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[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

I am adamantly not a fan of automobiles. A charming girl like that, loses her life --probably all because she thoughtlessly hopped in her convertible to drive a few blocks to the store for some milk or eggs. Or some other incident of a similar nature; always some thoughtless accident for no good reason.

[Betsy]

Actually, her husband was driving, and he swerved to avoid a truck. Unfortunately, the swerve took them into oncoming traffic.

[Betsy]

Is there any chance of clues for #37, #39, and #40?

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

#37 is French; originally a dancer before getting her break in '44. She was then brought over by Universal with two other 'hot finds' and did decently as a sort of 'stock female lead' in the usual round of films which women got in genre films around then. She would be a damsel-in-distress in one flick, and a scheming femme in another. She played opposite a dozen big name male leads and her filmography has a generous mix of French and English title movies.

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

#39 is an English actress, who began with a fairly promising British stage career; moved to Hollywood; had a minor streak of work in a handful of not-very-famous 1960s westerns (and 1 sci-fi); then she returned the stage and Americans only ever saw her again in daytime TV soap operas. Her biggest role would be opposite Sean Connery.

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

#40 is known as one of the hottest and most sultry femme fatales in B-noir. She specialized in this!

[Betsy]

#40 - Hazel Brooks?

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

Yes!!

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

I had to choose the dowdiest photo of her to throw y'all off. She is really extremely striking in terms of her facial features. Panther-like

[Betsy]

#39 - Valerie French?

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

Success again! What clue tipped the wink on that one?

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

Quiz #42. Name both men, the year, the country, and the film if you can.

[Betsy]

Just a guess: Otto Gebuhr, Gustav Frohlich?, 1942, Germany, The Great King?

[Betsy]

Could you post another clue for #37? I'm stuck.

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

A better pic for #37


She's been in at least two fairly significant movies; plus a bunch of forgotten westerns and period-pieces and war movies. When she arrived in the US she got big promo in all the magazines and newspapers

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

p.s. the above 'do, is her most often seen hairstyle (and the signature at the bottom of the photo is not her name so don't bother to magnify!)

[Betsy]

A leery guess: #37 - Denise Darcel?

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

Sorry, nope. I'll try to assist here. When I say she was in two 'significant' movies (at best); it's better for me to say that she was in two movies which in retrospect, have become mildly notorious in 'pulp' circles. They've acquired more reputation for their influence than any renown they enjoyed at the time. One jungle adventure, and one Brit SF.

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

I look over her filmography and see very few other clues I can extract. I see she was a supporting player in a Marilyn Monroe movie and I see she also starred with a young Jeremy Brett in a flick I happen to recognize.

She's starred opposite Steve Cochran, Wendell Corey, Jeff Chandler ...

[Betsy]

Nicole Maurey?

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

Yes!!! Good job!

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

Nicole was in (the original) 'The Day of the Triffids', 'Secret of the Incas' (with Charlton Heston); 'Don't Bother to Knock' with Marilyn Monroe, and 'The Very Edge' with Jeremy Brett. Other stuff she did may have been decent but these are the titles which seemed to have garnered more fame.

p.s. It's interesting to see Jeremy Brett early in his career. He was intense. In the above flick he plays a maniac. I've also seen him in a fine (filmed) stage play, 'On Approval' (which I believe Noel Coward wrote? Not sure). Lots of fun, similar to 'Private Lives'.

[Jill]

I am back and Betsy is wowing me!!! Great job. I knew a couple of them but Betsy has already got them. I actually knew Froelich only because I have seen Metropolis several times. I need to get back to concentrating on this great quiz.

[Betsy]

Hi, Jill. Glad to hear from you. Do you mean my guess on #42? Feliks hasn't mentioned it so I wasn't sure about it.

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

Welcome back, Jill.

It is indeed, formidable, the movie memory-bank we're seeing on parade here.

p.s. I missed seeing any earlier guesses on #42, need to scroll up and examine, stand by ...

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

Sorry no win for #42 just yet.

[Jill]

If it isn't Froehlic, it certainly looks like him.

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

p.s. Nicole Maurey arrived with Gia Scalia with all the fanfare that year; and she got her start in a Bing Crosby movie in '44.

Isn't it interesting how many stars were making movies on both continents in those turbulent times? Not just the exodus from Germany to America (Conrad Veidt, Fritz Lang, etc). Besides this movie I just mentioned, Bing made some flick about orphans in Italy that year too (or thereabouts), something with 'little' Anna-Maria Alberghetti.

Crosby certainly was a workhorse as were so many others.

[Jill]

The movie still in #42 looks German. Is it? That is why I think we both thought it was Froehlic.

[Jill]

Could it be Alfred Abel? Or possibly Fritz Rasp?

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

There are excellent grounds to assume German origin; but this is not in fact, precisely correct in this case. There are three separate and distinct movies made with the title of the film from which this photo is taken; two of them are British. The German product resembles one of the British versions stylistically; but many SF films from that cruder era resemble each other. HG Wells, 'The Shape of Things To Come' could be lumped in with the movies we're discussing here, (or even that Cecil B. deMille zeppelin-party rom-com we looked at a while ago) but there's no direct relationship at all. Admittedly, 'Metropolis' influence is also spread among several movies of that time --but even granting that, this particular flick is not German and these two men are British actors.

Good guesses so far!

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

Quiz #43

[Betsy]

#43 - Gloria Henry?

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

No banana on that one.

She is a charming- looking actress though isn't she? Not sure she could actually go out riding in that get-up, but still...

[Betsy]

Are you sure? I found that picture with her name on it.

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

I'm sure yes

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

Here's another, for good measure.

[Betsy]

I just don't understand that because the picture and outfit she's wearing are exactly the same, and the name is listed as Gloria Henry.

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

It's perplexing. I do a keyword search for the actress I have in mind, and these 'cowgirl' images come up along with a bunch of others, and they're all the same woman

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

Gloria Henry apparently, was the mom on 'Dennis the Menace'. But these rodeo-outfit pics do not appear when I do a keyword search on 'Gloria Henry'

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

We will figure it out one way or t'other very soon, I expect...

[Betsy]

That's how I found the picture. I put in Gloria Henry on Google and there was the picture among others. Is a puzzlement as the King would say. Why don't you give us another clue which might help? Thanks.

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

The actress I have in mind was a stunner; so much so that her studio (Universal) didn't quite know what to do with her. They slated her into supporting roles. She had no stage experience, and got signed after winning one of those crazy beauty contests that were always a thing those days. As her career wore on she seemed to have a knack of getting herself into a number of quirky little controversies. She contracted a bizarre illness on one location shoot; then got herself into an unflattering lawsuit. She seems never to landed a big female leading role; always in supporting roles. I can find her name in only one major film. In later years she wound up in a completely different venue than Hollywood, to parade her good looks.

[Betsy]

She looks somewhat like Marguerite Chapman, but I don't think so.

[Betsy]

On #42, is one of the actors Ernest Thesiger?

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

Nope and nope. Good guess though; and its wise to stay in the field of 'British actors'. Its a very early Brit SF flick influenced by Lang.

This is a case where you might not know the actors but if you figure out the film, then it's easy to name the performers.

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

Quiz#44. No, of course this is not Jan Sterling. You'd spot her instantly.

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

Quiz #45. Who is this bombshell??

[Betsy]

Another guess for #42: High Treason, 1929, Humbertson Wright and Basil Gill

[Feliks, Co-Moderator]

Correct!!! w00t w00t w00t!