women in cinema final

Guy Blache's first film was:

the cabbage fairy

She took her cameras on location and even had her own studio (Solax):

Alice Guy-Blache

She was considered one of the best screenwriters in film history, writing for Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford & Marie Dressler, among others:

Frances Marion

She was the "IT" girl from the 1920s:

Clara Bow

The first American-born female director & highest paid of the silent era:

Lois Weber

The only woman directing for a studio from 1927-1943:

Dorothy Arzner

She was called America's Sweetheart:

Mary Pickford

This decade gave women dominant parts with role reversals:

1930s

This decade was a powerful one for women...they were often billed first and many of the writers and directors were women:

1920s

This director who started out as a film cutter, made great strides in editing techniques with Blood & Sand:

Dorothy Arzner

She is referred to as the first African-American female filmmaker:

Eslanda Robeson

When you signed a contract with the studio in the studio system years, your contract length was:

5-7 years

Drusilla Dunjee Houston wrote a screenplay said to be the first African American response to D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation film. It was called:

The Spirit of the South: The Maddened Mob

She was a talented writer and ethnographer (the study of anthropology and individual cultures):

Zora Neale Hurston

In the 1940s in Hollywood, if you earned over $200,000 a year you paid what percent in taxes:

90%

The first woman to win an Academy Award (Oscar):

Frances Marion

She directed a 12-part documentary about soldiers in WWI which she produced with her husband:

Madame Touissant Welcome

In the late 1940s, how many people went to the movies weekly?

90 million

This entertainment giant also owns 21st Century Fox, Marvel, and Lucasfilm:

The Walt Disney Company

Mary Pickford was one of the founders of this studio which made it a mission to let artists maintain their artistic freedom:

United Artists

He directed It Happened One Night:

Frank Capra

According to your lecture, it's perhaps the most important element of Romantic Comedy:

Chemistry

In It Happened One Night, she plays Ellie Andrews:

Claudette Colbert

In a famous scene in It Happened One Night, Peter shows Ellie how to do this:

hitch hike

This film helped launch Screwball Comedy:

Bringing Up Baby

This film helped launch Romantic Comedy:

It Happened One Night

In It Happened One Night, Ellie and Peter meet here:

Bus

Clark Gable played this reporter in It Happened One Night:

Peter Warne

It Happened One Night was an adaptation of the short story:

Night Bus

According to your film noir lecture, the "bad girl" in film noir who seduces the hero into doing things for her is called a:

Femme Fatale

Barbara Stanwyck was on a popular television show in the 60s called:

The Big Valley

Barbara Stanwyck's real name was:

Ruby Stevens

Film Noir grew into a strong genre during this decade, with dark melodramas and underhanded female characters:

1940s

Film Noir has its beginnings in this movement:

German Expressionism

He directed Double Indemnity:

Billy Wilder

In Double Indemnity, Phyllis' husband is found dead here:

Train Tracks

In Double Indemnity, her stepdaughter Lola accuses Phyllis of also killing Lola's:

Mother

This is a typical device in film noir that gives you the backstory on the characters:

Flashback

Which element is found in film noir:

Cynical characters

Anti-hero

Dark and shadowy lighting

In Adam's Rib, this character grandstands in the courtroom, and makes a spectacle of the process, but is trying to make a point:

Amanda

In "Adam's Rib," Kip loves Amanda because:

He lives across the hall from her

Spencer Tracy uses a gun made out of this in "Adam's Rib":

Licorice

In "Adam's Rib", Katharine Hepburn believes she's arguing for:

Women's rights

He directed Adam's Rib:

George Cukor

In "Adam's Rib," she plays the wife who shoots her husband:

Judy Holiday

Who was Katharine Heburn's partner on and off screen?

