Isn’t it annoying when you are a prolific and relatively well received author in your time; you win two major (and I mean major) literary awards; but then you are best remembered by contemporary audiences for the film versions of your two award winning novels? An author who was born this week in 1869 in Indianapolis would probably be furiously nodding his head in agreement right around now if he hadn’t died in 1946.
Can you name this frustrated author? Can you name his two most famous books/movies? If you can do any of these things then please let me know.
Last week I wanted to the names of the still dynamic duo of entertainers who defeated the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game by appearing in a movie together in 2000. The unlikely couple? Phyllis Diller and Art Linkletter who rack up almost 200 years between the two of them. The name of the movie? Let me in, I hear laughter which is a documentary about the Friars Club that features a veritable who’s who of the biggest names in comedy circa 1930 – 1950.
I had some people who knew at least one name, but the closet Vaudevillians who got both names are –
Peter Erickson
Jan Pinkerton
Thanks everyone who played