# Movie Marathon (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 23, 2023, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988 "2023-06-23T10:14:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 354
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7062 "2025-03-22T23:20:31Z")
**Movies with actors BEFORE they were stars** 1. The Naked Jungle-Charlton Heston 2. Variety Girl - DeForest Kelley ---
**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:** [March 22, 2025, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7063 "2025-03-22T23:34:53Z")
**Movies with actors BEFORE they were stars** 1. The Naked Jungle-Charlton Heston 2. Variety Girl - DeForest Kelley 3. He Knows You’re Alone - Tom Hanks A 1980 slasher movie, and his first movie role, released a few months before the premiere of _Bosom Buddies_. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7064 "2025-03-22T23:52:27Z")
**Movies with actors BEFORE they were stars** 1. The Naked Jungle-Charlton Heston 2. Variety Girl - DeForest Kelley 3. He Knows You’re Alone - Tom Hanks 4. Back to the Future Part II - Elijah Wood 12 years before the release of _Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring,_ an 8-year-old Wood made his film debut as one of the kids unimpressed with the _Wild Gunman_ arcade machine at the Cafe 80s. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7065 "2025-03-22T23:59:36Z")
**Movies with actors BEFORE they were stars** 1. The Naked Jungle-Charlton Heston 2. Variety Girl - DeForest Kelley 3. He Knows You’re Alone - Tom Hanks 4. Back to the Future Part II - Elijah Wood 5. American Graffiti -Harrison Ford ---
**Author:** ![themapleleaf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/themapleleaf/32/14349_2.png) [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7066 "2025-03-23T01:01:05Z")
**Movies with actors BEFORE they were stars** 1. The Naked Jungle-Charlton Heston 2. Variety Girl - DeForest Kelley 3. He Knows You’re Alone - Tom Hanks 4. Back to the Future Part II - Elijah Wood 5. American Graffiti - Harrison Ford 6. Dangerous Years - Marylin Monroe ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7067 "2025-03-23T03:28:52Z")
**Movies with actors BEFORE they were stars** 1. The Naked Jungle-Charlton Heston 2. Variety Girl - DeForest Kelley 3. He Knows You’re Alone - Tom Hanks 4. Back to the Future Part II - Elijah Wood 5. American Graffiti - Harrison Ford 6. Dangerous Years - Marylin Monroe 7. Darby O’Gill and the Little People - Sean Connery ---
**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:** [March 23, 2025, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7068 "2025-03-23T03:41:53Z")
**Movies with actors BEFORE they were stars** 1. The Naked Jungle - Charlton Heston 2. Variety Girl - DeForest Kelley 3. He Knows You’re Alone - Tom Hanks 4. Back to the Future Part II - Elijah Wood 5. American Graffiti - Harrison Ford 6. Dangerous Years - Marylin Monroe 7. Darby O’Gill and the Little People - Sean Connery 8. The Silver Chalice - Paul Newman His screen debut, in 1954. He later said it was “the worst motion picture produced during the 1950s.” ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7069 "2025-03-23T13:35:13Z")
**Movies with actors BEFORE they were stars** 1. The Naked Jungle - Charlton Heston 2. Variety Girl - DeForest Kelley 3. He Knows You’re Alone - Tom Hanks 4. Back to the Future Part II - Elijah Wood 5. American Graffiti - Harrison Ford 6. Dangerous Years - Marylin Monroe 7. Darby O’Gill and the Little People - Sean Connery 8. The Silver Chalice - Paul Newman 9. We Hot American SUmmer - Bradley Cooper ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7070 "2025-03-23T16:28:36Z")
**Movies with actors BEFORE they were stars** 1. The Naked Jungle - Charlton Heston 2. Variety Girl - DeForest Kelley 3. He Knows You’re Alone - Tom Hanks 4. Back to the Future Part II - Elijah Wood 5. American Graffiti - Harrison Ford 6. Dangerous Years - Marylin Monroe 7. Darby O’Gill and the Little People - Sean Connery 8. The Silver Chalice - Paul Newman 9. We Hot American SUmmer - Bradley Cooper 10. The Horse Whisperer - Scarlett Johansson 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:** [March 23, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7071 "2025-03-23T16:45:10Z")
**Last roles of movie stars** 1. _Love Affair_ (1994) - Katharine Hepburn ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7072 "2025-03-23T16:53:20Z")
**Last roles of movie stars** 1. _Love Affair_ (1994) - Katharine Hepburn 2. _Field of Dreams_ (1989) – Burt