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Thursday, January 23rd, 2025

Live Poll: Pairs of Costars with Great Chemistry

These pairs of costars worked together as lovers in three and more different movies. 

Which pair has more chemistry than the others?

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2 years ago

Since we can only vote for one pair:

Which pair has more chemistry than the others?

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OK...

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2 months ago

How about:

Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn

1967  Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

1942  Keeper of the Flame

1957  Desk Set

1949  Adam's Rib

1952  Pat and Mike

1942  Woman of the Year

1947  The Sea of Grass

1948  State of the Union

1945  Without Love

John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara

1963  McClintock

1952  The Quiet Man

1957  The Wings of Eagles 

1971  Big Jake

1950  Rio Grande

James Garner and Julie Andrews

1999  One Special Night

1964  The Americanization of Emily

1982  Victor/Victoria

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

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@TheOldJalapenoman​ I will add them later.👍

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@Jessica​ 👍

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@jaf_ismael​    I should have given you titles for the Fred and Ginger films, but I ran out of time that day.  

Their films are:

Flying Down to Rio (1933)

The Gay Divorcee (1934)

Roberta (1935)

Top Hat (1935)

Follow the Fleet (1935)

Swing Time (1936)

Shall We Dance (1937)

Care Free (1938)

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)

The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)

There are also Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney:

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937)

Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)

Babes in Arms (1939)

Andy Hardy Meets Dubutante (1940)

Strike Up the Band (1940)

Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941)

Babes on Broadway (1941)

Girl Crazy (1943)

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@jaf_ismael​   Typo alert!  Your number seven choice lists James and Julie  (again) instead of John and Maureen.

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@TheOldJalapenoman​ great suggestions, thanks

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13 days ago

Didn't read proper enough and can't delete this.

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@jaf_ismael​ 

Please edit 

#1: Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder in

#11: and one other film.

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9 days ago

A famous one is Woody Allen and Diane Keaton. Annie Hall, Manhattan, Manhattan Murder Mystery and others. They were in eight movies together, but I don't remember if they played lovers in all of them.

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@Peter_pbn​ good ones

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9 days ago

FYC:

Elizabeth Taylor and Ricard Burton - The Sandpiper, Cleopatra, The Taming of the Shrew, Wh's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Doctor Faustus among others.

Louis de Funes and Claude Gensac - At least 6 movies including Oscar, Hibernatus and Les Grandes Vacances.

Dharmendra and Hema Malini - According to a post in Reddit I'm reading they made around 30 films as a couple including Sholay, Seeta aur Geeta and Dream Girl.

William Powell and Kay Francis in 6 movies including One Way Passage, Street of Chance and Jewel Robbery.

William Powell and Myrna Loy in 13 films including Libeled Lady and six films in the Thin Man series.

Shah Rukh Khan and Kojal in at least 7 films including Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Dilwale and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham.

Rock Hudson and Doris Day in Send me no Flowers, , Lover Come Back and Pillow Talk.

Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert in 7 films including The Bride Comes Home, Maid if Salem and The Gilded Lily

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@Pencho15​ 30 films between Dharmendra and Hema Malini wow ; it deserves a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.

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9 days ago

You have Maureen and John on your list as couple #7 and couple #12.

Pencho lists several good ones in his suggestion.

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@TheOldJalapenoman​ 👍.I thought the competition was between Tom Hanks and Ryan Gosling, but it seems there are a lot of good pairings.

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@jaf_ismael​ 

You could also list:

The Blondie series.  Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake played Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead (a married couple) in this series of films.  They also did a radio series as the characters at the same time.  There were 28 films over 12 years.

Blondie (1938)

Blondie Meets the Boss (1939)

Blondie Takes a Vacation (1939)

and 25 other films

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029927/mediaviewer/rm1724334080/?ref_=ttmi_mi_1_3

Ma and Pa Kettle were played by Marjorie Main and Percy Killbride in ten movies.

The Egg and I (1947)

The Further Adventures of Ma and Pa Kettle (1949) (Sometimes renamed as just Ma and Pa Kettle)

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town (1959)

and seven other films

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039349/mediaviewer/rm589890561/?ref_=ttmi_mi_3_3

There was nothing romantic in either of these series,  They were just comedies about family life with married couples and their children.

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@jaf_ismael​   While you may have assumed that this was a runaway for Hanks and Ryan early on, lots of other great pairs are here now.  While I have enjoyed many of them in their pairings, I would probably vote for Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn as they seemed to have a magical chemistry together.  Second place for me would be John Wayne and Maureen O'Hare as they had a long, deep friendship that lasted their whole lives and showed through on the screen.

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@TheOldJalapenoman​  good, added 

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@TheOldJalapenoman​ It seems so.

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8 days ago

Hope and Crosby

Bob Hope & Bing Crosby

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"These pairs of costars worked together as lovers..."

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@Peter_pbn​ 

Ah, i missed that

d'oh!

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4 days ago

Please correct #12:

Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in

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@Jessica​ Edited

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@dan_dassow​ thanks

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2 days ago

Keanu Reeves' performance in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) is notoriously one of his absolute worst performances ever, and that includes his painful lack of chemistry with Winona Ryder.

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@Tsarstepan

He is ranked third so far,  that’s not bad.