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[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

recent standings:

# 63 Hugh Williams (Welsh idol)
# 64 Constance Cummings (Goldwyn Girl + OBE)
# 65 Linden Travers (Scotswoman)
# 66 unguessed (blonde MGM vocalist)
# 67 Skip Homeier
# 68 Frank Overton
# 69 Estelle Taylor (silent-era beauty)
# 70 Dabbs Grier
# 71 Mari Blanchard
#72 Ralph Forbes
#73 Brenda Forbes
#74 Mary Forbes
#75 unguessed Brit
#76 unguessed Brit

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

Quiz #75 English character actress with an extensive career in numerous films

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

Quiz #76 another much-storied British supporting actress; lengthy filmography; a veteran also of the British variety theater

[Betsy]

#76 - Irene Handl?

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

no banana

[Jill]

#75.....Sally Gray?

[Jill]

#76......Athene Seyler?

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

noooes

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

p.s. these two latest quiz candidates added, (British) it seems to me that I've heard either [or both] of you-all in the past, exclaiming over one of your favorite films of all time, and it just so happens that these actresses happen to appear in them. At least I think so.

They're certainly not Percy Walsh, whom we had to scratch our heads until finally discovering a movie we might know him from

[Jill]

#76.......Katie Johnson?

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

nought

[Jill]

#76......Marie Ault She was in a film with..........Ivor Novello!!!!!!!

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

Ivor Novello is the correct answer! (for some other quizzo)

keep trying!

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

what troopers these gels were

film after film through the 30s, 40s, 50s

always unsung

[Jill]

#76......Peggy Mount?

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

nope...

I'll cough up some additional clues and pictures in a little while

[Jill]

#76........Hilda Baker?

I don't have any ideas for #75. She looks like gobs of British actresses.

But it is that darn #66 who has thrown us a curve. Very, very popular and she doesn't look like anybody I have ever seen. How humiliating.

[Betsy]

#66 - Susanna Foster?

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

YES. Betsy nabs it. #66 is Susanna Foster of course. 1943's 'Phantom of the Opera' with Claude Rains as the Phantom and Susanna as his disciple. Hurrah!

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

I had to bite my lip to avoid all references to 'hit musical' because the lineage is so patent. Y'all would have cottoned on to it instantly.

But yea that was Susanna's big splash, 'mega-stardom', which she inexplicably let it slip out of her hands after just a few years.

[Betsy]

Considering that I'd never heard of her until this photo quiz, her 'mega-stardom' must not have lasted long.

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

Yeah. In the 1950s, she was reduced to considering offers to guest star on 'Mr. Ed'.

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

#75 was most active in the 1930s, and had perhaps more activity in the live theater than in films though she has approx 25 titles to her credit. Her face is probably more recognizable to us as a mature woman rather than what is pictured above. She has parts in a Hitchcock movie and a Noel Coward movie.

[Jill]

Thanks for the clues on #75.....Kay Walsh?

[Jill]

Good job, Betsy. I barely know who Susanna Foster is either. But I guess she was considered famous at one time but I missed it.

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

additional image for #75

[Jill]

My guess on #75 of Kay Walsh was wrong?

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

Yes that fell short

[Jill]

Darn, she fit all the clues and pictures. Oh well.

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

Yep. Very close. And I'm a fan of Kay Walsh for sure. All the more reason you might find her in a quizzo of mine.

But this is not her; this picture is from a well-known film from GB in '40.

[Betsy]

Would you have any other photos of #76?

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

Surely. Here is #76 again. Naturally with that stout, sunny, stalwart British face she was typically cast as scullery maids; governesses; schoolmarms; head nurses; charwomen; laundry ladies; mother-in-law types.

But she's in one of my very favorite WWII movies too--I was glad to learn that.

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

Quiz #77, American

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

Quiz #78, American

[Jill]

#77......Ruth Chatterton?

[Betsy]

Sure looks like her. Very observant, Jill.

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

Yes! A winnah for Jill. Ruth Chatterton it is.

Unusual actress with more to her than just acting. Pioneering female airwoman, for example.

[Jill]

That was one that I knew right off the bat, although I don't know why. Now we have to figure out who the Dane Clark look-alike is in #78.

I am going to ignore #75 and #76 for a while and then come back to them with a fresh outlook.

Is #78....Todd Andrews?

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

no banana

He's got a prominent supporting role in an extremely famous western and makes appearances in a few other titles most buffs would know about; but for the most part has a rather ho-hum career; he did some theater and some television and took up a photography business as a sideline

[Jill]

#78.............John Hudson?

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

nawp

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

fyi this youth had a long-term male partner, just as did ...Ivor Novello ...

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

the studio forced him into marriage with some starlet, as a publicity bluff which probably no one was fooled by

[Jill]

Feliks wrote: "fyi this youth had a long-term male partner, just as did ...Ivor Novello ..."

Hmmmmm, where have I heard that name before???? Good one, Feliks.

[Betsy]

Like Jill, I'm taking a short breather on #75 and #76 so could we have another clue on #78? Thanks.

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

Why, sure thing. Bearing in mind that he only seems to have made a small handful of films and of those, four are genuinely well-known.

His most recognizable role is as a young cowboy in one of the most famous classic American westerns you might possibly name.

This is the only trail of breadcrumbs I can think of to ladle out. You might only be able to identify him by the character he played in this western. In short, he has a vicious, bitter, blistering relationship with his self-righteous prig of a father. It's a scathing albeit minor subplot.

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

#75, I can specify that the image above (hair in a bun, stunned expression, mouth parted in surprise) is in fact from a Hitchcock film.

#76, the war film she appears in --very highly rated by critics, not just myself --is based on a story by Graham Greene.

[Betsy]

Wild guess for #78 - Claude Jarman Jr.

[Jill]

#75........Joyce Barbour?

[Jill]

#76.......Aminta Dyne