And That Star's Partner Was Trivia Quiz

Answer: Ava Gardner

Rooney and Ava Gardner were married for a short time in the early forties. In his lengthy career, Rooney kept getting better as an actor and was very effective in a movie about a mentally challenged older man in "Bill" (1981). Ava Gardner was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in "Mogambo".

Answer: Frank Sinatra

Sinatra passed away in 1998. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, he was an idol of the 'bobby soxers' during World War II. However, it was after his acting career took off in the fifties and sixties that his success both as an actor and singer reached unheard of heights.

Answer: Mia Farrow

Born Maria DeLourdes Villiers Farrow in 1945, Mia was the daughter of director of John Farrow. Frail and waif-like, she was a success as a fashion model and later actress, scoring in the movie "Rosemary's Baby" in 1968. She is mother to at least 15 children. She also had a 12-year relationship with actor, director and writer Woody Allen.

Answer: Andre Previn

Previn won four Academy Awards for his work in scoring. He created the original scores for "Bad Day at Black Rock" in 1954 and "Inside Daisy Clover" in 1965. In 1968, he was the conductor of the Houston symphony.

Answer: Evelyn Keyes

Shaw was a very serious musician who was the first to blend jazz and classical music, which came to be called 'third stream'. His major hits included "Begin the Beguine" and '"Stardust". He was the first musician to hire an African American singer, the great Billie Holiday. He was married to Evelyn Keyes from 1957 to 1985.

Answer: Mike Todd

Todd, whose film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1956, was killed in a plane crash in 1958. Prior to his relationship with Keyes, he had been married to actress Joan Blondell, who recounted her experiences with Todd in her mostly autobiographical book "Center Door Fancy", published in 1972.

Answer: Elizabeth Taylor

After Mike Todd was killed in a plane crash in 1958, Liz Taylor went on to a lengthy film career and seven more marriages. It has been conjectured that she won her Academy Award for "Butterfield 8" because the academy had neglected her work in the 1958 film "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", a much better film. Taylor passed away in 2011.

Answer: Eddie Fisher

Fisher was supposedly discovered while singing at a resort in the Catskill Mountains by comedian Eddie Cantor. He was a regular on the pop charts for awhile; his hits included "If I Ever Needed You" and "I'm Walking Behind You".
Both he and Elizabeth Taylor were vilified by public and press because he had left another popular actress to be with Taylor.

Answer: Debbie Reynolds

Debbie Reynolds earned an Oscar nomination for "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" filmed in 1964. She also possessed a large collection of Hollywood memorabilia, which included the 'subway' dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in "The Seven Year Itch" and Charlie Chaplin's bowler hat. She and Fisher were parents of actress Carrie Fisher.

Answer: Paul Simon

Simon and Garfunkel met when they were eleven years old. Among their hits was another that reached to top of the charts, "Sound of Silence". They were both 1990 inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with Simon having garnered twelve Grammy awards for his work. In the early eighties, he scored another big success with his album "Still Crazy After All These Years".