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1. This much loved singer/actress had a well known connection with the shortened form of Australia. You could also have met her in St. Louis.
2. This actress got her big break playing a secretary in the TV series "The Beverly Hillbillies". She met her future husband Roman Polanski on the set of the film "The Fearless Vampire Killers" (1967). Her life was cut short at the age of 26.
3. This London-born actor is famous for making horror films. He left the UK in 1909. He changed his name sometime later. It is believed he did so to avoid embarrassing his siblings who were all rather dignified members of the British Foreign service. His brother, Sir John Pratt, was a distinguished British diplomat.
4. This American was a career soldier. He joined the Army at West Point in 1911. In 1941 had become a brigadier general. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, he was quickly promoted to Commanding General, European Theatre of Operations and soon after ,Supreme Commander in the North African Theatre of Operations. At the end of the war he was appointed Military Governor of the U.S. Occupation zone. In 1952 he started a second career.
5. This English-born actor came to America circa 1923 and joined a theatre company with which he toured for about six years without any great success. With the advent of sound, his excellent diction and bearing made him an ideal choice to play British, European or upper-class gentlemen. As he got older, roles as doctors and butlers became his forte. His most important contribution to the movie industry however was as a founding member of the Screen Actors' Guild. I'll give you a clue to his identity. He has 3 A's in his name.
6. This Norwegian lady won Gold Medals for Ladies Figure Skating at the Winter Olympic Games of 1928, 1932 and 1936. She then turned professional and was signed by 20th Century-Fox to make the film "One in a Million" (1936) in which she played... an ice skater. It was successful and she went on to make a series of comedies throughout the 1930's and 1940's all involving .... skating.
7. This British man served as a censor in the Ministry of Information during the Second World War before becoming a cipher operator in the Royal Corps of Signals. He took part in the Normandy landings although not during the first few days. After the war he became a writer using his second name as a pen name. His first major success was a book (later turned into a film, about a meteor shower which causes people to go blind).
8. This American boxer retired undefeated (or even tied) as World Heavyweight Champion. He retired in 1956 with a 49-0 win-loss record.
9. This man was the leader of a British dance orchestra that managed to survive for some time after most of the big bands had disappeared. He became a TV entertainer with his band in the 1950s and well into the 1960s and is remembered for his catchphrase "Wakey Wakey!".
10. This American businessman was the United States Ambassador to London for almost three years (1938-1940). He was politically ambitious but rather spoilt his copybook by remarking that "Democracy was finished in England" and that the war was not about saving democracy from National Socialism (Nazism) or from Fascism. He was recalled to the U.S. shortly afterwards. His sons were more successful in politics.
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