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1. This English-born actor left school at 14 and forged his father's signature on a letter so that he could join a troupe of knockabout comedians. In 1920, eight of them were selected to go to the U.S. to star in a successful Broadway show. He stayed in America and was picked by Mae West to star with her in "She Done Him Wrong" (1933). Some of his famous movies are "Arsenic and Old Lace" (1944), "To Catch a Thief" (1955), "North by Northwest" (1959) and "Charade" (1963).
2. This actor is one of the all-time great Hollywood stars. He was nominated for an Oscar on three occasions but only won once which ironically was for a film of a different genre to the one he is famous for. He starred with Pat O'Brien in 9 films. He is probably best known for "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938) and "The Public Enemy" (1931).
3. This actor was born in South Wales, UK. He won the 1946 Best Actor Oscar for "The Lost Weekend" in which he played a drunken writer. He also played a man plotting to murder his wife (Grace Kelly) in Hitchcock's "Dial M for Murder" (1954).
4. This UK politician was British Prime Minister from January 1957 until October 1963. In 1984 he was made a member of the House of Lords and took the title 1st Earl of Stockton, a reference to the constituency (Stockton-on-Tees) that he represented in Parliament.
5. This English actress played Mrs Cratchit in the 1951 film of "Scrooge" which starred Alastair Sim, one of the domestic servants in "Mary Poppins" (1964) and the voice of Auntie Shrew in "The Secret of NIMH" (1982). She is probably best known in America for playing the bawdy housekeeper Mrs Naugatuck in the comedy series "Maude" which ran from 1972 to 1978.
6. This American actor won an Oscar for playing Willie Stark in "All the King's Men" (1949), a film about political corruption. Five years later he was cast as chief Dan Mathews in the TV series "Highway Patrol".
7. This American lady (birth name Bessie Warfield), was at the centre of a huge constitutional crisis in the 1930s. She had married and divorced a U.S. naval officer, Win Spencer, and was married to Ernest Simpson when she became the mistress of an English prince. Following the death of King George V, her lover became King Edward VIII. He eventually gave up his throne for her and she divorced her husband and married the then Duke of Windsor and became the Duchess of Windsor.
8. This Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer was one of the first two people to set foot on the summit of Mount Everest, the world's highest peak at just over 29,000 feet. His partner was the New Zealander Edmund Hillary.
9. This American singer/actor made a string of hit musicals starting with "Look for the Silver Lining" (1949) and 5 Doris Day films beginning with "Tea for Two" (1950). His most famous films are without doubt "Oklahoma!" (1955) and "Carousel" (1956), both opposite Shirley Jones.
10. This American lyricist and librettist co-created some of the world's most popular musicals. He was nominated for 5 Oscars, winning three of them. His first win was in 1952 for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay for "An American in Paris". He got two in 1958 for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay and Best Music, Original Song, both for the film "Gigi". Other famous musicals he co-created are "Brigadoon", and "Camelot".
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