| Movie | Biographical Character | Actor/Actress |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Sunrise at Campobello | a)Shirley Muldowney | i)Dennis Quaid |
| 2 Fear Strikes Out | b)Jimmy Walker | ii)Diana Ross |
| 3 Heart Like A Wheel | c)Audie Murphy | iii)James Cagney |
| 4 Monkey On My Back | d)Earl Long | iv)Tony Curtis |
| 5 Carve Her Name w/ Pride | e)Eva Tanguay | v)Marilyn Hassett |
| 6 Great Balls Of Fire | f)Barbara Graham | vi)Betty Hutton |
| 7 Love Me Or Leave Me | g)Norman V. Peale | vii)Frank Sinatra |
| 8 PT 109 | h)Richie Valens | viii)Paul Newman |
| 9 I Want To Live | i)Marjorie Lawrence | ix)Burgess Meredith |
| 10 Mommie Dearest | j)Violette Szabo | x)Bob Hope |
| 11 To Hell And Back | k)Albert De Salvo | xi)Eleanor Parker |
| 12 The Gallant Hours | l)Joe E. Lewis | xii)Ralph Bellamy |
| 13 The I Don’t Care Girl | m)Joan Crawford | xiii)Virginia McKenna |
| 14 The Boston Strangler | n)John F. Kennedy | xiv)Ingrid Bergman |
| 15 Incendiary Blonde | o)Billie Holliday | xv)Susan Hayward |
| 16 The Story of G.I.Joe | p)“Bull” Halsey | xvi)Mitzi Gaynor |
| 17 The Inn of the 6th Happiness | q)Jimmy Piersall | xvii)Cliff Robertson |
| 18 Blaze | r)Jill Kinmont | xviii)Lou Diamond Phillips |
| 19 Lady Sings the Blues | s)Ruth Etting | xix)Don Murray |
| 20 One Man’s Way | t)Gladys Aylward | xx)Bonnie Bedelia |
| 21 The Joker Is Wild | u)Barney Ross | xxi)Doris Day |
| 22 Interrupted Melody | v)Ernie Pyle | xxii)Audie Murphy |
| 23 La Bamba | w)Texas Guinan | xxiii)Faye Dunaway |
| 24 The Other Side of the Mtn. | x)F. D. Roosevelt | xxiv)Cameron Mitchell |
| 25 Beau James | y)Jerry Lee Lewis | xxv)Anthony Perkins |
Fear Strikes Out concerned a baseball player who had a nervous breakdown
Heart Like A Wheel was about a female race car driver.
Monkey On My Back starred an actor better known for character roles in the story of a boxer battling drug addiction.
Carve Her Name With Pride is an excellent World War II story about a Hungarian-born nurse going undercover to aid the British war effort; co-starring Paul Scofield
To Hell And Back was about the most decorated US enlisted man in World War II The Gallant Hours was about a US Naval hero.
The I Don’t Care Girl was about a song-and-dance performer
Incendiary Blonde starred an ubiquitous singer-dancer-actress as a famous saloon keeper.
The Inn Of The Sixth Happiness was about a missionary in Asia.
One Man’s Way is about the early life of a US - born preacher-philosopher
vInterrupted Melody is about an Australian singer battling paralysis starring an actress who also appeared in the Sound of Music.
The Other Side of The Mountain was about a skier involved in a crippling accident.
End of Hints: go back to quiz and see if this helps. Scroll down further for answers.
1 - x (FDR) -Ralph Bellamy
2 - q - (Jimmy Piersall) - Anthony Perkins
3 - a - (Shirley Muldowney) - Bonnie Bedelia
4 - u - (Barney Ross) - Cameron Mitchell
5 - j - (Violeete Szabo) - Virginia McKenna
6 - y - (Jerry Lee Lewis) - Dennis Quaid
7 - s - (Ruth Etting) - Doris Day
8 - n - (JFK) - Cliff Robertson
9 - f - (Barbara Graham) - Susan Hayward
10 - m - (Joan Crawford) - Faye Dunaway -- No Wire Hangers, -- Ever!!!
