Quizzes / Word Games Who Am I ? - Male Hollywood Stars

Quizzes / Word Games _ Who Am I ? - Male Hollywood Stars _

Facilitator Diversional Therapist, Lifestyle / Activity Staff or Volunteer

Objective of Activity

Mental Stimulation and to minimise cognitive decline.

Capability Verbal communication skills and ability to share long term memories in a group setting

Environment Lounge area

Equipment Question sheet of the Quiz Whiteboard Prizes (optional)

Instructions Divide residents into 2 teams. Put the team names on the white board. Read each clue one line at a time, mark which team answers the question correct on the whiteboard for all to see (and give motivation to beat the others). The team with the most right wins bragging rights. (or you may like to arrange a prize for the winners)

• At a young age, I got the nickname “Bud,” and it stuck for life. Even into my later years, I was Bud to those close to me.

• Expelled from 2 schools: I was expelled from high school, allegedly for riding a motorcycle down the hallway. This forced my father to send me to Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault, Minnesota. Once there I climbed the bell tower, removed the 150lb lapper, carried the clapper 200 meters and buried it. In a stroke of genius I then organised a committee to find out who was responsible. I was never caught, however I got expelled for other infractions.

• I have been married 3 times and have 11 children

• Two of my closest friends are Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton

• I loved food so much that for a couple of decades I resorted to crash dieting before showing up to set. It became so intense that at one point my second wife, Movita, put locks on their refrigerator.

• I worked as an elevator operator

• In New York, I worked as an elevator operator at Best & Co, a department store. I followed that job with stints as a waiter, a short order cook and a sandwich man. I was also a night watchman in a factory.

• In 1945 my agent helped me get a $10 raise, from $65 to $75 a week, for my debut in I Remember Mama

• I fixed Tennessee William’s house before my audition for A Streetcar Named Desire

• The playwright was living in Provincetown, Massachusetts when his plumbing flooded. The light fuse was also broken. A few days after I was scheduled to arrive for my audition, I showed up at Williams' house, asked him why the lights were out, and then proceeded to fix the fuses and unclog the overflow- ing toilet bowl. Then I gave my audition. Williams wrote that it was "the most magnificent reading" he had ever witnessed.

• I broke my nose during a performance of Streetcar when I was boxing backstage.

• I turned down $3000 a week to appear in Rebel without a Cause.

• While filming Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) I fell in love with the island and bought it. Today it operates as a resort.

• There are many valuable checks with my signature on them still in circulation this long after my death. Many checks that I wrote were never cashed because my signature was actually worth more than the amount the check was made out to.

• I died of pulmonary fibrosis in a Los Angeles hospital in 2004 aged 80.

• My father was a highly regarded cardiovascular surgeon.

• My mother was a feminist activist and popular magazine illustrator whose family had come to America on the Mayflower.

• I am related to Princess Diana through American colonialist Thomas Woodford. This makes Princess Diana and I ninth cousins, once removed.

• I joined the navy during WW1, serving aboard the USS Leviathan.

• Because of that service I now had a love of sailing.

• Warner also hated me smoking. During the filming of The Maltese Falcon, my co-star Peter Lorre and I made it a point to smoke in as many scenes as possible just to annoy Warner. We only stopped when Warner threatened to fire us.

• I wore a wig during the filming of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. I had begun taking hormone shots in hopes of having a child with my wife, Lauren Bacall. The shots caused my hair to fall out (a side ef- fect he mitigated with Vitamin B shots), but Bacall and I would go on to have four children together. • Casablanca was my most successful film, an iconic work of cinema that won the 1943 Oscar for Best Film and landed me a Best Actor nomination.

• I would also star in Huston’s 1951 film The African Queen. My character was supposed to be a Cockney Englishman, but I couldn’t do the accent, so the character became a Canadian.

• I am Humphrey Bogart

• My father, Elias James Leach, worked in a factory.

• My early years in Bristol would have been an ordinary lower-middle-class childhood, except for one extraordinary event. At age nine, I came home from school one day and was told my mother had gone off to a seaside resort. However, the real truth was that she had been placed in a mental institution, where she would remain for years, and I was never told about it (I would not see my mother again until I was in my late 20s).

• I left school at age 14, lying about my age and forging my father's signature on a letter to join Bob Pender's troupe of knockabout comedians. I learned pantomime as well as acrobatics as I toured with the Pender troupe in the English provinces, picked up a Cockney accent in the music halls in London, and then in July 1920, was one of the eight Pender boys selected to go to the United States. Our show on Broadway, "Good Times", ran for 456 performances, giving me time to acclimatize. I would stay in America. Mae West wanted me for She Done Him Wrong (1933) because she saw my combination of virility, sexuality and the aura and bearing of a gentleman. I was young enough to begin the new career of fatherhood when I stopped making movies at age 62, with my fourth wife Dyan Cannon.

