Best Songs and Their Composers - 1950-1964 Quiz

Answer: Baby, It's Cold Outside

"Baby, It's Cold Outside" was featured in the film "Neptune's Daughter" starring Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Ricardo Montalbán and Betty Garrett. Others nominated were Alfred Newman ("Through a Long and Sleepless Night"), Jule Styne ("It's a Great Feeling"), Victor Young ("My Foolish Heart") and Eliot Daniel ("Lavender Blue").

Answer: Mona Lisa

"Mona Lisa" was featured in the film "Captain Carey, U.S.A." starring Alan Ladd, Wanda Hendrix and Francis Lederer. Others nominated were Mack David, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston ("Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo"), Fred Glickman, Hy Heath and Johnny Lange ("Mule Train"), Slug Brodszky ("Be My Love") and Josef Myrow ("Wilhelmina").

Answer: In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening

"In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" was featured in the film "Here Comes the Groom" starring Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman, Alexis Smith and Anna Maria Alberghetti. Others nominated were Lionel Newman ("Never"), Slug Brodszky ("Wonder Why"), Burton Lane ("Too Late Now") and Bert Kalmar, Oscar Hammerstein II and Harry Ruby ("A Kiss to Build a Dream On").

Answer: The Ballad of High Noon

"The Ballad of High Noon" was featured in the film "High Noon" starring Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Grace Kelly, Otto Kruger, Lon Chaney and Henry Morgan. Others nominated were Slug Brodszky ("Because You're Mine"), Frank Loesser ("Thumbelina"), Harry Warren ("Zing a Little Zong") and Jack Brooks ("Am I in Love").

Answer: Secret Love

"Secret Love" was featured in the film "Calamity Jane" starring Doris Day, Howard Keel and Allyn Ann McLerie. Others nominated were Harry Warren ("That's Amore"), Lester Lee ("Blue Pacific Blues"), Herschel Burke Gilbert ("The Moon Is Blue") and Slug Brodszky ("My Flaming Heart").

Answer: Three Coins in the Fountain

"Three Coins in the Fountain" was featured in the film "Three Coins in the Fountain" starring Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Maggie McNamara, Rossano Brazzi, Howard St. John, Kathryn Givney and Cathleen Nesbitt. Others nominated were Dimitri Tiomkin ("The High and the Mighty"), Harold Arlen ("The Man That Got Away"), Jack Lawrence and Richard Myers ("Hold My Hand") and Irving Berlin ("Count Your Blessings").

Answer: Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

"Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" was featured in the film "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" starring Jennifer Jones and William Holden. Others nominated were Johnny Mercer ("Something's Gotta Give"), Slug Brodszky ("I'll Never Stop Loving You"), Jimmy Van Heusen ("(Love Is) The Tender Trap") and Alex North ("Unchained Melody").

Answer: Que Sera, Sera

"Que Sera, Sera" was featured in the film "The Man Who Knew Too Much" starring James Stewart and Doris Day. Others nominated were Dimitri Tiomkin ("Friendly Persuasion"), Cole Porter ("True Love"), Leith Stevens ("Julie") and Victor Young ("Written on the Wind").

Answer: All the Way

"All the Way" was featured in the film "The Joker Is Wild" starring Frank Sinatra, Mitzi Gaynor, Jeanne Crain and Eddie Albert. Others nominated were Harry Warren ("An Affair to Remember"), Sammy Fain ("April Love"), Ray Evans and Jay Livingston ("Tammy") and Dimitri Tiomkin ("Wild Is the Wind").

Answer: Gigi

"Gigi" was featured in the film "Gigi" starring Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor, Jacques Bergerac and Isabel Jeans. Others nominated were Sammy Fain ("A Certain Smile" and "A Very Precious Love"), Ray Evans and Jay Livingston ("Almost in Your Arms"), and Jimmy Van Heusen ("To Love and Be Loved").

Answer: High Hopes

"High Hopes" was featured in the film "A Hole in the Head" starring Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker, Keenan Wynn, Carolyn Jones, Thelma Ritter, Dub Taylor, Ruby Dandridge, Joi Lansing and Eddie Hodges. Others nominated were Alfred Newman ("The Best of Everything"), Sylvia Fine ("The Five Pennies"), Jerry Livingston ("The Hanging Tree") and Dimitri Tiomkin ("Strange Are the Ways of Love").

Answer: Never on Sunday

"Never on Sunday" was featured in the film "Never on Sunday" starring Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin and Giorgos Fountas. Others nominated were Dimitri Tiomkin ("The Green Leaves of Summer"), Johnny Mercer ("The Facts of Life"), Jimmy Van Heusen ("The Second Time Around") and André Previn ("Faraway Part of Town").

Answer: Moon River

"Moon River" was featured in the film "Breakfast at Tiffany's" starring Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam and Mickey Rooney. Others nominated were Miklós Rózsa ("The Falcon and the Dove"), Jimmy Van Heusen ("Pocketful of Miracles"), Dimitri Tiomkin ("Town Without Pity") and Henry Mancini again ("Bachelor in Paradise").

Answer: Days of Wine and Roses

"Days of Wine and Roses" was featured in the film "Days of Wine and Roses" starring Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman and Alan Hewitt. Others nominated were Bronisław Kaper ("Follow Me"), Sammy Fain ("Tender Is the Night"), André Previn ("Second Chance") and Elmer Bernstein ("Walk on the Wild Side").

Answer: Call Me Irresponsible

"Call Me Irresponsible" was featured in the film "Papa's Delicate Condition" starring Jackie Gleason, Glynis Johns, Charlie Ruggles, Laurel Goodwin and Linda Bruhl. Others nominated were Dimitri Tiomkin ("So Little Time"), Henry Mancini ("Charade"), Ernest Gold ("It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World") and Nino Oliviero & Riz Ortolani ("More").