Movie Trivia Questions and Answers.

Movie trivia questions and answers.

Who played the female lead in Satan Met a Lady, the 1936 film version of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon?
A: Bette Davis.

Who spoke only Sioux in portraying an Indian named Buffalo Cow Head in the 1970 film A Man Called Horse.
A: Dame Judith Anderson.

Who played the role of Jack Nicholson's bowling alley pickup in Five Easy Pieces?
A: Sally Struthers.

What actor appeared in more Alfred Hitchcock thrillers than any other?
A: Leo G. Carroll. He was in five--Suspicion, Spellbound, The Paradine Case, Strangers on a Train and North by Northwest.

What 1977 film included "first aid" in its list of credits?
A: The Gauntlet, a chase film starring Clint Eastwood.

Who was the only female to appear in the 1954 film classic Bad Day at Black Rock?
A: Anne Francis, who played the young gas station operator who was one of the 37 residents of Black Rock. The male cast included Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan , Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, John Ericson, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin.

What famous child star failed her screen test for a port in the Our Gang movie comedies?
A: Shirley Temple.

Producer-director Otto Preminger paid Columbia Pictures $100,000 to use Kim Novak in the 1956 film The Man With the Golden Arm. How much was Novak paid?
A: Her salary was $100 a week.

Under what name did a family named Blythe gain fame on stage and screen?
A: Barrymore--as in John, Ethel and Lionel. Founding father Maurice, who had been disowned by his family in England for boxing professionally, took the name Barrymore from an aging poster on a n old English vaudeville house in London before leaving for America to launch his acting career.

Why was popcorn banned at most movie theaters in the 1920s?
A: It was considered too noisy.

Why was Mike Nichols fired as a busboy at a Howard Johnson's restaurant in New York, where he worked while taking drama lessons in the early 1950s?
A: He claims he was canned "when somebody asked me the ice cream flavor of the week and I said, 'Chicken'".

On what planet did Abbott and Costello land in their 1953 film Abbott and Costello Go to Mars?
A: Venus.

How much were Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn paid for their last joint film appearance--in the 21967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
A: Tracy was paid $300,000; Oscar-winner Hepburn, $200,000.

How much was paid at a 1987 auction for Charlie Chaplin's famous bowler hat and cane?
A: $151,800

What 1955 American movie was shown in Hong Kong under the title The Heart of a Lady as Pure as a Full Moon Over the Place of Medical Salvation?
A: Not as a Stranger, starring Robert Mitchum as a young doctor and Olivia de Havilland as his nurse-wife.

What Hollywood great started his show business career on Broadway dancing in the background in Eskimo clothes as Mary Martin sang "My Heart Belongs to Daddy"?
A: Gene Kelly. The year was 1938; the show, the Cole Porter hit Leave It to Me.

What now famous actress had a bit part as Woody Allen's date at the end of his 1977 film Annie Hall?
A: Sigourney Weaver.

What famous actor's Oscar was on display in the front window of his father's hardware store for 20 years?
A: James Stewart's. The Oscar was for his performance in the 1940 film The Philadelphia Story; the hardware store, founded by his grandfather in 1853, was in Indiana, Pennsylvania.

What symbol did Charlie Chaplin wear as a parody of the swastika in his 1940 film satire The great Dictator?
A: Two "x" marks--the sign of the double cross.

What comic strip character does Whoopi Goldberg have tattooed above her left breast?
A :Woodstock, Snoopy's bird-buddy in the Peanuts comic strip.