Movies that came out your birth year

[MHarrigan82]

What are your favorite movies that came out your birth year. My birth year was 1982

Favorite movies that came out that year

48 Hours
TRON
ET
Star Trek 2 Wrath of Khan
Rocky 3
Conan the Barbarian.

[Chaos]

Hmmm....

http://www.imdb.com/year/1972/

There ya' go!

[TS Evelyn Summers]

The Year is 1982....


An Officer & a Gentleman .....Steals Hearts EVERYWHERE ;)

<3

[Dino Velvet]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-q-Wa-i2jH8I/UPF30726aRI/AAAAAAAAFjc/k5jzNDd4b2Q/s1600/torturechamberdrsadismvhs.jpg

[Willie Escalade]

1976...the first one that popped into my head was "All The President's Men"...

Then there's Kansas City Trucking Company (oh, HELL no!), Logan's Run, The Omen, Rocky, Silent Movie, Silver Streak, The Smurfs & The Magic Flute (still love that), Taxi Driver (you talking to ME?)...

Other than that...
Category:1976 films - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1976_films)

[maxpower]

The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
Fantastic Voyage
Batman (Adam West)

[francisfkudrow]

The Aristocats, M*A*S*H, Myra Breckinridge, Patton, They Call Me Mister Tibbs, and Tora! Tora! Tora!

[Prospero]

The next James Bond film.

[TempestTS]

They didnt have movies back in my birth year - stone carvings and a few clay tablets sure... but no movies

[RallyCola]

http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/year/1978

http://www.imdb.com/year/1978/

I'd have to go with Superman

[Prospero]

The Horse In Motion (1878)

[robertlouis]

The Horse In Motion (1878)

You beat me to it. I was going to nominate L'Arrivee d'un Train en Gare de La Ciotat, the Lumiere brothers' sensation from 1896.

[dafame]

The Omen '76 (this is actually where my first name came from)

[Stavros]

In the year in which I was born the daughter of a famous director who was in his prime, was murdered; a woman from Darjeeling caught a bus that ended in golden glory; and Gloria Swanson was probably robbed.

[BellaBellucci]

1979 in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_in_film)

~BB~

[Prospero]

Stavros' posting sounds like a quiz question... off to Wikepedia everyone

[robertlouis]

Stavros' posting sounds like a quiz question... off to Wikepedia everyone

Sound like one of those gnomic portmanteau questions from Round Britain Quiz on Radio 4!

[Willie Escalade]

in the year in which i was born the daughter of a famous director who was in his prime, was murdered; a woman from darjeeling caught a bus that ended in golden glory; and gloria swanson was probably robbed.
1950? 1964??

[robertlouis]

1950? 1964??

Think back to the very birth of cinema, Willie, when Hollywood was just a glint in a realtor's eye.....

[Prospero]

Marlene Dietrich - Falling in love again (1930) Video - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaZDiKRT1is)

[Instrumental]

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Aliens
Platoon
Top Gun

Some pretty boss shit.

[RallyCola]

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Aliens
Platoon
Top Gun

Some pretty boss shit.

not the threadjack but....Aliens > Alien and Top Gun was great. So again, I say, because of those 2 facts and that Prometheus ruined an otherwise good series for me....the wrong Scott killed himself

[Jericho]

The 300 Spartans
Birdman of Alcatraz
Cape Fear
Dr. No
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Jack The Giant Killer

[Willie Escalade]

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Aliens
Platoon
Top Gun

Some pretty boss shit.
1986...one of my favorite years. Quite a few of my favorite movies - as well as songs - were released that year.


The 300 Spartans
Birdman of Alcatraz
Cape Fear
Dr. No
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Jack The Giant Killer
1962!

[Stavros]

1950? 1964??

Nope, and Nope, Willie. Maybe if I do win the lottery I should buy you a new hat...?

[Jericho]

1962!

Know your film years!

[be2378]

My year had Grease, Aminal House, Superman, Hallowen, and Lord of the Rings (cartoon).

[BellaBellucci]

my year had grease, aminal house, superman, hallowen, and lord of the rings (cartoon).

Was it 1978?

We should really make this a guessing game. :lol:

~BB~

[be2378]

Was it 1978?

We should really make this a guessing game. :lol:

~BB~

Yeppers.

