Hollywood (1939)

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license to wed a great star who later died. Today she is married to a prominent director: Joan Bennett Virginia Bruce Billie Burke Luise Rainer 10. Fred Allen may have a lot of other names for him but the one on his report card when he was a schoolboy in Waukegan was Kebelsky. Three patient research workers from the Institute of Proper Nomenclature are still trying to figure out why Paramount called his last picture Artists and Models Abroad: Bob Hope Bing Crosby Jack Benny Jack Oakie 11. She is married to a doctor. Her passport, when she came to this country from France at the age of 13, read Lily Chauchion. But the gold statuette the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded her in 1934 was engraved: Claudette Colbert Mae West Frances Dee Irene Dunne 12. The name of Arlington Brugh might not cause any commotion in a girl's boarding school but most of the pupils crobably have written fan letters to its owner, in spite of the fact that he is engaged to another star: Tyrone Power Charles Boyer Robert Young Robert Taylor 13. The seductively stockinged legs of Mary Magdalene Von Losch brought her fame in two different countries. The lads who admired the famous gams were fervent fans of: Martha Raye Simone Simon Marlene Dietrich Anna Sten 14. When she was in New York last, criticism was heaped on her for not presenting a more glamorous appearance in public. Her passion for privacy is legendary but the fact that she once worked in a barber shop under the name of Gustafsson is not so well known: Katharine Hepburn Greta Garbo Margaret Sullavan Patsy Kelly 15. Weisenfreud was the name by which he was known to New York theatre-goers before he won motion picture acclaim with a vigorous characterization in a gangster movie: Edward G. Robinson John Garfield Charles Bl Paul Muni kford 16. Long before he cushioned his conversation with his individualistic giggle in such films as Rosalie and Paradise For Three, he was Anita Stewart's leading man. Wupperman was the name he changed to: Frank Morgan Hugh Herbert Edward Everett Horton Jed Prouty 17. She has divorced one star, married another. When Mack Sennett was still buying custard pies wholesale, she was known as Jane Peters. Now that she handles pastry only with a fork, she is known as: Ann Sheridan Joan Blondell Carole Lombard Hedda Hopper 18. Although he is now as American as chewing gum, he was born in Bucharest, Roumania, where his Balkan buddies knew him as Emmanuel Goldenburg. Theatres that played gangster movies billed him as: James Cagney George Raft George Bancroft Edward G. Robinson 19. Austerlitz may remind you of a battle in the Napoleonic wars, but to his old playmates in Omaha, Nebraska, it conjures up a picture of the most nimble pupil in their dancing class: Fred Astaire Buddy Ebsen Arthur Lake George Murphy 20. No one who ever heard her sing Thanks For The Memory, or saw her in a bathing suit would refer to her as Gaunt. Yet that is what she was called until she changed her name to: Ethel Merman Gloria Stuart Shirley Ross Jeanette MacDonald 21. Kiesler was the name on her father's mailbox in Vienna before she conquered Hollywood with one screen appearance and almost single handedly wore out the word "glamour": Luise Rainer Hedy Lamarr llona Massey Lya Lys 22. When he supported Colleen Moore in Orchids and Ermine back in 1926, he was down on the payroll as Joe Yule, Jr. Now that he is a successful song writer, and incidentally a star in his own right, he has taken legal possession of the name of: Tyrone Power Wayne Morris Tony Martin Mickey Rooney 23. Marion Michael Morrison was the alliterative handle Under which he registered at the University of Southern California where he was a football star several years ago. Since then, he has been starring in Westerns under the shorter label of: John Wayne Buck Jones William Boyd Gene Autry 24. The country doctor who left the McMath house in Independence, Mo., one afternoon 28 years ago, told neighbors that the new arrival was to be named Virginia Katherine. By the time she was ready to go into the movies by way of vaudeville, the young lady had changed her name to: Jean Arthur Florence Rice Ginger Rogers Janet Gaynor 25. Archibald Alexander Leach painted neckties in Greenwich Village, was a stilt walker at Coney Island and a tumbler with a troupe of acrobats before he became one of Hollywood's most popular leading men. Archibald Alexander is better known as: Cary Grant Fredric March Fred MacMurray Robert Montgomery [Answers on page 67]