Charles Alden


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Sleepless In Seattle (1993) -- (Movie Clip) Not Even When I Was Young Leaving her parents’ Christmas dinner in (Annapolis) Maryland, having just announced their engagement, Walter (Bill Pullman) and Annie (Meg Ryan) head back to Washington D.C. in separate cars, and she hears Jonah (Ross Malinger) call the radio show (Caroline Aaron the host) on behalf of his widowed dad (Tom Hanks), early in Sleepless In Seattle, 1993.
Sleepless In Seattle (1993) -- (Movie Clip) A Million Tiny Little Things Christmas Eve after dark, hesitant bride-to-be Annie (Meg Ryan) stops by a Baltimore diner where the staff (Linda Walem, LaTanya Richardson) are listening to the same radio show she heard in the car, Caroline Aaron the host, Tom Hanks the reluctant widowed dad Sam, in Sleepless In Seattle, 1993.
Sleepless In Seattle (1993) -- (Movie Clip) Men Never Get This Movie! Writer-director Nora Ephron, Meg Ryan as Annie (engaged to “Walter”) and Rosie O’Donnell as pal Becky dig into director Leo McCarey’s An Affair To Remember, 1957, with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, while Meg considers a letter to the widowed father (Tom Hanks) she heard on the radio, in Sleepless In Seattle, 1993.
Sleepless In Seattle (1993) -- (Movie Clip) All I Could Say Was Hello (Significant SPOILER!) Meg Ryan as (otherwise) engaged Annie is benevolently stalking Tom Hanks, as single-dad Sam, (with Ross Malinger as his son and Rita Wilson, Tom’s real-life wife, as his sister, though Meg assumes she’s a girlfriend), then explaining to Becky (Rosie O’Donnell) back in Baltimore, leading to a second reference to Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, in An Affair To Remember, 1957, in Sleepless In Seattle, 1993.
Steelyard Blues (1973) -- (Movie Clip) You Ain't Even Dangerous Opening in jail, Melvin Stewart the inmate harassing top-billed Donald Sutherland, whom we learn has been a demolition derby driver, among other things, from Steelyard Blues, also starring Jane Fonda, an early effort from the prolific TV director and professor Alan Myerson.
Steelyard Blues (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Where There Ain't No Jails Veldini (Donald Sutherland), just out of jail, with his crew (Jane Fonda as girlfriend Iris, John Savage his younger brother, Peter Boyle his often-institutionalized pal “Eagle”) visiting mechanic-thief Duval (Garry Goodrow), who’s proposing they rehabilitate a “flying boat” plane, in Steelyard Blues, 1973.
Steelyard Blues (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Put Your Thing On The Table Just-paroled Veldini (Donald Sutherland) visits his hooker girlfriend Iris (Jane Fonda) on the job, Roger Bowen her “John,” having a laugh, early in Steelyard Blues, 1973, co-starring Peter Boyle, John Savage and Howard Hesseman.
Scared Stiff (1953) -- (Movie Clip) I'm A Debonair Slob Jerry Lewis is bumbling fill-in waiter Myron, not formally part of the act Larry (Dean Martin) is performing, and we’ll later learn their old pals, showgirl Rosie (Dorothy Malone) included in the schtick for the customers, early in the 1953 horror-comedy vehicle Scared Stiff.
Sting, The (1973) -- (Movie Clip) We Use The Wire Billie (Eileen Brennan) brushes back cop Snyder (Charles Durning), as Hooker (Robert Redford), Gondorff (Paul Newman) and the gang (Ray Walston, Harold Gould, Jon Heffernan) plan the con, in The Sting, 1973.
Sting, The (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Real Horse's Ass Arriving in Chicago, referred by their deceased mutual friend Luther, grifter Hooker (Robert Redford) meets Billie (Eileen Brennan) and his dissolute partner-to-be Gondorff (Paul Newman), early in The Sting, 1973.
Sting, The (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Lay Off The Skirts An elaborate piece in the con game, Twist (Harold Gould) and J-J (Ray Walston) launch the fake paint job, as Hooker (Robert Redford) reels in the mark Lonergan (Robert Shaw), Ken Sanson the clueless Western Union functionary, in The Sting, 1973.
Sting, The (1973) -- (Movie Clip) We're Millionaires! The second scene, Depression-era Joliet, IL,introducing Hooker (Robert Redford), Luther (Robert Earl Jones), the "Erie Kid (Jack Kehoe), running a venerable scam on mob courier Mottola (James J. Sloyan), in George Roy Hill's depression-era caper comedy The Sting, 1973.

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