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RTE Guide Movie quiz help?

  • 07-12-2010 03:14PM
    #1
    Lyla Early Thud
    Posts: 8,317 ✭✭✭ Lyla Early Thud


    Can I ask for help with two questions?

    1. Which Irish actor spent all of November staring down from a six storey poster on Dublin's Liberty Hall?

    2. The father of which Fair City actress was a marvelous character actor who delivered telling performances in a series of movies in the 1950's and 60's opposite luminaries such as Michael Redgrave, Christopher Lee and Marlon Brando.

    I feel the first question is unfair to those of us outside Dublin. Any help much appreciated. Thanks for any help.


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  • #2
    AnonoBoy
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Can I ask for help with two questions?

    1. Which Irish actor spent all of November staring down from a six storey poster on Dublin's Liberty Hall?

    Liam Neeson.


  • #3
    39steps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭39steps


    Does anyone know who this actress is?


  • #4
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,177 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Looks to me like a young Grace Kelly.

    kelly_grace.jpg

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #5
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    http://www.tineye.com/

    ;)


  • #6
    SVG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 504 ✭✭✭SVG


    Virginia Mayo, maybe.
    m197100500032.jpg


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  • #7
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,177 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    It's the RTE Quiz? Then there's got to be an Irish connection - which still makes me think of Grace Kelly, whose Irish roots were well-known.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #8
    brandonbay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭brandonbay


    Catherine Byrne (her father was Eddie Byrne)
    Have you the answers to 17 and 26 please?


  • #9
    Lyla Early Thud
    Posts: 8,317 ✭✭✭ Lyla Early Thud


    brandonbay wrote: »
    Catherine Byrne (her father was Eddie Byrne)
    Have you the answers to 17 and 26 please?
    I have Aisling O'Neill for that one (her father was Chris O'Neill who was in the Riordans).
    Q17 is "The Long Day Closes". If you do a Google image search with it's name the exact pic shows up.
    I have no clue of Q26 I'm afraid. I think it might be Veronica Lake or even Diane Cilento (she was married to Sean Connery).


  • #10
    39steps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭39steps


    NOt sure myself! Maybe an atypical photo of Veronica Lake, but am open to correction.


  • #11
    Lyla Early Thud
    Posts: 8,317 ✭✭✭ Lyla Early Thud


    I've done some research and I think Catherine Byrne is a better answer than Aisling O'Neill! :D Thanks for that. So just Q26 left to answer! Can anybody identify this actress:

    captureiks.jpg


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  • #12
    SVG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 504 ✭✭✭SVG


    39steps wrote: »
    NOt sure myself! Maybe an atypical photo of Veronica Lake, but am open to correction.

    Could well be. It's hard to tell without the typical hair though!


  • #13
    brandonbay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭brandonbay


    Definitely Eddie Byrne. He was in 100s of movies.
    Virginia Mayo!! or Grace Kelly No.
    I'm beginning to think it's a more modern actress made up to look
    like someone from the Grace Kelly era.
    What do you think?
    Thanks for 17.


  • #14
    Lyla Early Thud
    Posts: 8,317 ✭✭✭ Lyla Early Thud


    brandonbay wrote: »
    Definitely Eddie Byrne. He was in 100s of movies.
    Virginia Mayo!! or Grace Kelly No.
    I'm beginning to think it's a more modern actress made up to look
    like someone from the Grace Kelly era.
    What do you think?
    Thanks for 17.

    I'm completely stumped. I posted the actress pic on the IMDb forums, Yahoo Answers and theanswerbank.co.uk. No luck. Funnily enough when you say it could be a modern day actress the answers on Yahoo Answers said it was Gretchen Mol. I seriously doubt it though.

    I also tried TinEye and GazoPa without success. I emailed William Gallagher who was the BBC Ceefax film critic and he didn't know. I posted the pic on the Empire magazine forums. No answers.

    The problem is if indeed it is a 50s/60s era actress then that's well before my time. I'm keeping an eye on theanswerbank.co.uk in the hope it'll get answered when other people are doing and answering the quiz over the holidays.


  • #15
    Nolanger
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    Mai Zetterling?