[sukumvit boy]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-q-Wa-i2jH8I/UPF30726aRI/AAAAAAAAFjc/k5jzNDd4b2Q/s1600/torturechamberdrsadismvhs.jpg

That would be 1967.
http://www.doomedmoviethon.com/reviews/169torturechamber.htm

[robertlouis]

All I will say is that it hasn't been the same since they took the Wurlitzers out of the pit at the front and put that weird sound equipment in......

[sukumvit boy]

In the year in which I was born the daughter of a famous director who was in his prime, was murdered; a woman from Darjeeling caught a bus that ended in golden glory; and Gloria Swanson was probably robbed.

1951. Gloria Swanson should have won the Best Actor for Sunset Boulevard

[robertlouis]

1951. Gloria Swanson should have won the Best Actor for Sunset Boulevard

She wasn't nominated.

[sukumvit boy]

http://whatculture.com/film/10-performances-that-should-have-won-best-acting-oscar.php

still trying to find out when the murder ocurred.

[fred41]

In the year in which I was born the daughter of a famous director who was in his prime, was murdered; a woman from Darjeeling caught a bus that ended in golden glory; and Gloria Swanson was probably robbed.

I would've guessed 1951...since that's when Vivien Leigh (born in Darjeeling) won her 2nd Oscar for "A Streetcar Named Desire"...possibly robbing Gloria Swanson for her 1950 film "Sunset Boulevard"....but I couldn't find a director's daughter being murdered. Alfred Hitchcock did have a daughter in a 1951 "murder" movie - "Strangers on a Train"...but she wasn't the victim in the movie.

Back to the drawing board.

[Stavros]

Ouch! Because of the 'doubles' theme in Strangers on a Train, and the fact that I haven't see it for a while, I mistook Miriam for Barbara although there is supposed to be a connection ("His hands were on her neck, but he was strangling me." as Barbara says after the party scene) -so I guess I was being 'liberal' with the descriptions. Otherwise, yes, Gloria Swanson was robbed of an Oscar, Vivien Leigh won an Oscar for Streetcar, and someone resembling the actress daughter of Alfie was murdered on screen...and the actor who played Bruno in Alfie's film, died at the age of 32 from a bad reaction to drugs administered to soothe a panic attack...

[bulldog]

1986, my favorite movie of all time is Top Gun.

[fred41]

Ouch! Because of the 'doubles' theme in Strangers on a Train, and the fact that I haven't see it for a while, I mistook Miriam for Barbara although there is supposed to be a connection ("His hands were on her neck, but he was strangling me." as Barbara says after the party scene) -so I guess I was being 'liberal' with the descriptions. .....

lol...I'm not even going to tell you how much extra time that little oopsy caused me on the internet just to double and triple check other avenues...after all,you could have been way older than I thought. The key years were 1927,1930, 1939 and 1951...with '51 having the only seeming tie in with a play on words with murder...I was even checking if any directors had daughters die in the holocaust...
..the nerd factoid I got out of this was that Robert Walker (Bruno) was the father of Robert Walker Jr...He's the one every true blue Star Trek fan remembers as " Charlie"...the skinny kid who rolls his eyes up into his head to make bad shit happen on the Enterprise.

Thanks for the puzzle. Glad to hear you're younger than my father after all. :)

[fred41]

"Charlie" doesn't like mistakes:

[Stavros]

Never heard of Charlie but then I have avoided Star Trek since it started. And for the record, I am not in the Departure Lounge...as far as I know...

[fred41]

Never heard of Charlie but then I have avoided Star Trek since it started. And for the record, I am not in the Departure Lounge...as far as I know...

Glad to hear it....might be a good idea to keep an AED unit around though.

[Jericho]

So...We've established Stavros is older than dirt?

[Willie Escalade]

"Charlie" doesn't like mistakes:

Is it Charlie from Flowers for Algernon? Back in 1968?

[Prospero]

Stavros is, indeed, the grand old man of Hung Angels and deserves respect!

[Stavros]

Hmm but I think Hippifried is the same age, and there was (on another board) an active 75+ year old, so I still have years to go before Jericho can do nasty things with my ashes -assuming he doesnt cop it first!

[fred41]

Is it Charlie from Flowers for Algernon? Back in 1968?

no Willie,that post applies to the one I made right before it ...

...but speaking of "no"..Dr.No came out during my birth year.

[Jericho]

assuming he doesnt cop it first!

Only if i win the lottery, Granddad!

