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Rita and Her Amigos Trivia Quiz

My third degrees quiz links 40's sex symbol Rita Hayworth with 9 of her contemporaries.

A multiple-choice quiz by tjoebigham. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
tjoebigham

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
149,293

Updated
Jul 11 23

# Qns
10

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Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

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817

Last 3 plays: Guest 31 (4/10), Guest 107 (9/10), Guest 174 (3/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. Born Margarita Carmen Cansino, she started in showbiz as a Spanish dancer. Who was her most famous dancing partner? Hint

James Cagney

George Murphy

Fred Astaire

Bill "Bojangles" Robinson

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Question 2 of 10

2. Rita could also claim that she shared him as a partner with her own cousin! Name the cousin. Hint

Ann Miller

Ginger Rogers

Ruby Keeler

Eleanor Powell

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Question 3 of 10

3. Gene Kelly was also a partner of Fred Astaire, teaming twice with him. Name the famed singer who co-starred with them both. Hint

Judy Garland

Debbie Reynolds

Jane Powell

Lena Horne

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Question 4 of 10

4. This MGM star had her last great role in this 1954 Warner's semi-musical remake of a classic Hollywood story filmed twice before. Who was her English-born leading man? Hint

Cary Grant

Michael Rennie

James Mason

George Sanders

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Question 5 of 10

5. This actor, known for such films as "Lolita" and "Odd Man Out", also starred with this TV comedienne who had her own long-running show. Who is this legendary TV commedienne? Hint

Carolyn Jones

Mary Tyler Moore

Lucille Ball

Cloris Leachman

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Question 6 of 10

6. The TV sitcom legend also teamed with a fiery Irish beauty who was herself best known as co-star to America's greatest Western star.

Answer: ( Two words, or just surname)

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Question 7 of 10

7. Said Irishwoman also teamed with a Tasmanian-born portrayer of Robin Hood in the 1952 pirate spoof "Against All Flags". Name him. Hint

Cornel Wilde

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Paul Henreid

Errol Flynn

8. In 1957, this Tasmanian-born swashbuckler had a supporting role in the big-budget adapation of Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises". The American lead was also a 1940s swashbuckler, perhaps chosen to replace the former. Do you know him? Hint

Tyrone Power

Paul Henreid

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Basil Rathbone

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Question 9 of 10

9. Besides playing Jake Barnes, this actor also portrayed a famed pianist of the 1940s, opposite this blond bombsell best known for a Hitchcock role. What is her name? Hint

Marie Wilson

Sheree North

Kim Novak

Jayne Mansfield

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Question 10 of 10

10. Finally, the blonde romanced Frank Sinatra in a 1957 film of a classic Broadway musical. Her rival was a very familiar redhead. What is this redhead's name?

Answer: ( Two words, or just surname)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Born Margarita Carmen Cansino, she started in showbiz as a Spanish dancer. Who was her most famous dancing partner?

Answer: Fred Astaire

Rita Hayworth, born Margarita Carmen Cansino, never danced with the other three! Her two films with Fred Astaire are "You'll Never Get Rich" (1941) and "You Were Never Lovelier" (1942); Rita named them her favorites of her films. Fred, by the by, paid tribute to Robinson in the "Bojangles of Harlem" number in "Swing Time". George Murphy left showbiz for politics.

2. Rita could also claim that she shared him as a partner with her own cousin! Name the cousin.

Answer: Ginger Rogers

Actually, Rita and Ginger were cousins by marriage, not blood: Rita's uncle Vinton married Ginger's aunt Jean Owens. Ginger teamed with Fred ten times, starting with "Flying Down to Rio" (1933) and ending with "The Barkleys of Broadway" (1949).

3. Gene Kelly was also a partner of Fred Astaire, teaming twice with him. Name the famed singer who co-starred with them both.

Answer: Judy Garland

Lena Horne never teamed with Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly; Jane Powell starred with Fred in "Royal Wedding" and Debbie Reynolds was in Gene's masterpiece, "Singin' in the Rain". Judy teamed twice with Gene, in "For Me and My Gal" and "The Pirate", and with Fred in "Easter Parade". Fred and Gene teamed in the "Babbit and the Bromide" number in "Ziegfeld Follies" (a high point of the film!) and "That's Entertainment! Part 2".

4. This MGM star had her last great role in this 1954 Warner's semi-musical remake of a classic Hollywood story filmed twice before. Who was her English-born leading man?

Answer: James Mason

It was George Cukor's "A Star Is Born". Judy was in top vocal fettle; her rendition of "The Man That Got Away" (lyrics by "Wizard of Oz" alumni Harold Arlen) is unforgetable. And Mason, usually typecast as suave villians, proved his acting chops as the pahethic but noble Norman Maine. Fredric March, in the 30's version, played him as an unlikeable whiner, especially in the Oscar ceremony scene, while Mason's pleading for a job in the later version grabs your heart.

The other three couldn't pull that off! Sadly, Garland's career tanked after the film.

5. This actor, known for such films as "Lolita" and "Odd Man Out", also starred with this TV comedienne who had her own long-running show. Who is this legendary TV commedienne?

Answer: Lucille Ball

Mason co-starred with Ball and Desi Arnaz in the '56 comedy "Forever Darling". They are a couple on the verge of divorce and Mason is a guardian angel sent to save their marriage. (In real life, Lucy and Desi's relationship was tumultous, to say the least.)

6. The TV sitcom legend also teamed with a fiery Irish beauty who was herself best known as co-star to America's greatest Western star.

Answer: Maureen O'Hara

O'Hara was the constant co-star of John Wayne in the 1950s, probably best known for the Irish comedy-drama "The Quiet Man". She and Lucy starred in the 1940 film "Dance Girl, Dance", directed by Dorothy Arzner, one of the very few women directing in those days.

7. Said Irishwoman also teamed with a Tasmanian-born portrayer of Robin Hood in the 1952 pirate spoof "Against All Flags". Name him.

Answer: Errol Flynn

O'Hara DID team with the other three: with Wilde in "At Sword's Point", Henreid in "The Spanish Main" and Fairbanks Jr. in "Sinbad the Sailor". But she swash- buckled with Flynn in "Against All Flags". Forget the inferior 67 remake "The King's Pirate"!

Answer: Tyrone Power

Ohio born Tyrone Power crossed swords with Basil Rathbone (best known as Sherlock Holmes) in "The Mark of Zorro"; Rathbone was Flynn's foe in "Captain Blood", which made Flynn a star ("Blood" was penned by Rafael Sabatini, who also gave us "The Black Swan", which would star Power) and "Robin Hood".

9. Besides playing Jake Barnes, this actor also portrayed a famed pianist of the 1940s, opposite this blond bombsell best known for a Hitchcock role. What is her name?

Answer: Kim Novak

Novak starred with James Stewart in Hitchcock's masterwork "Vertigo". In "The Eddy Duchin Story" Power had the title role, with Novak as his wife. North was a starlet at the time, Mansfield was famed for "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" and "The Girl Can't Help It", and Wilson was dumb blonde Irma in the radio comedy series "My Friend Irma" (she made two movies from it).

10. Finally, the blonde romanced Frank Sinatra in a 1957 film of a classic Broadway musical. Her rival was a very familiar redhead. What is this redhead's name?

Answer: Rita Hayworth

Back to senorita Rita! She and Kim clashed over Frank in the film of "Pal Joey" form the book by John O'Hara, which he helped to make the libretto from. Adios, amigos!

Source: Author tjoebigham

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