# 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:** 409
**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:** [June 7, 2025, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8162 "2025-06-07T18:30:03Z")
**MORE actors and actresses who play secondary characters but steal every scene they’re in!** 1. Patricia Hitchcock – _Strangers on a Train_ ---
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**MORE actors and actresses who play secondary characters but steal every scene they’re in!** 1. Patricia Hitchcock – _Strangers on a Train_ 2. Claude Rains - _Deception_ It’s not easy to upstage Bette Davis. ---
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**MORE actors and actresses who play secondary characters but steal every scene they’re in!** 1. Patricia Hitchcock – _Strangers on a Train_ 2. Claude Rains - _Deception_ 3. Billy Crystal and Carol Kane - _The Princess Bride_ One scene, really, but they absolutely run with it, and make it one of the most memorable, quotable scenes in a memorable, quotable movie. ---
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**MORE actors and actresses who play secondary characters but steal every scene they’re in!** 1. Patricia Hitchcock – _Strangers on a Train_ 2. Claude Rains - _Deception_ 3. Billy Crystal and Carol Kane - _The Princess Bride_ 4. Tom Cruise - _Tropic Thunder_ Wearing a fat suit and bald cap, Cruise as Les Grossman is a profane, ill-tempered Hollywood producer, reputedly based on Scott Rudin and Harvey Weinstein. ---
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**MORE actors and actresses who play secondary characters but steal every scene they’re in!** 1. Patricia Hitchcock – _Strangers on a Train_ 2. Claude Rains - _Deception_ 3. Billy Crystal and Carol Kane - _The Princess Bride_ 4. Tom Cruise - _Tropic Thunder_ 5. Bill Paxton - _True Lies_ He played a sleazy used-car dealer to hilarious perfection. ---
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**MORE actors and actresses who play secondary characters but steal every scene they’re in!** 1. Patricia Hitchcock – _Strangers on a Train_ 2. Claude Rains - _Deception_ 3. Billy Crystal and Carol Kane - _The Princess Bride_ 4. Tom Cruise - _Tropic Thunder_ 5. Bill Paxton - _True Lies_ 6. Alan Rickman - _Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves_ A scenery-chewing, sinister Sheriff of Nottingham. The only actor in the film to receive an award, a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor. ---
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**MORE actors and actresses who play secondary characters but steal every scene they’re in!** 1. Patricia Hitchcock – _Strangers on a Train_ 2. Claude Rains - _Deception_ 3. Billy Crystal and Carol Kane - _The Princess Bride_ 4. Tom Cruise - _Tropic Thunder_ 5. Bill Paxton - _True Lies_ 6. Alan Rickman - _Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves_ 7. Benicio Del Toro - _The Usual Suspects_ ---
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**MORE actors and actresses who play secondary characters but steal every scene they’re in!** 1. Patricia Hitchcock – _Strangers on a Train_ 2. Claude Rains - _Deception_ 3. Billy Crystal and Carol Kane - _The Princess Bride_ 4. Tom Cruise - _Tropic Thunder_ 5. Bill Paxton - _True Lies_ 6. Alan Rickman - _Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves_ 7. Benicio Del Toro - _The Usual Suspects_ 8. Helen Hayes – _Airport_ (1970) _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [June 8, 2025, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8170 "2025-06-08T21:56:27Z")
> [@](#): > > **MORE actors and actresses who play secondary characters but steal every scene they’re in!** 1. Patricia Hitchcock – _Strangers on a Train_ 2. Claude Rains - _Deception_ 3. Billy Crystal and Carol Kane - _The Princess Bride_ 4. Tom Cruise - _Tropic Thunder_ 5. Bill Paxton - _True Lies_ 6. Alan Rickman - _Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves_ 7. Benicio Del Toro - _The Usual Suspects_ 8. Helen Hayes – _Airport_ (1970) 9. Una O’Connor in pretty much every movie she was in ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8171 "2025-06-08T23:15:16Z")