[Stavros]

No worries, son, just make sure you don't forget your eminence grise...

[Jack59]

Ben-Hur, North by Northwest, Some Like It Hot, Rio Bravo

[Vladimir Putin]

These five movies were playing in theaters when I was born.

"Dr. No"

http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/q749/transfan1/Dr_No_zps0a7970e8.jpg

"Lawrence of Arabia"

http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/q749/transfan1/Lawrence_Arabia_zps75f45dba.jpg

"Mutiny on the Bounty"

http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/q749/transfan1/Mutiny_Bounty_zpsc1a89f55.jpg

"The Manchurian Candidate"

http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/q749/transfan1/The_Manchurian_Candidate_zps0481e9c9.jpg

"To Kill a Mockingbird"

http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/q749/transfan1/To_Kill_Mockingbird_zpsc2796f4e.jpg

[Willie Escalade]

Ben-Hur, North by Northwest, Some Like It Hot, Rio Bravo
1959 :banana:

[builtstrong21]

The Odd Couple 1968
http://lh6.ggpht.com/ivan1087/SAfhXAxqFFI/AAAAAAAACFI/6p-bjhTh3lg/s1600/the%20odd%20couple%201968%20soundtrack.jpg

[Jack59]

1959 :banana:


Yup. Last year of the baby boom.

[Amber Littlefeather]

Carrie, Taxi Driver,Rocky -1976

[sukumvit boy]

In the year of my birth, this film,about a guy who couldn't make up his mind,swept the awards in Hollywood and Venice.
The actor would later be interred beside some of the people he portrayed.

[Stavros]

In the year of my birth, this film,about a guy who couldn't make up his mind,swept the awards in Hollywood and Venice.
The actor would later be interred beside some of the people he portrayed.

Must be Hamlet (194-eight) directed by and starring Laurence Olivier, however while it won the Grand International Prize at the Venice Film Festival in the year of its release (since 1949 the prize has been called the Golden Lion); the Oscars for best film, best actor, best b&w costume design, and best art direction in b&w were awarded at the 1949 ceremony. Olivier is interred in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey.

[timid1]

Zulu, Mary Poppins , Goldfinger , Fistful of Dollars and My Fair Lady ...... love Audrey Hepburn !

[Jericho]

No worries, son, just make sure you don't forget your eminence grise...

I prefer silicon, myself.

[Willie Escalade]

Zulu, Mary Poppins , Goldfinger , Fistful of Dollars and My Fair Lady ...... love Audrey Hepburn !
The same year many people choose of the Chevrolet Impala to turn into a lowrider...1964!

[sukumvit boy]

Must be Hamlet (194-eight) directed by and starring Laurence Olivier, however while it won the Grand International Prize at the Venice Film Festival in the year of its release (since 1949 the prize has been called the Golden Lion); the Oscars for best film, best actor, best b&w costume design, and best art direction in b&w were awarded at the 1949 ceremony. Olivier is interred in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey.

Right on Stavros,1948 it is! " Hamlet" won Best Picture and Sir Laurence Olivier Best Actor. Yes,his ashes were interred in Poet's Corner,Westminster Abbey,along with the Royals including Henry V,who he portrayed.
Hey, I like these puzzle posts,hope we can do more. But yours was much more challenging.

[Stavros]

Right on Stavros,1948 it is! " Hamlet" won Best Picture and Sir Laurence Olivier Best Actor. Yes,his ashes were interred in Poet's Corner,Westminster Abbey,along with the Royals including Henry V,who he portrayed.
Hey, I like these puzzle posts,hope we can do more. But yours was much more challenging.

Ok then, here are two:

1) The theme is elocution lessons and the answer is the name of two actors and the film they appeared in, one of the most admired films of the last 60 years.

The elder one was born with a thick cockney accent which he got rid of, eventually giving elocution lessons at RADA to one of the most revered actors of the 20th century, who remarked that his teacher had been an influence on him, but that he believed he had failed at acting and emigrated to America. The younger one recalls in his memoirs the elocution lessons he had at RADA where he had to learn how to say Two Ghosts Sat on Posts Drinking Toasts To Their Hosts...

2) What actor is linked with the first play by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway, the role of Han Solo in Star Wars, and a film by Ingmar Bergman...?

