Movies that came out your birth year

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......

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Originally Posted by 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.

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

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Originally Posted by sukumvit boy

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

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She wasn't nominated.

http://whatculture.com/film/10-perfo...ting-oscar.php

still trying to find out when the murder ocurred.

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Originally Posted by 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.

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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.

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...

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

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Originally Posted by 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. .....

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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. :)

"Charlie" doesn't like mistakes:

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...