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1. This actress was born into a show business family. Her father Robert was a screen actor and her mother a Broadway actress. She bewitched us all in her most famous role in a TV series from the late 60's to early 70's.
2. This former bandleader from the 1940s made many films but is probably most famous for those he didn't actually appear in - think animations.
3. This former member of "The Rat Pack" was brought up in an Italian family, speaking only Italian until he was 5 years old. He was a boxer and a steel mill worker before finding fame with Jerry Lewis. Following their break up, he went on to stardom as a single artist.
4. This person started as an actress with some success and then achieved massive fame as a dancer before winning an acting Oscar in 1941 for "Kitty Foyle".
5. This actress was married 8 times (twice to the same man) and had a string of affairs too. She was known as the "Sweater Girl".
6. This English actor/comedian was one of four stars of the Revue "Beyond The Fringe" (with Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore). He formed a partnership with Dudley and worked with him for several years on British TV in a show called "Not Only ... But Also".
7. This English actor played Blythe "the forger" in "The Great Escape" (1963). He also played Dr. Sam Loomis in the "Halloween" films and Ernst Stavro Blofeld in "You Only Live Twice" (1967).
8. This singer/actor was born in Hunt City, Illinois. His film career started in 1946 and hit its peak in 1958 with the release of "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" and "The Big Country" for which he won an Oscar. As a final clue, he sang about a certain kind of Ball (with a capital 'B').
9. This English actor was knighted in 1983. He is known to a generation of children as the narrator of "Paddington", a series about a bear from Peru who loved Marmalade sandwiches and another animated series, "The Wind In The Willows". On the big screen, he often played senior military/navy figures such as Admiral Rolland in "Where Eagles Dare" (1968) and General Coburn in "The Man Who Never Was" (1956). He played Thomas Boleyn, father of Anne Boleyn in the film "Anne of the Thousand Days" (1969).
10. This English actor is most famous for three comedy series on BBC TV. The earliest saw him playing the neighbour of a young couple trying to be a self-contained unit, growing all their own food and selling the excess for money for other items. The second series saw him as an inept British government minister and in the third he was made a British Prime Minister.
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