Posted by PAW on 6/22/06 12:30pm
Msg #127601
OT: "First Lady" trivia questions (since it's so slow)
Can you identify the following three "First Ladies"?
First Lady of Radio
First Lady of the Screen
First Lady of the Theatre
(All answers verified by Warner Books - Fred L. Worth)
"We all have a girl and her name is Nostalgia": Ernest Hemingway
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Reply by Jersey_Boy on 6/22/06 1:12pm
Msg #127611
radio = ??
Screen = ??
Theatre = Katharine Cornell??
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Reply by Marlene/USNA on 6/22/06 1:54pm
Msg #127618
screen = Mary Pickford?
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Reply by AngelinaAZ on 6/22/06 2:00pm
Msg #127623
Can I answer for my own era?
Radio - Madonna
Screen - Michelle Pfeiffer
Theatre - What's that?
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Reply by Becca_FL on 6/22/06 2:38pm
Msg #127630
Re: Can I answer for my own era?
Theatre - Nathan Lane?
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Reply by Sylvia_FL on 6/22/06 3:17pm
Msg #127636
I think the First Lady of the Radio was a nickname given to Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady of the Screen Clara Kimball Young
First Lady of the theatre - Sarah Siddons
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Reply by hcampersFL on 6/22/06 4:31pm
Msg #127644
First Lady of Radio -Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady of the Screen -Jackie Kennedy
First Lady of the Theatre -Mary Todd Lincoln
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Reply by PAW on 6/22/06 6:30pm
Msg #127660
I like your answers. But ...
According to Warner Books "The Complete Unabridged Super Trivia Encyclopedia" by Fred L. Worth and validated through other sources (a link to one for each is provided below), the following are the "correct" answers. I say "correct" because there is more than one 'correct' answer for these questions, depending on who is providing the research.
First Lady of Radio - Nickname originated by Time Magazine in 1939 for Kate Smith
http://www.radiohof.org/musicvariety/katesmith.html
First Lady of the Screen - Nickname of actress Norma Shearer
http://www.filmsite.org/20sintro.html
First Lady of the Theatre - Nickname of actress Helen Hayes
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=74
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Reply by TitleGalCA on 6/22/06 9:19pm
Msg #127692
And here I was thinking "First Ladies". I had Nancy Reagan pegged as the screen model...
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