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10 Degrees of Jennifer Jones

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Introduction:
"My fourth Degrees quiz is about actress Jennifer Jones, a star of the 40s and 50s, and how the actors link up with her again."


1. Born Phyllis Isley in Oklahoma, Jones acted in B-movies before her Oscar-winning lead in "The Song of Bernadette" (1943). The next year she played Claudette Colbert's daughter in the WW2 weepie "Since You Went Away". What co-star (who was her first husband) did she most memorably bid farewell to as he rode away on a train? (He later portrayed a mad killer on a train!)
    Kevin McCarthy
    Robert Walker
    Montgomery Clift
    John Dall


2. This Hollywood immortal produced "Gone With The Wind" and many other films.
    Val Lewton
    David O. Selznick
    Hal B. Wallis
    Adolph Zukor


3. In 1946, Jones starred in the splashy Western epic "Duel In The Sun" as a Mexican spitfire who set two brothers, one good, one bad, against each other. Who played the bad one?
    Richard Widmark
    Gregory Peck
    Richard Boone
    Kirk Douglas


4. He was a frequent co-star of Orson Welles, ever since "Citizen Kane", and usually played good guys, but he was a memorable Hitchcock villian. He co-starred twice with Jones. His name?
    William Campbell
    Joseph Cotten
    James Coburn
    Randolph Scott


5. In 1953's "Niagara" George Loomis is a disturbed war veteran whose slutty wife planned his murder with her lover...and got the tables turned on her! Who was the actress who played the faithless wife?
    Marilyn Monroe
    Mamie Van Doren
    Jayne Mansfield
    Sheree North


6. Among the many films this brawny he-man did were many westerns, including the only one directed by Otto Preminger. His name?
    Robert Mitchum
    Mickey Hargitay
    Aldo Ray
    Steve Reeves


7. A comic pistol duel was fought in the Stanley Donen farce "The Grass Is Greener". One of the duellists, an English-born star, worked with Hawks and Hitchcock, among other directors. Who was he?
    Laurence Olivier
    Jack Lemmon
    Cary Grant
    Burt Lancaster


8. This fellow Scotswoman of Moira Shearer once waltzed with a king and had a steamy love scene on an Hawaiian beach. Know her?
    Deborah Kerr
    Julie Andrews
    Moira Shearer
    Joan Collins


9. This darkly handsome English actor helped a group of nuns make a convent out of a Himalayan harem house (in shorts!) and dismantled a WW2 bomb. Who is he?
    David Farrar
    George Sanders
    Robert Morley
    Michael Wilding


10. In 1950's "Gone To Earth" a lustful 1890's squire had designs on a superstitious Shropshire lass. Who played her?
    Answer: ((two words, or just surname))


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