11 - c - (Audie Murphy) - Audie Murphy
12 - p - (Bull Halsey) - James Cagney
13 - e - (Eva Tanguay) - Mitzi Gaynor
14 - k - (Albert DeSalvo) - Tony Curtis
15 - w - (Texas Guinan) - Betty Hutton
16 - v - (Ernie Pyle) - Burgess Meredith
17 - t - (Gladys Aylward) - Ingrid Bergman
18 - d - (Earl Long) - Paul Newman
19 - o - (Billie Holiday) - Diana Ross
20 - g - (Norman Vincent Peale) - Don Murray
21 - l - (Joe E. Lewis) - Frank Sinatra -- “All The Way”
22 - i - (Marjorie Lawrence) - Eleanor Parker
23 - h - (Richie Valens) - Lou Diamond Phillips
24 - r - (Jill Kinmont) - Marilyn Hassett
25 - b - (Jimmy Walker) - Bob Hope -- “Will You Love Me In December?”
Example 1: Al Pacino (ON) and James
Caan (ON) -- brothers in THE GODFATHER. Example 2: Joan Crawford (AA) and Ann Blyth (ON) --
mother/daughter in MILDRED PIERCE. Get It? Got it! Good!
Helpful Hints : AA -- Academy Award; ON -- Oscar Nomination Identify the blood relationship of the
following two performers and the film they appeared in.
01: Susan Sarandon and Winona Ryder (ON)
02: Geena Davis and Lori Petty
03: Michelle Pfeiffer and Jennifer Jason Leigh
04: Shirley MacLaine and Meryl Streep (ON)
05: Angelica Huston (ON) and John Cusack
06: Kevin Costner and Scott Glenn
07: Jackie Gleason and Tom Hanks
08: Olympia Dukakis and Ted Danson
09: Cher and Eric Stolz
10: Geraldine Page (AA) and John Heard
11: Jack Lemmon (ON) and Robby Benson
12: Barbara Hershey and Diane Wiest (AA)
13: Harrison Ford and River Phoenix
14: Kim Stanley (ON)and Jessica Lange (ON)
15: Donald Sutherland and Timothy Hutton (AA)
16: Sean Connery and Meg Ryan
17: Sally Field and Julia Roberts (ON)
18: Sylvester Stallone and Armand Assante
19: Ingrid Bergman (ON) and Liv Ullman
20: John Huston and Faye Dunaway (ON)
21: Ray Milland and Ryan O'Neal (ON)
22: Piper Laurie (ON) and Sissy Spacek (ON)
23: Sylvia Sidney (ON) and JoAnne Woodward (ON)
24: Diane Keaton (AA) and Christopher Walken
25: Ellen Burstyn (ON) and Cybil Shepard
26: Lauren Bacall and Ron Howard
27: Dustin Hoffman and Roy Scheider
28: Charles Boyer and Glenn Ford
29: Trevor Howard (ON) and Dean Stockwell
30: Ruth Gordon (ON) and Natalie Wood
31: Anne Bancroft (ON) and Katharine Ross (ON)
32: Ed Begley (AA) and Shirley Knight (ON)
33: Mildred Natwick (ON) and Jane Fonda
34: Carroll Baker and Debbie Reynolds
35: Shelley Winters (AA) and Elizabeth Hartman (ON)
36: Martin Balsam (AA) and Jason Robards
37: Beah Richards (ON) and Sidney Poitier
38: Thelma Ritter (ON) and Burt Lancaster (ON)
39: Warren Beatty (ON) and Gene Hackman (ON)
40: Angela Lansbury (ON) and Lawrence Harvey
41: Robert Mitchum and George Hamilton
42: James Stewart and Sandra Dee
43: Tom Tryon and Carol Lynley
44: Patricia Neal (ON) and Martin Sheen
45: John Wayne and Dean Martin
46: Anna Magnani (AA) and Marissa Pavan (ON)
47: Vivien Leigh (AA) and Kim Hunter (AA)
48: Dean Jagger and Audrey Hepburn (ON)
49: Gladys Cooper and Deborah Kerr (ON)
50: Robert Stack (ON) and Dorothy Malone (AA)
51: Frank Sinatra and Edward G. Robinson
52: Robert Wagner and Jeffrey Hunter
53: Burl Ives and Paul Newman (ON)
54: Jean Arthur and Brandon deWilde (ON)
55: Martha Scott and Charlton Heston (AA)
56: Spencer Tracy and Richard Widmark
57: Raymond Massey and James Dean (ON)
58: Katharine Hepburn (ON) and Lloyd Bridges
59: Helen Hayes and Robert Walker
60: Marlon Brando (ON) and Anthony Quinn (AA)
61: Fredric March (ON) and Kevin McCarthy (ON)
62: Gary Cooper and Anthony Perkins (ON)
63: Victor MacLaglen (ON) and Maureen O'Hara
64: Bette Davis and Barry Fitzgerald
65: Elizabeth Taylor and Dennis Hopper
66: Betty Field and Kim Novak
67: Don Murray and Anthony Franciosa (ON)
68: Anne Revere and Montgomery Clift (ON)
69: Jesse Royce Landis and Grace Kelly
70: Irene Dunne (ON) and Barbara Bel Geddes (ON)
71: Gene Tierney (ON) and Jeanne Crain
72: Jane Darwell (AA) and Henry Fonda (ON)
73: Rosalind Russell (ON) and Janet Blair
74: Donald Crisp (AA) and Roddy McDowell
75: Greer Garson (AA) and Richard Nye
76: Charles Bickford (ON) and Jane Wyman (AA)
77: Olivia deHavilland and Ida Lupino
78: Dana Andrews and Farley Granger
