This is close to what I thought of, which is that no monarch in Great Britain has been named Michael.
Burt Lancaster
Clint Eastwood
Tim Robbins
Sean Connery
I have two possible answers in mind.
Sean Connery is the only one not born in the United States.
Burt Lancaster is the only one not alive.
Clint Eastwood is the only one who hasn’t won an Academy Award in an acting category.
Tim Robbins is the only one who doesn’t appear on AFI’s list of 100 Heroes and Villains. Eastwood and Connery show up as heroes (Dirty Harry and James Bond) and Lancaster shows up as a villain (J. J. Hunsecker). Robbins doesn’t show up at all, though he was nominated for playing Andy Dufresne.
Interesting, but those were neither of the answers I had in mind. It’s something much more specific; seems like you’ll know it when you see it. You were on the right track at the end.
Franklin halves were very much in circulation prior to 1964. Then the Kennedys replaced them, followed by discontinuation of silver coinage . . . resulting in Franklins disappearing from circulation PDQ.
Here’s an interesting set:
Hedy Lamarr
Lana Turner
Dolores del Río
Marlene Dietrich
Greta Garbo
Paulette Goddard.
The answer has nothing to do with their nationality – all six are from different countries.
Greta Garbo was the only one who wanted to be alone. Hedy Lamarr was the only one who was also a renowned inventor.
Stevie Wonder
Josh Groban
Andrea Bocelli
Elvis Presley
Babyface
Jason Gould
Lionel Richie
It’s supposed to be something that all the others have in common, not something that one of them has that is unique. Like, you can’t say “Lana Turner is the only one whose initials are LT”.
The answer to this one is given away in a current post in another game in the Thread Games subforum.
Four of the six women were described as superlatively beautiful. Not just “one of the more beautiful actresses in Hollywood” but true superlatives. For example Hedy Lamarr was called “the most beautiful woman in Europe” and later was known as “the most beautiful woman in the world.” The Guinness Book of World Records shows Greta Garbo as the “most beautiful woman who ever lived.” Marlene Dietrich held several superlatives including “had the most beautiful legs of all time” but Miss Dietrich herself called Dolores del Río “the most beautiful woman in Hollywood.”
The problem with this solution is that neither Lana Turner nor Paulette Goddard was notably homely. Miss Turner appears on the list of 20 most beautiful actresses from the classics, and one fan names his YouTube tribute to Miss Goddard “The Most Beautiful Movie Star.”
So I was going to go with Dolores del Río – all the others were either nominated for an Oscar or appear in the National Inventors Hall of Fame. (Miss Lamarr, BTW, had several inventions other than her famous radar anti-jamming method.)
I peeked. 
I thought it might be something like that, but felt it might be tedious to unravel.
Garbo is the only one who never married. Dietrich married once, the rest multiple times.
I’m thinking it may have to do with how their acting careers had begun. Like how many had been on stage, or in silents?
Since this is one you would never get unless you stumbled across the list, here’s the answer:
All except Lana Turner were openly known to have had an affair with German author Erich Maria Remarque (“All Quiet on the Western Front”).
This one should be straightforward. :rolleyes:
Catherine Carey
Edward of Woodstock ‘the Black Prince’
James Stuart ‘the Old Pretender’
John of Gaunt
King Henry VIII
Queen Victoria
Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa, German Empress
Glenn is the only one that went around more than once.
In two senses. On his first trip (1962) he made three orbits before returning.
He returned to space in 1998, the oldest man in space. I’m presuming STS-95 orbited multiple times, but I’m not certain.
All the others did it only once.
Or not at all.
Time for a hint, I suppose. bibliophage was on the right track when he mentioned that Robbins played Andy Dufresne. That character is relevant to the answer.
Ahhh.
Four movies about prison, all but one about Alcatraz.
Burt Lancaster was The Birdman of Alcatraz.
Sean Connery was in The Rock.
Clint Eastwood was in Escape from Alcatraz.
Tim Robbins was in Shawshank Redemption.
OR
With the same 4 movies, they all escaped from prison except Burt Lancaster? The Rock was not about the escape, but Sean Connery had previously escaped from Alcatraz.
Yes, and not only about Alcatraz, but with Alcatraz (or its nickname) in the title. Could have used Ed Harris or Nicholas Cage from The Rock, but Connery’s character was the one who’d actually been a prisoner there, so I went with that.
Clint Eastwood went to Alcatraz twice, in Escape From Alcatraz and at the end of The Enforcer (the third in the Dirty Harry series). Never could quite turn that into a trivia question, but it is interesting.
And that’s the other answer I had in mind. Well done.