"A Woman of Independent Means" 2 Quiz

Answer: Honey Grove

In the movie, Honey Grove, Texas was situated near Dallas, Texas. Honey Grove was roughly 85 miles from Dallas and only about 21 miles west of Paris, Texas.

Answer: Totsie

Played wonderfully by Sheila McCarthy, Totsie was Bess' best friend throughout the whole movie. Incidentally, Sheila McCarthy played the librarian in "Day After Tomorrow".

Answer: Andrew, her father

Bess was pregnant with her first child and arguing with her gardener about the flower arrangement in the garden. Just then her gardener's wife rushed over with a telegram from her father saying that her mother had passed.

Answer: Robert, Andrew, Eleanor

After the wedding scene, the movie faded to Bess and Rob's bedroom where she was clearly pregnant with Robin. They later on moved into a new home, according to Bess' letter to her father announcing the birth of his namesake, Drew. Eleanor was born on the way home from Europe on the boat.

Answer: St. Louis

After the house burned down, Bess at first lived with Lydia and Manning in Dallas but grew tired of it. So she packed up herself and the children and moved to St. Louis where Rob was already at for business.

Answer: Midwestern Life

It was Rob's idea and he also managed to get his brother-in-law on board just before his father-in-law arrived to see his namesake.

Answer: Arthur Fineman

Bess and Eleanor were walking around town and the girl was wanting to wear pants instead of petticoats. Then Bess saw some members of the Shakespeare Society and asked when she was finally going to be admitted into the society. Eleanor walked away and into the street where she was accidentally struck by Arthur Fineman's car. Since she wandered into the path of the car, Bess and Rob were not going to press charges.

Answer: Dwight Davis

Totsie married Dwight Davis who had tons of money and a house in Connecticut with farm animals. Bess thought he was trying to show off that he was wealthy and she resented him for it.

Answer: Rob

After Eleanor was better and at home, Rob decided to present Bess with a Valentine's gift of a car. Bess called it a deadly dangerous machine. Rob said he was going to New York and they could stop by and visit Totsie.

Answer: Influenza

The children and Rob were sick with the influenza but it was Rob who got steadily worse. He tried to get Bess to write a codicil to his will but with tears, she refused to do it. Mother Steed couldn't get over the fact that she was going to bury her child so she told the children she hoped she would be dead in the morning.