The Pittsburgh Press (August 17, 1941)
I DARE SAY —
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How good’s your memory? Here’s a ‘screen test’
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By Florence Fisher Parry
We’re going to turn over the pages of an old Photograph Album, within the covers of which repose faces, names, stories, memories, which are especially dear.
In some way or another, when you first came upon this motion picture or that, you thought to yourself:
I shall never forget this!
But let us see how faithful you have been to these memories. Here are 24 questions. Presumably, you once knew the answers to all of them. If you can answer half of them today, you not only possess a very sentimental and faithful, but a most remarkable, memory.
Count four off for each question missed.
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Two memorable motion pictures appeared in the same year. One was Charlie Chaplin’s Gold Rush. The other was The Big Parade. Can you place the year?
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In the picture Tol’able David, in which Richard Barthelmess made his first great hit, there appeared one of the greatest of all screen villains. Do you remember his name?
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The first great dramatic motion picture film to be shown in a theater was what film and in what year and at what theater did it appear?
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The billboards made a sensational announcement in 1930: “Garbo Speaks!” What was the picture, and what great character actress made a memorable comeback in the film?
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What motion picture stars were fated to be “killed” by the introduction of sound? Name five.
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Name one silent film in which each one of these stars (above) appeared.
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Name the picture in which each of the following stars made their first big hit: Katherine Hepburn, Clark Gable, Victor McLaglen, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew.
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Try to give the banner year that all of the following great pictures were released: Berkeley Square, The Thin Man, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, It Happened One Night, Dinner at Eight, One Night of Love, Little Women, Viva Villa!, The Count of Monte Cristo.
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Can you remember who directed the following great silent pictures? Orphans of the Storm, The Big Parade, Sunrise.
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Can you name three pictures in which Rudolph Valentino starred?
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Can you name three pictures in which Jack Gilbert starred?
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What star-team played in the first 7th Heaven?
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Approximately what years were the following local theaters opened? Loew’s Penn, Stanley, Harris-Alvin.
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What motion picture executive transformed John Barrymore from a “character” to a romantic “lead”?
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The studios are frantically trying to find a successor to Jean Harlow. What was her first picture?
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What two stage actors played onscreen the character of Abraham Lincoln?
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Mary Pickford, indisputably the most beloved of all screen stars, was America’s Sweetheart for 10 years. Can you give the titles of three of her pictures?
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Nazimova, now returned to the screen and appearing in Blood and Sand, was in 1922 considered the greatest dramatic actress on the screen. Name two of her pictures.
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Charlie Chaplin is still considered the greatest screen pantomimist in the history of the movies. Name three of his early full-length pictures.
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How long has Greta Garbo been a movie star? What was her first big picture?
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Can you remember what movie stars, in the following motion pictures, you saw on the screen for the first time? The Big Parade, The White Sister, What Price Glory?, Flying Down to Rio, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
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What was the first feature-length screen comedy? Who co-starred in it? The first talkie? Who starred in it? The first new technicolor? Who starred in it?
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How long ago do you think the following films were released? The Sin of Madelon Claudet with Helen Hayes, City Lights, Min and Bill.
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What was the name of the first film which told a story and had a plot?