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Quiz about Women of the Golden Age of Hollywood
Quiz about Women of the Golden Age of Hollywood

Women of the Golden Age of Hollywood Quiz


Let's see how much you know about the these women of style, talent, and grace.

A multiple-choice quiz by Irish Tinker. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Author
Irish Tinker
Time
6 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
158,741
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
12 / 15
Plays
11328
Awards
Top 5% quiz!
Last 3 plays: Guest 49 (13/15), Guest 67 (15/15), yeats1 (14/15).
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Question 1 of 15
1. This on screen siren was discovered while sipping a soda at a drug store counter. She became known as "The Sweater Girl". Her off screen life was filled with scandal, she was married 7 times, and her daughter was involved in the fatal stabbing of the actress's lover, Johnny Stompanato. Who is she? Hint


Question 2 of 15
2. At age 19 she met her 44 year-old on screen leading man and knew he would be her leading man off screen as well. The pair married in 1945, had two children, and made four movies together. Who is she? Hint


Question 3 of 15
3. This striking red-head was one of WWII's most popular pin-up girls. She was married 5 times including a marriage to Orson Welles. She once said "Men fall in love with Gilda, they wake up next to me." Who is she? Hint


Question 4 of 15
4. This Paris born actress made her acting debut in 1923 on Broadway. She is best known for her role as Ellie Andrews in "It Happened One Night". When filming for this movie she went on the record as saying that it was the worst movie ever made. That role won her her first Oscar! Who is she? Hint


Question 5 of 15
5. This actress played a waitress, she played Queen Elizabeth, and every kind of woman in between. A certain feature on this woman inspired a 1982 hit for singer Kim Carnes. Who is she? Hint


Question 6 of 15
6. This actress was the highest paid actress of the early 1930s. She was known for her one liners filled with innuendos such as "I was Snow White but I drifted." The title of her autobiography is "Goodness Had Nothing To Do With It." Who is she? Hint


Question 7 of 15
7. This starlet was known for her wise-cracking roles. In 1972 she was awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her extensive charity work. One of her more notable characters proclaimed "Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death." Who is she? Hint


Question 8 of 15
8. Born the daughter of a North Carolina cotton farmer, this green eyed beauty had a contract with MGM by age 18. She was married three times - Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra. All three unions ended in divorce. Who is she? Hint


Question 9 of 15
9. This mid-westerner moved to Hollywood at the age of 16 and died just ten years later. She was married three times. She is remembered for saying "Would you be terribly shocked if I slipped into something more comfortable?" in the 1930 film "Hell's Angels". Who is she? Hint


Question 10 of 15
10. This daughter of a doctor and suffragette was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1907. She was taught to always speak her mind. She won her first of four Oscars for her role in "Morning Glory". Who is she? Hint


Question 11 of 15
11. This woman was the first actress to ever win an Oscar and an Emmy. In the 1990s she hit the headlines when her grown daughter (whom the actress always claimed she had adopted abroad) came forward with evidence that she was actually the daughter of the actress and Clark Gable. Who is this actress? Hint


Question 12 of 15
12. This Stockholm born actress is quoted as saying "I prayed to God 'please don't let me have a dull life.' And he obviously heard me." She made the headlines when she had an out of wedlock pregnancy. She won three Oscars one of which was for her role in "Anastasia". Who is she? Hint


Question 13 of 15
13. This Berlin born actress was known for her long, sexy legs. She was studying violin when a wrist injury caused her to switch to acting. Refusing Hitler's request to return to Germany to make pro Nazi films she instead toured with the USO and rallied the troops. She was nominated once for an Oscar, for the 1930 film "Morocco". Who is she? Hint


Question 14 of 15
14. This blonde actress was the star of such movies as "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and "True Confession". She died at the age of 33 in a plane crash. She was married twice; to actors William Powell and Clark Gable. Who is she? Hint


Question 15 of 15
15. This actress was the epitome of apple pies, clam bakes, the girl next door and every other All-American thing you can think of. Her over the shoulder pin-up was the most popular pin-up of WWII. Little did the troops know that she posed facing away from the camera to hide her pregnancy. Who is she? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. This on screen siren was discovered while sipping a soda at a drug store counter. She became known as "The Sweater Girl". Her off screen life was filled with scandal, she was married 7 times, and her daughter was involved in the fatal stabbing of the actress's lover, Johnny Stompanato. Who is she?

Answer: Lana Turner

Lana Turner was born in February, 1921 in Wallace, Idaho. She starred in over 65 movies including "Love Finds Andy Hardy" and "Calling Dr. Kildare". Turner died in 1995 of throat cancer.
2. At age 19 she met her 44 year-old on screen leading man and knew he would be her leading man off screen as well. The pair married in 1945, had two children, and made four movies together. Who is she?

