Old TV & Film Flashcards
Which actress won the first best actress Oscar for her appearances in 7th Heaven (1927), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) and Street Angel (1928)?
Janet Gaynor
Who starred opposite Janet Gaynor in the first A Star is Born film?
Frederic March
Which actor was known for his onscreen romances with actress Janet Gaynor in more than a dozen films, including 7th Heaven, Street Angel?
Charles Farrell
Who won a Best Actress Oscar for It Happened One Night?
Claudette Colbert
Which film was Bette Davis’ breakthrough role… it was an adaptation of a W. Somerset Maugham novel.
Of Human Bondage
Which Michael Curtiz film starring Errol Flynn concerns an imprisoned doctor and his fellow prisoners who escape their cruel island captivity to become West Indies pirates…
Captain Blood
Who starred in the title role in Hitchock’s Rebecca? She is also the only actress to have won on Oscar in a Hitchcock film (Suspicion)
Joan Fontaine
Wife of Laurence Olivier, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, for her performances as Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Vivien Leigh
Who directed Gone With The Wind?
Viktor Fleming
Which film marked John Ford’s first win for Best Director? Set in 1922, the plot concerns the underside of the Irish War of Independence and centers on a disgraced Republican man, played by Victor McLaglen, who anonymously informs on his former comrades.
The Informer
Which film did John Ford win hsi third Best Director for, famously beating Citizen Kane? It tells the story of the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family, from the point of view of the youngest child Huw.
How Green Was My Valley
For what film did John Ford win his fourth and final Best Director award? It stars John Wayne as Sean “Trooper Thorn” Thornton, an Irish-born American retired boxer, who travels from Pittsburgh to his birthplace of Innisfree to purchase the old family farm.
The Quiet Man