79: Kirk Douglas (ON) and Arthur Kennedy (ON)
80: Mickey Rooney and Van Johnson
81: Walter Huston (ON)and James Cagney (AA)
82: Loretta Young (AA) and James Arness
83: Clark Gable and Robert Sterling
84: Dorothy Maguire (ON) and Jane Wyatt
85: Broderick Crawford (AA) and John Derek
86: Gregory Peck and Joseph Cotten
87: Claudette Colbert (ON) and Shirley Temple
88: Ethel Barrymore (AA) and Cary Grant (ON)
89: William Demerest and Betty Hutton
90: Wallace Beery (AA) and Jackie Cooper
91: Marjorie Main and Humphrey Bogart
92: Melvyn Douglas and Freddie Bartholomew
93: Ronald Colman and John Howard
94: Barbara Stanwyck (ON) and Anne Shirley (ON)
95: Alice Brady (ON) and Carole Lombard (ON)
96: Errol Flynn and Patric Knowles
97: David Niven and Geraldine Fitzgerald (ON)
98: Don Ameche and Tyrone Power
99: Lee J. Cobb and William Holden
100: Charles Laughton and Norma Shearer (ON)
ANSWERS :
01: mother/daughter in LITTLE WOMEN
02: sisters in A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN
03: sisters in A THOUSAND ACRES
04: mother/daughter in POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE
05: mother/son in THE GRIFTERS
06: brothers in SILVERADO
07: father/son in NOTHING IN COMMON
08: mother/son in DAD
09: mother/son in MASK
10: mother/son in A TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL
11: father/son in TRIBUTE
12: sisters in HANNAH AND HER SISTERS
13: mother/daughter in FRANCES
14: father/son in ORDINARY PEOPLE
15: father/son in THE MOSQUITO COAST
16: father/daughter in THE PRESIDIO
17: mother/daughter in STEEL MAGNOLIAS
18: brothers in PARADISE ALLEY
19: mother/daughter in AUTUMN SONATA
20: father/daughter plus in CHINATOWN
21: father/son in LOVE STORY
22: mother/daughter in CARRIE
23: mother/daughter in SUMMER WISHES,WINTER DREAMS
24: sister/brother in ANNIE HALL
25: mother/daughter in THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
26: mother/son in THE SHOOTIST
27: brothers in MARATHON MAN
28: father/son in FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCOLAPSE
29: father/son in SONS AND LOVERS
30: mother/daughter in INSIDE DAISY CLOVER
31: mother/daughter in THE GRADUATE
32: father/daughter in SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH
33: mother/daughter in BAREFOOT IN THE PARK
34: sisters in HOW THE WEST WAS WON
35: mother/daughter in A PATCH OF BLUE
36: brothers in A THOUSAND CLOWNS
37: mother/son in GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER
38: mother/son in BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ
39: brothers in BONNIE AND CLYDE
40: mother/son in THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
41: father/son in HOME FROM THE HILL
42: father/daughter in TAKE HER, SHE'S MINE
43: brother/sister in THE CARDINAL
44: mother/son in THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES
45: brothers in THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER
46: mother/daughter in THE ROSE TATOO
47: sisters in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
48: father/daughter in THE NUN'S STORY
49: mother/daughter in SEPARATE TABLES
50: brother/sister in WRITTEN ON THE WIND
51: brothers in A HOLE IN THE HEAD
52: brothers in THE TRUE STORY OF JESSE JAMES
53: father/son in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
54: mother/son in SHANE
55: mother/son in BEN HUR
56: father/son in BROKEN LANCE
57: father/son in EAST OF EDEN
58: sister/brother in THE RAINMAKER
59: mother/son in MY SON JOHN
60: brothers in VIVA ZAPATA
61: father/son in DEATH OF A SALESMAN
62: father/son in FRIENDLY PERSUASION
63: sister/brother in THE QUIET MAN
64: sister/brother in THE CATERED AFFAIR
65: mother/son in GIANT
66: mother/daughter in PICNIC
67: brothers in A HATFUL OF RAIN
68: mother/son in A PLACE IN THE SUN
69: mother/daughter in TO CATCH A THIEF
70: mother/daughter in I REMEMBER MAMA
71: sisters in LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN
72: mother/son in THE GRAPES OF WRATH
73: sisters in MY SISTER EILEEN
74: father/son in HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