Answer: Lauren Bacall

Lauren Bacall met Humphrey Bogart on the set of "To Have and Have Not" in 1944. The pair married in 1945. Bogart passed away in 1957, and Bacall died in 2014.
3. This striking red-head was one of WWII's most popular pin-up girls. She was married 5 times including a marriage to Orson Welles. She once said "Men fall in love with Gilda, they wake up next to me." Who is she?

Answer: Rita Hayworth

Rita Hayworth was born October 17, 1918 in Brooklyn, NY. She was best known for her role in "Gilda". She died in 1987 after a battle with Alzheimer's disease.
4. This Paris born actress made her acting debut in 1923 on Broadway. She is best known for her role as Ellie Andrews in "It Happened One Night". When filming for this movie she went on the record as saying that it was the worst movie ever made. That role won her her first Oscar! Who is she?

Answer: Claudette Colbert

Colbert was born Lily Chauchoin in 1903. She went on to make over 60 films. She died in Barbados in 1996 after suffering a stroke.
5. This actress played a waitress, she played Queen Elizabeth, and every kind of woman in between. A certain feature on this woman inspired a 1982 hit for singer Kim Carnes. Who is she?

Answer: Bette Davis

Davis was born in Lowell, MA in 1908. She made over 100 movies including such titles as "All About Eve" and "Jezebel". She died in 1989 of breast cancer.
6. This actress was the highest paid actress of the early 1930s. She was known for her one liners filled with innuendos such as "I was Snow White but I drifted." The title of her autobiography is "Goodness Had Nothing To Do With It." Who is she?

Answer: Mae West

West was born in New York in 1893. She's most well known for "She Done Him Wrong". She died in 1980 from a stroke.
7. This starlet was known for her wise-cracking roles. In 1972 she was awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her extensive charity work. One of her more notable characters proclaimed "Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death." Who is she?

Answer: Rosalind Russell

Russell was born in 1907 in Waterbury, CT. She is best known for her role in "Mame" and "His Girl Friday". She died of breast cancer in 1976.
8. Born the daughter of a North Carolina cotton farmer, this green eyed beauty had a contract with MGM by age 18. She was married three times - Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra. All three unions ended in divorce. Who is she?

Answer: Ava Gardner

Born in 1922, Gardner was the youngest of seven children. She was discovered when her photographer brother-in-law put her photo up in his studio window. Gardner died in England in 1990 of pneumonia.
9. This mid-westerner moved to Hollywood at the age of 16 and died just ten years later. She was married three times. She is remembered for saying "Would you be terribly shocked if I slipped into something more comfortable?" in the 1930 film "Hell's Angels". Who is she?

Answer: Jean Harlow

Jean Harlow was born in Kansas City Missouri in 1911. She died in 1937 of uremic poisoning brought on by acute nephritis.
10. This daughter of a doctor and suffragette was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1907. She was taught to always speak her mind. She won her first of four Oscars for her role in "Morning Glory". Who is she?

Answer: Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn was born in 1907. She went on to win four Oscars for "Morning Glory", "On Golden Pond", "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner", and "The Lion In Winter".
11. This woman was the first actress to ever win an Oscar and an Emmy. In the 1990s she hit the headlines when her grown daughter (whom the actress always claimed she had adopted abroad) came forward with evidence that she was actually the daughter of the actress and Clark Gable. Who is this actress?

Answer: Loretta Young

Loretta Young who was some times credited as Grechen Young was born in Utah in 1913. She died of ovarian cancer in 2000.
Her daughter, Judy Lewis, published her biography in 1994: "Uncommon Knowledge".
12. This Stockholm born actress is quoted as saying "I prayed to God 'please don't let me have a dull life.' And he obviously heard me." She made the headlines when she had an out of wedlock pregnancy. She won three Oscars one of which was for her role in "Anastasia". Who is she?

Answer: Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman was born on August 29, 1915. She died on her 67 birthday due to complications from breast cancer surgery.
13. This Berlin born actress was known for her long, sexy legs. She was studying violin when a wrist injury caused her to switch to acting. Refusing Hitler's request to return to Germany to make pro Nazi films she instead toured with the USO and rallied the troops. She was nominated once for an Oscar, for the 1930 film "Morocco". Who is she?

Answer: Marlene Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich was born in December, 1901. She died in 1992 of kidney failure.
14. This blonde actress was the star of such movies as "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and "True Confession". She died at the age of 33 in a plane crash. She was married twice; to actors William Powell and Clark Gable. Who is she?

Answer: Carole Lombard

Carol Lombard was born on 6th October 1908 in Indiana. She died on 16th January 1942 when her plane crashed into Table Rock Mountain, Nevada.
15. This actress was the epitome of apple pies, clam bakes, the girl next door and every other All-American thing you can think of. Her over the shoulder pin-up was the most popular pin-up of WWII. Little did the troops know that she posed facing away from the camera to hide her pregnancy. Who is she?

Answer: Betty Grable

Betty Grable was born in St. Louis in 1916. She died in 1973 in California of lung cancer.
Source: Author Irish Tinker

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