1947 In Movies

Choose an answer from the three choices and True or False offered after each question and then "Check Your Answers" at the end of the quiz.

1. What was the top grossing film in 1947?

• The Best Years of Our Lives
• The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
• The Farmer's Daughter

2. The Oscar for Best Picture went to what film?

3. Who is an award-winning, prolific, and best-selling American author, screenwriter, columnist, actor, producer and director born on September 21, 1947?

• Jim Hardaway
• Stephen King
• Michael McWeeney

4. Jesse James Rides Again (1947) is a Republic Movie serial. Who played Jesse James?

• Tom London
• Roy Barcroft
• Clayton Moore

5. The Oscar for Best Actress went to Loretta Young. She won the award for what movie?

• A Double Life
• Mourning Becomes Electra
• The Farmer's Daughter

6. Who won the Golden Glove for Best Actress?

• Loretta Young
• Rosalind Russell
• Myrna Loy

7. Who was the actor that won the Oscar for Best Actor and the Golden Globes Best Actor?

• Gregory Peck
• Ronald Colman
• Edmund Gwenn

8. What is the 1947 black-and-white thriller film that starred Ella Raines and Edmond O'Brien. The film, directed by Michael Gordon, was considered film noir. What was the name of the film?

9. Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Natalie Wood, Edmund Gwenn, and William Frawley starred in this 1947 classic. What is the film?

• Miracle on 34th Street
• Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
• Love Laughs at Andy Hardy

10. Unconquered (1947) was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and released by Paramount. The film depicts the violent struggles between American colonists and Native Americans on the western frontier in the mid-eighteenth century, primarily around Fort Pitt (modern-day Pittsburgh). It stars Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard. It was one of the top 5 box office hits in 1947. The primary location was where?

• Fort Union, Pennsylvania
• Fort Dodge, Kansas
• Fort Pitt (modern-day Pittsburgh).

Check Your Answers

• 1. The Best Years of Our Lives
• 2. Gentleman's Agreement
• 3. Stephen King
• 4. Clayton Moore
• 5. The Farmer's Daughter
• 6. Rosalind Russell
• 7. Ronald Colman
• 8. The Web
• 9. Miracle on 34th Street
• 10. Fort Pitt (modern-day Pittsburgh)