Golden Age of Hollywood Book Club discussion

oops hadda swap out the photo for #46. The auburn-haired babe. Faint signature present in her photo.

So true. She had a good career.
#49 doesn't look like anybody but my aunt and it surely isn't her. She looks matronly but is she or is it just the picture?

No, #49 is a true stunner in her younger roles; but I can't find a good photo of her which isn't autographed or in some other way, revealing the answer. But here's one more of her (Madame #49)

One more for #49

I am grasping at straws. #49....Patricia Roc?

nope no.

#49 is a very respected actress. Not like some of the other stars we've quizzed on here

I am hung up on #45 so I will work on #46 and #49 for awhile. At least Jill has some ideas, I have zilch!

I also have zilch but keep on keepin' on.

Anna Neagle!!!!! She had crossed my mind but I thought she might be too famous (in the UK) to be in this very tough quiz but had to try it.

Yes!! Three Cherries!

ahaha, #48 and #49 are both mega-famous British stars. I think they were both 'Dames' in fact, not sure.

Just tossin' in a couple 'ringers' to mix things up a little round here.

Anyway, good job...

Who the devil is #46? She looks so familiar but I just can't get it. Is it Wanda Hendrix? Nah, that isn't right. Is she really obscure?

#46 (the auburn-haired tootsie) has a star on the Walk of Fame.

Wanda Hendrix is an excellent guess but nope.

So #49 is Anna Neagle? Well done, Jill. Am still working on #45 and #46. :-(

Yep. Jill nabbed it.

#46, her bio is quite varied. It's surprised me. She was wildly famous but I sure never heard of her. Just happens not be in any of my favorite films. A musical-comedy star and also was huge on Broadway. Still, it's odd.

#46 started out as a singer for the Hollywood Canteen. During her film career she could (and did) tour as a cabaret singer. She became a favorite of US airmen and she even did things like christen ships. Again, I'm amazed at how famous she was and I never knew her name before this week. I might not know obscure stars but hard to imagine how someone as famous as this, never even crossed my attention ever. The number of nights I've stayed up watching the Late Show? sheesh

This is probably wrong.....Gwen Verdon?

Another guess for #46 - Frances Langford?

no and no ...interesting picks but nope

remember #45 is a British comedy actress who got one shot in an American noir and she nailed it as a bad girl; probably would've gone on to make many more noirs but we'll never know.

She was active in comedy between '35 and '40; then between '40 and '45 she had only four roles. Her excellent 'bad girl' performance came in '46 and then her final role was oddly enough was in a movie set in Africa which seemed to have nothing at all to do with all of her previous career

Ginny Sims?

no banana

maybe a couple more pics will help

here is that comedienne turned femme fatale

and another

Did #45 actually have a credited role in the 1946 film noir or was she uncredited?

Fully credited; and though it was just a mostly-forgotten about B-Noir she was said to have briefly portrayed the coldest-ever femme fatale ever seen

this praise is maintained by some aficionados, even though we earlier looked at another noir icon, that Hazel Brooks

#45 - Jean Gillie?

Yes!!! Three Cherries!

Here's her cold-hearted female mantis in 'Decoy' (1946)

I read the description of 'Decoy'. Cold-hearted is rght!

Good one,Betsy.

#46.....Betty Garrett?

no...

Nutz.....I am running out of ideas and she looks so familiar.

Not sure what other clues to divulge on #45. Just bear in mind she was a big, big, musical-comedy Broadway star. Singing, dancing, everything.

You mean #46. Was her Hollywood career in musicals too?

I'll take a flyer on Janis Paige.

Yes!!!



Janis Paige it is.

updated solutions

#37 Nicole Maurey
#38 Peggy Stewart
#39 Valerie French
#40 Hazel Brooks (noir icon)
#41 Judy Tyler (Elvis' girlfriend)
#42 High Treason Humbertson Wright/Basil Gill
#43 Dorothy Hart (cowgirl)
#44 Joan Valerie (blonde bit-player from Wisconsin)
#45 Jean Gillie
#46 Janis Paige
#47 Robert Douglas
#48 Valerie Hobson
#49 Anna Neagle

I should have known #46 earlier. It looks just like her, and I've seen her in a couple of things. :-(

in a way the more glamorous-looking stars/starlets are harder to pin down than the often kooky-seeming 'supporting character' players who usually have memorable eyebrows or limps or quirky mouths / noses

Quiz #50!

Quiz #51

Guesses for both:
#50 - Peggy Knudsen?
#51 - Mary Carlisle?

BTW, would it be possible to have a couple of men in the quiz?

aye. I've been trying to find more males to inject into these proceedings. it's just not been so easy.

no banana so far on #50 and #51

Quiz #52

Quiz #53

Quiz #54

Is #54 Mike Kellin?