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Oscar Trivia: Which Oscar Winners Are Also Divorcees?

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First Posted: 02/24/2012 5:25 pm Updated: 02/24/2012 7:40 pm

Oscar winners may call showbiz's most coveted statue their own, but when it comes to divorce, they're just like us. Heck, they might even have it worse; just take a look at the "Oscar Curse" -- the theory that women who win the Best Actress Academy Award are doomed to split.

In honor of the 84th Annual Academy Awards airing Sunday, test your knowledge of highly decorated divorcees with our Oscar-themed trivia.

QUESTION: Which screen siren picked up a Best Actress award for her portrayal of one half of a boozy, arguing middle-aged couple? (Hint: Her then-husband portrayed the other half.)
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a) Rita Hayworth
b) Elizabeth Taylor
c) Joanne Woodward
d) Ava Gardner

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Oscar winners may call showbiz's most coveted statue their own, but when it comes to divorce, they're just like us. Heck, they might even have it worse; just take a look at the "Oscar Curse" -- the th...
Oscar winners may call showbiz's most coveted statue their own, but when it comes to divorce, they're just like us. Heck, they might even have it worse; just take a look at the "Oscar Curse" -- the th...
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WSAY
Res ipsa loquitur
05:42 PM on 02/26/2012
HP having trouble coming up with "divorce topics" again.
gravityhunter
Lock, wave n pull
11:52 PM on 02/24/2012
Man, Taylor WAS a fox though.....
11:29 PM on 02/24/2012
Ronald Reagan didn't get a nod for "Bedtime for Bonzo"?
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dudekabob
A box of chocolates! For moi?
11:16 PM on 02/24/2012
Attention Anonymous HuffPo Staffer: You didn't need to do this, honest. You could have said, "no." We would have understood. Or, are you the one who also did the "Teen Shoots Hoops in Coma" story, or is it "Teen in Coma Shoots Hoops" story?
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moonchild62
Solution: publicly funded elections
10:25 PM on 02/24/2012
Seriously? Wait, what century is it again?
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rysagr
whip me beat me just don't bore me to death
10:23 PM on 02/24/2012
but the big story on action news is.......
09:37 PM on 02/24/2012
Umm... all of them?
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09:07 PM on 02/24/2012
Back then, the 40's, 50's 60's 70's 80's 90's 2000's, women who are more successful than their spouses are always in trouble. Goes back to Adam and Eve.
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smoker
Qué Será, Será
08:58 PM on 02/24/2012
Sigh, compare today's actresses to Liz Taylor, Ava Gardner, Audrey Hepburn, Rita Hayworth, Grace Kelly and they all look as inviting as dough.
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doe58
Politicians-country first-be leaders not hacks
09:25 PM on 02/24/2012
How about Ingrid Bergman, Hedy Lamaar (sp?), Myrna Loy, Claudette Colbert, Marilyn Monroe, Jean Harlow to name just a few others?
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smoker
Qué Será, Será
09:37 PM on 02/24/2012
I just rolled off the first few that came to my mind, point being that the actresses and women during that age were more classy :)
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Hopalongpoppyseed
May you reap what you sow.
08:49 PM on 02/24/2012
I do believe I have stepped back to 1952.
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momoluvsu
We live in a parallel universe
09:52 PM on 02/24/2012
lmao! You are in the way back machine.
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Hopalongpoppyseed
May you reap what you sow.
10:29 PM on 02/24/2012
momoluvsu, My point was (in case you missed it), that being concerned about which celebrities of the past were divorced, seems like a quaint fragment of Victorian lace being brought out for blowing one's nose.
08:48 PM on 02/24/2012
Oscar Trivia: Which Oscar Winners Are Also Divorcees?"---Miss Liz Taylor, one of the most gorgeous ladies of all time going back.