# 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:** 453
**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:** [September 20, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9042 "2025-09-20T15:55:23Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > **Movies with actors in clown makeup and/or costumes** 1. Bill Murray - _Quick Change_ 2. Sterling Hayden - _The Killing_ 3. Roger Moore - _Octopussy_ 4. Bill Skarsgård - _It Chapter One_ 5. Heath Ledger - _The Dark Knight_ 6. David Howard Thornton - _Terrifier_ 7. James Stewart - _The Greatest Show On Earth_ 8. Charlie Chaplin- _Limelight_ 9. Bobcat Goldthwait - _Shakes the Clown_ 10. Jean-Louis Barrault - _Children of Paradise_ [_Les Enfants du Paradis_] We’d probably call Barrault’s character a mime in the US, but he’s a Pierrot clown, and a US circus clown is referred to by the same word. Interesting no women examples, since IRL, most working clowns (professional & amateur) are women. NEXT is **Women in roles such as clowns, that they rarely play in movies, even though they play them in life all the time** Use your imagination. No sincere entry rejected. 1. Giulietta Masina as a clown in _La Strada_ ---
**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:** [September 20, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9043 "2025-09-20T15:56:46Z")
Hmm. Ninja’d. Well, since Mike\_H passed, I guess I’ll let mine stand. ---
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**Women in roles such as clowns, that they rarely play in movies, even though they play them in life all the time** Use your imagination. No sincere entry rejected. 1. Giulietta Masina as a clown in _La Strada_ 2. Clara Bow in _Dangerous Curves_ She portrays a circus bareback rider, but wears a clown costume in some scenes (IIRC). ---
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**Women in roles such as clowns, that they rarely play in movies, even though they play them in life all the time** Use your imagination. No sincere entry rejected. 1. Giulietta Masina as a clown in _La Strada_ 2. Clara Bow in _Dangerous Curves_ 3. Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn in _Joker: Folie à Deux_ This was the only female clown role I could think of for the previous topic. ---
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**Women in roles such as clowns, that they rarely play in movies, even though they play them in life all the time** Use your imagination. No sincere entry rejected. 1. Giulietta Masina as a clown in _La Strada_ 2. Clara Bow in _Dangerous Curves_ 3. Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn in _Joker: Folie à Deux_ 4. Sally Ann Howes in _Chitty Chitty Bang Bang_ In the big music box scene. ---
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**Women in roles such as clowns, that they rarely play in movies, even though they play them in life all the time** Use your imagination. No sincere entry rejected. 1. Giulietta Masina as a clown in _La Strada_ 2. Clara Bow in _Dangerous Curves_ 3. Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn in _Joker: Folie à Deux_ 4. Sally Ann Howes in _Chitty Chitty Bang Bang_ 5. Natalie Wood as Daisy Clover in _Inside Daisy Clover_ Is made up as a clown when filming the musical number “The Circus Is a Wacky World” ---
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> [@themapleleaf](#): > > **Women in roles such as clowns, that they rarely play in movies, even though they play them in life all the time** Use your imagination. No sincere entry rejected. > > 1. Giulietta Masina as a clown in _La Strada_ > 2. Clara Bow in _Dangerous Curves_ > 3. Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn in _Joker: Folie à Deux_ > 4. Sally Ann Howes in _Chitty Chitty Bang Bang_ > 5. Natalie Wood as Daisy Clover in _Inside Daisy Clover_ > 6. Linda Miller as female janitor in _17 again_. Yes this is a very deep cut but she is the only female janitor I could find. A fair number of cleaning ladies or maids, but no stand alone, wandering the school halls with a garbage can and a mop janitors. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2025, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9049 "2025-09-22T12:50:53Z")
**Women in roles such as clowns, that they rarely play in movies, even though they play them in life all the time** Use your imagination. No sincere entry rejected. 1. Giulietta Masina as a clown in _La Strada_ 2. Clara Bow in _Dangerous Curves_ 3. Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn in _Joker: Folie à Deux_ 4. Sally Ann Howes in _Chitty Chitty Bang Bang_ 5. Natalie Wood as Daisy Clover in _Inside Daisy Clover_ 6. Linda Miller as female janitor in _17 again_. 7. Candice De Visser as Dollface in _The Funhouse Massacre_ ---
**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:** [September 26, 2025, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9050 "2025-09-26T19:27:50Z")
**Women in roles such as clowns, that they rarely play in movies, even though they play them in life all the time** Use your imagination. No sincere entry rejected. 1. Giulietta Masina as a clown in _La Strada_ 2. Clara Bow in _Dangerous Curves_ 3. Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn in _Joker: Folie à Deux_ 4. Sally Ann Howes in _Chitty Chitty Bang Bang_ 5. Natalie Wood as Daisy Clover in _Inside Daisy Clover_ 6. Linda Miller as female janitor in _17 again_. 7. Candice De Visser as Dollface in _The Funhouse Massacre_ 8. Christina Appelgate as President Diane Steene in _Mafia!_ ---
**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:** [September 28, 2025, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9051 "2025-09-28T02:19:55Z")
**Women in roles such as clowns, that they rarely play in movies, even though they play them in life all the time** Use your imagination. No sincere entry rejected. 1. Giulietta Masina as a clown in _La Strada_ 2. Clara Bow in _Dangerous Curves_ 3. Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn in _Joker: Folie à Deux_ 4. Sally Ann Howes in _Chitty Chitty Bang Bang_ 5. Natalie Wood as Daisy Clover in _Inside Daisy Clover_ 6. Linda Miller as female janitor in _17 again_. 7. Candice De Visser as Dollface in _The Funhouse Massacre_ 8. Christina Appelgate as President Diane Steene in _Mafia!