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  1. You must be Burnu Acquanetta, also known as Mildred Davenport, born in Cheyenne, Wyoming of Arapaho descent. You were in Tarzan and The Leopard Woman with Johnny Weissmuller and a number of B horror movies, and later did local TV shows and commercials in Mesa and Phoenix, AZ....

  2. In 1960, this anthology TV series, which has the name of the sponsor and the host, aired a critically acclaimed episode featuring a well-known comedian in a dramatic role as a deaf-mute employed as a dummy in a store window who witnesses a murder...The murderers at first think he is a mannequin, but then realize later that he is a real person...

     

    Name the show, the host, the episode, and the superb guest star.....

  3. In 1960, this anthology TV series, which has the name of the sponsor and the host, aired a critically acclaimed episode featuring a well-known comedian in a dramatic role as a deaf-mute employed as a dummy in a store window who witnesses a murder...The murderers at first think he is a mannequin, but then realize later that he is a real person...

     

    Name the show, the host, the episode, and the superb guest star.....

  4. This actor had his breakthrough in Broadway playing a role in a John Steinbeck play. Later, when the play was made into a movie, he was replaced by another actor more famous for playing a lycantrope.

    The first actor, however, won a Best Actor Oscar with his role in a movie adaptation of a Pulitzer Prize winning novel.

    ...He was also in another well-known movie which won its leading lady a Best Actress Oscar. In this film, he replaced the actor who played the original role on Broadway...

     

    Questions:

     

    1) Who was the actor ? What John Steinbeck play was he in ? Who replaced him in the movie version ?

     

    2) What was the title of the movie for which our actor won an Oscar?

     

    3) What was the title of the third movie ? Who won the Best Actress Oscar for this movie? Who played the original role on Broadway that our actor replaced ?

     

     

    Good Luck, Everybody....Get out your reference book, Flash...

  5. That was Chill Wills, who played The beekeeper in John Wayne's "The Alamo"(1960)...I don't think I have the Encore channel. But I watched the movie from the Western Collection DVD from Universal International. This also has "Kansas Raiders", which was one of my favorite Audie Murphy westerns, together with "Destry" and "The Guns Of Fort Petticoat", when I was in grade school years ago...

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