Another one with movie actors:
Robert Redford
Ronald Reagan
William Bendix
Anthony Perkins
Ray Liotta
Dan Dailey
Jimmy Stewart
Gary Cooper
Gary Cooper was Lou Gherig in The Pride of the Yankees
Jimmy Stewart was Monty Statton in The Stratton Story
Anthony Perkins was Jim Piersall in Fear Strikes Out
Ray Liotta was Shoeless Joe Jackson in *A Field of Dreams *
William Bendix was Babe Ruth in The Babe Ruth Story
Dan Dailey was Dizzy Dean in The Pride of St. Louis *
Ronald Reagon was Grover Cleveland Alexander in The Winning Team *
and
Robert Redford was Roy Hobbs in The Natural, the only fictional character
Correct. The only fictional baseball player role.
I didn’t see any recent ones still outstanding, so here’s one I think will be pretty easy, but I’ve thought that before…
Family Affair
Chico and the Man
Mork and Mindy
Suddenly Susan
South Park
Judging Amy
Rizzoli & Isles
Gone With the Wind
To Kill a Mockingbird
Catch-22
2001: A Space Odyssey
Hint: The answer has nothing to do with movies.
Didn’t notice the thread had been bumped. Let me work on this one for a bit.
Judging Amy
It took a bit of memory and a bit of poking around on the web.[spoiler]All the others had cast members who committed suicide; Brian Keith (Family Affair), Freddie Prinze (Chico and the Man), Robin Williams (Mork and Mindy), David Strickland (Suddenly Susan), Mary Kay Bergman (South Park), and Lee Thompson Young (Rizzoli & Isles). Richard Crenna died during the run of Judging Amy, but from natural causes; perhaps that’s why you used it as the odd man out.
I started by looking for actors who died while their show was still in production. That wasn’t it, but I knew I was on the right track.[/spoiler]
Yup. The red herring was Family Affair, because most people don’t know that Brian Keith died a suicide-- he was in the last stages of a painful cancer-- but they do remember Anissa Jones’ death, which was considered a possible suicide at the time, was eventually ruled accidental. I used a similar question for something else once before, and immediately had people arguing with me that Anissa Jones wasn’t a suicide.
[spoiler]Yeah, I started down that alley. Knew one of the kids from that show had died young, but didn’t remember the details. That wasn’t the red herring for me, though. I knew a few of them had lost cast members during their run, so I was poking around IMDb bios to see if any of the other shows had too. The aha moment was to think years after the shows had ended.
I had it narrowed down to Family Affair and Judging Amy, and I was composing a reply that said as much, then I remembered Brian Keith.[/spoiler]Excellent question; one of those where when you get the right answer you know it.
This one will probably be tough, but when you get it, you know you’ll have it. It’s very clear cut, and no, “this one sort of did this, which was kind of like that.” If no one gets it in 24 hours, I’ll provide a hint.
Doris Day
Jodie Foster
Kathryn Grayson
Anne Heche
Holly Hunter
Deborah Kerr
Maria Schell
Jane Wyman
Actually, here’s a small hint: fans of 1930s movies have an advantage.
It hasn’t been quite 24 hours, but here’s the hint: “I’ll see you in my dreams.”
This one probably needs another hint. The answer has to do with books, but is not in any of those books.
And a new one, should be easy:
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Graham Kerr
The Hambletonian Stakes
Red Grange
Does it have anything to do with the titles? Most of these books weren’t published under the author’s original suggestion, IIRC. Harper Lee wanted to call To Kill a Mockingbird “Atticus,” but the publisher said it was a mistake to focus too much on one person. Margaret Mitchell wanted to call Gone with the Wind “Tomorrow is Another Day,” the book’s last line, and it went through several titles before settling on GWTW. Catch-22 was “Catch-11,” but Ocean’s 11 had just come out, and the publisher wanted to avoid confusion. I don’t know about 2001. Maybe that’s the odd one out, in getting the author’s original title.
Not what I had in mind, but quite interesting.
Does the answer have anything to do with the titles at all?
ETA: I mean, there’s obvious, stupid stuff, like 2001 is the only one set in the future.
The answer has nothing to do with the titles.
I can’t really think of a better hint than what I’ve already given. I’ll keep trying.
The answer has nothing to do with the content of the books, or the titles, or the movies.
Is it the format? Was GWTW the only one originally published in hardback? Were the others originally issued as paperbacks, or something like that?
OK.
GWTW is the Odd One Out.
All the books had sequels written decades after the original, but Margaret Mitchell, being mercifully dead, knew nothing of the sequel to GWTW. The other sequels were all written by the authors of the original works.
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge – Galloping Gertie
Graham Kerr – The Galloping Gourmet
The Hambletonian Stakes – The Father of American Trotters
Red Grange – The Galloping Ghost
Correct.
When I thought of this question and did a little research, I discovered that there are two sequels to Gone With the Wind; Scarlett, done without the blessing of Mitchell’s estate, and Rhett Butler’s People, which was authorized.
Bumping this:
Doris Day
Jodie Foster
Kathryn Grayson
Anne Heche
Holly Hunter
Deborah Kerr
Maria Schell
Jane Wyman
Hint 1: fans of 1930s movies have an advantage.
Hint 2: “I’ll see you in my dreams.”