“So!  How did you do?  Are you a super Connie Marshall Fan or do you need to see and enjoy more of Connie Marshall’s star performances?”
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1) Answer:  Saginaw Trail, “When It's Prayer Meetin' Time in the Hollow”.

 
2) Answer:  Nine (9) times; Bombers (2), Dipping their wings (2), Ms. Easter is missing and is brought back (2), the Soldier on the beach, flower on the Oleander bush, the Sun is rising.

 
3) Answer:  The Green Promise, Natalie Wood.

 
4) Answer:  Dragonwyck.

 
5) Answer:  Myrna Loy.

 
6) Answer:  Mother Wore Tights.  Connie and her movie sister, Mona Freeman, are just arriving at the Ridgeway Boarding School for Young Ladies.


7) Answer:  Eleven (11)

     John Payne (Wake Up and Dream, Sentimental Journey)

     Peggy Ann Garner (Home Sweet Homicide, Daisy Kenyon)

     Ann Revere (Sunday Dinner for a Soldier, Dragonwyck)

     Ann Baxter (Sunday Dinner for a Soldier, Mother Wore Tights [Mikie's Voice, Narrator])

     William Bendix (Sentimental Journey, Kill the Umpire)

     Dean Stockwell (Home Sweet Homicide, Down to the Sea in Ships ) [scenes deleted, unfortunately]

     Natalie Wood (The Green Promise, "The Pride of the Family" (#1.40), TV)

     Robert Ellis (The Green Promise, “Big Town: Embezzlement” TV Episode)

     Glenn Langan (Sentimental Journey, Dragonwyck)

     Irving Bacon (Wake Up and Dream, The Green Promise)

     Will Wright (Mother Wore Tights, The Green Promise)

Note:  Isn’t the same dog used in Sunday Dinner for a Soldier and Wake Up and Dream?

 
8) Answer:  Saginaw Trail, Ralph Reed.

Note:  According to the TV episode Plot summary of “Big Town: Embezzlement”, Connie plays the teenage daughter who falls for the son of the police officer assigned to track down her father accused of embezzlement.  The boy’s name is Robert Ellis (II).  The plot summary does not identify the boy’s name, but I confirmed that Robert Ellis (II), a cast member, also played an Office Boy that same year in an episode of “I Love Lucy”.  The other male cast members were too old to portray a teenage boy.

 
9) Answer:  Jane Darwell (Mrs. Helen Dobson, USO), She received her Oscar Award in 1940 for her portrayal of “Ma Joab” in Grapes of Wrath.

 
10) Answer:  Billie Burke ("Doc Corkle", TV).  She also played the ‘Good Witch of the North’ in The Wizard of Oz, 1939.

 
11) Answer:  Two (2); Sunday Dinner for a Soldier, Mother Wore Tights.

 
12) Answer:  Mother Wore Tights, “Chewing Gum”.

 
13) Answer:   Saginaw Trail, Gene Autry.

 
14) Answer:  Betty Grable.

 
15) Answer:  William Steig

 
16) Answer:  SHREK.!!!!!!

 
17) Answer:  The Green Promise.

 
18) Answer:  Home Sweet Homicide, She outsmarts the Detective who was offers her a bribe of an ice cream treat.  Instead, Connie selects Chop Suey…three plates of Chop Suey for herself, her sister (Peggy Ann Garner) and a friend (Barbara Whiting).  Ha! Ha!

 
19) Answer:  Wake Up and Dream, Frankfurters and Beans, her pet dog.

 
20) Answer:  Three (3); Home Sweet Homicide, The Green Promise, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House.

 
21) Answer:  Sunday Dinner for a Soldier, to sell by the road for money to buy a chicken to save Ms. Easter, her chicken; Saginaw Trail, Connie is returning with a basket of berries after gathering them in her very first scene.

 
22) Answer:  “Silent Night”, Connie leaned back on her movie father, Dan Dailey, in loving content and closed her eyes with a light happy smile; “You Do”, Connie shed a single long emotional tear and faced to her left to lovingly gaze at her parents.

 
23) Answer:  Charles Winninger, Sunday Dinner for a Soldier.

 
24) Answer:  Daisy Kenyon, Dana Andrews.

 
25) Answer:  The Green Promise, Natalie Wood (role sister); Saginaw Trail, Henry Blair (role cousin/step brother).

 
26) Answer:  Mother Wore Tights, She then rebukes her sister for it and informs her parents.  Great performance!

 
27) Answer:  Jessica Tandy, she played the young House Maid

 
28) Answer:  Mother Wore Tights, she dances with a nice old gentleman at the Hotel Resort after all the guests accept her family and start having fun singing and dancing.

Note:  In Rogue Cop she dances with some friends at a night club while Robert Taylor is there to meet with his brother and his brother’s fiancée.  I have one version of the movie where he momentarily acknowledges them.

 
29) Answer:  She tells her younger movie brother, Dean Stockwell, to take out the garbage.  [Don’t sibling’s usually pass down chores to their younger siblings?]

 
30) Answer:  'Lady of Shalott'.

 
31) Answer:  Sea Horses.

 
32) Answer:  “No Name”.

 
33) Answer:  Sunday Dinner for a Soldier and Dragonwyck.

 
34) Answer:  Kill the Umpire, Gloria Henry.

 
35) Answer:  The haunting music played on the harpsichord.

 
36) Answer:  The Twonky.


37) Answer:  Henry "Harry" Morgan.  'Detective Gannon' in the TV series "Dragnet" and 'Colonel Sherman T. Potter' in the TV series "MASH".
 

38)  Answer:  Kill the Umpire.

 
39) Answer:  "I'm not hungry."
 

40) Answer:  "I did waver once."

 
41) Answer:  "Tra, La, La, La!"
 

42) Answer:  In The Ten Commandments, Queen Nefretiri was played by Ann Baxter.  Connie worked with Ann Baxter (Tessa) in her movie debut Sunday Dinner for a Soldier.  [I wonder if Connie ever told her children that she knew Queen Nefretiri before she was a Queen?]
 

43) Answer:  Suzie.  Look closely...one of the football players tells Connie “Shut up, Suzie!”

 
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