See if you can name these actresses who lit up the big screen in Hollywood hit movies.
1. What strong-willed, sophisticated actress won four Academy Awards for Best Actress, a record for any performer?
2. What trained ballet dancer rose to stardom in the romantic comedy “Roman Holiday” and then dazzled audiences in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and “My Fair Lady”?
3. What stunning beauty starred in “Country Girl,” “Rear Window” and “To Catch a Thief” before she married Prince Ranier of Monaco?
4. What blonde bombshell became the most popular of the sex symbols of the 50s and 60s, starring in “The Seven Year Itch” and “Some Like It Hot”?
5. Who steamed up the screen with Humphrey Bogart in “Casablanca” and went on to win three Academy Awards for “Gaslight,” “Anastasia” and “Murder on the Orient Express”?
6. What tap-dancing child star charmed audiences during the Depression in movies like “Heidi” and “The Little Colonel”?
7. What actress, singer and dancer achieved international fame in “The Wizard of Oz” when she was only 16?
8. What deep-voiced, big-eyed Hollywood star had her breakthrough playing a vulgar waitress in “Of Human Bondage” in 1934?
9. What British-American actress is often remembered for her role in Cleopatra as well as for having married the same man twice?
10. What actress, model, and dancer appeared in over 80 films but may be best remembered as Victoria Barkley in the television show “The Big Valley”?
11. What British actress won Academy Awards for her role as Blanche DuBois in “A Streetcar Named Desire” and as Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone With the Wind”?
12. What voluptuous actress and singer starred in vaudeville as well as Hollywood despite frequent run-ins with censors?
13. What actress, known for her trademark bangs and her velvety voice, took home the Oscar for her role in “It Happened One Night”?
Answers:
1. Katharine Hepburn
2. Audrey Hepburn
3. Grace Kelly
4. Marilyn Monroe
5. Ingrid Bergman
6. Shirley Temple
7. Judy Garland
8. Bette Davis
9. Elizabeth Taylor
10. Barbara Stanwyck
11. Vivien Leigh
12. Mae West
13. Claudette Colbert
