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Movie trivia questions and answers about Movie Stars and Famous Actors

What 1990 movie was the first film released with an NC-17 rating?
A: Henry and June. NC-17, which means "no children under 17," was created to replace the X rating.

What 1963 movie Western starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara was based on William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew?
A: McLintock!

What famous film director invented false eyelashes?
A: D.W Griffith, in 1916. He wanted one of the actresses in his film Intolerance to have eyelashes that brushed her cheeks.

As a young man, what cowboy star was offered $100 a month to play shortstop for a professional base ball team?
A: Gene Autry. He turned down an offer from the Cardinal organization to play with its Tulsa farm team and kept his $150-a-month job as a railroad telegraph operator. years later, Autry became the owner of the California Angels.

What film role did Eli Wallach give up in 1953--making way for a famous Oscar-winning performance by an entertainment world legend?
A: The part of Private Maggio in From Here To Eternity. Wallach bowed out to appear on Broadway in Camino Real, paving the way for Frank Sinatra's show business comeback.

What was the name of the jeep driven by Pat Brady, Roy Roger's comic sidekick both in the movies and on television?
A: Nellybelle.

What restaurant chain had a branch in the space station in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey?
A: Howard Johnson.

In what film does actor Marlon Brando appear on ice skates?
A: In the 1990 film, The Freshman.

Who played the parole officer of elderly ex-con train robbers Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in the1986 film comedy Tough Guys?
A: Comedian Dana Carvey, best known as the Church Lady on TV's Saturday Night Live, and as Garth Algar in the 1992 film Wayne's World.

Why has actor Robert Duvall named several of his pet dogs Boo Radley?
A: In honor of his breakthrough film role a Boo Radley, the reclusive, retarded neighbor in the 1962 movie To Kill a Mockingbird.

What 1987 chiller was an expanded version of a 45-minute 1979 British film called Diversion?
A: Fatal Attraction. The screenplays of both were written by James Dearden.

What line delivered by Carole Lombard to William Powell in the 1936 comedy My Man Godefrey, inspired the trademark greeting of a popular cartoon character?
A: "What's up, Duke?" --which Bugs Bunny's creator Bob Clampett borrowed and turned into "Whats's up, Doc?"

What actress, asked to audition fro a supporting role in a 1990 Hollywood movie, sat down at the casting director's desk, pulled two Oscars from a satchel and demanded, "do you still want me to read for this part?"
A: Shelly Winters. The film was B. The part she auditioned for--Robert De Niro's mother--went to actress Ruth Nelson.