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1. In the 1930s and 1940s William Powell and Myrna Loy starred together in 14 films. Six of those films were in the "Thin Man" series, featuring the characters Nick and Nora Charles. Which one of the films listed below was not part of this film series but does star Powell and Loy?

Answer: The Great Ziegfeld

"The Great Ziegfeld" (1936) focuses on the life of Flo Ziegfeld, (Powell), two of his wives, Anna Held (Luise Rainer) and Billie Burke (Myrna Loy), and the famous Ziegfeld Follies. Interestingly, the movie also stars Frank Morgan, who is best known as The Wizard in "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), and the real life Billie Burke, who was the actress who portrayed the good witch Glinda in the same movie.

Other than the "Thin Man" films, Powell and Loy also appeared together in "Manhattan Melodrama" (1934), "Evelyn Prentice" (1934), "Libeled Lady" (1936), "Double Wedding" (1937), "I Love You Again" (1940), "Love Crazy" 1941, and "The Senator was Indiscreet" (1947). "Ziegfeld Follies" (1945) starred Powell in his role as Zeigfeld, but not Loy.

It did however also star Lucille Ball and Judy Garland, (yes - Dorothy from "The Wizard of Oz"). "My Man Godfrey" (1936) has Powell with Carole Lombard. "The Bachelor & the Bobby-Soxer" (1947) features Loy with Cary Grant and Rudy Vallee.

2. Between 1942 and 1967 Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn were featured together in nine different motion pictures. Which of those films included the following dialogue? Matt Drayton: "Tell me something. This ever occur to you, that this might happen?" Christina Drayton: "No." Matt Drayton: "Well, can you tell me your reaction? How do you feel about it?" Christina Drayton: "Oh, I don't know. I was shaken at first. I still am I suppose. But Matt, they're serious. They mean what they are saying, both of them. They know what they are doing." Matt Drayton: "No, they may mean what they're saying, I accept that. But they don't know what they are doing. I won't accept that."

Answer: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

The 1967 film "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" stars Tracy and Hepburn as Matthew and Christine Dayton. The Draytons are an upper class San Francisco family who are quite surprised when their daughter brings home her fianc� for their first meeting. He seems ideal, except that he is African American and it is the 60s.

The daughter, Joanna, is played by Hepburn's niece, Katharine Houghton. Sidney Poitier was cast as the fianc�. Hepburn won an Oscar for her role, and William Rose won another for writing.

The movie garnered another eight Oscar nominations. Tracy and Hepburn had an off-screen romance from 1943 until his death in 1967. Because it was Tracy's last film, Hepburn never watched "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". "Adams Rib" (1949) and "Pat & Mike" (1952) also starred the pair. "Father of the Bride" (1950) featured Tracy with Joan Bennett.

3. Cary Grant shared the screen multiple times with several different leading ladies. Grant was paired with Katharine Hepburn four times, and three times each with Deborah Kerr, Irene Dunne, and Sylvia Sidney. Which of the following movies featured both Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn?

Answer: Bringing Up Baby

The now classic 1938 film "Bringing Up Baby" was such a box office flop that director Howard Hawks was fired and Katharine Hepburn was labeled box office poison. Her return to stardom didn't take long, beginning with the 1940 movie "The Philadelphia Story", also with Cary Grant.

Hepburn had never done comedy work prior to "Bringing Up Baby" and needed some tutoring. One of her tutors was silent film star Harold Lloyd, and Hawks actually based Grant's character on Lloyd. "My Favorite Wife" (1940) stars Grant with Irene Dunne, while in "An Affair to Remember" (1957) he was paired with Deborah Kerr.

The 1956 film "The Rainmaker" featured Hepburn with Burt Lancaster.

4. John Wayne was arguably one of the most prolific film stars of all time. He is better known as the no-nonsense star of western and military themed films and for his slow speech and distinctive walk, than for his leading ladies. However, one actress was featured on film with Wayne five different times between 1950 and 1971. Which of the following actresses appeared with Wayne in "Rio Grande" and "Wings of Eagles"?

