The heatwave continues making all of us suffer for another week with no end in sight. I’m recuperating from recent cataract surgery and I’m somewhat limited to certain activities. Fortunately, writing the blog and working on my paintings has been approved without consequences. I thought today we’d have a little trivia test on the early years of cinema. As always the answers will be listed below.

• For what two films did Elizabeth Taylor win best actress Oscars?

• What American actress once described herself as “pure as the driven slush”?

• Who was Gene Kelly’s unusual dancing partner in the imaginative 1945 film, Anchors Away?

• Whose lengthy Oscar acceptance speech prompted the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to set a time limit for later award ceremonies?

• In the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, what song did HAL, the computer, learn to sing?

• What was the movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn’s real name?

• In what film did the star *proposed by saying, “Marry me and I’ll never look at another horse”?

• What film star won a special Oscar as “the most outstanding personality of 1934”?

• Or which Alfred Hitchcock film did artist Salvador Dali designed the graphics?

• Who did Fred Astaire name as his favorite dance partner?

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The Answers

Butterfield 8 and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Tallulah Bankhead, Jerry the animated mouse from the cartoon show, Greer Garson who spent 5 1/2 min. at the 1943 ceremonies for the film, were Mrs. Miniver, A Bicycle Built For Two, Samuel Goldfish, A Day at the Races with Groucho Marx, Shirley Temple, Spellbound in 1945, Gene Kelly.