DO YOU KNOW?

Which of these legendary noir actresses never won an Academy Award?

Barbara Stanwyck
Joan Crawford
Ingrid Bergman
Joan Fontaine

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Barbara Stanwyck

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This classic film noir received seven Academy Award nominations—including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay—and won absolutely nothing. Name the film.

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Double Indemnity (1944)

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Match the noir film character with the actress

Character Actor

Phyllis Dietrichson Rita Hayworth

Norma Desmond Joan Crawford

Gilda Mundson Barbara Stanwyck

Mildred Pierce Gloria Swanson

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Phyllis Dietrichson--Barbara Stanwyck

Norma Desmond--Gloria Swanson

Gilda Munson--Rita Hayworth

Mildred Pierce--Joan Crawford

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She didn’t appear in a motion picture until she was forty-five years old. Six times in her career she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress – including Rear Window and Pickup on South Street – but never won an Oscar, which is a record. Can you name her?

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Thelma Ritter

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Alfred Hitchcock was twice nominated for Best Director but his films from those years were not nominated for Best Picture. What are the films?

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Rear Window (1954)

Psycho (1960)

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David Lynch was twice nominated for Best Director but his films from those years were not nominated for Best Picture. What are the films?

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Blue Velvet (1986)

Mullholland Drive (2001)

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All of these marquee stars portrayed the same character in a film noir: Humphrey Bogart, Dick Powell, Robert Mitchum, Robert Montgomery? Who is the character?

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Detective Philip Marlowe

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What film noir - the #4 box office hit of 1944 - starred A-listers Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, and Vincent Price? Webb was nominated for Best Supporting Actor, Otto Preminger for Best Director, and the writers for Best Screenplay. The song from the movie, which was its title, became a hugh hit on its own. Required watching for Film Noir 101.

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Laura

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All these men were nominated for Best Actor in classic early noir films. Which won an Oscar?

Laurence Olivier – Rebecca

Charles Boyer- Gaslight

Ray Milland – Lost Weekend

Ronald Coleman- A Double Life

John Garfield – Body and Soul (1947)

William Holden – Sunset Boulevard (1950)

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Ray Milland – Lost Weekend

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Match the noir character to the actor that portrayed him

Character Actor

Harry Lime Jimmy Cagney

Walter Neff Orson Welles

Philip Marlow Fred MacMurray

Cody Jarrett Robert Mitchum

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Harry Lime--Orson Wells

Walter Neff--Fred MacMurray

Phillip Marlow--Robert Mitchum

Cody Jarrett--Jimmy Cagney

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Which of these noir film titles are real?

Please Murder Me

Bury Me Dead

Kiss the Blood Off my Hands

I Spit on Your Coffin

Satin in Skirts

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All the titles are real.

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What classic noir features Bogart & Bacall with an all-star cast of Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, and Claire Trevor, who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress? Also the last film Bogart and Robinson appeared in together.

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Key Largo

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Which of the following words were not permitted in film noir (or any other film of the era)?

Broad

Tramp

Coquette

Dame

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Broad and Coquette were forbidden

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These Hitchcock films are ranked in a certain order. What is the rank?

Psycho

Rear Window

The Birds

North by Northwest

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Box Office Grosss

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All these ladies were nominated for Best Actress in classic early noir films. Which of them won an Academy Award?

Bette Davis – The Letter (1940)

Joan Fontaine – Suspicion (1941)

Barbara Stanwyck – Double Indemnity (1944)

Ingrid Bergman – Gaslight (1944)

Joan Crawford – Mildred Pierce (1945)

Gene Tierney – Leave Her to Heaven (1946)

Gloria Swanson – Sunset Boulevard (1950)

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Joan Fontaine - Suspicion (1941)

Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight (1944)

Joan Crawford - Mildred Pierce (1945)

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Here is the cast. What is the movie?

Joseph Cotten

Marlene Dietrich

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Charlton Heston

Janet Leigh

Mercedes McCambridge

Dennis Weaver

Orson Wells

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Touch of Evil