Answer: Maureen O'Hara

Maureen O'Hara appeared with John Wayne in "Rio Grande" (1950), "The Quiet Man" (1952), "Wings of Eagles" (1957), "McClintock!" (1963), and "Big Jake" (1971). You might also recognize her from "Spencer's Mountain" (1963), "Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation" (1962), or "The Parent Trap" (1961). But, almost everyone will remember her from the 1947 movie "Miracle on 34th Street" with Edmund Gwenn, John Payne, and a young Natalie Wood.

Her last husband, General Charles Blair, was in reality much like a typical John Wayne movie character. Strangely, Blair and Wayne passed away within nine months of each other in 1978 and 1979. Katharine Hepburn stared with Wayne in "Rooster Cogburn" (1975), and Lauren Bacall was featured with Wayne in "The Shootist" (1976). June Allyson never appeared in a movie with Wayne.

5. Elvis Presley had one of the most impressive lists of leading ladies in movie history, but most appeared in only one Elvis film. However, Shelly Fabares appeared three times with The King. Which of the following films did not star his most frequent leading lady, Shelly Fabares?

Answer: Viva Las Vegas

The 1964 film "Viva Las Vegas" was the only appearance The King made with Ann-Margret. Presley plays the part of Lucky Jackson, who is a race car driver with a car unfortunately lacking an engine. He works as waiter while trying to earn money to fix the car and, of course, woo the attractive Rusty Martin (Margaret).

The film also features William Demarest, better known as Uncle Charlie from "My Three Sons", as Mr. Martin. The stars recorded a song named "You're the Boss" for the film, but it was considered too sexy and was cut. You can find the song on YouTube. "You're the Boss" has more recently been covered by Brian Setzer and Gwen Stefani and is available on the Brian Setzer Orchestra CD titled "The Dirty Boogie".

The three films with Shelly Fabares were all released between 1965 and 1967.

6. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were married for 50 years, and starred together on film nine times. Which of the following movies cast Newman as Ben Quick, a man with an unsavory reputation and a potential suitor for the wealthy and proper Clara Varner, played by Woodward?

Answer: The Long Hot Summer

"The Long Hot Summer" (1958) had a star-studded cast including Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles, Lee Remick, and Angela Lansbury. The movie is based on stories by William Faulkner, primarily "The Hamlet". Ben Quick (Newman) relocates to the community of Frenchman's Bend, Mississippi, after accusations of being a barn burner.

The relationship between the drifter and the prim and proper schoolteacher Clara Varner (Woodward) is volatile. It is no real surprise when the barn actually does burn. Newman was married and his wife was expecting their second child in 1953 when he first met Woodward while they both worked as understudies on the Broadway production "Picnic".

When they met again for this film they quickly became a couple. Woodward was pregnant before the film was completed. Newman divorced his first wife and married Woodward. But, Woodward had a miscarriage during their honeymoon.

The couple later had three children of their own. "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958) paired Newman with Elizabeth Taylor. "The Three Faces of Eve" (1957) featured Woodward with David Wayne. "Harper" is a 1966 film starring Newman and Lauren Bacall.

7. Humphrey Bogart has long been considered one of the greatest actors of all time. Who starred with him in the classic movies "To Have and Have Not", "The Big Sleep", "Dark Passage", and "Key Largo"?

Answer: Lauren Bacall

Lauren Bacall has also appeared in "Sex and the Single Girl" (1964), "Designing Women" (1957), and the 1953 movie "How To Marry a Millionaire" with Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe. She made four films with Humphrey Bogart between 1941 and 1948. The two were married in 1945, and remained married until Bogart's death in 1957.

