# Movie Marathon (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 17, 2019, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780 "2019-08-17T02:03:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 306
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6103 "2020-07-22T15:36:47Z")
Screen debuts of later-famous actors and actresses 1. Innocent Lives (1995) - Keira Knightley 2. Taxi Talks (1930) - Spencer Tracy 3. A Bill of Divorcement (1932) - Katharine Hepburn 4. Leathernecking (1930) - Irene Dunne ---
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Screen debuts of later-famous actors and actresses 1. Innocent Lives (1995) - Keira Knightley 2. Taxi Talks (1930) - Spencer Tracy 3. A Bill of Divorcement (1932) - Katharine Hepburn 4. Leathernecking (1930) - Irene Dunne 5. Art Trouble (1934) - Jimmy Stewart A comedy short with Shemp Howard(but no ‘good’ Stooges) ---
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[quote=“Bayaker, post:6104, topic:838780”] Screen debuts of later-famous actors and actresses 1. Innocent Lives (1995) - Keira Knightley 2. Taxi Talks (1930) - Spencer Tracy 3. A Bill of Divorcement (1932) - Katharine Hepburn 4. Leathernecking (1930) - Irene Dunne 5. Art Trouble (1934) - Jimmy Stewart 6. Mary Poppins (1964) - Julie Andrews ---
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Screen debuts of later-famous actors and actresses 1. Innocent Lives (1995) - Keira Knightley 2. Taxi Talks (1930) - Spencer Tracy 3. A Bill of Divorcement (1932) - Katharine Hepburn 4. Leathernecking (1930) - Irene Dunne 5. Art Trouble (1934) - Jimmy Stewart 6. Mary Poppins (1964) - Julie Andrews 7. The Cry Baby Killer (1958) - Jack Nicholson Julie Andrews actually provided a voice in the 1952 English dub of La Rosa di Bagdad, an Italian cartoon, but Mary Poppins was her first on-camera movie role. ---
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Screen debuts of later-famous actors and actresses 1. Innocent Lives (1995) - Keira Knightley 2. Taxi Talks (1930) - Spencer Tracy 3. A Bill of Divorcement (1932) - Katharine Hepburn 4. Leathernecking (1930) - Irene Dunne 5. Art Trouble (1934) - Jimmy Stewart 6. Mary Poppins (1964) - Julie Andrews 7. The Cry Baby Killer (1958) - Jack Nicholson 8. Dr. Strangelove (1964) - James Earl Jones ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6108 "2020-07-22T17:41:04Z")
Screen debuts of later-famous actors and actresses 1. Innocent Lives (1995) - Keira Knightley 2. Taxi Talks (1930) - Spencer Tracy 3. A Bill of Divorcement (1932) - Katharine Hepburn 4. Leathernecking (1930) - Irene Dunne 5. Art Trouble (1934) - Jimmy Stewart 6. Mary Poppins (1964) - Julie Andrews 7. The Cry Baby Killer (1958) - Jack Nicholson 8. Dr. Strangelove (1964) - James Earl Jones 9. Hedda (1975) - Patrick Stewart ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6109 "2020-07-22T17:43:32Z")
Screen debuts of later-famous actors and actresses 1. Innocent Lives (1995) - Keira Knightley 2. Taxi Talks (1930) - Spencer Tracy 3. A Bill of Divorcement (1932) - Katharine Hepburn 4. Leathernecking (1930) - Irene Dunne 5. Art Trouble (1934) - Jimmy Stewart 6. Mary Poppins (1964) - Julie Andrews 7. The Cry Baby Killer (1958) - Jack Nicholson 8. Dr. Strangelove (1964) - James Earl Jones 9. Hedda (1975) - Patrick Stewart 10. Pretty Baby (1978) - Brooke Shields Next up, movies where a major character is cast as a different race/gender from the source material. 1. Shawshank Redemption - Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd ‘Red’ Redding ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6110 "2020-07-22T17:49:22Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > 1. Pretty Baby (1978) - Brooke Shields Actually, Shields’ first movie was _Alice, Sweet Alice_ (1976). Next up, movies where a major character is cast as a different race/gender from the source material. 1. Shawshank Redemption - Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd ‘Red’ Redding 2. Ghost in the Shell - Scarlett Johansson as Mira Killian/Motoko Kusanagi ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6111 "2020-07-22T17:55:50Z")
Movies where a major character is cast as a different race/gender from the source material. 1. Shawshank Redemption - Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd ‘Red’ Redding 2. Ghost in the Shell - Scarlett Johansson as Mira Killian/Motoko Kusanagi 3. Starship Troopers - Casper Van Dien as Johnny Rico ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6112 "2020-07-22T17:56:39Z")
Movies where a major character is cast as a different race/gender from the source material. 1. Shawshank Redemption - Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd ‘Red’ Redding 2. Ghost in the Shell - Scarlett Johansson as Mira Killian/Motoko Kusanagi 3. Starship Troopers - Casper Van Dien as Johnny Rico 4. Doctor Strange - Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One Gender change as well as race change – in the comic books, the Ancient One was an Asian man. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6113 "2020-07-22T18:22:00Z")
