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1.

Debra Winger and Robert Redford played opposing lawyers in an art-theft case in which movie?

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Answer: Legal Eagles
2.

Who plays an Italian-American temp working for Wesley Snipes in "Jungle Fever"?

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Answer: Annabella Sciora
3.

Who played the mom in "Stuart Little" and "Stuart Little 2"?

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Answer: Geena Davis
4.

Who played Tina Turner in "What's Love Got To Do With It"?

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Answer: Angela Bassett
5.

Who starred opposite Steve McQueen in the original version of "The Thomas Crown Affair"?

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Answer: Faye Dunaway
6.

Who saw Hayley Mills in "Tiger Bay" in 1959 and arranged for her to play the lead role in "Pollyanna" the following year?

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Answer: Walt Disney's Wife
7.

Who played the lead in the 1951 film "Royal Wedding" after June Allyson and Judy Garland declined?

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Answer: Jane Powell
8.

Who sang "Sweet Potato Piper" with Hope and Crosby in "The Road to Singapore"?

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Answer: Dorothy Lamour
9.

In which 1983 movie starring Charles Martin Smith did Martha Ittimangnaq have a role?

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Answer: Never Cry Wolf
10.

Who did Clark Gable fall in love with in the 1938 movie "Too Hot To Handle"?

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Answer: Myrna Loy
11.

What movie starred Diana Ross as a poor Chicago secretary trying to make it in the fashion world?

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Answer: Mahogany
12.

Who played the self-sacrificing seamstress in King Vidor's 1937 movie, "Stella Dallas"?

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Answer: Barbara Stanwyck
13.

In Robert Siodmak's 1949 movie "The File On Thelma Jordan", who said, "Maybe I'm just a dame and I didn't know"?

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Answer: Barbara Stanwyck
14.

Whose first movie "Golden Boy" starred Barbara Stanwyck, whose career he credits her with launching?

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Answer: William Holden
15.

Who starred with Charlie Chaplin in "Modern Times"?

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Answer: Paulette Goddard
16.

Which well-known actress is Natasha Richardson's real-life mother?

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Answer: Vanessa Redgrave
17.

In the 1931 movie based on the life of Aimee Semple McPherson, who played the part of the evangelist?

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Answer: Barbara Stanwyck
18.

Why was "A Man Called Peter" the last movie for Jean Peter?

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Answer: Retired To Marry Howard Hughes
19.

Who plays Patrick Fugit's strict but progressive and broadminded mother in "Almost Famous"?

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Answer: Frances McDormand
20.

In the 2000 film "Dancer in the Dark", who plays a Czech immigrant to the U.S. who is going blind?

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Answer: Icelandic Singer Bjork
21.

Who wore a bowler hat and fish net stockings in a movie about Hitler youth, sex and music?

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Answer: Liza Minnelli
22.

When Meg Tilly and Christine Lahti head for Alaska in a 1992 film, what small town do they leave?

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Answer: Normal
23.

Who played the mother in the TV series "Father Knows Best", which ran from 1954 - 1962?

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Answer: Jane Wyatt
24.

What was Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner's yacht from which she drowned off Catalina Island in 1981?

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Answer: Splendor
25.

Who won a Tony Award for her performance in the 1953 Broadway play, "Wonderful Town"?

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Answer: Rosalind Russell
26.

In "Friendly Persuasion", who was the female lead with Gary Cooper and Anthony Perkins?

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Answer: Dorothy McGuire
27.

Who won an Academy Award for Best Actress playing a housewife in "Come Back, Little Sheeba" in 1952?

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Answer: Shirley Booth
28.

How old was Cyd Charisse when she married Nico Charisse?

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Answer: 18
29.

Which actress appears in more Woody Allen films than any other?

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Answer: Diane Keaton
30.

Which actresss won two Oscars playing the same person in two different films?

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Answer: Katherine Hepburn
31.

Who played the passionate and love-obsessed Adele Hugo in "The Story of Adele H."?

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Answer: Isabelle Adjani
32.

Who got her start on the ABC soap opera "All My Children"?

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Answer: Sarah Michelle Gellar
33.

Which actress starred in the 1954 movie which is commonly known as "7B47B"?

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Answer: Jane Powell
34.

In "Return To Snowy River", who plays the part of Jessica?

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Answer: Sigrid Thornton
35.

In the 1985 western "Silverado", who had what seems to be the only major female role?

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Answer: Linda Hunt
36.

Who sang "They're Either Too Young or Too Old" in the film "Thank Your Lucky Stars"?

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Answer: Bette Davis
37.

Who sang "The Music of Spring" in the 1947 movie "Cynthia"?

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Answer: Elizabeth Taylor
38.

Who was Gary Cooper's co-star in the 1932 movie of Hemingway's "A Farewell To Arms"?

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Answer: Helen Hayes
39.

Who won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award in 1958 for her role in "Separate Tables"?

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Answer: Wendy Hiller
40.

Who was a regular on the early TV show "Your Hit Parade" and had a number of hits including "La Fiacre"?

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Answer: Giselle MacKenzie
41.

Who starred with Kirk Douglas, Hoagy Carmichael and Doris Day in the 1950 movie, "Young Man With A Horn"?

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Answer: Lauren Bacall
42.

Which young actress made her debut in a 1939 Roy Rogers short feature?

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Answer: Doris Day
43.

Who played opposite Bing Crosby in the 1936 movie "Rhythm On The Range" in which he sang "I'm an Old Cow Hand"?

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Answer: Frances Farmer
44.

In the 1948 mystery thriller "The Accused", when a professor murders a student, who played the part of the straight-laced professor?

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Answer: Loretta Young
45.

Who played Mrs. Honoria Hegarty who refused to pay her dog license in the 1937 "Storm in a Teacup"?

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Answer: Sara Allgood
46.

In the 1938 film "Love Finds Andy Hardy", Andy has two dates for a party that will take place when?

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Answer: Christmastime
47.

From where did Cyd Charise get the name "Cyd"?

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Answer: Brother Couldn't Pronounce Sis

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