Cinema Trivia Questions and Answers.

Cinema trivia questions and answers.

What woman sports figure appeared as a maid in John Ford's 1959 film classic The Horse Soldiers?
A: Tennis star Althea Gibson.

What was the last line ever spoken by Marilyn Monroe on the silver screen?
A: "How do you find your way back in the dark The line, said to Clark Gable, came at the end of the 1961 film The Misfits. She died in 1962.

What famous American acting family has a town in New York named after it--thanks to an ancestor who settled there in the seventeenth century?
A: The Fondas. Their ancestors emigrated from Itgalyl to the Netherlands in the fifteenth century, and two centuries later one of their descendants--Douw Fonda --sailed to America and settled in upstate New York.

What famous actress once said, "The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after"?
A: Tallulah Bankhead.

What Steve Martin movie was shown in Spanish-speaking countries under the title Better Alone Than Badly Accompanied?
A: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, the wacky 1987 comedy in which he co-starred with john Candy.

What was Citizen Kane's full name in the 1941 Orson Wells film classic?
A: Charles Foster Kane--who was modeled after publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst.

The first film documentary was screened in 1922 and given a sound track in 1939. What was it?
A: The Eskimo saga Nanook of the North.

What is the "Tech" in Technicolor--the color process introduced in the Disney film Flower and Trees in 1932?
A: Inventor Herbert Kalmus's tribute to his alma mater, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

What role did Patty Duke play in The Miracle Worker?
A: She played Helen Keller, in the1962 movie, and Keller's teacher companion Annie Sullivan, in the 1979 made-for-TV movie.

Leonard Slye and Frances Octavia Smith rode to fame under what show business names?
A: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.

Who portrayed Mighty Joe Young's mistress in the movie about the giant gorilla?
A: Terry Moore.

In the film The Day the Earth Stood Still, what words did Patricia Neal utter to stop the robot Gort from destroying the world?
A: Kaatu barada nikto.

Movie mogul Sam Goldwyn spent $20,000 to re-shoot a scene in his first all-talking film, "Bulldog Drummond," because he didn't understand what word?
A: "Din." He had it changed to "noise".

In 1968, two movie stars won the Oscar for Best Actress. Who were they?
A: Katherine Hepburn, for The Lion in Winter, and Barbra Streisand, for Funny Girl.

The PATSY--Picture Animal Top Star of the Year--was first given in 1951. Who won it?
A: Francis the Talking Mule.

Who was the first actor to have a pie thrown in his face in a movie?
A: Cross-eyed comic Ben Turpin, in an early Keystone Kop film. Mabel Normand threw it.

Jack Nicholson played the title role in his first movie. What was it?
A: The Crybaby Killer, in 1958.

What actress once confessed, "I used to be Snow White, but I drifted"?
A: Mae West.

Buddy Ebsen was originally cast as the Tin Man in the movie The Wizard of Oz. Why did Jack Haley replace him?
A: Ebsen's aluminum-dust makeup turned him bright blue and sent him to the hospital with serious respiratory problems. Different makeup was devised for Haley.