**MORE actors and actresses who play secondary characters but steal every scene they’re in!** 1. Patricia Hitchcock – _Strangers on a Train_ 2. Claude Rains - _Deception_ 3. Billy Crystal and Carol Kane - _The Princess Bride_ 4. Tom Cruise - _Tropic Thunder_ 5. Bill Paxton - _True Lies_ 6. Alan Rickman - _Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves_ 7. Benicio Del Toro - _The Usual Suspects_ 8. Helen Hayes – _Airport_ (1970) 9. Una O’Connor in pretty much every movie she was in 10. Randall “Tex” Cobb - _Raising Arizona_ 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:** [June 9, 2025, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8172 "2025-06-09T01:57:47Z")
**Manic Pixie Dream Girls** 1. Zooey Deschanel, _Yes Man_ And other films. ---
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**Manic Pixie Dream Girls** 1. Zooey Deschanel, _Yes Man_ 2. Katharine Hepburn, _Bringing Up Baby_ ---
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**Manic Pixie Dream Girls** 1. Zooey Deschanel, _Yes Man_ 2. Katharine Hepburn, _Bringing Up Baby_ 3. Michelle Meyrink, _Real Genius_ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8175 "2025-06-09T04:32:07Z")
**Manic Pixie Dream Girls** 1. Zooey Deschanel, _Yes Man_ 2. Katharine Hepburn, _Bringing Up Baby_ 3. Michelle Meyrink, _Real Genius_ 4. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, _Scott Pilgrim vs. the World_ ---
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**Manic Pixie Dream Girls** 1. Zooey Deschanel, _Yes Man_ 2. Katharine Hepburn, _Bringing Up Baby_ 3. Michelle Meyrink, _Real Genius_ 4. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, _Scott Pilgrim vs. the World_ 5. Natalie Portman, _Garden State_ ---
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**Manic Pixie Dream Girls** 1. Zooey Deschanel, _Yes Man_ 2. Katharine Hepburn, _Bringing Up Baby_ 3. Michelle Meyrink, _Real Genius_ 4. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, _Scott Pilgrim vs. the World_ 5. Natalie Portman, _Garden State_ 6. Evan Rachel Wood, _Barefoot_ ---
**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:** [June 9, 2025, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8178 "2025-06-09T14:17:33Z")
**Manic Pixie Dream Girls** 1. Zooey Deschanel, _Yes Man_ 2. Katharine Hepburn, _Bringing Up Baby_ 3. Michelle Meyrink, _Real Genius_ 4. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, _Scott Pilgrim vs. the World_ 5. Natalie Portman, _Garden State_ 6. Evan Rachel Wood, _Barefoot_ 7. Kirsten Dunst, _Elizabethtown_ Her character was the first thus described, by film critic Nathan Rabin in 2007. ---
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**Manic Pixie Dream Girls** 1. Zooey Deschanel, _Yes Man_ 2. Katharine Hepburn, _Bringing Up Baby_ 3. Michelle Meyrink, _Real Genius_ 4. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, _Scott Pilgrim vs. the World_ 5. Natalie Portman, _Garden State_ 6. Evan Rachel Wood, _Barefoot_ 7. Kirsten Dunst, _Elizabethtown_ 8. Malanie Griffith, _Something Wild_ ---
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**Manic Pixie Dream Girls** 1. Zooey Deschanel, _Yes Man_ 2. Katharine Hepburn, _Bringing Up Baby_ 3. Michelle Meyrink, _Real Genius_ 4. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, _Scott Pilgrim vs. the World_ 5. Natalie Portman, _Garden State_ 6. Evan Rachel Wood, _Barefoot_ 7. Kirsten Dunst, _Elizabethtown_ 8. Malanie Griffith, _Something Wild_ 9. Audrey Hepburn, _Breakfast at Tiffany’s_ ---
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**Manic Pixie Dream Girls** 1. Zooey Deschanel, _Yes Man_ 2. Katharine Hepburn, _Bringing Up Baby_ 3. Michelle Meyrink, _Real Genius_ 4. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, _Scott Pilgrim vs. the World_ 5. Natalie Portman, _Garden State_ 6. Evan Rachel Wood, _Barefoot_ 7. Kirsten Dunst, _Elizabethtown_ 8. Malanie Griffith, _Something Wild_ 9. Audrey Hepburn, _Breakfast at Tiffany’s_ 10. Goldie Hawn, _Butterflies are Free_ pass [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=408) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=410)