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1. This American actress made her first film in 1951. It was nothing much, but the following year she landed the role of Amy Kane in "High Noon", for which Gary Cooper won an Oscar, playing her husband. In 1954, she made her first film for Alfred Hitchcock, "Dial M for Murder" and became a star and followed that up with another Hitchcock film, "Rear Window" also in 1954. That year was very special for her because she also produced an Oscar winning performance in "The Country Girl" (1954). She made another Hitchcock film in 1955 and a musical comedy in 1956 which proved to be her final film.
2. This actress has won three Oscars and been nominated for an Oscar on four other occasions. Her Oscar winning films were "Gaslight" (1944), "Anastasia" (1957) and "Murder on the Orient Express" (1975).
3. This American actor came to fame when he joined the cast of "Saturday Night Live" in 1975. In 1978 he had a minor role in National Lampoon's "Animal House" but the public loved his "Bluto" character and the film was a smash hit. His love of blues and soul music resulted in him and Dan Ackroyd appearing together as "The Blues Brothers" which proved successful. They made an album together and then a film of the same name.
4. This actor is best remembered for "Young Mr. Lincoln" (1939), "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), "12 Angry Men" (1957) and an Oscar winning performance in a film released in 1981 when he was 76 years old.
5. This British actor had a string of hit films in the 1950s. They included "Genevieve" (1953), "Reach for the Sky" (1956) and "A Night to Remember" (1957). Later in his career he made several TV series such as "The Forsyte Saga" where he starred as Jolyon Forsyte and "Father Brown" where he played the title character.
6. This Hugo award winning writer has had many of his works turned into films including "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" which became "Bladerunner" (1982) and "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" which became "Total Recall" (1990). He also wrote "Minority Report" (2002). Although now long dead, his work is still being made into films. Recently, in 2011, his story "Adjustment Team" was filmed as "The Adjustment Bureau".
7. This British actor is best known for playing Alfred Doolittle, father of Eliza Doolittle in "My Fair Lady" (1964), "Brief Encounter" (1945) and "The Lavender Hill Mob" (1951).
8. This British actor was an early star of the British soap "Coronation Street". He will always be remembered however for the role of Captain Mainwaring in the British comedy series "Dad's Army" which was about a largely elderly group of gents who formed the local Home Guard (or local voluntary defence force) to defend their neighbourhood in the event of a German invasion during the Second World War.
9. This country singer was one of the most successful of all time. At the age of 17 he joined the navy, serving as a coxswain in the Solomon Islands. While there he learned to play the guitar and fell in love with Hawaiian music. After his discharge in 1947 he got his own TV show in Phoenix. His 1957 song "A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation" sold over 1 million copies and won him a gold disc. His signature song was "El Paso". The Academy of Country Music named him as Artist of the Decade (1960-69).
10. This French clown-comedian was descended from Russian nobility. He made his screen debut in a series of shorts notably "Oscar, champion de tennis" (1932) and "Soigne ton gauche" ("Watch your left") in 1936 which was a very funny boxing film. His most famous film is "Les Vacances de M. Hulot" (1953) (Mister Hulot's Holiday).
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