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Classic Hollywood

Moguls, contract stars and roaring lions. Step onto the backlot of the 1930s to the 1950s and see if you could survive the golden age of the studios.

🎬 Movies medium 20 questions ~7 min
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What this quiz asks

  • This animal roars in the famous opening logo of which Hollywood studio?
  • How many Warner brothers founded the studio Warner Bros.?
  • Who directed Casablanca (1942), starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman?
  • Vivien Leigh, who played Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, was born in the American South.
  • At which Hollywood cinema have stars pressed their hands and feet into wet cement since 1927?
  • Humphrey Bogart met his future wife Lauren Bacall while making which film?
  • Select ALL of these that were among Hollywood's 'Big Five' studios of the golden age.
  • Who became the first African American to win an Oscar, for Gone with the Wind (1939)?
  • Did Cary Grant ever win a competitive Academy Award for acting?
  • Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane (1941) was widely seen as a portrait of which newspaper tycoon?
  • How old was Orson Welles when Citizen Kane premiered in May 1941?
  • Which 1934 comedy was the first film to win the five top Oscars: Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay?
  • Which 1930s child star received a miniature Juvenile Oscar at the age of six?
  • Order these Hollywood films by release year, earliest first.
  • James Dean was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar after his death.
  • Which mogul ran MGM, the grandest studio of the golden age, from 1924 until 1951?
  • Select ALL of these films that were directed by John Ford.
  • The Production Code, strictly enforced on Hollywood films from 1934, is best known by the name of which man?
  • Which actress won a 1944 court case against Warner Bros. that limited studio contracts to seven years?
  • What did the US Supreme Court's 1948 Paramount antitrust ruling force the big studios to give up?