Actors & Actresses from the 1800s # 5 Quiz

Answer: 1899

As the actors of the old days did, she never gave her true birth date. Her grave stone says 1899 on it. She died in 1983. She was nominated for 3 Oscar, 2 Golden Globe awards, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and won a Career Achievement Award.

Answer: 1887

He was born in 1887. In 1966, he died of cardiac arrest (heart attack) while walking home from watching a movie at a local theater. He was pronounced dead, a week after his 73rd birthday. He wasn't born in 1887, and some say he was 89 (making him born in 1877). His obituary said he was 73.

Answer: 1895

June Caprice was a star of the silent screen, but she died at age 41 of cancer. She didn't win any awards.

Answer: 1890s

Ora Carew was a movie star and actress, and died in 1955 in her 60s of a heart attack. She didn't win any awards. Some sources give her year of birth as 1891 and others say it was 1893.

Answer: 1879

Ethel Barrymore had two brothers, Lionel Barrymore, born in 1878, and John Barrymore, born in 1882. She died in 1959. She was nominated 2 Oscar Awards, won 1 of them, and earned herself a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Answer: 1885

Theda Bara has changed her birthdate from 1885 to 1889 to 1890, when it was 1885 the whole time. Her birth certificate says 1885. She died in 1955 of abdominal cancer. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Answer: 1890

His birthdate is often given as 1895, or sometimes 1891. The reason this is a confusion is because the person who wrote out the birth certificate did not write it neatly, what it was meant to say was 1890, when it looked to some people as 1891 or 1895. He died in 1977 of natural causes.

Answer: 1885

Hedda Hopper changed the year on her birth certificate to 1890 (from 1885) to conceal her age. This is proven because her birthdate was always published as 1885, until she changed it! She died in 1966 at the age of 80.

Answer: 1881

Louella Parsons was either born in 1881 or 1880, but more likely 1881. She insisted that she was born in 1893, but that is impossible, because her father died in 1890! This can be proven on her birth certificate. She died in 1972.

Answer: False

The epitaph on her grave reads 1889, although she was born in 1897. It is a careless mistake. She died in 1987 at age 90 of natural causes. She's got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Answer: True

She was born in the year 1896. Many sources give her birth year as 1901 and 1902, but 1896 is correct. The proven thing is that she was born before 1900. She died of heart failure at age 83.

Answer: 1895

Gracie Allen was born in 1895. 1900 census copies say 1895. 1895 is correct. When she was alive, most newspaper articles gave 1905 and 1906. She died of a heart attack in 1964 at age 69. She won a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Answer: True

Most sources give his birth year as 1905. His birth certificate was destroyed in the California earthqake, but it is thought that he was born in 1899. It did say 1899 before it was destroyed.

Answer: 1878

He was born in 1878, the brother of Ethel (1879) and John Barrymore (1882). He won a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Answer: False

He was born in 1887, because his grave stone has 1889, which is another error.