Spencer Tracy

The song "Amanda" was written by this famous composer:

Cole Porter

In Adam's Rib, this person moves out of the apartment after an argument:

Adam

Adam and Amanda end up here together at the very end:

Their summer house

She was an iconic symbol for femininity and had great comedic timing:

Marilyn Monroe

He directed Pillow Talk:

Michael Gordon

He created the costumes on Pillow Talk:

Jean Louis

In Pillow Talk, Brad is a/an:

Songwriter/Composer

He produced Pillow Talk:

Ross Hunter

The Best Picture OScar (academy Award), of 1950, went to:

All About Eve

This greatly reduced movie attendance in the 1950s:

television

She played Jan Morrow in Pillow Talk:

Doris Day

This is a big issue in many Doris Day/Rock Hudson pictures, including Pillow Talk:

Trust in a relationship

In Pillow Talk, Jonahton tries to give Jan this as a thank you gift for decorating his office

a car

Audrey Hepburn and this designer created her style, which became incredibly popular and is still a classic look today:

de Givenchy

Audrey Hepburn received her first Academy Award for this film:

Roman Holiday

Audrey Hepburn's family was captured during the war and she hid here when she escaped:

a cellar

Audrey Hepburn's film that was an adaptation of a Truman Capote story:

Breakfast at Tiffany's

He directed Roman Holiday:

William Wyler

He played Irving the photographer in Roman Holiday:

Eddie Albert

He plays Joe Bradley in Roman Holiday:

Gregory Peck

In Roman Holiday, Audrey Hepburn plays a:

Princess

The Blacklisted co-writer of Roman Holiday:

Dalton Trumbo

The writers actually thrown in jail during the Blacklist:

The Hollywood ten

She was a sketch artist who worked on Cinderella and helped pull Disney Studios out of bankruptcy:

Mary Blair

The first woman credited on a Disney film (Bambi):

Retta Scott

Women in the Disney animation department earned $26-$32 per week while men earned this amount per week:

$300.00

She worked in many areas of Disney films, not just animation - including films like Peter Pan and Cinderella:

Mary Blair

The first female director to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature:

Brenda Chapman

She wrote and directed Frozen and is the first female director at Walt Disney Animated Studios to win an Academy Award.

Jennifer Lee

The early animator who used silhouette animation:

Lotte Reiniger

This actor has made it his mission to work with female directors:

David Oyelowo

This is a non-profit that recently released an initiative called: 50/50 by 2025" to try and close this ridiculous, but profoundly impactful gap.

Women In Animation

She was a co-director of Bao, the first Pixar short film to be directed by a woman:

Domee Shi

According to your lecture, Adam's Rib explores which issues:

Marriage and relationships

Social classes

A woman's role in society

Alice Guy gave many women their start in films in directing.

False

Barbara Stanwyck plays this character in Double indemnity

Phyllis Dietrichson

Bette Davis played Karen Richards in All About Eve.

False

Billy Wilder was a tabloid journalist before his Hollywood career.

True

Brad Allen is an advertising executive in Pillow Talk.

False

Doris Day began her career as a singer.

True

Dorothy Arzner invented the boom-pole microphone.

True

Film Noir grew into a strong genre during this decade, with dark melodramas and underhanded female characters (the femme fatale):

1940s

Frances Marion worked on many films with Mary Pickford.

True

She had first right of approval for her studio publicity pictures:

Claudette Colbert

He designed Doris Day's costumes in Pillow Talk:

Jean Lois

He directed All About Eve:

Joseph Mankiewicz

He played Addison DeWitt in All About Eve:

George Sanders

He played Barton Keyes in Double Indemnity:

Edward G. Robinson

He played Bill in All About Eve:

Gary Merrill

He played Brad Allen in Pillow Talk:

Rock Hudson

He played Rex Stetson in Pillow Talk:

Rock Hudson

He played Warren Attinger in Adam's Rib:

Tom Ewell

He plays Adam in Adam's Rib:

Spencer Tracy

He plays Kip in Adam's Rib:

David Wayne