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Quizzes / Word Games _ Who Am I ? - Male Hollywood Stars _ © Copyright www.qualityaging.com.au 2019. All Rights Reserved 1 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) © Copyright www.qualityaging.com.au 2019. All Rights Reserved 2 Quizzes / Word Games _ Who Am I ? - Male Hollywood Stars _ • I was born April 3 1924, in Omaha, Nebraska. • 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. • I am Marlon Brando © Copyright [email protected] 2019. All Rights Reserved 3 Quizzes / Word Games _ Who Am I ? - Male Hollywood Stars _ • I was born on December 25, 1899, in New York City, USA • 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 © Copyright [email protected] 2019. All Rights Reserved 4 Quizzes / Word Games _ Who Am I ? - Male Hollywood Stars _ • I was born January 18, 1904 in Horfield, Bristol, England, UK • 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. © Copyright [email protected] 2019. All Rights Reserved 5 Quizzes / Word Games _ Who Am I ? - Male Hollywood Stars _ • I was born August 23, 1912 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA • I was the third son • 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.