_ 9. Kate Gunzinger as Mathematics professor Jill Clayburgh in _It’s My Turn_ ---
**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:** [September 29, 2025, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9052 "2025-09-29T22:55:44Z")
> [@](#): > > **Women in roles such as clowns, that they rarely play in movies, even though they play them in life all the time** Use your imagination. No sincere entry rejected. 1. Giulietta Masina as a clown in _La Strada_ 2. Clara Bow in _Dangerous Curves_ 3. Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn in _Joker: Folie à Deux_ 4. Sally Ann Howes in _Chitty Chitty Bang Bang_ 5. Natalie Wood as Daisy Clover in _Inside Daisy Clover_ 6. Linda Miller as female janitor in _17 again_. 7. Candice De Visser as Dollface in _The Funhouse Massacre_ 8. Christina Appelgate as President Diane Steene in _Mafia!_ 9. Kate Gunzinger as Mathematics professor Jill Clayburgh in _It’s My Turn_ 10. Let’s get this category done! Sanitation workers in the US are almost 20% women, and the number keeps rising due to active recruitment, but I could not find _a single non-documentary US film_ with a woman sanitation worker. I did find a Brazilian one called _Long Way Home_ from 2018. Grace Passô plays the lead. PASS!!! ---
**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:** [September 29, 2025, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9053 "2025-09-29T22:57:43Z")
Next: **Films About Visual Artists** 1. Frida (2002; about painter Frida Kahlo) ---
**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:** [September 29, 2025, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9054 "2025-09-29T23:04:08Z")
> [@](#): > > **Films About Visual Artists** 1. Frida (2002; about painter Frida Kahlo) 2. Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? (woman tries to prove that painting she bought at thrift store is an authentic Pollack) it probably is ---
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**Films About Visual Artists** 1. Frida (2002; about painter Frida Kahlo) 2. Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? (woman tries to prove that painting she bought at thrift store is an authentic Pollack) it probably is 3. The Agony and the Ecstacy (1965; about Michelangelo painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel) ---
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**Films About Visual Artists** 1. Frida (2002; about painter Frida Kahlo) 2. Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? (woman tries to prove that painting she bought at thrift store is an authentic Pollack) it probably is 3. The Agony and the Ecstacy (1965; about Michelangelo painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel) 4. Andrei Rublev (1966; about the Russian painter) ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9057 "2025-09-30T01:55:59Z")
**Films About Visual Artists** 1. Frida (2002; about painter Frida Kahlo) 2. Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? (woman tries to prove that painting she bought at thrift store is an authentic Pollack) 3. The Agony and the Ecstacy (1965; about Michelangelo painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel) 4. Andrei Rublev (1966; about the Russian painter) 5. Color Me Blood Red (1965; about an “artist” who kills people to use their blood to make paint) ---
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**Films About Visual Artists** 1. Frida (2002; about painter Frida Kahlo) 2. Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? (woman tries to prove that painting she bought at thrift store is an authentic Pollack) 3. The Agony and the Ecstacy (1965; about Michelangelo painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel) 4. Andrei Rublev (1966; about the Russian painter) 5. Color Me Blood Red (1965; about an “artist” who kills people to use their blood to make paint) 6. The Illustrated Man (1969; a man searches for the mysterious woman who covered his entire body in tattoos) ---
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**Films About Visual Artists** 1. Frida (2002; about painter Frida Kahlo) 2. Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? (woman tries to prove that painting she bought at thrift store is an authentic Pollack) 3. The Agony and the Ecstacy (1965; about Michelangelo painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel) 4. Andrei Rublev (1966; about the Russian painter) 5. Color Me Blood Red (1965; about an “artist” who kills people to use their blood to make paint) 6. The Illustrated Man (1969; a man searches for the mysterious woman who covered his entire body in tattoos) 7. At Eternity’s Gate (2018; about Vincent van Gogh) ---
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**Films About Visual Artists** 1. Frida (2002; about painter Frida Kahlo) 2. Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? (woman tries to prove that painting she bought at thrift store is an authentic Pollack) 3. The Agony and the Ecstacy (1965; about Michelangelo painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel) 4. Andrei Rublev (1966; about the Russian painter) 5. Color Me Blood Red (1965; about an “artist” who kills people to use their blood to make paint) 6. The Illustrated Man (1969; a man searches for the mysterious woman who covered his entire body in tattoos) 7. At Eternity’s Gate (2018; about Vincent van Gogh) 8. The Horse’s Mouth (1958; Alec Guinness at his understated comedic best as a struggling, and strange, painter.) ---
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**Films About Visual Artists** 1. Frida (2002; about painter Frida Kahlo) 2. Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? (woman tries to prove that painting she bought at thrift store is an authentic Pollack) 3. The Agony and the Ecstacy (1965; about Michelangelo painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel) 4. Andrei Rublev (1966; about the Russian painter) 5. Color Me Blood Red (1965; about an “artist” who kills people to use their blood to make paint) 6. The Illustrated Man (1969; a man searches for the mysterious woman who covered his entire body in tattoos) 7. At Eternity’s Gate (2018; about Vincent van Gogh) 8. The Horse’s Mouth (1958; Alec Guinness at his understated comedic best as a struggling, and strange, painter.) 9. Big Eyes (2014, about Margaret Keane) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=452) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=454)