Motion Picture Trivia

Motion picture trivia.

Whose screen test was assessed as, "Can't act, can't sing, slightly bald, can dance a little"?
A: Fred Astaire's.

Who was the butt of Constance Bennett's quip, "Now there's a broad with her future behind her"?
A: The young Marilyn Monroe.

What was the only word spoken in the 1976 Mel Brooks film, Silent Movie, and who said it?
A: "No," spoken by mime Marcel Marceau.

What was the only song from an Alfred Hitchcock movie ever to win an Oscar for Best Song?
A: "Que Sera Sera" (" Whatever Will Be, Will Be") sung by Doris Day in the 1956 film, The Man Who Knew Too Much.

What future world leader appeared as an extra in the 1944 Esther Williams film, Bathing Beauty?
A: Fidel Castro.

Which actor turned down the role of Dr. Indiana Jones in the 1981 movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark?
A: Tom Selleck, citing his commitment to his TV series, Magnum P.I.

Who was the first American actress to be depicted on a postage stamp?
A: Grace Kelly, on a stamp in Monaco, (1956).

What film star launched his Hollywood career as a $5-a-day extra, portraying a swarthy Mexican soldier in Douglas Fairbanks Sr.'s film "His Majesty, the American"?
A: Boris Karloff, in 1919.

What famous character actor--best now for his sinister screen roles--was a tea planter in Ceylon before he turned thespian?
A: Sydney Greenstreet.

What famous actress made her stage debut portraying a boy in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House?
A: Joan Collins.

What star-to-be appeared on Broadway in 1954 as the insolent homosexual Arab houseboy in Andre Gide's The Immoralist?
A: James Dean.

Who was the first movie star to deliver the oft-repeated line, "We could have made beautiful music together"?
A: Gary Cooper; in the 1936 film The General Died at Dawn. The line was delivered to Madeline Carroll.

Who won the Oscar for best actress in 1950--beating out Bette Davis, who starred in All About Eve, and Gloria Swanson, who appeared in Sunset Boulevard?
A: Judy Holliday, for her performance in Born Yesterday.

Who sang the role of prince Charmin in the 1937 Walt Disney classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
A: Harry Stockwell, actor-singer father of Dean Stockwell.

What is the "Oscar" for the saddle-and-spurs set--the award given to entertainers branded the best in the world of movie and TV westerns?
A: The Golden Boot.

What were the names of the three good fairies in Walt Disney's 1959 movie Sleeping Beauty?
A: Fauna, the fairy of song; Flora, the fairy of beauty; and Merryweather, the fairy of happiness.

What voice do the movies The King and I, My Fair Lady and Wet Side Story have in common?
A: That of Marni Nixon. She dubbed the singing for Deborah -Kerr, Audrey Hepburn and Natalie Wood.

What film star would have been known as Lucille ale Sueur if Hollywood hadn't changed her name after she was discovered in a Broadway chorus?
A: Joan Crawford.

Actor Sylvester Stallone appeared in a Japanese television commercial in 1989. What was he promoting?
A: Processed ham. There was a stipulation in his contract that the commercial not be shown in the U.S.