Lancaster _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7073 "2025-03-23T17:07:45Z")
**Last roles of movie stars** 1. _Love Affair_ (1994) - Katharine Hepburn 2. _Field of Dreams_ (1989) – Burt Lancaster 3. _Lost Highway_ (1997) - Richard Pryor ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7074 "2025-03-23T17:18:43Z")
**Last roles of movie stars** 1. _Love Affair_ (1994) - Katharine Hepburn 2. _Field of Dreams_ (1989) – Burt Lancaster 3. _Lost Highway_ (1997) - Richard Pryor 4. _Mister Roberts_ (1955) William Powell By all accounts he had a happy almost-thirty-years of retirement. I like that about him. It seems like most movie stars want to cling to their diminishing fame to the bitter end. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7075 "2025-03-23T18:03:33Z")
**Last roles of movie stars** 1. _Love Affair_ (1994) - Katharine Hepburn 2. _Field of Dreams_ (1989) – Burt Lancaster 3. _Lost Highway_ (1997) - Richard Pryor 4. _Mister Roberts_ (1955) William Powell 5. _Terrible Joe Moran_ (1984) - James Cagney I actually wanted to list _Ragtime_, but a double-check of IMDb showed that was not the case. This poorly-reviewed made-for-TV film has Cagney as an old ex-boxer re-kindling his relationship with his granddaughter. Having suffered a stroke, Cagney couldn’t speak clearly, and all his dialogue was re-dubbed by Rich Little. Seems quite a sad way to go out. I loved Cagney in _Ragtime_! ---
**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:** [March 23, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7076 "2025-03-23T18:08:29Z")
**Last roles of movie stars** 1. _Love Affair_ (1994) - Katharine Hepburn 2. _Field of Dreams_ (1989) – Burt Lancaster 3. _Lost Highway_ (1997) - Richard Pryor 4. _Mister Roberts_ (1955) - William Powell 5. _Terrible Joe Moran_ (1984) - James Cagney 6. _Soylent Green_ (1973) - Edward G. Robinson I, too, thought that _Ragtime_ was Cagney’s final role. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7077 "2025-03-23T23:27:13Z")
**Last roles of movie stars** 1. _Love Affair_ (1994) - Katharine Hepburn 2. _Field of Dreams_ (1989) – Burt Lancaster 3. _Lost Highway_ (1997) - Richard Pryor 4. _Mister Roberts_ (1955) - William Powell 5. _Terrible Joe Moran_ (1984) - James Cagney 6. _Soylent Green_ (1973) - Edward G. Robinson 7. _Plan 9 from Outer Space_ - Bela Lugosi made a year after he died ---
**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:** [March 23, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7078 "2025-03-23T23:43:01Z")
**Last roles of movie stars** 1. _Love Affair_ (1994) - Katharine Hepburn 2. _Field of Dreams_ (1989) – Burt Lancaster 3. _Lost Highway_ (1997) - Richard Pryor 4. _Mister Roberts_ (1955) - William Powell 5. _Terrible Joe Moran_ (1984) - James Cagney 6. _Soylent Green_ (1973) - Edward G. Robinson 7. _Plan 9 from Outer Space_ - Bela Lugosi 8. _Yellowbeard_ (1983) - Marty Feldman Feldman died of a heart attack in his hotel room during the movie’s filming. In the script, Feldman’s, Gilbert, was to die, but he passed before his character’s death was filmed, forcing the director to use a stunt double for the scene. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7079 "2025-03-23T23:45:47Z")
**Last roles of movie stars** 1. _Love Affair_ (1994) - Katharine Hepburn 2. _Field of Dreams_ (1989) – Burt Lancaster 3. _Lost Highway_ (1997) - Richard Pryor 4. _Mister Roberts_ (1955) - William Powell 5. _Terrible Joe Moran_ (1984) - James Cagney 6. _Soylent Green_ (1973) - Edward G. Robinson 7. _Plan 9 from Outer Space_ - Bela Lugosi 8. _Yellowbeard_ (1983) - Marty Feldman 9. _The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus_ (2009) - Heath Ledger ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7080 "2025-03-24T00:51:11Z")
**Last roles of movie stars** 1. _Love Affair_ (1994) - Katharine Hepburn 2. _Field of Dreams_ (1989) – Burt Lancaster 3. _Lost Highway_ (1997) - Richard Pryor 4. _Mister Roberts_ (1955) - William Powell 5. _Terrible Joe Moran_ (1984) - James Cagney 6. _Soylent Green_ (1973) - Edward G. Robinson 7. _Plan 9 from Outer Space_ - Bela Lugosi 8. _Yellowbeard_ (1983) - Marty Feldman 9. _The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus_ (2009) - Heath Ledger 10. _Absolutely Anything_ (2015) - Robin Williams It was released posthumously. He did a voice-over for a dog. New category: **Most capable Disney princesses** 1. Rapunzel, _Tangled_ ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7081 "2025-03-24T02:32:11Z")
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