Quiz Time

[Darren Honeycutt]

What actress starring in a childrens movie from the 1960's helped start a small, short lived revival of victorian clothing?

 

[Jim Kalafus]

Clues, please?

 

[Bob Godfrey]

Probably Hayley Mills, as she starred in every children's movie made in the 1960s!

 

[George L. Lorton]

Was it Sally Ann Howes as Truly Scrumptious in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

 

[George L. Lorton]

Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins.

 

[Darren Honeycutt]

George, your first guess was correct. Sally Ann Howes really was truly scrumptious wasn't she?

 

[Darren Honeycutt]

I often wondered why Sally didn't go on to star in bigger and better things but at the time of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Sally was at the age of 37 and musicals were on the way out.

 

[George L. Lorton]

Sally Ann Howes really was truly scrumptious wasn't she?

That she was!

The reason I also guessed Mary Poppins was that there was a mini Victorian fashion revival during the early 60s among women. The puff skirts and beehive hair.

 

[Jason Schleisman]

Great guess, George!

there was a mini Victorian fashion revival during the early 60s

That, there was. In fact, the revival lasted well into the early 1980's ~ particularly in wedding fashions.

 

[George L. Lorton]

That, there was. In fact, the revival lasted well into the early 1980's ~ particularly in wedding fashions.

Oh, God yes. I remember my sister's wedding dress. At least she shortened hers. Actually she looked real pretty. She even let us boy's not have to dress up.

 

[Michael H. Standart]

>>I often wondered why Sally didn't go on to star in bigger and better things but at the time of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,<<

If her IMDB bio is any indication, she was more of a stage then a screen actress.

 

[Russell Smith]

Oh, God yes. I remember my sister's wedding dress. At least she shortened hers. Actually she looked real pretty. She even let us boy's not have to dress up."

Oh come on. Admit it. You were dying to put on a dress!

 

[George L. Lorton]

Oh come on. Admit it. You were dying to put on a dress!

Too Lacy for me.

I think the real reason I remember it actually was because my sister had to lug us boys around with her when she was getting fitted. She watched us while our Mom worked plus and it was the first wedding I remember that wasn't biker themed. I have photo's that I got recently of the wedding. Which might of jogged my memory. Circa 1985. If your nice I might post one or not.

 

[George L. Lorton]

What movie featured the heroine being kidnapped by pirates plus other villainous types and started a movie genre?

I need the name of the movie/series and the leading lady/action star and the year it was made.

 

[Darren Honeycutt]

Michael, most actors and actresses start their careers on stage and when they hit the big screen, usually that is where they stay until they get the urge to go back. Sally Ann Howes is not a household name and I think it could have been. She was beautiful but above that, had a most beautiful voice. (check her out on You Tube singing "Send In The Clowns", which has become her signature song. She sang it last year in honor of her adopted son she lost to AIDS in 1984.)