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The Best Actress Oscar is supposedly cursed, in that women who win it often divorce soon after! Who are these great actresses whose husbands seem unable to cope with their wives' success?

A multiple-choice quiz by merylfederman. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
merylfederman

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
358,097

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Easy

Avg Score
9 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

1. In 1935, Norman Foster's wife won the Best Actress Award for "It Happened One Night." After his wife won the Best Actress award, it was less than a year before they divorced. Who was the award-winning actress? Hint

Vivien Leigh

Joan Crawford

Barbara Stanwyck

Claudette Colbert

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Question 2 of 10

2. In 1961 and 1967, the same actress won Best Actress, for "Butterfield 8" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" respectively. She also quickly divorced husbands Eddie Fisher and then Richard Burton after each win. Which actress is this, with many nominations and husbands? Hint

Joan Fontaine

Jane Wyman

Elizabeth Taylor

Olivia de Havilland

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Question 3 of 10

3. Tony Walton, a set and costume designer, divorced the legendary "Mary Poppins" star who won in 1965. Which triple threat and multiple Golden Globe winner was his wife? Hint

Julie Andrews

Angela Lansbury

Carol Channing

Barbra Streisand

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Question 4 of 10

4. In 1969 actor Elliott Gould divorced the legendary Best Actress winner, who won for her role in "Funny Girl". Which singer/actress was this? Hint

Liza Minnelli

Vanessa Redgrave

Barbra Streisand

Joanne Woodward

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Question 5 of 10

5. Peter Allen divorced an Oscar winner not for her skills, but more likely to aid in coming out of the closet - but the timing of the divorce was shortly after his wife won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in "Cabaret". Which actress and singer was his wife? Hint

Helen Hunt

Liza Minnelli

Jane Fonda

Cher

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Question 6 of 10

6. Jerry Bick was married to the Best Actress winner of 1976, who won as part of the sweep of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," while playing one of the cruelest villains of all time. Who was the actress who embodied that role? Hint

Faye Dunaway

Maggie Smith

Kathy Bates

Louise Fletcher

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Question 7 of 10

7. Kenneth Branagh famously divorced his first wife and frequent co-star after she won Best Actress for "Howards End" in 1993. Which prolific British actress was he married to? Hint

Charlize Theron

Kate Winslet

Emma Thompson

Helena Bonham Carter

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Question 8 of 10

8. Eric Benet, a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, divorced the 2002 Best Actress Oscar winner for "Monster's Ball," the first African-American actress to win the award. Who was it? Hint

Halle Berry

Viola Davis

Gabourey Sidibe

Phylicia Rashad

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Question 9 of 10

9. Director Sam Mendes had a long-standing marriage with the actress who won the 2008 Best Actress Oscar for her role in "The Reader". It was far from her first nomination, so they should have been used to it, perhaps? But despite her nominations for "Little Children," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," and "Titanic," their relationship could not survive her win - which actress is this? Hint

Naomi Watts

Kate Winslet

Keira Knightley

Anne Hathaway

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Question 10 of 10

10. Jesse James, a television personality, famously cheated on the Best Actress winner from 2010, who won for her role in "The Blind Side," a perennial favorite actress. They divorced soon after - which actress was his wife? Hint

Sandra Bullock

Hilary Swank

Reese Witherspoon

Charlize Theron

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer: Claudette Colbert

Claudette Colbert was part of the "It Happened One Night" Oscar sweep (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay) in 1935, and within the year she was divorced. She later married Joel Pressman, a marriage that would last till his death in 1968.

Answer: Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor of the legendary eight marriages and seven husbands, actually divorced two who she was married to during Oscar wins, including Richard Burton (the first time).

3. Tony Walton, a set and costume designer, divorced the legendary "Mary Poppins" star who won in 1965. Which triple threat and multiple Golden Globe winner was his wife?

Answer: Julie Andrews

Julie Andrews is that exemplary nanny, Mary Poppins. She and her husband remained close and worked together, along with their daughter. Julie Andrews later married Blake Edwards, and they stayed together until his death in 2010.

4. In 1969 actor Elliott Gould divorced the legendary Best Actress winner, who won for her role in "Funny Girl". Which singer/actress was this?

Answer: Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand won her only Best Actress Oscar for "Funny Girl," and has won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy multiple times. After her Oscar win, her first marriage ended. She married James Brolin in 1998.

Answer: Liza Minnelli

Liza Minnelli won for playing Sally Bowles in "Cabaret," another musical movie. She has been married and divorced four times, the last to David Gest. She is of course well known as an Emmy, Oscar, Grammy, and Tony winner and daughter of Judy Garland.

Answer: Louise Fletcher

Louise Fletcher played Nurse Ratched, the tyrannical nurse of the mental institution in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Like "It Happened One Night", this film won for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay. After her divorce, she remained active in film, and did not marry again.

7. Kenneth Branagh famously divorced his first wife and frequent co-star after she won Best Actress for "Howards End" in 1993. Which prolific British actress was he married to?

Answer: Emma Thompson

Kenneth Branagh famously starred opposite Emma Thompson in his Shakespeare films "Henry V" and "Much Ado About Nothing," but after her victory at the Oscars, they divorced. In 2003, Thompson remarried, to actor Greg Wise.

8. Eric Benet, a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, divorced the 2002 Best Actress Oscar winner for "Monster's Ball," the first African-American actress to win the award. Who was it?

Answer: Halle Berry

Halle Berry won for "Monster's Ball", a historic success, and then she and her second husband Eric Benet split a few short years later amid various publicized scandals.

Answer: Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet and her second husband, Sam Mendes (director of "American Beauty", "Road to Perdition", and "Skyfall"), split in 2010, after her win for "The Reader." In 2012, Winslet married Ned Rocknroll.

Answer: Sandra Bullock

Sandra Bullock's marriage fell apart rather spectacularly, a definite "good girl/bad boy" scenario in the tabloids. She adopted a child since the scandal, and got rid of the husband.

Source: Author merylfederman

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