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Movie trivia questions and answers.

What actor launched his performing career as a public address announcer for the Brooklyn Dodges at Ebbets Field in 1938?
A: John Forsythe.

In his first starring role in the 1935 film The Phantom Empire, what horse did Gene Autry ride?
A: Tom Mix's horse Tony Jr.--not Champion.

In what film did the heroine declare,, "I've met the most wonderful man. Of course, he's fictional. But you can't have everything"?
A: The Purple Rose of Cairo, starring Mia Farrow.

Who launched her film career at age 10 in a low-brow comedy called There's One Born Every Minute, which also featured former Our Gang star Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer?
A: Elizabeth Taylor.

In the Walt Disney film, what was the profession of Snow Whit's friends, the seven dwarfs?
A: Bashful, Doc,  Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy and Sneezy were jewel miners.

Who paid $300 for 32 cotton sheets and 35 pillow cases--worth $50 new--at an auction of actor John Gilbert's personal effects following his death in 1936?
A: Marlene Dietrich.

Who was scheduled to star in the 1984 film Beverly Hills Cop before the role went to Eddie Murphy?
A: Sylvester Stallone, in a much more macho version written by Rocky-Rambo himself. And before Stallone, Mickey Rourke had been slated for the part.

Which of his almost 100 movies was Roy Rogers' favorite?
A: My Pal Trigger.

For which Alfred Hitchcock film did artist Salvadore Dali design the graphics?
A: Spellbound, in 1945. Dali created the graphics fro amnesiac Gregory Peck's Freudian dreams.

Which profile did actor John Barrymore consider "the moneymaking side" of his face?
A: The left.

What famous American author appeared in the 1976 movie comedy Murder by Death?
A: Truman Capote.

In Walt Disney's 1938 cartoon short Mother Goose Goes Hollywood, what star was caricaturized as Little Bo-Peep?
A: Katherine Hepburn.

Who starred in the title role in the 1977 film Valentino?
A: Another Rudolph--Rudolf Nureyev.

Two movies were named after the song "Red River Valley." Who starred in them?
A: Gene Autry in 1936; Roy Rogers in 1941. The song originated in New York at the turn of the century as "In the Bright Mohawk Valley."

What did actor Jack Lemmon use to strain spaghetti in the 1960 comedy classic The Apartment?
A: A tennis racquet.

What 1959 film ends with the heroine saying, "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart"?
 A: The Diary of Anne Frank.

Actor Peter Fonda was once arrested and charged with disturbing the peace and destroying private property for slashing a sign. What did the sign say?
A: "Feed Jane Fonda to the Whales." Charges against Fonda were dropped when two key witnesses to the 1981 incident at Denver's Stapleton International Airport Failed to appear at his trial.

What was the name of actress "Elizabeth Taylor's childhood pet chipmunk, which she immortalized in a book written in 1946?
A: Nibbles. Taylor wrote and illustrated the book Nibbles and Me when she was 14.

A life-size statue of what Hollywood filmmaker has been erected in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico?
A: Director John Huston--because of the number of tourists drawn to the picturesque seaside village by his 1964 hit The Night of the Iguana.

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