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1. Which 1955 Rodgers and Hammerstein movie was adapted from the duo's 1943 Broadway musical set in the American heartland? Hint: The film opens with a cowboy named Curly McLain bursting into song about the weather while riding to a neighboring farm.
2. Which 1956 film musical is based on a 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway play that had been adapted from the biography of a children's governess working abroad, written in the late 1860s?
3. The iconic cinematic moment in this 1957 film is the exquisite Audrey Hepburn running down the grand staircase of the Louvre museum in an equally exquisite red gown by Hubert de Givenchy, against a backdrop of the Winged Victory of Samothrace at the top of the stairs. What is the name of the film?
4. An aging Parisian "flaneur," played by legendary French actor Maurice Chevalier, opens this film singing "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" in the Bois de Boulogne. Which 1958 coming of age film is this?
5. This controversial 1959 musical, which dealt with sensitive issues such as race and rape, was based on a 1935 Broadway musical by George Gershwin. The setting is Catfish Row in Charleston, South Carolina in the summertime. What is the film?
6. Sharks, Jets, Officer Krupke, New York City, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Jerome Robbins. Do you really need more to name this 1961 smash movie musical?
7. An overbearing stage mother wants everything to come up roses in this 1962 movie musical, based on a 1959 Broadway play, which tells the story of young girl being pushed to become a celebrated stripper. What is the name of the movie?
8. Which 1963 animated Walt Disney movie musical tells the legend of King Arthur as a witty coming of age story?
9. A foreign language film, sung as an operatic recitative, and starring a young French actress named Catherine Deneuve in her first role, was released in 1964. It is set in a coastal town in France in the late '50s, with a coda in 1963. Name this movie musical which won the Palme d'Or at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. Hint: Music by Michel Legrand.
10. The next classic movie musical was adapted from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical, which had been based on the memoirs of a woman who escaped with her family from Austria shortly after after the Nazi Anschluss annexed that country in 1938. What is the name of this perennial favorite?
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