MOVIE QUIZ
Memorial Day is always the unofficial start of summer, while June 21 is the official one this year. But it’s the month of June itself that truly signals the beginning of warm weather fun for many people.
With today being June 1, our quiz this week honors the month that may or may not have been named after the Roman goddess Juno (FYI: we had no space to include derivations like the Oscar-winning 2007 comedy, “Juno”) by featuring films with characters named June.
1. Philip Kaufman’s “Henry & June” from 1990 was about French author Anaïs Nin’s relationship with fellow writer Henry Miller and his wife, June. Portuguese actress Maria de Medeiros played Nin and the late Fred Ward was Miller, but what American actress, 19 years old at the time of filming, played June in this first film to ever receive the NC-17 rating?
2. In the TV adaptation of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the birth name of the lead character of Offred was June. Was that true of the 1990 film version starring Natasha Richardson?
3. In which of the three movies Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise made together – “Vanilla Sky,” “Knight and Day” and “Minority Report” – was Diaz’s character’s name June Havens?
4. In the 1997 big-screen remake of the classic 1950s sitcom “Leave It to Beaver,” Janine Turner played iconic matriarch June Cleaver. Who took on the supporting role of Aunt Martha?
5. Speaking of June Cleaver, she’s played by actress June Chandler in a fake TV promo during the course of what 1988 holiday satire based on “A Christmas Carol”?
6. Jennifer Hudson starred in the 2008 novel adaptation of “The Secret Life of Bees,” but what other singer and fellow coach of “The Voice” appeared alongside her as June Boatwright?
7. Yet another movie based on an acclaimed novel. In 1993, which of the four actresses playing the daughters in the Chinese immigrant mother/chineseamerican
daughter relationship drama “The Joy Luck Club” portrayed the main narrator character of June Woo: Rosalind Chao, Lauren Tom, Tamlyn Tomita or Ming-na Wen?
8. True or false: British model-turnedactress Cara Delevingne appeared as June Moore, AKA DC supervillain Enchantress, in both 2016’s “Suicide Squad” and 2021’s “The Suicide Squad”?
9. The character of Baby June in the 1962 musical “Gypsy,” based on the life of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee, is Gypsy’s younger sister, who in real life grew up to be what famous actress of Hollywood’s Golden Age: June Allyson, June Haver, June Havoc or June Lockhart?
10. Reese Witherspoon won an Oscar for playing country music great June Carter Cash in 2005’s “Walk the Line.” JCC was portrayed one other time, eight years later, in the Lifetime TV movie, “Ring of Fire.” What four-time Grammynominated, one-named folk-pop singersongwriter took on the role? (Hint: Her 1999 film debut was opposite Tobey Maguire.)
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Answers on D4.