[fred41]

Stavros-The first is Claude Rains and Peter O'Toole in:" Lawrence of Arabia" (another film that came out during my birth year)

[Stavros]

Wow! Brilliant! I thought it was google proof, which suggests you have read some books....Rains was born in south London and tutored Sir John Gielgud at RADA who is alleged to have said of Rains : 'He was a great influence on me. I don't know what happened to him. I think he failed and went to America'. O'Toole refers to the elocution lessons he had at RADA in the first volume of his memoirs Loitering With Intent...

[fred41]

Wow! Brilliant! I thought it was google proof, which suggests you have read some books....Rains was born in south London and tutored Sir John Gielgud at RADA who is alleged to have said of Rains : 'He was a great influence on me. I don't know what happened to him. I think he failed and went to America'. O'Toole refers to the elocution lessons he had at RADA in the first volume of his memoirs Loitering With Intent...

I'm not as well read as you might think...it stopped being google proof when you included the quote "Two Ghosts Sat on Posts Drinking Toasts To Their Hosts..."

after that you can just work in reverse:Lawrence of Arabia fit the the bill...and so on...

[fred41]

Oh and the actor in the second puzzle is Glynn Turman, who was in the broadway production of"A Raisin in the Sun"...was considered for the part of Han Solo and played a role in Ingmar Bergman's film -"The Serpent's Egg".

[Stavros]

Hmph! I did google it first and it didn't come up, maybe it was Google UK or something. Never mind. And yes, Glynn Turman, who was also married to Aretha Frankling for a few years, and was Mayor Royce in The Wire. How did you get that one, from the Raisin in the Sun reference? I will have to think of something more obscure and google-proof in the future!

[fred41]

Hmph! I did google it first and it didn't come up, maybe it was Google UK or something. Never mind. And yes, Glynn Turman, who was also married to Aretha Frankling for a few years, and was Mayor Royce in The Wire. How did you get that one, from the Raisin in the Sun reference? I will have to think of something more obscure and google-proof in the future!

That took a while,but it shouldn't have...I'll explain:
The Raisin in the Sun reference was easy,most people older than 30 should know that one, but the problem is that Glynn Turman, though he has a huge body of work...isn't exactly a household name...not like Sidney Poitier for instance.
With the Han Solo reference I was pretty sure it had to be someone that got turned down for the part ..or was considered, but his name didn't immediately pop up for that either...and Ingmar Bergman? Probably most Americans, myself included, think that Max Von Sydow and Liv Ullmann were the only two thespians in all his movies...lol.
So it was an interesting head scratcher for quite a while....but it shouldn't have been, for if you simply google - 'raisin in the sun' along with 'han solo' you will find the answer.
Love this stuff though...the internet is a wonderful tool...and so are your brain teasers. Please keep them up when you have the time Stavros.

[Stavros]

Ok, two more. For the first one I am prepared if there is no progress, to offer a clue.

1) Before you start with the number, think of another, say 30 -but 'on the square' rather than 'squared'; then move to a mysterious woman called Myra, before discovering that he was at one time -in a sense, still is- Mae West's neighbour.
-Who is he?

2) An Hungarian Jew, and Hans from Belfast (who learned some of his trade with John Ford) failed to make a film that, when made by the son of Quakers from Croydon, became one of the highest rated films in history.
-What is the film?

[fred41]

a real puzzle...should be fun.
The second one can be found with a couple of minutes of research - I'll P.M.you the answer so as not to ruin it.

[Stavros]

There has to be a degree of difficulty without making a teaser impossible, but I thought I had gone through enough hoops to make no 2 harder than you are making out -or you just know more about films than most people! Or I should stop making them so damn easy!

[fred41]

There has to be a degree of difficulty without making a teaser impossible, but I thought I had gone through enough hoops to make no 2 harder than you are making out -or you just know more about films than most people! Or I should stop making them so damn easy!

It has nothing to do with hard or easy.
If you got my P.M...you'll know that along with the right answer...I originally was on a slightly wrong track...... but had to get it right, eventually. Search engines,given enough information can often provide the answer to most anything . I didn't post the answer here because I figured someone who studied films as a hobby or as an educational course....or who just happened to know the answer from personal experiences in their lives might enjoy giving the answer by simply knowing it.
Since that hasn't happened yet - I will simply state:
Google: son of Quakers from Croydon...director

..and work from there.

[fred41]

Number one is another beast altogether...I have guesses...but guesses are just that.

