Q 01/05

In which city was Angela Lansbury born in 1925?

A) Dublin

B) Belfast

C) Manchester

D) London

Answer · why

D) London

She insisted she was born in Regent's Park, central London, not Poplar in the East End as often reported.

Q 02/05

Her mother, the actress Moyna Macgill, was born in which city?

A) Belfast

B) Cork

C) Glasgow

D) Liverpool

Answer · why

A) Belfast

Macgill appeared regularly in London's West End and in several films before the family moved to America.

Q 03/05

Her 1944 film debut, which earned an Oscar nomination, was which thriller?

A) Rebecca

B) Laura

C) Suspicion

D) Gaslight

Answer · why

D) Gaslight

She was still a teenager when she was cast in the George Cukor mystery after meeting co-writer John van Druten at a party.

Q 04/05

In her 1944 debut film, who played the tormented heroine Paula Alquist?

A) Greer Garson

B) Joan Fontaine

C) Vivien Leigh

D) Ingrid Bergman

Answer · why

D) Ingrid Bergman

Bergman won the Best Actress Oscar for the role; Lansbury played the insolent maid Nancy.

Q 05/05

Who directed her 1944 debut film?

A) George Cukor

B) William Wyler

C) Alfred Hitchcock

D) Michael Curtiz

Answer · why

A) George Cukor

Cukor was known as a "woman's director" and guided Bergman to an Oscar in the same film.

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