Margaret Fulford's Women in Film
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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.
So far you've had 13 right answers out of 15.
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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