'Conspirator' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Me and Orson Welles (2008)
Actors:
Richard Linklater (director),
Simon Atherton (miscellaneous crew),
Steve Christian (producer),
Richard Linklater (producer),
Eddie Marsan (actor),
John Sloss (producer),
Jools Holland (actor),
Claire Danes (actress),
Zac Efron (actor),
Chris Wilson (actor),
Michael Brandon (actor),
Greg Bennett (actor),
Garrick Hagon (actor),
Matt Curtis (miscellaneous crew),
Libbie Barr (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: In November 1937, high school student and aspiring thespian Richard Samuels takes a day trip into New York City. There, he meets and begins a casual friendship with Gretta Adler, their friendship based on a shared love and goal of a profession in the creative arts. But also on this trip, Richard stumbles across the Mercury Theatre and meets 'Orson Welles' (qv), who, based on an impromptu audition, offers Richard an acting job as Lucius in his modern retelling of Julius Caesar, which includes such stalwart Mercury Theatre players as 'Joseph Cotten (I)' (qv) and 'George Coulouris' (qv). Despite others with official roles as producer 'John Houseman (I)' (qv), this production belongs to Welles, the unofficial/official dictator. In other words, whatever Welles wants, the cast and crew better deliver. These requests include everything, even those of a sexual nature. Welles does not believe in conventions and will do whatever he wants, which includes not having a fixed opening date, although the unofficial opening date is in one week's time. In turn, Welles realizes that his name will either be strengthened or ruined in the theater community by this production. Richard is taken under the wing by the production's Jane-of-All-Trades, Sonja Jones. Known as the Ice Queen by the male cast, Sonja deflects much of the unwanted sexual attention by jokingly implying that she and Richard are having a fling, which Richard wants nothing more than to be the truth. As the end of the week and opening night approaches, Richard, having seen Welles' behavior, has to decide if acting in this production is worth it at any cost.
Keywords: 17-year-old, 1930s, actor, actors'-equity-association, actress, ambition, ambulance, ambulance-siren, apology, applause
Genres:
Drama,
Taglines: All's fair in love and theater
Quotes:
Orson Welles: Cinna is Shakespeare's indictment of the intelligentsia. He's a lofty, Byronic figure.
Orson Welles: Where is thou ukulele?::Richard Samuels: I think some asshole... doth... stole it
Orson Welles: Do you know Booth Tarkington's "The Magnificent Ambersons?" Tarkington was a family friend. The character of Eugene, the inventor, is based on my father who died when I was fifteen. My mother when I was nine. "Ambersons" is about how everything gets taken away from you.
Orson Welles: Look at us, Runyon. Me without my story and you without your girl. We can't ever tell what will happen at all, can we? Once I stood in Grand Central Station to say goodbye to a pretty girl. I was wild about her. In fact, we decided we couldn't live without each other, and we were to be married. When we came to say goodbye we knew we wouldn't see each other for almost a year. I thought I couldn't live through it - and she stood there crying. Well, I don't even know where she lives now, or if she is living. If she ever thinks of me at all, she probably imagines I'm still dancing in some ballroom somewhere... Life and money both behave like quicksilver in a nest of cracks. And when they're gone we can't tell where - or what the devil we did with 'em...
John Houseman: This is an infinitely rewarding partnership, Orson. You go around smashing everything, you disenfranchise every friend, every supporter we have. And then I'm left desperately trying to clean up your mess. Because I am the one who ends up making the apologies, making the corrections, and making the ten thousand phone calls...::Orson Welles: And I'm out acting in "The Shadow" and "The March of Time" and every other piece-of-shit radio show in this city, just to pour my money into this son-of-a-bitch theater that you're supposed to be running.::John Houseman: That I'm 'supposed to be running?' I am killing myself trying to run it!
Joseph Cotten: Welcome to quadruple-space, kid.::Richard Samuels: What's quadruple space?::Joseph Cotten: You know in a novel, when the main characters are finally about to shtup? They can't describe it or otherwise they can't print the book. They just go, 'He hugged her hard, and they fell into bed.' Period. Quadruple space.::Norman Lloyd: The next paragraph the sun is rising and the milkman is knocking the bottles together.::Joseph Cotten: All the good stuff happens in the quadruple space.::Norman Lloyd: Fertilizer's hoping to make his next thirty years one long quadruple space.::Joseph Cotten: Forty.
Sonja Jones: Mercury. This is she... Oh, Mr. Ingram, Orson left just two minutes ago... he took an ambulance to beat the traffic... Well, you know, according to Orson there's no law on the books that says you have to be sick to take an ambulance. Of course, that's according to Orson, which probably means it isn't really true but it ought to be...
Richard Samuels: Well, I wish you luck.::Sonja Jones: I won't need luck. I don't believe in luck.::Richard Samuels: I don't think I do anymore, either. It's kind of a relief, isn't it, not believing in luck?::Sonja Jones: I don't want to keep Mr. Selznick, waiting, do I? How do I look?::Richard Samuels: Like a girl who's going to give me one blindingly beautiful parting kiss.
