Thursday, May 9, 2024

Mystery actor

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That’s Johnny Roventini (“Call for Philip Morris”) in the background, above a display of upside-down Chesterfield packs. But who’s in the foreground?

I’ll drop a hint if one is needed, and brother, one is gonna be needed. (I’m typing like the 1940s.)

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A hint might help: In this movie, she’s a long way from Salzburg.

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Noon: I think this one’s ungettable. You’re still welcome to play, but I’ve put the answer in the comments.

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[Garner’s Modern English Usage notes that “support for actress seems to be eroding.” So I use actor.]

comments: 5

Michael Leddy said...

That’s Eleanor Parker (Baroness Elsa von Schraeder in The Sound of Music) as Norma, cashier at the magazine and tobacco counter, in Busses Roar (dir. D. Ross Lederman, 1942).

Fresca said...

Ha, is this Sound of music week (Christopher Plummer too)?

Michael Leddy said...

A bonus from random movie choices. Like Murder, She Wrote — you never know who might show up.

joecab said...

LOL after bragging about how much I've seen Sound of Music in your earlier post, I was completely stumped by this one!

Michael Leddy said...

But she is pretty much unrecognizable here.

More synchronicity: I forgot (but Elaine didn’t) that the main character in Nabokov’s Glory (in recent posts) is named Martin Edelweiss.