Margaret Fulford's Women in Film Quizzes:
Quiz No. 3

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Nora Ephron

Oscars for best original screenplay were won by Callie Khouri (Thelma and Louise, 1991) and Jane Campion (The Piano, 1993). Oscars for best screenplay based on material from another medium were won by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Room with a View, 1986 and Howards End, 1993) and Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility, 1995). Nora Ephron has been nominated three times: for Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally, and Sleepless in Seatle.

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Who starred in the 1936 comedy Theodora Goes Wild (based on a story by Mary McCarthy), about a smalltown church organist with a secret life as the author of sexy novels, who leaves home for the big city, where she becomes a women's rights advocate and is named in two divorce cases? (Her other films include The Awful Truth and My Favourite Wife.)

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