Miscellaneous Cinema Trivia Questions and Answers.

Cinema trivia questions and answers.

How many doggie spots did Walt Disney animation artists draw for the 1961 cartoon feature One Hundred and One Dalmatians?
A: 6,469,952

What now-famous entertainer's big break came when she jumped from the Broadway chorus of Zero Mostel's Fiddler on the Roof to the principal role of Tzeitel, the fiddler's eldest daughter?
A: Bette Midler.

What actor turned down the roles played by Humphrey Bogart in the movies High Sierra, The Maltese Falcon and Dead End?
A: George Raft.

On what cliffs did silent film serial queen Pearl ("Perils of Pauline") White do her famous cliff-hanging
A: On the Palisades--on the western shore of the Hudson River, across from New York City.

What African political leader portrayed a tribal chief in the 1935 British adventure film Sanders of the River?
A: Jomo Kenyatta, who went on to become president of Kenya.

In Japan, they called this 1962 movie thriller We Don't Want a Doctor. What was its title in the united States?
A: Doctor No. It was the first of the James Bond film series.

What famous playwright wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for the 1976 movie Network?
A: Paddy Chayefsky, who earlier gave us Marty.

What Hollywood legend spent three days in jail in 1916 after being arrested by New York vice squad detectives on chares of blackmail?
A: Rudolph Valentino.

In what film do the two main characters meet when one ask the other, "Hey, boy, what you doin' with my momma's car?"
A: Bonnie and Clyde. Bonnie (Faye Dunaway) asks the question of Clyde (Warren Beatty) as he's about to drive off with her mother's car.

What 1954 film classic was based on a series of prize-winning exposes published in a New York newspaper?
A :On the Waterfront. The articles, by Malcom Johnson of he New York Sun, exposed waterfront crime.

In the 1939 Hollywood classic The Wizard of Oz, what directions did Glinda, the good witch, give Dorothy for getting back home to Kansas?
A: "Close your eyes and tap your heels together three times. And think to yourself, there's no place like home."

How much was Dustin Hoffman paid for appearing in the title role of the 1967 hit The Graduate, which grossed $80 million?
A: He got $750 a week--for a total of abut $20,000---and graduated to the big time.

Why ws famed opera singe Enrico Caruso's first film, My Cousin, a big flop and his second film, The Splendid Romance, never released? Both were silent movies--not a big box-office draw for a professional singer.

Where did director Elia Kazan shoot Splendor in the Grass, the 1961 Natalie Wood-Warren Beatty hit film about hot-blooded teenage love in Kansas in the late 1920s?
A: On Staten Island, the least populated of New York City's five boroughs.

What famous entertainer once told an interviewer, "I patterned my look after Cinderella, Mothe rg'oose and the local hooker"?
A: Dolly Parton.

What was the name of the school that murderous teenager Carrie attended in the 1976 movie shocker Carrie?
A: Bates High--in homage to Alfred Hitchcock and his "Psycho" killer Norman Bates.

Who was originally slated to play paraplegic Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic in the anti-war epic Born on the Fourth of July?
A: Al Pacino, in 1978, but the financing fell through. The film ws finally made in 1989 with Tom Cruise.

What does actor E.G. Marshall reply when asked what his initials stand for?
A: "Everyone's Guess." Marshall generally refuses to reveal his given names-but has acknowledged that the initials stand for Edda Gunther, a name that reflects his Norwegian ancestry.

What leg did James Stewart have in a cast in the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock thriller Rear Window?
A: Both. Most of the time, it was on the left leg. But in one scene with co-star Grace Kelly, the cast shifted to the right leg. And at the end of the movie, both legs were in casts at the same time.