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Which actress was originally going to play Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz"?

• Shirley MacLaine
• Ginger Rogers
• Elizabeth Taylor
• Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple was the favorite to play Dorothy, but her singing skills were not strong enough. The role was ultimately a big break for Garland, then a contract player at MGM. The film originally featured the Wizard as the central character, and both W.C. Fields and Bert Lahr turned down the part. While Victor Fleming directed the Technicolor Oz sequences, King Vidor was the director of the film’s black-and-white Kansas scenes.

Source: Britannica

Grace Kelly married the Prince of which country in 1956?

• Monaco
• Luxembourg
• Andorra
• Netherlands

American actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco in a spectacular ceremony on April 18, 1956. While filming the Hitchcock movie "To Catch a Thief" (1955) on the French Riviera, Kelly met Prince Rainier of Monaco. It was not love at first sight for Kelly, but the prince initiated a long correspondence, which led to their marriage in 1956. Afterward, she became Princess Grace of Monaco and retired from acting.

Source: History

Who was the first actress to earn a million dollars for a single film?

• Elizabeth Taylor
• Meryl Streep
• Barbra Streisand
• Jane Fonda

Elizabeth Taylor became the first star to ever earn $1 million for a single film. Cleopatra remains the most expensive film ever made, which is utterly remarkable when you consider the intergalactic expanse of the current movie industry. Fox Studios had originally set out a considerable $2 million for the project’s budget. Half of that would be taken up by Elizabeth Taylor’s record-setting salary alone, and before a single frame had been shot, the film was already $2 million over budget. In the end, she ended up earning far more thanks to a robust contract. Before signing on, she managed to secure herself 10% of the gross profits and add-ons if the project ran over. In the end, she came out with around $7 million for the movie. In 2023, that is just about $69 million.

Source: Far Out Magazine

Who starred alongside Gene Kelly in the 1952 movie "Singin' in the Rain"?

• Debbie Reynolds
• Marilyn Monroe
• Grace Kelly
• Kim Novak

Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American musical romantic comedy film directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds and featuring Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell, and Cyd Charisse. It offers a lighthearted depiction of Hollywood in the late 1920s, with the three stars portraying performers caught up in the transition from silent films to "talkies".

Source: Wikipedia

Marion Crane is Janet Leigh's character in which movie?

• The Birds
• Ocean's 11
• West Side Story
• Psycho

Psycho (1960) is a movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by Joseph Stefano based on the novel by Robert Bloch. It stars Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates, Janet Leigh as Marion Crane, and Vera Miles as Lila Crane. Phoenix office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam during lunch breaks, and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday, Marion is trusted to bank forty thousand dollars by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into the Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother.

Source: IMDb

Who played the iconic role of Ilsa Lund in Casablanca?

• Bette Davis
• Ingrid Bergman
• Elizabeth Taylor
• Greta Garbo

“Casablanca” was popular at the box office, received positive press from critics and even snagged three Academy Awards. The film’s A-list cast included Humphrey Bogart as cynical, smoldering Rick Blaine, Ingrid Bergman as his doe-eyed former lover Ilsa Lund and Paul Henreid as her patriotic but stodgy husband Victor Laszlo.

Source: Washington Post

Natalie Wood is celebrated for her role in which of these classic films?

• Roman Holiday
• Some Like It Hot
• It Happened One Night
• West Side Story

Often considered one of the greatest movie musicals ever made, West Side Story stars Natalie in one of her most famous roles. Based on the Broadway musical of the same name (which is itself an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet), the film features an iconic score composed by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

Source: Reel Rundown

Which actress was famous for performing alongside Fred Astaire?

• Ginger Rogers
• Shirley Temple
• Marilyn Monroe
• Judy Garland

Ginger Rogers (born Virginia Katherine McMath; July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer, and singer during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her starring role in Kitty Foyle (1940) and performed during the 1930s in RKO's musical films with Fred Astaire. Her career continued on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century.

Source: Wikipedia

Which actress is in Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire?

