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1. Jimmy Stewart passed away from a cardiac arrest and pulmonary embolism in 1997 at the ripe old age of eighty-nine. Sixty-three years earlier he made his first film appearance in an uncredited role in "Art Trouble", a movie comedy short in which he played Burton, a reluctant art student. One year later in 1935, he made his feature film debut in a credited role in a Spencer Tracy film. What was the name of the movie?
2. Heather O'Rourke's promising movie career was sadly snuffed out at the age of twelve in 1988 by an improperly diagnosed small bowel obstruction. In her movie debut six years earlier, she played Carol Anne Freeling, a young girl kidnapped by ghostly forces. What was the name of the movie?
3. Henry Fonda's heart stopped pumping in 1982 at the age of seventy-seven. Forty-seven years earlier, he made his Hollywood film debut as Dan Harrow, a canal worker saving his money to buy a farm, who fell in love with another canal worker who did not share his dream of a rural life. What was the name of the movie?
4. Gregory Peck died in his sleep in 2003 at the age of eighty-seven, fifty-nine years after his film debut. He played, Vladimir, a Soviet guerrilla defending his homeland from the encroaching Nazi army during World War II. What was the name of the movie?
5. Donna Reed died of pancreatic cancer in 1986, thirteen days short of her sixty-fifth birthday. Forty-five years earlier in 1941, she made her film debut in a gangsters and prison-escape film. She played, Terry O'Reilly, the gentle and considerate sister of a gangster brother who would not reform his life, despite her best efforts to help him to do so. What was the name of the movie?
6. Brittany Murphy passed away far too young at the age of thirty-two in 2009. She started out obtaining regular television work in 1991 and then got her first feature film role in 1995 in a story based loosely on Jane Austen's book "Emma". What was the name of the movie?
7. Fifty-four years before a multitude of health problems ended Marlon Brando's life, he appeared in his first feature film role in 1950. He played Ken, a returning war veteran confined to a wheelchair, struggling to adjust to his disability both physically and mentally. What was the name of the movie?
8. Janet Leigh died in 2004 at the age of seventy-seven from complications arising from vasculitis. Fifty-seven years earlier in her movie debut, she played Lissy Anne McBean, a young woman from a staunchly Confederate family, who fell in love with a former Union Officer soon after the American Civil War ended. What was the name of the movie?
9. Forty-six years before lung cancer claimed Desi Arnaz at age sixty-nine in 1986, he got his big film break. He played, Manuelito Lynch, one of four football players hired to protect a female student, while she was away from home at college. What was the name of the movie?
10. In 2008, Richard Widmark died from complications related to a fall at the advanced age of ninety-three, sixty-one years after he burst upon the Hollywood acting scene. In his first role, he played Tommy Udo, a chuckling sociopathic killer out for revenge against a former crony who squealed on him to the police. What was the name of the movie?
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