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Acting on the stage of history, who, when, where and how many appeared in a famous last performance.

I dusnt get it.

it is a bit cryptic or it would be to easy

answers are

the battle
the combatants (cast) anr the numbers
and the connection with the stage


Extra points for the leading actors
that's your lot

damn *cheeky grin* was hoping you'd fall for my idiot face and give it away.

I'm going to let others work this one out, my history is awful. i'll keep an eye on it though!

Any why actors ???

I'm trying to remember whether they had gentlemen players in Ancient Greece. In Rome I'm pretty sure acting was a profession, not a hobby.

*scratches head*

No idea, Bob, but did you know that the word 'explode' - something which happens during many battles - originated from acting? It's a 16th Century word which derives from the Latin ex plaudere: 'to drive a actor off the stage by clapping'.

Icy

audy murphy was a decorated war hero

along with other holywood actor/servicemen

gene autry
douglas fairbanks jr
henry fonda
clarke gable
tyrone power
james stewart

the big war hero john wayne never served
he wanted to but the studio kept putting obstacles in his path

Anything to do with the Battle of Midway?

A film that was made during the actual battle itself?

Audie Murphy was America's most decorated soldier in WW2 and built a Hollywood career on the reputaion that that gave him. Americas third most decorated soldier in WW2 was a guy called Neville Brand, who also had a fairly sucessful acting career, but normally played bad guys and heavies as he lacked Audies clean cut looks.

I have no idea who the second most decorated was or whether he ever did any acting.

This is closest to the truth

QI - Actors in battle
Post: 6
Posted 12 Hours Ago by Online Now߀N
I'm trying to remember whether they had gentlemen players in Ancient Greece. In Rome I'm pretty sure acting was a profession, not a hobby.

Continue upon this path

PS ߀N +2

QI +1
Taff and Oops miles off but interesting all the same

Icy +3 That was something I did not know

But which bit of the path? The Ancient Greece / Ancient Rome bit? The gentlemen players bit? Or the professional actors bit?

The Athenians were a peculiar bunch. We aren't talking about Alcibiades and the de-*ahem*-facement of the Hermai and the concentration camp in Sicily are we?

No. We aren't.

But there's something about the greeks itching at the back of my mind.

Hmmm.

read all of post 11

Too cryptic for me.

No it is just a matter or reading and thinking keep going you are on the right path as I said before.

Acting on the stage of history, who, when, where and how many appeared in a famous last performance

answers are

the battle
the combatants (cast) and the numbers
and the connection with the stage

Extra points for the leading actors

And why actors ???

>> I'm trying to remember whether they had gentlemen players in Ancient Greece. In Rome I'm pretty sure acting was a profession, not a hobby.

Continue upon this path

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It's teasing me. I keep on thinking of the trick in Beau Geste when the mad sargent props up the corpses to make it look as if the fort is still manned.

You are implying that some people who may (or may not) have been actors fought and died in a famous battle.

I'm trying to work out if there's something stagey or staged about the battle itself - like the coup de theatre in Beau Geste or Potemkin villages in Russia which were made out of plywood and postioned by the railway line to fool the Empress.

It seems to me the choice is either soldiers acting out a deception, or actors really having to fight.

Hmmmm.

B

Make that:

... soldiers or sailors acting out ...

etc

Post 11 hints within
QI - Actors in battle
Post: 6
Posted 12 Hours Ago by Online Now߀N
I'm trying to remember whether they had gentlemen players in Ancient >Greece<. In Rome I'm pretty sure >acting was a profession<, not a hobby.

Continue upon this >path<

PS thats almost giving it away