Movie Marathon (Part 1)

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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
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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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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
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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
  9. Hedda (1975) - Patrick Stewart
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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
  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
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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
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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
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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

Gender change as well as race change – in the comic books, the Ancient One was an Asian man.

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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

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”-

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Details…:wink:

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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

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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)
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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)
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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)