• Judy Garland
• Vivien Leigh
• Marilyn Monroe
• Bette Davis

Vivien Leigh, born Vivian Mary Hartley on 5 November 1913 – 8 July 1967, styled as Lady Olivier after 1947, was a British actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, for her definitive performances as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), a role she had also played on stage in London's West End in 1949.

Source: Wikipedia.org

For what movie did Cher win her Best Actress Oscar?

• Mermaids
• Suspect
• Moonstruck
• If These Walls Could Talk

In 1988, Cher won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Moonstruck. Moonstruck starred Cher as a widow who falls in love with her fiancé's brother, played by Nicolas Cage. At the 60th Academy Awards ceremony, Moonstruck won three awards: Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress for Olympia Dukakis, and Best Original Screenplay.

Source: Smooth Radio

Greta Garbo became a U.S. citizen in 1950, but where was she born?

• Finland
• Spain
• Sweden
• Greece

Greta Garbo was born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson on September 18, 1905, in Stockholm, Sweden, and died on April 15, 1990, in New York, New York, U.S. She was a Swedish-American actress who was one of the most glamorous and popular motion-picture stars of the 1920s and ’30s. She was best known for her portrayals of strong-willed heroines, most of them as compellingly enigmatic as Garbo herself.

Source: Britannica

Which actress was Humphrey Bogart's last wife?

• Mary Philips
• Lauren Bacall
• Helen Menken
• Mayo Methot

Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske; September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014) was an American actress. She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute and received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2009 in recognition of her contribution to the Golden Age of motion pictures. On May 21, 1945, Bacall married Humphrey Bogart. She was married to Bogart until he died in 1957. Bacall was one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Bogart married Helen Menken in 1926. The two divorced in less than one year. He married Mary Philips in 1928. That marriage lasted nine years. Bogart married his third wife, Mayo Methot in 1938.

Source: Wikipedia

Which 1940s actress had a California law named after her?

• Ava Gardner
• Olivia de Havilland
• Elizabeth Taylor
• Lauren Bacall

The De Havilland Law, formally De Havilland v. Warner Bros. Pictures, is a published judicial opinion interpreting California Labor Code Section 2855, a California law that prevents a court from enforcing specific performance of an exclusive personal services contract (i.e., contracts creating a non-delegable duty on the part of an individual to another party, and no other, to render certain services) beyond the term of seven calendar years from the commencement of service. Actress Olivia de Havilland, backed by the Screen Actors Guild, filed a lawsuit on August 23, 1943, against Warner Bros. Warner Bros. had typecast de Havilland as an ingénue, but she strongly preferred the other kinds of roles she had been given when she had been able to convince the studio to loan her out to other studios.

Source: Wikipedia

Which actress was famous for her signature feathered hair?

• Diane Keaton
• Farrah Fawcett
• Carrie Fisher
• Meryl Streep

If there’s one decade that represents fun and freedom when it comes to style, it’s the 1970s. Thanks to the civil rights and women’s movements, liberation made its way into the way people dressed and wore their hair. Farrah Fawcett’s feathered hair was one of the most iconic hairstyles of all time. The Charlie’s Angels star’s hairstyle was a sensation that defined the decade, and it has come back in style multiple times.

Source: Harper's Bazaar

Elton John's hit "Candle in the Wind" is about which actress?

• Barbra Streisand
• Rita Hayworth
• Marilyn Monroe
• Mae West

Candle in the Wind is a threnody written by English musician Elton John and songwriter Bernie Taupin, and performed by John. It was originally written in 1973, in honor of Marilyn Monroe, who had died 11 years earlier. In 1997, John performed a rewritten version of the song, "Candle in the Wind 1997", as a tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales. In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine listed the original version of the song at No 347 of its 500 greatest songs of all time.

Source: Wikipedia

Which iconic 40s actress' real name was Margarita Carmen Cansino?

• Lauren Bacall
• Ingrid Bergman
• Rita Hayworth
• Elizabeth Taylor

Rita Hayworth, original name Margarita Carmen Cansino, was an American film actress and dancer who rose to glamorous stardom in the 1940s and ’50s. Hayworth was the daughter of Spanish-born dancer Eduardo Cansino and his partner, Volga Hayworth, and, as a child, she performed in her parents’ nightclub act.

Source: Britannica