Movies where a major character is cast as a different race/gender from the source material. 1. Shawshank Redemption - Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd ‘Red’ Redding 2. Ghost in the Shell - Scarlett Johansson as Mira Killian/Motoko Kusanagi 3. Starship Troopers - Casper Van Dien as Johnny Rico 4. Doctor Strange - Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One 5. Tiger Bay - Hayley Mills as Gillie In the source material, and the original draft of the script, Mills’ character is a boy, but the casting dept. is having trouble finding a young actor to handle the part. The director visits the actor already cast in the lead, John Mills, to discuss the problem, and meets his 12-yr-old daughter. ---
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Movies where a major character is cast as a different race/gender from the source material. 1. Shawshank Redemption - Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd ‘Red’ Redding 2. Ghost in the Shell - Scarlett Johansson as Mira Killian/Motoko Kusanagi 3. Starship Troopers - Casper Van Dien as Johnny Rico 4. Doctor Strange - Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One 5. Tiger Bay - Hayley Mills as Gillie 6. A Beautiful Mind - Jennifer Connelly as Alicia Nash The real Alicia Nash was a Latinx from El Salvador. ---
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Movies where a major character is cast as a different race/gender from the source material. 1. Shawshank Redemption - Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd ‘Red’ Redding 2. Ghost in the Shell - Scarlett Johansson as Mira Killian/Motoko Kusanagi 3. Starship Troopers - Casper Van Dien as Johnny Rico 4. Doctor Strange - Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One 5. Tiger Bay - Hayley Mills as Gillie 6. A Beautiful Mind - Jennifer Connelly as Alicia Nash 7. Fantastic Four - Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm/Human Torch ---
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Movies where a major character is cast as a different race/gender from the source material. 1. Shawshank Redemption - Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd ‘Red’ Redding 2. Ghost in the Shell - Scarlett Johansson as Mira Killian/Motoko Kusanagi 3. Starship Troopers - Casper Van Dien as Johnny Rico 4. Doctor Strange - Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One 5. Tiger Bay - Hayley Mills as Gillie 6. A Beautiful Mind - Jennifer Connelly as Alicia Nash 7. Fantastic Four - Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm/Human Torch 8. Thor - Idris Elba as Heimdall ---
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Movies where a major character is cast as a different race/gender from the source material. 1. Shawshank Redemption - Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd ‘Red’ Redding 2. Ghost in the Shell - Scarlett Johansson as Mira Killian/Motoko Kusanagi 3. Starship Troopers - Casper Van Dien as Johnny Rico 4. Doctor Strange - Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One 5. Tiger Bay - Hayley Mills as Gillie 6. A Beautiful Mind - Jennifer Connelly as Alicia Nash 7. Fantastic Four - Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm/Human Torch 8. Thor - Idris Elba as Heimdall 9. Wild Wild West (1999) - Will Smith as agent James West _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6118 "2020-07-23T00:06:34Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Actually, Shields’ first movie was _Alice, Sweet Alice_ (1976). Details…😉 ---
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Movies where a major character is cast as a different race/gender from the source material. 1. Shawshank Redemption - Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd ‘Red’ Redding 2. Ghost in the Shell - Scarlett Johansson as Mira Killian/Motoko Kusanagi 3. Starship Troopers - Casper Van Dien as Johnny Rico 4. Doctor Strange - Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One 5. Tiger Bay - Hayley Mills as Gillie 6. A Beautiful Mind - Jennifer Connelly as Alicia Nash 7. Fantastic Four - Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm/Human Torch 8. Thor - Idris Elba as Heimdall 9. Wild Wild West (1999) - Will Smith as agent James West 10. Daredevil (2005) - Michael Clark Duncan as Wilson Fisk Pass ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6120 "2020-07-23T00:35:06Z")
Non-war movies with a major character who holds a military rank 1. Wild Wild West - Capt. James West (Will Smith) ---
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Non-war movies with a major character who holds a military rank 1. Wild Wild West - Capt. James West (Will Smith) 2. Scent of a Woman - Lt. Col. Frank Slade (Al Pacino) ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6122 "2020-07-23T01:15:26Z")
I’m guessing that peacetime military flicks like _A Few Good Men_ and _Courage Under Fire_ probably shouldn’t qualify here… Non-war movies with a major character who holds a military rank 1. Wild Wild West - Capt. James West (Will Smith) 2. Scent of a Woman - Lt. Col. Frank Slade (Al Pacino) 3. The Hateful Eight - General Sanford “Sandy” Smithers (Bruce Dern) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780.md?page=305) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780.md?page=307)