PDD Quiz: Duluth Goes Hollywood

#1. Duluthian and newscaster Roger Grimsby played himself in which 1984 Ivan Reitman-directed comedy?

"Twins"

"Meatballs"

"Ghostbusters"

"Stripes"

Grimsby also played himself in Woody Allen’s “Bananas.”

#2. Screenwriter Sidney Buchman, a Duluth native, received an Academy Award nomination for which 1939 Frank Capra classic?

"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"

"It's a Wonderful Life"

"Lost Horizon"

"You Can't Take It with You"

Buchman did not receive the Oscar for Best Screenplay that year: the award went to Sidney Howard, who was posthumously honored for “Gone With the Wind.”

#3. This Duluth native played leading lady to Douglas Fairbanks in “The Iron Mask,” “The Mark of Zorro” and “The Three Musketeers.”

Mary Pickford

Gloria Swanson

Norma Talmadge

Marguerite de la Motte

De La Motte was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.

#4. In addition to voicing Garfield in more than a dozen TV specials, this Duluth native worked as a voice actor on “Rhoda,” “Darkwing Duck,” “Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears” and “The Real Ghostbusters.”

Bill Murray

Lorenzo Music

Lou Rawls

Frank Welker

Music was also a co-creator of “The Bob Newhart Show.”

#5. Duluthian Peggy Knudsen appeared in which 1946 Bogart and Bacall film?

"To Have and Have Not"

"The Big Sleep"

"Dark Passage"

"Key Largo"

Knudsen was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.

#6. Duluth native Wellyn Totman worked as a Hollywood screenwriter and penned “The Dawn Rider,” which featured this Western star?

John Wayne

Roy Rogers

Tom Mix

Tim Holt

Totman’s career in film ended in the mid-1940s, though he did write two episodes of the TV show “The Millionaire” in 1956-1957.

#7. Duluthian and actress Dorothy Arnold married this Yankees slugger (pictured below) in 1939.

Lou Gehrig

Babe Ruth

Joe DiMaggio

Tony Lazzeri

Arnold and DiMaggio met on the set of the film “Manhattan Merry-Go-Round” in 1937.

#8. Silent film actress and Duluth native Carol Dempster appeared almost exclusively in films by this director, including “Intolerance” and “The Love Flower.”

Erich von Stroheim

Charlie Chaplin

Cecil B. DeMille

D.W. Griffith

Dempster left $1.6 million to the San Diego Museum of Art upon her death.

#9. Jane Frazee, who attended Merritt Elementary School in Duluth, appeared in “Under California Stars” in 1948 with this Western actor (pictured below).

Tim Holt

John Wayne

Roy Rogers

Tom Mix

Jane and her sister, Ruth, performed in the 1930s on the vaudeville circuit as the Frazee Sisters.

#10. This Duluth native and voiceover actor recorded more than 5,000 film trailers and is associated with the phrase “in a world…”

Lorenzo Music

Hal Douglas

Fred Melamed

Don LaFontaine

LaFontaine’s famous line “in a world…” became the title of a 2013 romantic comedy about voice-over actors.