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1. James Dean died in 1955 in a horrific car crash. His final movie was released after his death in 1956. He played Jett Rink, a poor handyman turned rich oil baron. What was the name of the movie?
2. Prostate cancer took Gary Cooper to his final resting place in 1961. In his final role, released soon after his death, he played George Radcliffe, a dubious eyewitness to theft and murder. What was the name of the movie?
3. Throat cancer robbed us of Humphrey Bogart's voice and acting in 1957. He managed to make one last film released the year before his death. He played unemployed ex-sportswriter, Eddie Willis, who took a job working for a shady boxing promoter. What was the name of the movie?
4. Before a final stroke struck down Mae West in 1980, she managed one last campy performance two years earlier, playing six-time newlywed Marlo Manners, doing her best to consummate her latest marriage. What was the name of the movie?
5. Montgomery Clift's coronary artery became clogged for the last time in 1966. He did manage one final middling portrayal before the lights turned off for him permanently that same year as physicist-turned-spy, James Bower. What was the name of the movie?
6. Two years before tuberculosis ended Vivien Leigh's struggles with bi-polar disorder in 1967, she gave us one final seaworthy turn as Mary Treadwell, a coquettish but disillusioned aging southern belle. What was the name of the movie?
7. In 1955, nearly thirty years before a cardiac arrest ended William Powell's life at the ripe old age of ninety-one, he starred in his final movie as Lieutenant 'Doc', a ship's medical officer on a cargo ship during the waning days of World War Two. What was the name of the movie?
8. Twenty years before Cary Grant suffered a life-ending cerebral hemorrhage, he starred in his final film in 1966 as Sir William Rutland, a homeless man in Japan searching for accommodations. What was the name of the movie?
9. John Wayne died in 1979 from cancer. Three years earlier, he gave his last performance as J.B. Books, an aging cancer-ridden, now-reluctant gunfighter forced into one last gunfight. What was the name of the movie?
10. Before the plane she was in crashed into a cliff, Carole Lombard left a smile on our faces with her final appearance as Maria Tura, a stage actress involved with the Polish resistance to the Nazis during World War Two. What was the name of the movie?
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