In 1961 Bacall remarried, this time to film star Jason Robards. However, Bacall and Robards never appeared together in a motion picture. "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) starred Bogart with Mary Astor. "Casablanca" (1942) featured Bogart with Ingrid Bergman. "The African Queen" (1951) paired Bogart with Katharine Hepburn.

8. Janet Leigh may be best known for her 1960 role in "Psycho", even though her character is murdered early in the film. Between 1953 and 1960 Janet Leigh was paired with the same co-star five times in "Houdini", "The Black Shield of Falworth", "The Perfect Furlough", "The Vikings", and "Who Was That Lady?". Who was Leigh's repeat co-star in these five films?

Answer: Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis also appeared in "Some Like it Hot" (1959), "Operation Petticoat" (1959), "Spartacus" (1960), "The Great Impostor" (1961), "The Boston Strangler" (1968), and many other films. Curtis had virtually zero formal education and grew up in poverty.

It was only following an honorable discharge from the U.S. Navy in 1945 that he realized the G.I. Bill would fund his education expenses through acting school. Curtis was married six times and Janet Leigh was his first wife. The two were married from 1951 to 1962 and had two children, including film star Jamie Lee Curtis.

The other, older, daughter, Kelly Curtis appears in the 1958 film "The Vikings" with her parents, and in the 1983 film "Trading Places" with her sister. Jamie Lee and her mother appear together in "The Fog" (1980). Leigh appeared with Dick Van Dyke in "Bye Bye Birdie" (1963), Jerry Lewis in "Three on a Couch" (1966), and Anthony Perkins in "Psycho", (1960).

9. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers have to be one of the most recognized film couples of all time. They sang and danced together nine times on the silver screen. Which of the following movies is one of the nine starring Astaire and Rogers?

Answer: Top Hat

"Top Hat" is a 1935 film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers which received four Oscar nominations for art direction, dance direction, original song, and best picture. Complications and mistaken identity ensue when Jerry Travers (Astaire) disturbs a sleeping Dale Tremont (Rogers) while tap dancing at night in his hotel room. Oh, and there is more dancing too. Lyrics and music are by Irving Berlin.

The two starred in eight movies between 1935 and 1939, with one more, "The Barkley's of Broadway", in 1949. "Funny Face" (1957) stars Astaire with Audrey Hepburn, and "Holiday Inn" (1942) pairs Astaire with Bing Crosby and Marjorie Reynolds. "We're Not Married" is a 1952 film with Ginger Rogers and Fred Allen.

10. James Stewart is one of the most beloved actors of all time, and was a film star during five different decades. He is well known for titles such as "It's a Wonderful Life", "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", "Harvey", "Anatomy of a Murder", and numerous western themed films. His most frequent leading lady starred with him in "The Shopworn Angel" and "The Shop Around the Corner", among others. Which of the actresses listed below appeared with Stewart in those two films?

Answer: Margaret Sullavan

Margaret Sullavan starred with James Stewart in "Next Time We Love" (1936), "The Shopworn Angel" (1938), "The Shop Around the Corner" (1940), and "The Mortal Storm" (1940). Sullavan married Henry Fonda on Christmas Day in 1931, but the marriage only lasted two months. Fonda's son Peter later had a crush on Sullavan's daughter Bridget. Peter Fonda would go on to name his own daughter, Bridget Fonda, in remembrance of that crush. Stewart starred in two movies released in 1958 with Kim Novak, "Vertigo" and "Bell Book and Candle". June Allyson was paired with Stewart three times. "The Stratton Story" (1949, "The Glenn Miller Story" (1954), and "Strategic Air Command" (1955) all featured Stewart and Allyson. Donna Reed is known for her role with Stewart in the 1946 classic "It's a Wonderful Life".

Source: Author OutlookDude

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Match Game Part 1 Trivia Quiz

This quiz is about actors and actresses who have appeared together frequently in film, and the films they have made together. Part 1 is primarily focused on the 1930s through the 1960s.

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