Cinema Trivia

Cinema trivia questions and answers.

What Oscar-winning actor appeared on Broadway in the early 1960s as Rolf, the youth who sings "You Are Sixteen," in the Rodgers and Hammerstein hit musical The Sound of Music?
A: Jon Voight.

What actors represented The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in the 1966 Sergio Leone epic about three drifters in search of a treasure?
A: Clint Eastwood was the Good; Lee Van Cleef, the Bad; and Eli Wullach, the Ugly.

What is the name of the actress daughter of Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn?
A: Tandy Cronyn.

In what film did former television talk-show host Arsenio Hall make his movie debut?
A: Amazon Women on the Moon, in 1987.

What is actor Michael J. Fox's real middle initial?
A: A, for Andrew. He had to use an initial under Screen Actors guild regulations because there was already an actor named Michael Fox, but he didn't want to use A. because of the word play it suggested. He opted for J. Out of admiration for character actor Michael J. Pollard.

Who played Nicky Jr., son of Nick and Nora Charles, in the last of the six films in the Thin Man series, Song of the thin Man?
A: Dean Stockwell.

Under the motion picture censorship code in effect from 1934 to 1968, how long did a screen kiss have to last to be judged "indecent"?
A: More than thirty seconds.

What film role did actresses Theda Bara, ?Claudette Colbert and Elizabeth Taylor have in common?
A: Cleopatra. Each starred in a film entitled Cleopatra--Bara in 1917; Colbert in 1934; Taylor in 1963. Others who appeared as the Egyptian queen include Vivien Leigh, in Caesar and Cleopatra, 1945; Rhonda Fleming, in Serpent of the Nile, 1953; and Hedy Lamarr, in The Story of Mankind, 1957.

What did writer Somerset Maugham ask about Spencer Tracy's performance during a visit to the set of the 1941 film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
A: "Which one is he playing now?"

On a movie set, what is the job of the "best boy"?
A: Assisting the "gaffer," or chief electrician.

Who was the youngest performer in history to win an Oscar?
A: Tatum O'Neal, who was 10 when she won an Oscar for best supporting actress as a chain-smoking, foul-mouthed young con artist in the 1973 film Paper Moon.

What was Sleeping Beauty's name in the 1959 Walt Disney film?
A: Princess Aurora. The Good Fairies, however, called her Briar Rose.

What famous American actor made his screen debut portraying a paraplegic war veteran struggling to overcome his handicap?
A: Marlon Brando, in the 1950 film The Men.

Jack Palance portrayed Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in the 1969 movie Che! Who appeared in the title role as revolutionary leader Che Guevara?
A: Egyptian-born Omar Sharif.

Where did actress Sigourney Weaver--whose given name was Susan --find her unusual adopted first name?
A: In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Sigourney is a minor character in the book.