Trivia

[Feodor Sverdlov]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 2:01pm

Who is the only person to have a Number 1 single, who portrayed, in a film, a real person, who had a real Number 1 single?

Name the person
Name their Number 1 single
Name the person they portrayed
Name their Number 1 single

Updated On: 2/9/05 at 02:01 PM

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 2:05pm

I have no idea...the first thing that popped into my head was Jennifer Lopez playing Selena. But I don't know their #1 singles (or even if they both had #1 singles).
eta: okay, I'm thinking J.Lo's song is "If You Had My Love" and Selena's is "I Could Fall in Love." Updated On: 2/9/05 at 02:05 PM

[joeyjoe]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 2:11pm

maybe Diana Ross and Billie Holiday?

[Feodor Sverdlov]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 2:12pm

Actually, that's the best possible guess there is. However, I should make it clear that I'm talking about the Top 40 Pop Charts, not one of the off-shoot charts, like Latin, Easy-Listening, Alternative, etc. The two people in my question, both had a number 1 single on the Top 40 Pop Chart.

[Feodor Sverdlov]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 2:13pm

Billie Holliday never had a number 1.

[Allie]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 2:16pm

I automatically went to Selena, too, #1Elphie.

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 5:09pm

Okay, here goes nothing...

Doris Day had a No.1 hit with "Que Sera, Sera"

she portrayed Ruth Etting in LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME who had a No. 1 hit with "Ten Cents A Dance."

How I'm Doin'?

[Feodor Sverdlov]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 5:10pm

Close, but no cigar; but you are on the right track with that kind of thinking. Even the era.

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 5:13pm

Okay, back into the trenches...

Barbra Streisand had a No.1 hit with "People"

She portrayed Fanny Brice in FUNNY GIRL who had a No.1 hit with "My Man."

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 5:14pm

who was in and what singer was I WANT TO LIVE about? i think the singer might have been in a production of SHOW BOAT as well...but the connections escape me...was Susan Hayward in I WANT TO LIVE?

[Feodor Sverdlov]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 5:14pm

No! You were closer with Doris Day's #1

[Feodor Sverdlov]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 5:14pm

No! You were closer with Doris Day's #1

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 5:26pm

so, i was wrong about I WANT TO LIVE. The singer i'm thinking of is Helen Morgan...am i close?!?!?

[Feodor Sverdlov]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 5:35pm

No, not Susan Hayward.

[Marquise]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 5:37pm

was it debbie reynolds playing that nun who had the hit #1 single "dominique". did debbie go to #1 with that sap-fest "tammy"?

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 5:38pm

that's a good guess, Marquise! very off-the-wall...

[Marquise]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 5:39pm

i know..i can't believe i know that! LMAO

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 5:43pm

But from my Doris Day/Ruth Etting guess that was noted as being "close--right era"--it is my impression the answer is a singer from the 1950s playing a singer from the 1920s.

So, unfortunately, Debbie Reynolds and THE SINGING NUN is probably not the way to go...

Sorry, Marquise...

[Marquise]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 5:44pm

hey i was taking a wild guess..no sweat off my back

[Feodor Sverdlov]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 5:49pm

YES, YES, it IS Debbie. That's what I meant by you were close. Debbie and Doris had their hits in the same era. Marquise is correct. Debbie had a number 1 with Tammy and she played the Singing Nun who had a number 1 with Dominique!!! Very well done, Marquise. So, who has another question?

Updated On: 2/9/05 at 05:49 PM

[Marquise]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 5:50pm

OMG I'M IN SHOCK!!!

[Marquise]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 5:53pm

Okay here goes. Mia Farrow is linked to the movie "Valley of the Dolls". Explain how.

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 5:55pm

what famous small-cast play has the distinction of having the mother of the actress playing the original title character play the role in later incarnations of the popular title?

For extra points, name the playwright, play's setting and site of the original production (which happen to be the same city) and the MOTHER's professional name.

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 5:57pm

Well done, Marquise!

OK: I have one. Where was the film version of OKLAHOMA! shot?

[Marquise]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 6:01pm

that's an easy one. "Oklahoma!" was shot in Nogales, Arizona.