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* Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss did five movies together in the early 1960s. (Prentiss is 5'10" and would have towered over a lot of leading men. Casting her opposite the 6'5" Hutton kept her from having to walk in a trench all the time.)
* Italian actors Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni appeared together in over a dozen films, from ''Too Bad She's Bad'' (1954) to ''Prêt-à-Porter'' (1994).
** The comic duo Massimo Boldi & Christian De Sica had starred in so many movies that the Italian media called their split up as a 'divorce' and the fact ''actually made it on the newspapers headlines''.
* After Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito did ''Romancing the Stone'' and ''Jewel of the Nile'', which were related, they were all cast together in ''The War of the Roses'', an unrelated movie. Some fans of the two related adventure movies mistook the unrelated black comedy for the third installment of the series.
* [[Peter Cushing]] and [[Christopher Lee]] not only did numerous [[Hammer Horror]] films together, but a fair number of non-Hammer British horror films. They remained good friends, a fact Alan Davies lampshaded on ''[[QI]]'' when he highlighted the surreality of [[Horror of Dracula|Van Helsing and Dracula]] being so close. (They also were both in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' saga, but not in the same movies.)
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* [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[The Lady Vanishes]]'' had Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne, who proved such a hit as a pair of comical English twits that the pair were cast in pretty much the same roles for numerous other films in the 1940s.
** They actually played the ''very same characters'' in the 1940 (non-Hitchcock) thriller ''Night Train to Munich''.
* Occurs on soap operas, usually with mixed to poor results.
** Stephen Nichols and Mary Beth Evans played supercouple Patch and Kayla on ''[[Days of Our Lives]].'' When both actors ended up on ''[[General Hospital]]'' several years later, TPTB tried to pair them--reception was lukewarm at best.
** Beth Ehlers and Ricky Paull Goldin played popular couple Harley and Gus on ''[[Guiding Light]].'' ''[[All My Children]]'' then snatched the two actors in a highly publicized casting coup. The potential pairing ultimately went nowhere.
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* While they were hardly ''invariably'' together, Tony Slattery and Josie Lawrence would often be paired up in [[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]] in the UK.
** Also, Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles in both versions.
** Tony Slattery and Paul Merton would usually be paired up when Paul was on the show.
** Jim Sweeney and Steve Steen are more or less the British equivalent to Colin and Ryan.
** Tony Slattery would also be paired with Mike McShane, and the two of them would go on to do a show together called S&M: Slattery and McShane.
* Ally Sheedy and Judd Nelson, more so than any other pair of [[Brat Pack|Brat Packers]] (''[[The Breakfast Club]]'', ''[[St. Elmo's Fire]]'', ''Blue City'')
* [[Masi Oka]] and [[Jayma Mays]] played across from each other in both ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' and ''[[Get Smart]]: Bruce and Loyd Out of Control''.
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* [[Kenichi Suzumura]] and [[Maaya Sakamoto]], whose characters are often in love (sometimes one-sided, sometimes reciprocated). This became [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] when they got married in August 2011.
* Katharine Isabelle and Emily Perkins of ''[[Ginger Snaps]]'' fame played sisters again in ''[[Another Cinderella Story]]''.
* [[Kevin Conroy]] and [[Mark Hamill]]: Granted they're usually playing [[Batman]] and [[The Joker]], but sometimes they're not and in recent DC productions where Conroy wasn't Batman they've often got Mark Hamill to play his opposite number because they work so well together.
* Doris Day and Rock Hudson are well-known for starring together, despite only doing so in 3 movies: ''[[Pillow Talk]]'', ''Lover Come Back'' and ''Send Me No Flowers'' (which all also starred Tony Randall).
* [[Judy Garland]] and Mickey Rooney first starred together in ''Thoroughbreds Don't Cry''. Over the next six years, they appeared in three movies as Betsy Booth and Andy Hardy, and also starred in the movie musicals ''Babes in Arms'', ''Strike Up the Band'', ''Babes on Broadway'' and ''Girl Crazy''.
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* [[Richard Pryor]] and [[Gene Wilder]] did four films together: ''[[Silver Streak]]'', ''[[Stir Crazy]]'', ''[[See No Evil Hear No Evil]]'', and ''[[Another You]]''.
* Tim Conway and Don Knotts starred together in the two ''[[The Apple Dumpling Gang]]'' movies, along with ''[[The Private Eyes]]'' and ''[[The Prize Fighter]]''. Both actors also appeared in ''Gus'', though they didn't share any scenes together.
* Brazilian actors Wagner Moura (best known for his role in ''[[The Elite Squad]]'') and Lázaro Ramos, going as early as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekS27ZEAdus 1998] and even extending to the [[
* [[Scarlett Johansson]] and [[Chris Evans]] have been in three films together: ''[[The Perfect Score]]'', ''The Nanny Diaries'' and ''[[The Avengers]]''.
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