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Quiz: Movies from the 1950s

By Elissa Royal, March-April 2004





1. What famous director played Norma Desmond's (Gloria Swanson) butler in Sunset Boulevard?

  Billy Wilder
  Erich Von Stroheim
  Elia Kazan
  Vincente Minnelli

2. "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night." What was the name of Bette Davis's character who uttered this frequently imitated line in All About Eve?

  Regina Giddens
  Eve Harrington
  Mildred Rogers
  Margo Channing

3. What 1950s musical, now considered to be one of the best American movies of all time, earned favorable reviews but no Oscars when it was first released?

  Singin' in the Rain
  A Star Is Born
  Damn Yankees
  Gigi

4. In An American in Paris, Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) dances with

  Cyd Charisse
  Leslie Caron
  an animated mouse
  Fred Astaire

5. In From Here to Eternity, a famous scene shows Sergeant Milton Warden (Burt Lancaster) lying in the surf, locked in an embrace with Karen Holmes, played by what actress, cast against type?

  Deborah Kerr
  Kim Hunter
  Donna Reed
  Eva Marie Saint

6. What 1959 film was the most expensive movie of its time?

  The Bridge on the River Kwai
  Ben-Hur
  The African Queen
  Giant

7. In what movie does Marlon Brando's Terry Malloy say, "I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody…instead of a bum…which is what I am"?

  A Streetcar Named Desire
  The Wild One
  On the Waterfront
  One-Eyed Jacks

8. What actor, six years after portraying a prosecutor in A Place in the Sun, gained fame portraying a defending attorney?

  Paul Newman
  Raymond Burr
  E.G. Marshall
  Gregory Peck

9. "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin' " is the theme song of which movie?

  Shane
  The Searchers
  High Noon
  Rebel Without a Cause

10. Osgood Fielding III (Joe E. Brown) learns what about "Daphne" (Jack Lemmon) in the final scene of Some Like It Hot:

  that he smokes
  that he could never have children
  that he was a man
  all of the above