Cinema Trivia Questions and Answers

 

 

Cinema trivia questions and answers.

What celebrity bought the first Hummer manufactured for civilian use?
A: Arnold Schwarzenegger, in 1992. The 6,300-pound, 7-foot wide vehicle is the civilian version of the military Humvee.

What Hollywood legend played the accordion in a tearoom before he was offered a bit role in a Broadway play?
A: Jimmy Stewart, who played the accordion in the1955 movie The Man From Laramie.

What well-known actress, early in her career, appeared in a low-budget 3-D horror film as a young woman menaced by giant slugs?
A: Demi Moore. The film, Parasite, was advertised as "the first futuristic monster movie in 3-D when it was released in 1982.

What did Lauren Hutton use to seal the gap between her front teeth early in her modeling career?
A: Undertaker's wax or candle wax. She later had a dentist make a removable cap she could use as needed to hide the gap.

What popular actor made an 18-second cameo appearance as a body-pierced, heavy-metal fan at a rock concert in the 1997 Billy Crystal-Robin Williams film comedy Father's Day?
A: Mel Gibson.

What highly acclaimed 1966 movie won five Oscars--including one for best Cinematography for a black and white film?
A: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Starring Elizabeth Taylor (Best Actress), Richard Burton , Sandy Dennis (Best Supporting Actress) and George Segal. Its other Oscars were for Best Art Direction (Black-and-white film), and Best Costume Design (black-and-white film).

What did Marilyn Monroe do to create her sexy walk?
A: She sawed off part of the heel of one shoe.

Who coined the nickname "Tinsel Town" for Hollywood?
A: Oscar Levant, the pianist, composer and cynical Hollywood wit, who observed, "Strip the phony tinsel off Hollywood, and you'll find the real tinsel underneath."

What three John Ford films starring John Wayne featured  the Seventh Cavalry?
A: Fort Apache (1948), She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949), and Rio Grande (1950).

What are the names of the two cats in the animated 1955 Walt Disney film, Lady and the Tramp?
A: Si and Am. They were Siamese, of course.

What job did 7-foot 2-inch Peter Mayhew return to after playing the "Wookie" Chewbacca in the 1977 film Star Wars?
A: Hospital porter in London.

How many names appeared above Elvis Presley's in the screen credits for his first film, the 1956 drama Love Me Tender?
A: Two. He got third billing, after Richard Egan and Debra Paget.

In the 1966 remake of Stagecoach, what famous entertainer made his last film appearance as the drunken doctor--the role created by Thomas Mitchell in the 1939 John Wayne classic?
A: Bing Crosby.

What is the name of Bacchus's donkey-unicorn in Fantasia, Walt Disney's 1940 animated spectacular?
A: Jacchus.

What popular actor's first film role was that of an accident-prone young man in  a half-hour Army training film?
A: Jack Lemmon

The 1932 film What Price Hollywood was remade three times--under what much better known title?
A: A Star Is Born.

What famous actress dubbed the dialogue for Andie MacDowell when she appeared as Jane Porter in the 1984 film Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes?
A: Glenn Close. MacDowell's Southern accent made her a very unconvincing British Jane.

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