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1. This actress was one of the leading sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s and was a talented violinist and piano player. She had a trademark high pitched squeal and is well known for her scantily clad role in the film "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" (1957) with Tony Randall. She was killed in a horrific road accident.
2. This double Oscar winning British actress was married to an Oscar winning British actor who was later knighted and later still made a lord. She took the leading female role in a classic 1939 film to win her first Oscar. She got her second Oscar playing Blanche Dubois in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951).
3. This actor was fittingly born under the star-sign of Leo. He appeared in burlesque, vaudeville and Broadway but is best known for "The Wizard of Oz" (1939) where he played Farmer Zeke. Oh, he did have a second part in that film too. A cowardly lion.
4. This double Oscar winning actor was one of the most popular Hollywood actors of all time. He was nominated for an Oscar on seven occasions in addition to his two wins. He was the first actor to win back-to-back Oscars in 1938 and 1939 for "Captains Courageous" (1937) and "Boys Town" (1938).
5. This British actor who was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, fled the country when he was 3 years old with his dad when the latter was accused of being a British Spy by the Boers in 1895. In school, he loved acting and sport, especially fencing. He worked for exactly one year before contacting a Shakespearean acting group, having fulfilled his father's demands in that respect. In the 1930s he made several films as a supporting actor in roles ranging from lady-killers to villains in movies such as "Captain Blood", "The Adventures of Robin Hood" and "The Mark of Zorro". He is best known however for a series of films playing a fictitious London detective.
6. This American singer/songwriter is regarded as one of the greatest singers in popular music and a powerful influence on many soul artists. In 1967, after appearing at the Monterey Pop Festival he wrote and recorded "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" which became the first posthumous number 1 record on the Billboard Hot 100.
7. This man was the second American in space and the first to fly in space twice. His first names were Virgil Ivan but he was better known as something else.
8. This nightclub operator from Dallas was sentenced to death for the murder of a man in police custody but he successfully appealed against his conviction and sentence and was granted a new trial. He died from a pulmonary embolism due to lung cancer before the new trial could take place.
9. This British daredevil broke eight world speed records on both land and water during the 1950s and 1960s. His father Malcolm was the holder of 13 world speed records in the 1920s and 1930s. Both of them broke their records in vehicles called Bluebird.
10. This Argentinian revolutionary was a major figure in the Cuban Revolution of 1956-59. A stylised photo of his face has become an icon of rebellion in popular culture.
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