1. Runs. Loves opera. Stays at the airport.
Solved by Christina (comment#1).
2. Flirts with the king. Is married to the head of the Secret Service. Is a nun.
1956, 1967, 1947
TIE: Solved by Hazel (comment #18) and Melville (comment #19).
3. Has trouble eating breakfast. Sells wands. Is arrested naked.
Solved by Bill (comment #8).
4. Dances. Is a famous author. Investigates a power plant.
Solved by Melville (comment #11).
5. Loses his memory. Strikes back. Is a beggar.
1942, 1934, 1944
Solved by Melville (comment #19).
6. Writes plays. Marries the mob. La-de-da.
TIE: Solved by Ben (comment #5) and Bill (comment #6).
7. Is a poet. Is stalked. Avenges Israel.
Solved by Christina (comment#14).
#1 is Tom Hanks. #2 is Jodie Foster?
I think #7 is Geoffrey Rush, but that’s more of a guess than anything.
#1 is correct.
Is #6 Michelle Pfeiffer?
#6 is Diane Keaton. I think Shoot the Moon was the playwriting movie. She married the mob in the Godfather movies. La-de-da was Annie Hall’s catchphrase.
#6 is Diane Keaton.
Ben and Bill tie. The rest of the guesses are wrong. Something’s Gotta Give is the playwright movie.
I was late on #6, but perhaps I’ll get #3: John Hurt?
Bill, you totally get credit on #6; you both clock in at 12:08. And you’re right about #3.
The playwriting one for Diane Keaton was ‘As Good As It Gets’ w/ Jack Nicholson.
#4 is Jane Fonda (They Shoot Horses Don’t They, Julia, The China Syndrome)
Christina, Diane Keaton wasn’t in As Good As It Gets. You’re thinking of Something’s Gotta Give.
Having gotten credit for #3 (based on the “sells wands” clue = Ollivander in “Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone”), it took me a while to figure out that “Has trouble eating breakfast” = “Alien”. Is “Is arrested naked” from “Love and Death on Long Island” or from “1984”?
Gah! Yes. I didn’t care for either!
#7 is Daniel Craig (Sylvia, that balloon movie with the roommate from Notting Hill, Munich)
#5 is Harrison Ford (Regarding Henry, The Empire Strikes Back, not sure)
#5 is not Harrison Ford. The balloon movie is Enduring Love.
#2 is Deborah Kerr: The King and I, Casino Royale and (one of my favourite films) Black Narcissus (or Heaven Knows, Mr Allison)
# 2 is Deborah Kerr (The King and I, Casino Royale, Black Narcissus)
# 5 is Ronald Colman (Random Harvest, Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back [had to IMDB that one], Kismet)
Is #2 Ingrid Berman?
For some reason my answer to #2 was being held in moderation (though I have posted here before) and I’m definitely right now you’ve posted dates.
Sorry about the moderation glitch. No idea why that happens.
Bill, arrested naked is 1984.
Hazel got #2 before the hint went up. Melville couldn’t have known that, so I’ll credit it as a tie; he answered in good faith.
No problem. I thought I had broken your website when there were no replies after mine.
Deb, couple of corrections:
Christina’s answer for #7 is #15, not #14.
La-di-da is misspelled.
The numbers all moved when I restored the missing comments that were stuck in moderation.
And I believe there are multiple possible spellings for la-de-dah. One of which has “fuck” in the middle.