[Stavros]

It has nothing to do with hard or easy.
If you got my P.M...you'll know that along with the right answer...I originally was on a slightly wrong track...... but had to get it right, eventually. Search engines,given enough information can often provide the answer to most anything . I didn't post the answer here because I figured someone who studied films as a hobby or as an educational course....or who just happened to know the answer from personal experiences in their lives might enjoy giving the answer by simply knowing it.
Since that hasn't happened yet - I will simply state:
Google: son of Quakers from Croydon...director

..and work from there.

Ah..I was not sure how much info to throw in about that son of Quakers, it was always the weak link anyway -did not get a PM by the way.

[Stavros]

Ok, two more. For the first one I am prepared if there is no progress, to offer a clue.

1) Before you start with the number, think of another, say 30 -but 'on the square' rather than 'squared'; then move to a mysterious woman called Myra, before discovering that he was at one time -in a sense, still is- Mae West's neighbour.
-Who is he?

2) An Hungarian Jew, and Hans from Belfast (who learned some of his trade with John Ford) failed to make a film that, when made by the son of Quakers from Croydon, became one of the highest rated films in history.
-What is the film?

In the last 3 days Fred41 has correctly identified No 2) as Lawrence of Arabia:
Sir Alexander Korda (by origin an Hungarian Jew) planned to make a film about Lawrence around 1937, and commissioned Brian Hurst (christened Hans in his native Belfast; who learned some of his craft from John Ford in Hollywood) to direct it. The British Government objected on various grounds, mostly ones of security in the areas in which the filming was to take place -Palestine and southern TransJordan. There is a file on this in the National Archive in Kew in London, either Foreign Office or Colonial Office, I can't recall although I have seen it and did make notes on it at the time.

David Lean, who did make the famous film, was the son of Quakers, born in Croydon, a lesson to me not to make these things so easy!

[Stavros]

Number one is another beast altogether...I have guesses...but guesses are just that.

You are on the right track, so before wrapping this up I am prepared to offer a clue that ought to clinch it: think of one of the best selling albums of all time and you ought to see your way through to the answer...

[HeteroWithATwist]

Once upaon a time in America, The Terminator, Ghostbusters, The Karate Kid, Indiana Jones and the temple of doom!

I am proud.. :)

[fred41]

1) Before you start with the number, think of another, say 30 -but 'on the square' rather than 'squared'; then move to a mysterious woman called Myra, before discovering that he was at one time -in a sense, still is- Mae West's neighbour.
-Who is he?


The individual was born in 30 Clarendon "Square"...he was a neighbor of Mae West on the "Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album..and perhaps in death. ( I originally thought you might mean that the person we are speaking of is buried in the same cemetery, but that didn't pan out because I couldn't find anyone that matched the clues to her burial here in Brooklyn.)I had latched on to this before you gave the "album" clue...but I ignored the individual because he didn't fit the rest of the clues..to me at the time anyway.

The red herring for me was the clue: 'a mysterious woman called Myra', which any logical connection to the following name of Mae West would lead one to conclude was referring to the movie "Myra Breckenridge"...this caused much searching in the wrong direction (much, much) and ...I almost gave up.. It turns out you were referring to a silent film series called "The Mysteries of Myra".

Your best clue, within a clue, was this... :

You are on the right track...
After I mentioned that "number one was anotherbeast altogether...

Finally it all came together after I looked at this question again a few minutes ago with a fresh mind...I was just about to give up and - there it was.

The person in question is The Great Beast 666...

The person in question is Aleister Crowley.

[fred41]

good puzzle..
Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdlS7tab5rQ)

[sukumvit boy]

Excellent thread. Thanks Stavros and Fred41!

[Stavros]

The individual was born in 30 Clarendon "Square"...he was a neighbor of Mae West on the "Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album..and perhaps in death. ( I originally thought you might mean that the person we are speaking of is buried in the same cemetery, but that didn't pan out because I couldn't find anyone that matched the clues to her burial here in Brooklyn.)I had latched on to this before you gave the "album" clue...but I ignored the individual because he didn't fit the rest of the clues..to me at the time anyway.

The red herring for me was the clue: 'a mysterious woman called Myra', which any logical connection to the following name of Mae West would lead one to conclude was referring to the movie "Myra Breckenridge"...this caused much searching in the wrong direction (much, much) and ...I almost gave up.. It turns out you were referring to a silent film series called "The Mysteries of Myra".