• One biographer said I was alienated by the new realism in the film industry. In the 1950s and early 1960s, I had invented a man-of-the-world persona and a style - "high comedy with polished words". In To Catch a Thief (1955), Grace Kelly and I were allowed to improvise some of the dialogue. We knew what the director, Alfred Hitchcock, wanted to do with a scene, we rehearsed it, put in some clever double entendres that got past the censors, and then the scene was filmed. My biggest box-office success was another Hitchcock 1950s film, North by Northwest (1959) made with Eva Marie Saint since Kelly was by that time Princess of Monaco.

• Although I retired from the screen, I remained active. I accepted a position on the board of directors at Faberge. By all accounts this position was not honorary, as some had assumed. I regularly attended meet- ings and travelled internationally to support them. The position also permitted use of a private plane, which I could use to fly to see my daughter wherever her mother Dyan Cannon, was working. I later joined the boards of Hollywood Park, the Academy of Magical Arts (The Magic Castle - Hollywood, California), Western Airlines (acquired by Delta Airlines in 1987) and MGM.

• I expressed no interest in making a career comeback. I was in good health until almost the end of my life, when I suffered a mild stroke in October 1984. In my last years, I undertook tours of the United States in a one-man-show, in which I would show clips from my films and answer audience questions. On November 29, 1986, I died at age 82 of a cerebral haemorrhage in Davenport, Iowa.

• In 1999, the American Film Institute named me the second male star of Golden Age of Hollywood cinema (after Humphrey Bogart). I was known for comedic and dramatic roles; my best-known films include Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Philadelphia Story (1940), His Girl Friday (1940), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Notorious (1946), An Affair to Remember (1957), North by Northwest (1959) and Charade (1963).

• I am Cary Grant.

• My father was a phonograph salesman

• My father was of Irish descent and my mother was of Irish and German ancestry.

• I attended Peabody High School in the East Liberty section of Pittsburgh, PA.

• Attended Penn State University before transferring to University of Pittsburgh, where he graduated with a degree in economics.

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was the largest and most powerful studio in Hollywood when I arrived in town in 1941.

• My first picture for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was For Me and My Gal (1942) with Judy Garland.

• What kept me in Hollywood was "the kindred creative spirits" I found behind the scenes at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

• My first two wives were dancers. Betsy Blair and I met while she was a performer and I was a choreographer in the show "Diamond Horseshoe". Second wife Jeanne Coyne was my dancing assistant for many years before we married in 1960. A major talent in her own right, her dazzling footwork can be seen in the "From This Moment On" number alongside partner Bobby Van, Ann Miller, Tommy Rall, Carol Haney and Bob Fosse in Kiss Me Kate (1953) (1953). She died of leukaemia in 1973.

• My younger brother Fred and I appeared together in a dancing vaudeville act. When I got my big break as Harry the hoofer in the dramatic Broadway production of "The Time of Your Life" in 1939, I was eventually replaced by my brother Fred, who took it on the road and won a Donaldson award for his efforts.

• I appeared in the following movies: Leave It to Me, One for the Money, The Time of Your Life, Pal Joey, Best Foot Forward, Flower Drum Song, Coquelico, Singin' in the Rain.

• I was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 1992.

• In October 1997 I was ranked #26 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.

• I died February 2, 1996 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (complications from two strokes)

• I am Gene Kelly

• My mother and father owned a hardware store.

• I was of Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and some English, descent. I was educated at a local prep school, Mercersburg Academy, where I was a keen athlete (football and track), musician (singing and accordion playing), and sometime actor.

• In 1929, I won a place at Princeton University, where I studied architecture with some success and became further involved with the performing arts as a musician and actor with the University Players. After graduation, engagements with the University Players took me around the northeastern United States, including a run on Broadway in 1932. But work dried up as the Great Depression deepened, and it was not until 1934, when I followed my friend Henry Fonda to Hollywood, that things began to pick up.

• After my first screen appearance in Art Trouble (1934), I worked for a time for MGM as a contract player and slowly began making a name for myself in increasingly high-profile roles throughout the rest of the 1930s. My famous collaborations with Frank Capra, in You Can't Take It with You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), and, after World War II, It's a Wonderful Life (1946) helped to launch my career as a star and to establish my screen persona as the likable everyman.

• Having learned to fly in 1935, I was drafted into the United States Army in 1940 as a private (after twice failing the medical for being underweight). During the course of World War II I rose to the rank of colonel, first as an instructor at home in the United States, and later on combat missions in Europe. I remained involved with the United States Air Force Reserve after the war and retired in 1959 as a brigadier general.

• My acting career took off properly after the war. During the course of my long professional life, I had roles in some of Hollywood's best remembered films, starring in a string of Westerns (bringing my "everyman" qualities to movies like The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)), biopics (The Stratton Story (1949), The Glenn Miller Story (1954), and The Spirit of St. Louis (1957), for instance) thrillers (most notably his frequent collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock) and even some screwball comedies.

