Seeing the preview for Joy today got me thinking about Jennifer Lawrence and her “work husband” Bradley Cooper and how often they have co-starred already:
Silver Linings Playbook
American Hustle
Serena
Joy
Who else has starred together four or more times, where the movies weren’t related/series/sequels? It’s fine if they were being directed or produced by some of the same people, as a few of the above are.
Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp:
The Lone Ranger
Dark Shadows
Alice in Wonderland
Sweeney Todd
Corpse Bride
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara:
The Quiet Man
The Wings of Eagles
Rio Grande
McLintock!
Big Jake
Drew Barrymore and Sam Rockwell: Charlie’s Angels and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler: Wedding Singer, Blended, 50 First Dates.
Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks?
Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn?
Doris Day and Rock Hudson?
Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland?
Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn:
Keeper of the Flame
Woman of the Year
Without Love
The Sea of Grass
State of the Union
Adam’s Rib
Pat and Mike
Desk Set
Guess Who’ Coming to Dinner
Adam Sandler and Kevin James
50 First Dates
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
Zookeeper
Grown Ups (and Grown Ups 2)
Hotel Transylvania (and Hotel Transylvania 2)
Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.
The Fortune Cookie
The Front Page
Out to Sea
Buddy, Buddy
The Odd Couple (and its sequel)
Grumpy Old Men (and its sequel, Grumpier Old Men)
Additionally, Lemmon directed Matthau in the film Kotch, for which Matthau was nominated for an Oscar, and Lemmon and Matthau both had small parts in Oliver Stone’s JFK, although they didn’t share equal screen time.
Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance (Over 20 films together).
The Marx Brothers and Margaret Dumont (8 films)
Bob Hope and Bing Crosby (seven “Road” films, plus My Favorite Brunette has a Crosby cameo).
William Powell and Myrna Loy (14 films together).
Astaire and Rogers (9 films)
Nelson Eddy and Jeanette Macdonald (8)
John Wayne and John Agar
Fort Apache
Adventure in Baltimore
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Sands of Iwo Jima
John Wayne and Ward Bond appeared together in 22 movies. Here’s a slice of the middle period:
The Quiet Man
Operation Pacific
3 Godfathers
Fort Apache
Dakota
They Were Expendable
Tall in the Saddle
^ John Wayne and Bruce Cabot - 12 movies including “Hatari!”
Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson
The Cable Guy (1996) - Both in supporting roles but it’s where they first worked together and decided to do more movies together.
Permanent Midnight (1998)
Meet The Parents, Meet The Fockers, Little Fockers (2000, 2004, 2010)
Zoolander (2001) - And the upcoming sequal.
Night At The Museum, Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian, Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb (2006, 2009, 2014)
Starsky & Hutch (2004)
They were also supposed to work together in Tropic Thunder but Wilson had to leave the production and his role was recast.
Will Farrell and John C. Reilly have made at least 2 films together, Talledega Nights and Stepbrothers.
Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Every Which Way But Loose and its sequel Any Which Way You Can
Sudden Impact
The Gauntlet
Bronco Billy
Clint Eastwood and Geoffrey Lewis
High Plains Drifter
Every Which Way But Loose and its sequel Any Which Way You Can
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Pink Cadillac
Bronco Billy
Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor missed out on doing BLAZING SADDLES together, but followed up with SILVER STREAK and STIR CRAZY and SEE NO EVIL HEAR NO EVIL and ANOTHER YOU.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon:
School Ties
Good Will Hunting
Chasing Amy
Dogma
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (as themselves where they hilariously lampoon their relationship)
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost:
Shaun of the Dead
Hot Fuzz
Paul
The World’s End
All except The Lone Ranger were directed by HBC’s now-ex husband Tim Burton. Whose career I once saw described as a long-term plot to get his wife to bang his best friend.
John and Joan Cusack appeared in 10 films together:Class (1983), Sixteen Candles (1984), Grandview, U.S.A. (1984), Broadcast News (1987), Say Anything… (1989), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Cradle Will Rock (1999), High Fidelity (2000), Martian Child (2007) and War, Inc. (2008).
That would be my first pick.
Sleepless in Seattle.
Joe vs the Volcano.
You’ve Got Mail.
Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
Rally Round the Flag, Boys!
The Long, Hot Summer
From the Terrace
Paris Blues
A New Kind of Love
Winning
WUSA
The Drowning Pool
Harry and Son
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland
Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry
Love Finds Andy Hard
Babes in Arms
Strike Up the Band
Babes on Broadway
Life Begins for Andy Hardy
Girl Crazy
Thousands Cheer
Words and Music
Andy Hardy Comes Home
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
Cleopatra
The V.I.P.'s
The Sandpiper
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
The Comedians
The Taming of the Shrew
Doctor Faustus
Boom!
Anne of the Thousand Days (Elizabeth Taylor’s role was uncredited)*
Under Milk Wood
Hammersmith is Out
Divorce His; Divorce Hers* (made for TV movie) *
Private Lives *(Broadway play)