Sonja Jones: Orson wants to stay with me tonight.::Richard Samuels: Stay with you tonight?::Sonja Jones: I'm in no position to refuse.::Richard Samuels: What are you talking about?::Sonja Jones: I have to watch out for myself. That's what my whole life has taught me again and again.
[first lines]::Dr. Mewling: By the year of 1592, Shakespeare was already an actor, and a playwright. Records of how his stage career began have not survived. We do know that in 1594 he joined a theater troupe. Called... anyone remember? Not everyone at once now. The Lord Chamberlain's Men.
La fille de d'Artagnan (1994)
Actors:
Jean-Paul Roussillon (actor),
Mario Luraschi (actor),
Sami Frey (actor),
Claude Rich (actor),
Jean-Luc Bideau (actor),
François Levantal (actor),
João Lagarto (actor),
Raoul Billerey (actor),
Philippe Noiret (actor),
Gigi Proietti (actor),
Filipe Ferrer (actor),
Guilherme Filipe (actor),
Canto e Castro (actor),
Lionel Vitrant (actor),
Nils Tavernier (actor),
Plot: The story begins on the autumn of 1654 in South France. Eloise lives in a cloister. Her famous father left her there. The young lady is enthusiastic about honour, faithfulness, affection to the poor people, and life of course. She seems powerless when the leader of the nuns is executed because she tried to save an unlucky servant who escaped from odious Crassac and his evil Muse, the Red Lady. Eloise is seized with a fit of temper.
Keywords: 1600s, adventure-hero, bar-fight, battle, caper, chained-to-a-wall, character-name-in-title, chase, cloister, combat
Genres:
Action,
Adventure,
Comedy,
Kungajakt (1944)
Actors:
Stig Järrel (actor),
Torsten Lilliecrona (actor),
Torsten Hillberg (actor),
Åke Claesson (actor),
Wiktor Andersson (actor),
Erik Hell (actor),
Josua Bengtson (actor),
Erik 'Bullen' Berglund (actor),
Hugo Björne (actor),
Lauritz Falk (actor),
Emil Fjellström (actor),
Ernst Brunman (actor),
Björn Berglund (actor),
Manne Grünberger (actor),
Arne Lindblad (actor),
Genres:
Drama,
Rosalie (1937)
Actors:
Nelson Eddy (actor),
Billy Gilbert (actor),
Edward Earle (actor),
Wilson Benge (actor),
Tommy Bond (actor),
Ray Bolger (actor),
Roy Barcroft (actor),
Lane Chandler (actor),
Wallis Clark (actor),
Clay Clement (actor),
Jerry Colonna (actor),
Sidney Bracey (actor),
Max Davidson (actor),
William Demarest (actor),
Shep Houghton (actor),
Genres:
Drama,
Musical,
Quotes:
[at the football game]::Brenda: Why are cheering so loud?::Rosalie: We're in America. We have to act like the Americans do. Besides, I like it. Come on, NAVY!
Rosalie (1937)
Actors:
Nelson Eddy (actor),
Billy Gilbert (actor),
Edward Earle (actor),
Wilson Benge (actor),
Tommy Bond (actor),
Ray Bolger (actor),
Roy Barcroft (actor),
Lane Chandler (actor),
Wallis Clark (actor),
Clay Clement (actor),
Jerry Colonna (actor),
Sidney Bracey (actor),
Max Davidson (actor),
William Demarest (actor),
Shep Houghton (actor),
Genres:
Drama,
Musical,
Quotes:
[at the football game]::Brenda: Why are cheering so loud?::Rosalie: We're in America. We have to act like the Americans do. Besides, I like it. Come on, NAVY!
Abraham Lincoln (1930)
Actors:
Walter Huston (actor),
Maurice Black (actor),
Hobart Bosworth (actor),
Oscar Apfel (actor),
Ed Brady (actor),
Robert Brower (actor),
Frank Campeau (actor),
Kernan Cripps (actor),
Hank Bell (actor),
Edgar Dearing (actor),
James Eagles (actor),
Francis Ford (actor),
Otto Hoffman (actor),
Robert Homans (actor),
Ian Keith (actor),
Plot: Brief vignettes about Lincoln's early life include his birth, early jobs, (unsubstantiated) affair with Ann Rutledge, courtship of Mary Todd, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates; his presidency and the Civil War are followed in somewhat more detail, though without actual battle scenes; film concludes with the assassination.
Keywords: abolitionist, abraham-lincoln, american-civil-war, army, assassin, assassination, attorney, bell, cabinet-meeting, campaign
Genres:
Biography,
Drama,
History,
War,
Taglines: The wonder film of the century, about the most romantic figure who ever lived!