• On June 25, 1997, a thrombosis formed in my right leg, leading to a pulmonary embolism a week later, Surrounded by my two children with Gloria on July 2, 1997, I died at age 89 at my home in Beverly Hills, California, with my last words to my family being, "I'm going to be with Gloria now.".

• I am James Stewart

• I was considered to be one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood, I lived an interesting life both in my films and behind the camera.

• Both my parents were music hall performers, who were married on June 22, 1885.

• After my father separated from my mother to perform in New York City, my mother then tried to resurrect her stage career. Unfortunately, her singing voice had a tendency to break at unexpected moments. When this happened, the stage manager spotted me standing in the wings and led me on stage, where five-year-old me began to sing a popular tune.

• My half-brother and I spent our lives in and out of charity homes and workhouses between our mother's bouts of insanity. My mother was committed to Cane Hill Asylum in May 1903 and lived there until 1921, when I moved her to California.

• I began my official acting career at the age of eight, touring with the Eight Lancashire Lads. At age 18, I began touring with Fred Karno's vaudeville troupe, joining them on the troupe's 1910 United States tour.

• My life and career was full of scandal and controversy. My first big scandal was during World War I, during which time my loyalty to England, my home country, was questioned. I had never applied for American citizenship, but claimed that I was a "paying visitor" to the United States. Many British citizens called me a coward and a slacker.

• My later film The Great Dictator (1940), which was my first "talkie", also created a stir. In the film, I play a humorous caricature of Adolf Hitler. Some thought the film was poorly done and in bad taste. However, the film grossed over $5 million and earned five Academy Award Nominations.

• Another scandal occurred when I briefly dated 22-year-old Joan Barry. However, my relationship with Barry came to an end in 1942, after a series of harassing actions from her. In May 1943, Barry returned to inform me that she was pregnant and filed a paternity suit, claiming that the unborn child was mine. During the 1944 trial, blood tests proved that I was not the father, but at the time, blood tests were inadmissible evidence and I was ordered to pay $75 a week until the child turned 21.

• I was married four times and had a total of 11 children. In 1918, I married Mildred Harris and we had a son together, Norman Spencer, who only lived three days. Mildred and I were divorced in 1920. I married Lita Grey in 1924, who had two sons. We were divorced in 1927. In 1936, I married Paulette Goddard and my final marriage was to Oona O'Neill, daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1943. Oona gave birth to eight children.

• In contrast to many of my boisterous characters, I was a quiet man who kept to himself a great deal. I also had a "un-millionaire" way of living. Even after I had accumulated millions, I continued to live in shabby accommodations.

• My other works included musical scores I composed for many of my films. I also authored two autobiographical books, "My Autobiography" (1964) and its companion volume, "My Life in Pictures" (1974).

• I died at age 88 of natural causes on December 25, 1977 at my home in Vevey, Switzerland. My funeral was a small and private Anglican ceremony according to my wishes. In 1978, my corpse was stolen from its grave and was not recovered for three months; I was re-buried in a vault surrounded by cement.

• Six of my films have been selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress: The Immigrant (1917), The Kid (1921), The Gold Rush (1925), City Lights (1931), Modern Times (1936) and The Great Dictator (1940).

• I was considered one of the greatest filmmakers in the history of American cinema, whose movies were and still are popular throughout the world, and have even gained notoriety as time progresses. My films show, through the Little Tramp's positive outlook on life in a world full of chaos, that the human spirit has and always will remain the same.

• I am most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with my popular character, the Little Tramp; the man with the toothbrush moustache, bowler hat, bamboo cane, and a funny walk.

• I am Charlie Chaplin

Goals of Activity

PHYSICAL: • Maintain sitting posture and balance • Encourage walking to group if ambulant

SENSORY: • Maximise the use of auditory and visual skills • Reduce risk of sensory isolation by utilising senses: hearing and vision

COGNITIVE: • Maintain alertness and concentration span and attention skills • Utilize comprehension and broad thinking skills • Stimulate residual mental abilities to optimise cognitive functioning • Promote visualisation skills • Maintain/build alertness and concentration span • Prompts past learned skills of a familiar nature • Stimulate long-term memories

COMMUNICATION: • Maintain social interaction and motivation to communicate within the group • Expression should be encouraged to maintain skills at both a simple and more complex level of communication • Stimulate and motivate social contact and communication skills, especially relation to the group • Maintain verbal and non-verbal skills

SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL: • Provide an avenue for interaction with fellow residents to promote and maintain social skills • Facilitate feelings of self-worth; increase self-esteem by promoting self-expression of one’s own ideas and current affairs • Promote a sense of belonging, feelings of self-worth and self-esteem, especially on completion of quiz or word game • Peer support and encouragement, self-expression and assistance are provided in an enjoyable group environment • Reduce risk of social isolation • Maintain past interests, promote a sense of well-being • Increase self-esteem with group participation • Have fun

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