Anyone who googles will be stabbed to death with a coat-hanger. :angry:
Good luck! :)

1. Why is the suicide of Welsh actress Peg Entwistle, in 1932 (at age 24) still remembered today? She threw herself off the Hollywood(land) sign - Sven Hassel Schmuck
2. Which English stage/screen actor, director and producer was shot down by the Luftwaffe over the Bay of Biscay in 1943 (aged 50)?) Leslie Howard - Audrey Wetherspoon
3. Which Oscar-winning English actor left the following suicide note before taking five bottles of Nembutol in 1972, at the age of 65:

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck. George Sanders - Sven Hassel Schmuck

4. What is the connection between Dick Powell, John Wayne, Agnes Moorehead, Susan Hayward, John Hoyt and Pedro Armendáriz? They all died from cancer after filming The Conqueror - Flickeringlexicon
5. Which Mexican actress from the Golden Age of Hollywood overdosed on sleeping pills in 1944 (at the age of 36 and pregnant at the time) and - depending on who you believe - died on her bed surrounded by flowers or drowned in the toilet after she vomited and got her head stuck in the bowl? Lupe Velez - Sven Hassel Schmuck
6. Which Hollywood film director, who made his name in the 70s with a series of conspiracy thriller films, died in a car crash in 1998 (at the age of 70)? Alan J. Pakula - Zoot Horn Polo
7. Who (and in which film) issues this final statement before being fried on the electric chair?

"I'd like to thank all the wonderful people that made this great moment in my life come true. My daughter Taffy, who died in order to further my career. My friends Chicklette and Concetta who should be here with me today. All the fans who died so fashionably and gallantly at my nightclub act. And especially all those wonderful people who were kind enough to read about me in the newspapers and watch me on the television news shows. Without all of you, my career could never have gotten this far. It was you that I burn for and it is you that I will die for! Please remember, I love every fucking one of you!" Divine/Female Trouble - Fritter

8. Which British film director, most famous for his Horror films, drowned himself in his swimming pool in 1957 (aged 67), after leaving the following note:

To ALL I LOVE,
Do not grieve for me. My nerves are all shot and for the last year I have been in agony day and night—except when I sleep with sleeping pills—and any peace I have by day is when I am drugged by pills.
I have had a wonderful life but it is over and my nerves get worse and I am afraid they will have to take me away. So please forgive me, all those I love and may God forgive me too, but I cannot bear the agony and it [is] best for everyone this way.
The future is just old age and illness and pain. Goodbye and thank you for all your love. I must have peace and this is the only way. James Whale - Sven Hassel Schmuck

9. Which film actress (one of the highest paid stars in the world during the 30s) died in a plane crash in 1942 at the age of 33? Carole Lombard - Zoot Horn Polo
10. Name the actress, born into an acting dynasty, who overdosed on alcohol and sleeping pills in 1960 (aged 38) -- the New York Dolls' Too Much, Too Soon was dedicated to her. Diana Barrymore - Cappuccino and a slice of quiche
11. Which model, film producer and globally famous film actress overdosed on barbiturates in 1962 - aged 36 (the coroner recorded her death as "probable suicide" but many still suspect foul play)? Marilyn Monroe - Fritter

Name the following stars who commited suicide:

12. Everett Sloane - Chip Priest

13. Jean Seberg - Audrey Wetherspoon

14. Film actress, famously had a brief relationship with James Dean, barbiturate overdose in 1971 (aged 39)? Pier Angeli - Sven Hassel Schmuck
15. Which Oscar-winning English production designer jumped from the eighth floor of a parking lot in LA in 1991 after breaking up with his girlfriend at the age of 47?
16. Which diminutive actor died of an acute overdose of alcohol and sedatives in 1964 - aged 50 (his second attempt after shooting himself in the heart two years earlier)? Alan Ladd - Sven Hassel Schmuck

Who spoke the following famous last words:

17. "Codeine... bourbon..." Tallulah Bankhead - Biggestlibraryyet
18. "I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis." Humphrey Bogart - Grease For Roads
19. "Damn it... Don't you dare ask God to help me."
20. "I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it." Errol Flynn - Fritter
21. "That guy's gotta stop... He'll see us." James Dean - Sven Hassel Schmuck

22. Which American actor died after taking a speedball at Johnny Depp's Viper Room (a Hollywood nightclub) in 1993 (aged 23)? River Phoenix - Zoot Horn Polo
23. Which actor, best known for one particular role on television, shot himself in 1959 (at the age of 45) -- allegedly motivated by his declining career and the typecasting he had suffered because of that one role? George Reeves/Superman - Fritter
24. Which stage and screen actor was stabbed to death by a pizza deliveryman in 1976, aged 37 (the motive was thought to be robbery but this has been questioned over the years)? Sal Mineo - Cappuccino and a slice of quiche

Name the films from the following death scenes:

25. Citizen Kane - Audrey Wetherspoon

26. Heat - Audrey Wetherspoon

27. The Thing - Audrey Wetherspoon

28. The Third Man - Audrey Wetherspoon

29. Which Scottish film director shot himself in the head with a shotgun (1996, aged 62) and then asked his wife for a mirror so he could watch himself die (he survived for another 45 minutes)? Donald Cammell - Zoot Horn Polo
30. Which actress died in a car crash in 1967 -- aged 34 (when the car she was in drove into the back of a tractor, slicing the top of the car straight off)? Jayne Mansfield - Audrey Wetherspoon

Name the following death-related films:

31. Seventh Seal - Fritter

32. Orphans - Audrey Wetherspoon

33. Ghost - Audrey Wetherspoon

1/ She threw herself off the Hollywood sign

3/ George Sanders

5/ Lupi Lopez?

God, there are so many to go at.

13. Jean Seberg
25. Citizen Kane
33. Ghost.

8/James Whale

26. Heat
27. The Thing

22. River Phoenix

21/ James dean

28. The Third Man

29. Donald Cammell

22/River Phoenix

30, Jayne Mansfield

31/The Whicker man?

9. Carole Lombard

31. The Seventh Seal

6. Alan J Pakula

16/Alan ladd

Crikey, BK. Brilliant quiz. But are you feeling ok? My spirits were beginning to flag just reading the questions. About half way through they started to rise again and I started giggling. Probably hysteria.

25 Citizen Kane
27 The Thing

31. Seventh Seal.

23. George Reeves/Superman

23 Montgomery Clift?

11. Marilyn Monroe

14/ Mrs Hassel Schmuck says Piere Angeli. Not sure of the spelling but she was in The Parent Trap, apparently.

2. Leslie Howard?

7. Some guy in a John Waters film.

All correct! :applaud:

Hmmm, that's close... I'll give it to you, as I wasn't sure anyone would get it. It was Lupe Velez.

Quantity not quality, that's my motto.

All correct! :applaud:

30. Jayne Mansfield?

Yus, all correct!! :applaud:

Poor River. :cry2:

All correct! :applaud:



Lee Strasberg said the two actors he worked with who stood apart from the rest were Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe. :cry:

32 is that really alkie Scottish film, but I can't for the life of me remember the title.

Yus, indeed! Pier Angeli. :beer:

Wasn't it called something like Gettin' Pished?

Correct!

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Correct. I'll give you a bonus point now and the full points if no one else gets it.

:lol:

Again, technically correct, but I'm going to need more. It's a brilliant film!

:lol:

Right, I'll edit the first post... I may be some time...

Is it called Brothers?

Bollocks.
It wis Bevy Hard III.

11 Monroe?
22. River Phoenix
27. The Thing (Carpenter)
33. Ghost