Gary Cooper Kissed Me Trivia Quiz

Answer: Grace Kelly

The lyrics to the title song sung by Tex Ritter tell the story.

"Do not forsake me, oh my darling
On this our wedding day
Do not forsake me, oh my darling
Wait, wait along
I do not know what fate awaits me
I only know I must be brave
For I must face a man who hates me
Or die a coward, a craven coward
Or die a coward in my grave"

On his wedding day marrying his pacifist wife (Grace Kelly) on his last day as sheriff, he must face a determined killer. The town's residents refuse to help him but help comes from an unexpected source.

Rotten Tomatoes: 97%

Answer: Joan Leslie

Gary Cooper won the Best Actor Academy Award for his performance as Alvin York. York is pictured as a ne'er-do-well prone to drinking and fighting. But after he falls in love with Gracie Williams (Joan Leslie) who agrees to marry him provided he becomes a land owner - a spot where they can live and farm. He is cheated out of his savings but is struck by lightening that he sees as a force from God to devote his life to the church. When he is drafted during World War One he pleads that he is a conscientious objector but the army ignores that because he is an excellent marksman and can be an asset to the military. He performs many heroic deeds on the battlefield. Gracie loves him for the man he has become.

Rotten Tomatoes: 85%

Answer: Teresa Wright

The drama is most remembered by Lou Gehrig's final speech on his retirement on July 4, 1937. Watching the stooped over Gehrig delivering his spine-tinging brief speech on newsreel coverage certainly is more dramatic than Gary Cooper's re-enactment but both are touching.

The film suffers from so many inaccuracies that many are pure fiction. Just one example: the film portrays a long courtship with his wife, Eleanor (Teresa Wright) but they did not meet until 1933 when Gehrig was at the height of his baseball career. The line, even though he knows he is dying, is: "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth."

Rotten Tomatoes: 93%

Answer: Patrica Neal

Ayn Rand was a philosopher who had a philosophical system she called "objectivism". She used novels to dramatize her beliefs, one being "The Fountainhead" and the other "Atlas Shrugged". Although she is given credits for both the novel and the screenplay of "The Fountainhead", she was shocked to see how much of her screenplay was deleted and manipulated so she refused to let Hollywood tamper with "Atlas Shrugged".

Forty-six year old Gary Cooper was chosen to play the lead male role and a very young starlet, Patricia Neal, was the female co-star. There was almost an instant chemistry between the two that shows up in the love scenes and in the subsequent affair of the married Cooper and the 21 year old actress.

Rotten Tomatoes: 83%

Answer: Jean Arthur

Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper) is the co-owner of a tallow works, part-time greeting card poet, and tuba-playing rather naļve man who unexpectedly inherits 20 million dollars. There are, of course, pressures put upon him as to how to spend his fortune. Babe Bennett (Jean Arthur), a reporter, uses subterfuge to get to know him personally and write about him. Eventually, he chooses a socially responsible method to use his monies. In the process Cooper and Arthur fall in love. It was the first of five nominations for Cooper as Best Actor.

Rotten Tomatoes: 89%

Answer: Dorothy McGuire

Jessamyn West's novel "The Friendly Persuasion" (1945) told the story of a Quaker family in Indiana over a 40 year time span. When it was adapted for the screen, the script needed more focus and the American Civil War period was chosen as it tested the resolve of Quaker non-violence.

Gary Cooper was reluctant to accept the role of the family patriarch as it called on him to have adult children but he was 55 at the time. McGuire played his wife as a devoted but more resolved pacifist. There are a number of humorous episodes in the film but it boils down to whether the Quakers can maintain their core belief in nonviolence or fight for the right to be peaceful.

Richard Nixon was our first Quaker president. Ronald Reagan made a gift of the film to Mikhail Gorbachev suggesting that he view the film as symbolic of the need to find an alternative to war as a means of resolving differences between peoples.

Rotten Tomatoes: 88%

Answer: Audrey Hepburn

In this Billy Wilder romantic comedy, Ariane Chavasse (Audrey Hepburn) eavesdrops on a conversation where Mr. X plans to kill Frank Flannagan (Gary Cooper) a noted middle-aged womanizer, as he has been having an affair with his wife. Ariane gets there first to warn him so when Mr. X arrives, he finds only Ariane and Frank in the room.

Ariane is a cellist and most evenings are spent in rehearsals and concerts thus as the two meet in the afternoons and to be mysterious, she tells him nothing about her circumstances or past.

Frank decides to break off the affair and tells her he is going to Paris to join another lover. She meets him at the train station and he carries her on the train. This was to be the final scene but fearing censorship a narrator adds that they were married and live in New York City.

Rotten Tomatoes: 88%

Answer: Ingrid Bergman

The Spanish Civil War is considered by most historians as a prelude to World War Two. The Republicans were loyal to the leftist Second Spanish Republic in alliance with liberal leaning countries. Nationalists were an aristocratic group led by General Francisco and backed by fascists such as Germany and Italy. Into this historic background Ernst Hemingway penned his novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls", the title taken from a poem by John Donne.

Robert Jordan (Gary Cooper) is by profession a teacher but also a skilled munitions expert. He volunteers for the Republicans and is assigned to blow up a strategic bridge behind enemy lines. To do so he must embed himself in a guerrilla fighters corps. There he meets and falls in love with Maria (Ingrid Bergman). Marķa's life was shattered by her parents' execution and her gang-rape at the hands of the fascists.

After the detonation of the bridge, Jordan is severely injured but makes sure of Maria's safety and gamely fights on.

The film received nine Academy Awards nominations but the only winner was Supporting Actress Katina Paxinou as one of the guerrilla fighters.

Rotten Tomatoes: 77%

Answer: Helen Hayes

This film is from the pre-code era before strict codes were passed on movie content. This film is based on an Ernest Hemingway novel that is regarded as semi-autobiographical. During World War I, Frederic Henry (Gary Cooper) is an American serving as an ambulance driver. He meets a nurse named Catherine Barkley (Helen Hayes). After a rough start they fall in love. Due the fortunes of war and duty, they are separated. Desperate to find her, especially when he learns that she was pregnant, he at last finds her in Paris but she dies in childbirth leaving a stillborn child.

Rotten Tomatoes: 92%

Answer: Barbara Stanwyck

This is a screwball comedy directed by Howard Hawkes about a group of professors living in a rooming house trying to write a new encyclopedia. Under time and funding pressure, Gary Cooper as Professor Bertram Potts must find someone to advise him on the current use of slang. He comes across "Sugarpuss" O'Shea (Barbara Stanwyck) who agrees to help him as she needs a place to hide from the police and gangsters. Of course, all the professors are enamored with her but she is attracted mostly to Potts.

The comic misadventures and misunderstandings are too numerous to detail but Bertram seals the story with his amorous kiss of Sugarpuss.

Rotten Tomatoes: 100%