dennis Price in "Kind Hearts and Coronets"

DJ $800 1988 Born Alec de Cuffe, he was illegitimate & has never learned his father's identity

Worth Knowing (209)

W.C. Fields 3 Uma Thurman 3 Tom Hanks 3 Sophia Loren 3 Sissy Spacek 3 Sherlock Holmes 3 Shelley Winters 3 Sarah Jessica Parker 3 Sarah Bernhardt 3 Sandra Bullock 3 Samuel L. Jackson 3 Robin Hood 3 Richard Harris 3 Raymond Burr 3 Pierce Brosnan 3 Peter O'Toole 3 Paul Hogan 3 Nicole Kidman 3 Michael Keaton 3 Mary Tyler Moore 3 Mary Pickford 3 Martin Sheen 3 Liv Ullmann 3 Lillie Langtry 3 Leslie Howard 3 Kate Winslet 3 Julie Christie 3 Julia Roberts 3 Julia Louis-Dreyfus 3 John Barrymore 3 Joan Collins 3 Jack Lemmon 3 Helena Bonham Carter 3 Hayley Mills 3 Harrison Ford 3 Gwyneth Paltrow 3 Geoffrey Rush 3 Family Affair 3 Elizabeth Taylor 3 Dustin Hoffman 3 Drew Barrymore 3 Donna Reed 3 Diana Rigg 3 Clark Gable 3 Charlie Chan 3 Cate Blanchett 3 Brigitte Bardot 3 Brad Pitt 3 Ben Kingsley 3 Anthony Quinn 3 Anjelica Huston 3 Angela Bassett 3 Yul Brynner 3 Laurence Olivier 3 Woody Allen 2 Winona Ryder 2 William Shatner 2 William H. Macy 2 Willem Dafoe 2 Warren Beatty 2 Viola Davis 2 United Artists 2 Toshiro Mifune 2 Tony Randall 2 Tippi Hedren 2 Tim Robbins 2 The Wizard of Oz 2 The Last Emperor 2 The Hustler 2 the Count of Monte Cristo 2 Tarzan 2 Steve Martin 2 Shirley Temple 2 Shirley MacLaine 2 Sharon Stone 2 Sean Penn 2 Sean Connery 2 Sam Shepard 2 Ruth Gordon 2 Russell Crowe 2 Rue McClanahan 2 Roy Rogers 2 Ronald Reagan 2 Rome 2 Roger Moore 2 Rodney Dangerfield 2 Robert Downey, Jr. 2 Robert Downey Jr. 2 Robert De Niro 2 Richard Gere 2 Rex Harrison 2 Renee Zellweger 2 Rasputin 2 Poltergeist 2 Pia Zadora 2 Phylicia Rashad 2 Paulette Goddard 2 Paul Newman 2 Paul Muni 2 Patrick Swayze 2 Patrick Dempsey 2 Orson Welles 2 Orange is the New Black 2 Olivia de Havilland 2 Nick Nolte 2 Nell Gwyn 2 Neil Patrick Harris 2 Natalie Portman 2 Mike Myers 2 Michelle Williams 2 Marlene Dietrich 2 Mark Ruffalo 2 Mark Hamill 2 Margot Robbie 2 Maggie Smith 2 Lynn Redgrave 2 Louis Jourdan 2 Lou Diamond Phillips 2 Lorne Greene 2 Linda Hunt 2 Lily Tomlin 2 Lillian Gish 2 Leslie Caron 2 Leonardo DiCaprio 2 Leonard Nimoy 2 Larry Hagman 2 Lana Turner 2 Kurt Russell 2 Kirstie Alley 2 Kim Novak 2 Kevin Kline 2 Kenneth Branagh 2 Keira Knightley 2 Kate Beckinsale 2 Julie Walters 2 Johnny Depp 2 John Wayne 2 Joan Crawford 2 Jim Carrey 2 Jennifer Aniston 2 Jeff Bridges 2 Jean Harlow 2 Jason Robards 2 Janet Leigh 2 Jane Russell 2 Jane Fonda 2 Jack Nicholson 2 Hugh Grant 2 Helen Mirren 2 Helen Hayes 2 Heath Ledger 2 Hayden Christensen 2 Gypsy 2 Groucho Marx 2 Gregory Peck 2 Grace Kelly 2 Glenn Ford 2 Gigi 2 George Lazenby 2 Faye Dunaway 2 Eva Gabor 2 Eugene O'Neill 2 Emma Thompson 2 Elsa Lanchester 2 Elisabeth Shue 2 Eleanor Roosevelt 2 Edward Woodward 2 Edward G. Robinson 2 Donald Sutherland 2 Don Johnson 2 Diahann Carroll 2 Debbie Reynolds 2 David Duchovny 2 David Carradine 2 Dan Aykroyd 2 Courteney Cox 2 Claire Danes 2 Christopher Plummer 2 Chris Hemsworth 2 Catherine Zeta-Jones 2 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 2 Cary Grant 2 Carrie Fisher 2 Carousel 2 Carole Lombard 2 Cameron Diaz 2 Calamity Jane 2 Bruce Willis 2 Bruce Lee 2 Brooke Shields 2 Brett Butler 2 Boris Karloff 2 Bonnie and Clyde 2 Blithe Spirit 2 Betty Grable 2 Ben Stiller 2 Bea Arthur 2 Barbara Hershey 2 Art Carney 2 Antonio Banderas 2 Anthony Hopkins 2 Anne Hathaway 2 Ann-Margret 2 Anita Ekberg 2 Angelina Jolie 2 Amadeus 2 Albert Brooks 2 Alan Alda 2 a chocolate factory 2

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