For this quiz, we thought it would be fun to take a ride through Hollywood history and have a look at the most popular film stars over the years. These men and women were on the tip of everyone's lips over the decades from the 1930s through 2020s. Like all such quizzes, choosing and compiling the notable actors and actresses to represent each period of ten years was no easy feat. From the the Golden Age of Hollywood to the modern era, this quiz contains some of the best actors and actresses of all time, many of whom are Academy Award winners, as well as classic movie stars.
Whether you're 18 or 88, take a stroll through the past and check out the men and women in Hollywood that were popular during your birth year. Pick some of your favorite stars from each decade to find out which generation you would feel right at home in.
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Pick Movie Stars from Each Decade to Know Which Living … Quiz Questions
Fred Astaire
Errol Flynn
Clark Gable
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Paul Robeson
Jimmy Stewart
None of these
Joan Crawford
Shirley Temple
Bette Davis
Marlene Dietrich
Katherine Hepburn
Laurence Olivier
Spencer Tracy
Humphrey Bogart
John Wayne
Cary Grant
None of these
None of these
Dorothy Lamour
Rita Hayworth
Jane Wyman
Lauren Bacall
Judy Garland
Rock Hudson
None of these
James Dean
Tony Curtis
Gregory Peck
Marlon Brando
Debbie Reynolds
None of these
Elizabeth Taylor
Dorothy Dandridge
Marilyn Monroe
Grace Kelly
Paul Newman
Warren Beatty
Sean Connery
None of these
Sidney Poitier
Jack Lemmon
Barbra Streisand
Natalie Wood
None of these
Julie Andrews
Sophia Loren
Audrey Hepburn
Robert De Niro
None of these
Robert Redford
Al Pacino
Bruce Lee
Jack Nicholson
Diana Ross
None of these
Faye Dunaway
Jane Fonda
Raquel Welch
Diane Keaton
Harrison Ford
Sylvester Stallone
Eddie Murphy
Mel Gibson
Tom Cruise
None of these
Cher
Michelle Pfeiffer
None of these
Goldie Hawn
Meryl Streep
Glenn Close
Brad Pitt
Tom Hanks
None of these
Samuel L. Jackson
Denzel Washington
Robin Williams
Winona Ryder
None of these
Julia Roberts
Susan Sarandon
Jodie Foster
Angela Bassett
None of these
Hugh Jackman
Heath Ledger
Leonardo DiCaprio
Orlando Bloom
Christian Bale
None of these
Nicole Kidman
Halle Berry
Kate Winslet
Reese Witherspoon
Sandra Bullock
Matthew McConaughey
Ryan Gosling
Mahershala Ali
None of these
Oscar Isaac
Robert Downey Jr.
Scarlett Johansson
Emily Blunt
Anne Hathaway
None of these
Jennifer Lawrence
Emma Stone
Michael B. Jordan
None of these
Timothée Chalamet
Henry Cavill
Robert Pattinson
Tom Holland
None of these
Zendaya
Hailee Steinfeld
Anya Taylor-Joy
Sophie Turner
Margot Robbie
9 Comments
Gen Z. That’s me!
Gen-Z
I thought this was what generation u SHOULD LIVE IN NOT WHAT U ACTUALLY WAS BORN. but whatever. I got great generation
The Greatest Generation (1901~1927) lol I’m not that old… >:(
FINALLY ITS CORRECT
The silent generation! Lol, I’m Gen Z.
Generation Alpha (2011 – 2025) I wish I was, I`d know more about computers than I do now. I am a Baby Boomer born in 1960.
Generation Z Correct i was born in2005
You belong in Generation Z (aka The Founders, iGen, Homeland Generation, Posts, Plurals, or ReGen) born between 1998 and 2010.