Your best clue, within a clue, was this... :

After I mentioned that "number one was anotherbeast altogether...

Finally it all came together after I looked at this question again a few minutes ago with a fresh mind...I was just about to give up and - there it was.

The person in question is The Great Beast 666...

The person in question is Aleister Crowley.

Fred, have you thought of working for the intelligence services? A brilliant piece of deduction, BUT you missed one clue, otherwise I wasn't expecting you to get it!

Here is the clue again:
Before you start with the number, think of another, say 30 -but 'on the square' rather than 'squared'; then move to a mysterious woman called Myra, before discovering that he was at one time -in a sense, still is- Mae West's neighbour.
-Who is he?

Before you start with the number: ie 'the number' = 'le chiffre' in French, and the character in Ian Fleming's Casino Royale based on Crowley. Yes, the 'Mysteries of Myra' was a series of film in the silent era based on Crowley and a useful and pointless diversion to Myra Breckenridge.
The Mysteries of Myra (1916) - IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0007107/)
And yes, Crowley is 'neighbour' to Mae West on the cover of Sgt Pepper's, WC Fields on the other side.

I guess that is 9/10 but still gets you into Langley or GCHQ.

So here then is the new one, probably the easiest of the puzzles so far.

The answer to this puzzle is a transexual model who has featured on HungAngels.

To find the name of this person, you need to exit this underground railway station close to the street named after one of the most famous musicians who once lived in Vienna, and then link it to the popular name for a luxurious train service that used to run in Italy.

[fred41]

A brilliant piece of deduction, BUT you missed one clue, otherwise I wasn't expecting you to get it!

Before you start with the number: ie 'the number' = 'le chiffre' in French, and the character in Ian Fleming's Casino Royale based on Crowley. Yes, the 'Mysteries of Myra' was a series of film in the silent era based on Crowley and a useful and pointless diversion to Myra Breckenridge.
The Mysteries of Myra (1916) - IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0007107/)
And yes, Crowley is 'neighbour' to Mae West on the cover of Sgt Pepper's, WC Fields on the other side.



:)..yeah...I wasn't going to get that one. In my defense - I don't think anyone would've got that. Once you add languages in...you bring it to a whole other level...(also...I saw Casino Royale a long, long time ago...and even though I enjoyed the film...the only thing I remember about it was how much David Niven resembled my paternal grandfather.)

BTW I believe it's Lenny Bruce on Mae West's other side ...not W.C.Fields....and I only know that now because of YOU...lol.

anyway, on to the next question...(probably not as easy as you say unless there's a TS named Orient Express van Beethoven...lol)

[south ov da border]

1982

porky's
richard pryor live at the sunset strip
1st blood (Rambo)
48 hrs
Blade Runner
Airplane 2
The beastmaster
Fast times at Ridgemont high
Pink Floyd-the wall
secret if Nimh

[Stavros]

:)..yeah...I wasn't going to get that one. In my defense - I don't think anyone would've got that. Once you add languages in...you bring it to a whole other level...(also...I saw Casino Royale a long, long time ago...and even though I enjoyed the film...the only thing I remember about it was how much David Niven resembled my paternal grandfather.)

BTW I believe it's Lenny Bruce on Mae West's other side ...not W.C.Fields....and I only know that now because of YOU...lol.

anyway, on to the next question...(probably not as easy as you say unless there's a TS named Orient Express van Beethoven...lol)

Well it wasn't supposed to be easy; and yes you are right and I am wrong -Lenny Bruce on t'other side of Mae West, Sri Yukteswar Giri next to Crowley.

As for this teaser: wrong train, wrong composer; try again.

[Stavros]

As there hasn't been any advance on my last teaser I will produce the answer.

The teaser was;
To find the name of this person, you need to exit this underground railway station close to the street named after one of the most famous musicians who once lived in Vienna, and then link it to the popular name for a luxurious train service that used to run in Italy.

The station is Jasmin, in Paris, close to the Avenue Mozart. The exclusively first class Trans-Europe Express that used to run from Milan to Rome was called Il Settebello, the 'Seven beauties' in question being diamonds, or jewels, hence the answer is:
Jasmin Jewels.

http://1.2.3.12/bmi/cdn.jasmine-jewels.com/tour/samples/thumbs/02.jpg

[Prospero]

Do you also set the Times crossword, Stavros?