75: mother/son (married in real life) in MRS. MINIVER
76: father/daughter in JOHNNY BELINDA
77: sisters (the Brontes) in DEVOTION
78: brothers in NORTH STAR
79: brothers in CHAMPION
80: brothers in THE HUMAN COMEDY
81: father/son in YANKEE DOODLE DANDY
82: sister/brother in THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER
83: brothers in SOMEWHERE I'LL FIND YOU
84: sisters in GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT
85: father/son in ALL THE KING'S MEN
86: brothers in DUEL IN THE SUN
87: mother/daughter in SINCE YOU WENT AWAY
88: mother/son in NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART
89: father/daughter in THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK
90: father/son in THE CHAMP
91: mother/son in DEAD END
92: father/son in CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS
93: brothers in LOST HORIZON
94: mother/daughter in STELLA DALLAS
95: mother/daughter in MY MAN GODFREY
96: brothers in CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
97: brother/sister in WUTHERING HEIGHTS
98: brothers in IN OLD CHICAGO
99: father/son in GOLDEN BOY
100: father/daughter in THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET
1. What was Scarlett's original name in the novel?
2. What was Tara's original name?
3. Whom did author Margaret Mitchell prefer cast as Rhett?
4. Who was the first director?
5. Name the famous "Jazz Age" writer who briefly worked on the script for GWTW.
6. Which GWTW cast members played the following roles later:
......Superman
......Jiminy Cricket
......Rochester
......Polly Benedict
......Beaulah
7. What was the date of the Atlanta premiere?
8. What was Vivien Leigh's given name?
9. Why did Leslie Howard take the role of Ashley when he HATED the part?
10. Who suggested Olivia deHavilland for the role of Melanie?
11. What was Bonnie Blue Butler's real name?
12. What was the first scene shot?
13. What was the biggest problem Thomas Mitchell had in performing his role of Gerald O'Hara?
14. How many Oscars were won?
15. What were the other Best Picture nominees during that Golden Year in Hollywood?
16. When was the first television broadcast?
17. What Bette Davis film tried to cash in on GWTW fever before?
18. Who is the only major star from GWTW yet alive?
19. Who was the front-runner for Scarlett until Leigh's casting?
20. Why was there controversy over that person's casting?
21. What famous movie's set was used for the Burning of Atlanta scene?
22. What was the name of the Wilkes' plantation?
23. What film did producer David Selznick bill as his "Western GWTW"?
24. What film was Victor Fleming directing when he got the call to take over the filming of GWTW?
25. Where did Rhett and Scarlett honeymoon?
1. Pansy O'Hara
2. Fontenoy Hall
3. Basil Rathbone
4. George Cukor
5. F. Scott Fitzgerald
6a. George Reeves (Stuart Tarleton)
6b. Cliff Edwards (the soldier in the bandage-wrapping scene)
6c. Eddie Anderson (Uncle Peter)
6d. Ann Rutherford (Careen)
6e. Hattie McDaniel (Mammy)
7. December 19, 1939
8. Vivian Mary Hartley
9. David Selznick said that he could direct Intermezzo
10. Her sister, Joan Fontaine, who had been turned down for Scarlett
11. Eugenia Victoria
12. On Thursday, January 26, 1939, Cukor shot a short scene between Mammy and Scarlett in her bedroom before the barbeque
13. He had a fear of horses
14. Eight Oscars, plus one Special Award, one Scientific and Technical Award, and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for David O. Selznick--eleven total
15. Dark Victory, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Love Affair, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, Of Mice and Men, Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz, Wuthering Heights
16. June 11, 1976, on HBO. It was broadcast on CBS later that year on commercial television.
17. Jezebel
18. Olivia deHavilland
19. Paulette Goddard
20. Miss Goddard was living with Charlie Chaplin without benefit of marriage, a scandal in the 30s
21. King Kong
22. Twelve Oaks
23. Duel in the Sun
24. The Wizard of Oz
25. New Orleans
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