Question 1

Let's begin with a petite blonde with a famous peekaboo hairstyle. She was best known as a film noir femme fatale. A frequent co-star was Alan Ladd, and they appeared together in "This Gun for Hire" in 1942 and and "The Blue Dahlia" (1946) among others. Which of these was she?

Accepted Answer

Veronica Lake

Question 2

She played a cheating wife in "They Drive by Night" in 1940, a dance-hall girl who falls for Humphrey Bogart in 1941's "High Sierra", and a singer in "Road House" in 1948. She called herself "the poor man's Bette Davis", but she was a big star all on her own, and one of Hollywood's very first women film directors as well. Do you know who she is?

Accepted Answer

Ida Lupino

Question 3

This lovely brunette started out her life as a debutante, fresh out of finishing school. She was a big star in the '40s, her best known film a classic in which she co-starred with Dana Andrews. Personal problems cut her career short, but we'll always have "Laura". Which is she?

Accepted Answer

Gene Tierney

Question 4

This blonde often appeared as the hard-boiled gal with a soft heart. She played the long-suffering moll of brutal gangster Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) in "Key Largo". Do you know which lady won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for that 1948 classic?

Accepted Answer

Claire Trevor

Question 5

This star came from an acting family and had an equally famous and elegant sister named Constance. She was "The Woman in the Window" in 1944 as well as "The Woman on the Beach" in 1947. Her best known film noir role was in "Scarlet Street" (1945), and she went on to a career which lasted some seventy years altogether. Who was she?

Accepted Answer

Joan Bennett

Sultry Stars of Film Noir

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