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I remember watching an episode of Pointless Celebrities. It was episode 15 of series 6 and the celebrities had connections with food among them were Jay Rayner. The two who got through to the final were Sean Wilson (who had become a cheese maker) and Emma Kennedy who had been a winner of Celebrity Masterchef.

 

The final question was to name a film made by any of Katherine Hepburn, Jack Nicholson or Marlon Brando for which they were nominated for an Oscar (so not necessarily win an Oscar).

 

The three films they came up with were Bringing Up Baby (Katherine Hepburn), On Golden Pond (also Katherine Hepburn) and Chinatown (Marlon Brando).

Good sensible answers but no pointless ones. Chinatown had 1. Bringing Up Baby wasn't right as although a very good film and starred Katherine Hepburn, she didn't get an Oscar Nomination. On Golden Pond was correct but 11 people had given that as an answer.

 

Of course, me being a bit of a film buff, this was my sort of question and I got two pointless answers, Films which many people wouldn't have heard of. Viva Zapata! was one of them (not that I've ever seen it as it's of no interest to me). The other one was the 1933 film Morning Glory with Katherine Hepburn. That is a film I've seen. A young aspiring actress arrives on the Broadway scene, she's taken under the wing of a number of theatre veterans who mentor her to success. It's a rather stagey film, and the male actors don't come across that well. But Katherine Hepburn, in a very early film for her, does have some memorable scenes such as her performing as Juliet (from Romeo and Juliet) at a party whilst she's intoxicated.

 

Her final scene is with her dresser (Helen Ware). The range of emotions Katherine Hepburn goes through in quite a short scene is remarkable and is why she justly won the Oscar. If the film as a whole was as good as that final scene it would rank as one of the greatest films made. Sadly it's not. I could post a clip of that final scene but as the events leading to it aren't there it would be out of context.

El Loro
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