Quotes:
Abraham Lincoln: You know, Ann, I... I've always done a lot of dreaming. And lately it seems when I dream, your face gets mixed up in it.::Ann Rutledge: Does it really, Abe? Tell me about them, Lincoln.::Abraham Lincoln: Well, I... I feel as though I'm going to be seeing your face 'til the day I die. Course, I know that that'll be pretty hard on you to have to look at my face that long.::Ann Rutledge: Everybody to their own opinion.::Abraham Lincoln: Hmm?::Ann Rutledge: Well, I... I think it's the dearest, kindest, most beautiful face in the whole world.::Abraham Lincoln: Oh, Ann, Ann. Course, I know that's just flattery, but I love it.
[death scene]::Ann Rutledge: I know the truth, dear. It's goodbye.::Abraham Lincoln: No, no, Ann, dear. You're not going to leave me. I won't let you!::Ann Rutledge: We must be brave, dear... [looking up to the heavens] Don't take me away. Don't take me away! It's so dark and lonesome!::Abraham Lincoln: Ann, you mustn't let go.::Ann Rutledge: If they'd sing, I wouldn't be so afraid.::[a chorus of "Sweet By and By" swells up in the background]::Ann Rutledge: We will meet there, dear.
Mary Todd Lincoln: Abraham Lincoln! Will you never learn to keep your feet in shoes?
Abraham Lincoln: I've hung my hat and here it stays till they knock it off with a bayonet. From now on, Mary, I'm going to run this war!
[an aide suggests that General Lee surrender]::Gen. Robert E. Lee: [Grasping sword] Surrender? My poor army! Why I'd rather die a thousand deaths than to do that to them.::Aide: There, there, General. You must lie down and rest.::Gen. Robert E. Lee: [Introspectively] Rest... that's a beautiful word.
Offut: There he is! Ugliest, laziest, smartest man in New Salem. Ain't ya, Abe?::Abraham Lincoln: Well, I don't mind my face; I'm behind it. It's the people in front that get jarred.
Abraham Lincoln: You taught me how to love.::Ann Rutledge: Have I taught you to like it?::[both laugh]
Abraham Lincoln: You know, I feel like little Jimmy Watkins. He got a hunk of gingerbread the other day and said, 'I guess there's nobody loves gingerbread like I does and gets so little of it.'::Ann Rutledge: Oh, Abe.::Abraham Lincoln: Ann, will you... will you marry me? I mean, of course, when I get out of debt and can support you?::Ann Rutledge: Well, you know, Abe, I've intended to for a long while. That is, of course, if you ask me.::Abraham Lincoln: You... you mean...?::Ann Rutledge: Yes, Abe... you've got your gingerbread.
Boy seeing baby Abe: Shucks, he'll never amount to nothin', no how!
Townsman in general store: [after Lincoln has beat Armstrong and others] He said he was a peaceful man. He's been as peaceful as a wildcat.
Marriage in Transit (1925)
Actors:
William Fox (miscellaneous crew),
Carole Lombard (actress),
Dorothy Yost (writer),
Roy William Neill (director),
Frank Beal (actor),
Wade Boteler (actor),
Eddy Chandler (actor),
Harvey Clark (actor),
Edmund Lowe (actor),
Adolph Milar (actor),
Fred Walton (actor),
Fred Becker (actor),
Fred J. Butler (actor),
Byron Douglas (actor),
Grace Lutz (writer),
Genres:
Comedy,
Marriage in Transit (1925)
Actors:
William Fox (miscellaneous crew),
Carole Lombard (actress),
Dorothy Yost (writer),
Roy William Neill (director),
Frank Beal (actor),
Wade Boteler (actor),
Eddy Chandler (actor),
Harvey Clark (actor),
Edmund Lowe (actor),
Adolph Milar (actor),
Fred Walton (actor),
Fred Becker (actor),
Fred J. Butler (actor),
Byron Douglas (actor),
Grace Lutz (writer),
Genres:
Comedy,
Beatrice Fairfax (1916)
Actors:
Leopold Wharton (director),
Theodore Wharton (director),
Buck Connors (actor),
Basil Dickey (writer),
Warner Oland (actor),
Theodore Wharton (producer),
Elaine Hammerstein (actress),
Nigel Barrie (actor),
Wesley Ruggles (actor),
James Gordon (actor),
James Gordon (actor),
Nigel Barrie (actor),
Leopold Wharton (producer),
Wellington A. Playter (actor),
Harry Fox (actor),
Genres:
Action,
Adventure,
Beatrice Fairfax Episode 3: Billie's Romance (1916)
Actors:
Harry Fox (actor),
Robin H. Townley (actor),
Bessie Wharton (actress),
Bessie Wharton (actress),
Edgar L. Davenport (actor),
Grace Darling (actress),
F.W. Stewart (actor),
Dick Bennard (actor),
Little John Sullivan (actor),
Jeannie Parker (actress),
Genres:
,
Quad-City Times
11 Sep 2018
