Jake, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is correct, although Red River is not.

 

Ronald Reagan was the male star, I'll leave the female co star to someone else who might want to answer.

 

The rest are incorrect, although floozie might be right, I  need a name.

1. Joan Blondell, Mae Clarke, Jean Harlow

 

2.

4. Either Citizen Cane or Casablanca

5. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande

6. Lorraine Hansberry

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#2  Cagney and Edward G. Robins (whom I met and was a gentleman) starred in "Smart Money" in 1931.

 

#3  Was Ronald Reagan and Ann Sheridan, but Warners decided to bank on Bogarts's appeal at the time.

 

#4  AFI voted "Citizen Kane" the number one movie of all time, I disagree, thinking it would be either "Casablanca" or "GWTW".

 

#5  Would be "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon", which also starred Shirley Temple as an adult, and "Rio Grande".

 

#6  Yes and No Herb, the play "Raisin In the Sun" was written by Lorraine Hansbury, but the poem it is based on is "Harlem" written by Langston Hughes,  there is a line in the poem that goes "What happens to a dream deferred, does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"  See Herb, a Conservative Republican took African American Literature in college!  An elective at that!

 

#7  Hearst built San Simeon for Marion Davies, his mistress of over 30 years. Marion was with him when he died.

 

#8  Raoul Walsh, Errol Flynn and John Barrymore were all good friends.  They were actually very good drinking buddies.  Barrymore passed away, and Walsh and Flynn

were at Flynn's home toasting their departed friend.  Flynn was drunk and overcome

with sadness and said he was going to bed.  While Flynn slept, Raoul Walsh drove to the funeral parlor, and paid off the undertaker to "lend" him Barrymore's body for awhile.  He sat the body up on the sofa, a cigarette burning in an ashtray in front of it with a drink..  When Flynn came downstairs, there was John Barrymore.  Flynn was said to have fainted.

 

#9.  Hattie McDaniel "Mammy". 

 

#10.  Was Nevada's Pyramid Lake.

 

 

 

 

#6  Rita, I first read James T. Farrell in a college creative writing course.  He described being Irish as one of the major factors in his life.

Some people think his work is repetitious, but I like it.  I love  authors  John Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nora Zeale Hurston and Flannery O'Connor.  Geez, to be honest I could go on and on...I love reading.  When I walk into a book store I swear I get chills.  It was never a burden for me to do a book report.  I thank my mom for my love of reading, she taught me to read well before I got to first grade, and my book collection is quite extensive.

Jim Farrell grew up on the south side, was an athlete and attended Catholic high school, so I identified a lot with him.  I was supposed to hear him lecture in '79 but I went on a date instead.  Six months later he was dead.  I once counted -- I have about 15 of his books but most of them are paperback.

 

I have about 40 books at work; probably 500 at my house.  Most of them I've read at least twice.