BROADWAY BEFORE & AFTER
Anna goes to the royal palace in Bangkok & helps Will Smith stop a robot uprising
The King and I robot
It's said that this implement "is mightier than the sword"
The Pen
This character was a purrfect role for both Michelle Pfeiffer & Zoë Kravitz
Catwoman
It comes between "ready" & "go" in a preparatory phrase
set go
Feathered friends become foes & attack in this Hitchcock horror that starred Tippi Hedren & Rod Taylor
The Birds
Eliza Doolittle adds a saucy new tune to her repertoire: "Gitchie, gitchie ya ya, da da"
My Fair Lady Marmalade
It's what you're actually doing if you're just out of school & "pounding the pavement"
Looking for work
Emma Stone & Glenn Close each brought their own unique menace to this fashion designer
Cruella de Vil
In collegiate parlance, they're the first 2 words of the acronym BMOC
Big Man
"Lads do football or boxing or wrestling, not friggin' ballet" is a line in this film
Billy Elliot
17 dancers are cut down to 8, then do the boot scootin boogie
A Chorus Line Dance
In "A Psalm of Life", Longfellow tells of leaving these behind "on the sands of time"
Footprints
Playing this tomb raider:
Angelina Jolie &
Alicia Vikander
Lara Croft
This Fred Astaire/ Ginger Rogers movie title is also something that completes a spiffy men's outfit
Top Hat
This 2022 fast-moving action film takes place aboard the imaginary Nippon Speed Line
Bullet Train
A Pygmalion story about dogs eating pasta
My fair Lady and the Tramp
Meaning "in trouble", the expression "in" this presumably refers to the briny liquid it's made in
A Pickle
This law enforcement agent was all in a day's role for Julianne Moore & Jodie Foster
Clarice Starling
It's a hyphenated adjective meaning "understated"; in recent slang it's an adverb too, as in "He ____ wants to go out with you"
Low Key
In a junkyard, a young woman discovers a battle-scarred & broken Autobot in this transformative action adventure
Bumblebee
Pointillist Seurat sings, dances & writes "Animal Farm"
Sunday in the Park with George Orwell
Meaning "a greater return for your investment", it reportedly came from military expenditures in the 1950s
more bang for your buck
This South African activist was brought to the big screen by both Naomie Harris & Jennifer Hudson
It's 1990 and my husband it free...
Winnie Mandela
Nothing to do with a sober marathon, it's a term for a rehearsal or practice
Dry Run
"The monster demands a mate" is a tagline for this 1935 sequel starring Elsa Lanchester
Bride of Frankenstein