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   Manfred Polak to gggg gggg   
   Re: Has there ever been an actor/actress   
   11 Apr 23 21:53:19   
   
   From: ma.po@gmx.com   
      
   gggg gggg wrote:   
      
   >> IMDb provides this list:   
   >>   
   >> | Baxter, Anne (I)   
   >> | Compton, Fay   
   >> | Cotten, Joseph (I)   
   >> | Dietrich, Marlene   
   >> | Evanson, Edith   
   >> | Fontaine, Joan (I)   
   >> | Gielgud, John   
   >> | Harvey, Laurence (I)   
   >> | Leigh, Janet (I)   
   >> | Long, Richard (I)   
   >> | Merivale, Philip   
   >> | Nolan, Jeanette   
   >> | Perkins, Anthony (I)   
   >> | Redgrave, Michael   
   >> | Wynn, Keenan   
   >>   
   >> I have defined "starring" as rank 1 - 4 in the credits   
   >> (counted separately for actors and actresses).   
   >   
   >Concerning Fontaine, if you mean "Jane Eyre", I don't think Welles directed   
   that.   
      
   I didn't "mean" anything, because I created the list by an SQL query   
   with IMDb data. But you are right, I made a mistake, because the   
   query demanded only a top 4 rank *either* in a Hitchcock *or* in a   
   Welles film, but not in both of them. And Fontaine is on the list,   
   because she starred in "Rebecca" and "Suspicion" and had an   
   uncredited part in "Othello".   
      
   Now I replaced an "or" with "and" in the query, and here is the   
   corrected list:   
      
   | Baxter, Anne (I)   
   | Cotten, Joseph (I)   
   | Gielgud, John   
   | Harvey, Laurence (I)   
   | Leigh, Janet (I)   
   | Perkins, Anthony (I)   
   | Redgrave, Michael   
      
   The real list might be a bit longer, because the query doesn't work   
   when the actors are credited in the IMDb in order of appearance or   
   alphabetically.   
      
      
   Manfred   
      
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