silent cinema

Question 1

Which actor — and future Nevada politician — was the husband of Clara Bow?

Answer 1

Rex BELL

Question 2

Clara Bow’s first hit film was 1926’s ‘Mantrap’ — based on a novel by which author?

Answer 2

Sinclair LEWIS

Question 3

Which British novelist popularised the concept of the “It” girl — inspiring the 1927 film of the same name, and the nickname for Clara Bow?

Answer 3

Elinor GLYN

Question 4

Still unsolved as of 2021, the 1922 murder of which Anglo-Irish-American film-director — discovered holding a photograph of the actress Mabel Normand, and mentioned in ‘Mack And Mabel’ — was Hollywood’s first major murder scandal?

Answer 4

William Desmond TAYLOR (accept William Cunningham DEANE-TANNER)

Question 5

Which 1914 Mack Sennett film — the only film made by Keystone to feature Charlie Chaplin, as well as Marie Dressler and Mabel Normand — is regarded as cinema’s first full-length comedy?

Answer 5

‘TILLIE’S PUNCTURED ROMANCE’