BIOGRAPHIES AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
The title of this game show host’s 2009 autobiography was Priceless Memories.
Bob Barker, who hosted The Price is Right from 1972 to 2007
This classic 1965 movie tells the story of the von Trapp family.
The Sound of Music
On August 11, this 49-year-old author of Gone With the Wind was struck and killed by the driver of an automobile in Atlanta.
Margaret Mitchell
The "B" in G.B. Shaw
Bernard
Of vacant
(8 letters)
The title of his 1953 autobiography was the same as the name of his plane: The Spirit of St. Louis.
Charles Lindbergh
Lawrence Olivier dyed his hair blonde for this 1948 film in order to look more Danish.
Hamlet
In August of 1949, the first law under this new South African political system was passed, banning mixed-race marriages.
Apartheid
The "J" in J.K. Rowling
Joanne
Of written
(4 letters)
Oral
His autobiography, published in 1943, shared its name with one of his most beloved folk songs: “Bound For Glory.”
Woody Guthrie
Jack Nicholson’s memorably mused in this 1975 blockbuster, “I must be crazy to be in a looney bin like this.”
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
On October 21, 1949, this current Prime Minister of Israel was born in Tel Aviv. He spent much of his youth living in the US, graduating from a suburban Philadelphia high school and attending college at both MIT and Harvard.
Benjamin Netanyahu
The "F" in F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis
Of chaos
(5 letters)
Order
This outdoorsman-turned-businessman called his 1960 autobiography My Story: The Autobiography of a Down East Merchant. He died seven years later at age 94.
L. L. Bean (Leon Leonwood Bean)
Elsa Lanchester and her husband Charles Laughton were supposed to star in this movie in the 1930s; but it wasn’t until the 1950s that the classic film was made, featuring Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart.
The African Queen
After Nationalist leader Chang Kai-Shek fled to Taiwan, this Communist leader established the People’s Republic of China on October 1.
Mao Zedong
The "B" in W.B. Yeats
Butler
Of powerless
(10 letters)
Omnipotent
The autobiography of this former president of the Ford Motor Company (best known for spearheading the production of the Mustang and the Pinto) was the best selling book of the 1980s.
Lee Iacocca
In the unforgettable ending to this 1968 science fiction film, Taylor and Nova discover the sand-covered remains of the Statue of Liberty, and realize that the “alien” planet they are on is actually Earth, long after its population was destroyed by a nuclear war.
The Planet of the Apes
On June 8, 1949, this George Orwell novel was published. It was set more than three decades into the future, depicting a country shackled by an oppressive government led by Big Brother and a world perpetually at war.
1984
The "S" in T.S. Eliot
Stearns
Of pellucid
(6 letters)
Opaque