  • #16
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 92,136 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I've done some research and I think Catherine Byrne is a better answer than Aisling O'Neill! :D Thanks for that. So just Q26 left to answer! Can anybody identify this actress:

    captureiks.jpg

    A blonde Olivia de Havilland

    No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change this World



  • #17
    brandonbay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭brandonbay


    Anyone come up with any more names.
    I showed it to a friend and she thought it was Aisling O'Neill!:confused:
    from Fair City.
    I've never seen the programme, so can't really comment.


  • #18
    Lyla Early Thud
    Posts: 8,317 ✭✭✭ Lyla Early Thud


    brandonbay wrote: »
    Anyone come up with any more names.
    I showed it to a friend and she thought it was Aisling O'Neill!:confused:
    from Fair City.
    I've never seen the programme, so can't really comment.

    From the RTE website:

    0003185d-279.jpg

    She's not even blonde to begin with. I think I'm gonna go with Veronica Lake personally.


  • #19
    Sad Professor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,712 ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Yeah, I'm going go with Veronica Lake as well. It looks just like her. And during the war she took part in a government campaign to get female factory workers to pin their hair back (it was getting stuck in the machines), so it's quite likely that she was photographed like this at some point.


  • #20
    brandonbay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭brandonbay


    Wigs! Hairdye! Make-up artists can change appearances quite easily.:cool:


  • #21
    Nolanger
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    It's not Veronica Lake. Looks more like a European actress?


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  • #22
    cdemt1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭cdemt1


    Hi stuck on RTE Movie Quiz question no.10 Anybody know the actor's name please :) Anybody figure out the actress name in question no.26 yet :confused:


  • #23
    JP Liz V1
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    cdemt1 wrote: »
    Hi stuck on RTE Movie Quiz question no.10 Anybody know the actor's name please :) Anybody figure out the actress name in question no.26 yet :confused:

    Robert Knepper I think

    No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change this World



  • #24
    Mikey23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 277 ✭✭Mikey23


    cdemt1 wrote: »
    Hi stuck on RTE Movie Quiz question no.10 Anybody know the actor's name please :)

    Thought it was John Cazale?

    I'm kicking myself over this one already, but the other picture question - the young lad in the cinema, no. 17 - which film is that?


  • #25
    Lyla Early Thud
    Posts: 8,317 ✭✭✭ Lyla Early Thud


    Mikey23 wrote: »
    I'm kicking myself over this one already, but the other picture question - the young lad in the cinema, no. 17 - which film is that?
    The answer is on the first page of this thread. :rolleyes:


  • #26
    rednik
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    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    A blonde Olivia de Havilland

    I think it is her sister Joan Fontaine probably taken from Rebecca.


  • #27
    LMN3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭LMN3


    It's Valerie Hobson, an English actress who starred in "Great Expectations" and "Kind Hearts and Coronets". She has dark hair, but must have been blonde at this stage in her career.

    If you don't believe me, Google her name in Images and you will find the picture on page 10!

    Thanks to all the contributors for the other answers.


  • #28
    Sad Professor
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    Good work.

    Here's the image:
    dspwnhph6usfnwpd.jpg

    Found it here.

    Tricky one though, since that is not how she generally looked.

    gjjs8og1llffo81j.jpg


  • #29
    cdemt1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭cdemt1


    NICE ONE :D:D Spent AGES looking for this one didn't know there were that many blonde Hollywood actresses from that era:) Thanks a million and good luck to everyone


  • #30
    Lyla Early Thud
    Posts: 8,317 ✭✭✭ Lyla Early Thud


    LMN3 wrote: »
    It's Valerie Hobson, an English actress who starred in "Great Expectations" and "Kind Hearts and Coronets". She has dark hair, but must have been blonde at this stage in her career.

    If you don't believe me, Google her name in Images and you will find the picture on page 10!

    Thanks to all the contributors for the other answers.

    Awesome! Never heard of her! :o Would never have got her in a million years. Don't know what I'm going to do now since I sent off an entry with Veronica Lake! I hope multiple entries don't disqualify. :) Many thanks.


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  • #31
    Kewpie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭Kewpie


    I've tried everywhere else and can't find the answer to Question 13, which football team does Colin Farrell support in Veronica Guerin. I thought it was Man Utd as that's the team that she supports in the film and they talk about Eric Cantona, but someone told me it was Shamrock Rovers and was Colin Farrell's little private joke. Does anyone know for sure?

    Thanks in advance.


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