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1. This actor's alcoholism caught up with him on Christmas Day 1946 and his screen image was very close to his real personality?
2. Who was killed on 30th September 1955 while driving his Porsche Spyder along a California highway?
3. His final film was with Marilyn Monroe in 'The Misfits' before dying from a heart attack in 1960?
4. This former juvenile delinquent left home at 13 to work in a variety of menial jobs and became one of France's foremost stars in the 1980s.
5. He became the highest-paid child star, but quarrels between his father and film-makers over asking 8 million dollars a film led to adult oblivion.
6. Born Tula Ellice Finklea, this American long-legged dancing star was an eye catching partner for both Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly?
7. This Welsh-born leading actor died from a cerebral haemorrhage in 1984?
8. This small, cloth-capped British comedian who was very fond of too-tight suits was knighted in 2000?
9. This nine-times married pocket-sized American star was married to Ava Gardner (1942-43) who was his first wife.
10. She was born in Los Angeles in 1926 and had a paranoid schizophrenic mother, no permanent father and several foster homes?
11. This British actress featured in TV's 'The Avengers' (1962-64) as a leather-clad, judo-throwing wildcat. She starred in a 1964 Bond film?
12. Which actor died of a ruptured appendix in 1926 at the age of 31?
13. Which American teenage star was named after her home town in Minnesota?
14. This short American actor and former child model was selected to play the hobbit hero in Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings'?
15. This British actress died after breaking a hip in a fall. She was created Dame in 1967 and played a glorious Miss Marple?
16. Name the British actress who married and divorced Peter Vaughan and starred in the film 'The Krays' (1990)?
17. This actress was best known for her role of Estelle in 'Great Expectations'. Her husbands include Stewart Granger and film director Richard Brooks of 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' (1958) and 'Elmer Gantry' (1960)?
18. This actress was no dumb blonde as she wrote her own scripts and proved herself to be an expert self publicist and business woman. She died at the age of 88 in 1980?
19. This Scottish born actor was bald from an early age and died from cancer at the age of 75?
20. Name the British actor who married Virginia McKenna (1957-94) appearing in several wildlife movies together?
21. This American actor abandoned a baseball career because of a knee injury. He married actress Sarah Jessica Parker in 1997 who had a success with the TV series 'Sex and the City'.
22. He was married to his first wife for 30 years when she died. He recovered from a stroke in 1981 and an operation to remove his larynx in 1990. He died from pneumonia in 1994?
23. Which dark haired Spanish actress trained as a dancer in classical Spanish ballet and started acting in films at the age of 17?
24. This Scottish actor was once an electrician. He achieved fame by his role of Simon Callow's partner in 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'?
25. This British actor with an upper class air was nicknamed 'The Thinking Woman's Crumpet' and starred in a couple of Bond Movies?
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