Motion Picture Trivia Questions and Answers

 

 

Motion Picture trivia questions and answers.

What movie classic takes place in a town called Hadleyville?
A: High Noon, starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly.

How many women appeared in Stanley Kubrik's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb?
A: Only one. Tray Reed, daughter of a British director Sir Carol Reed. She played a nubile pentagon secretary.

In the 1977 film Star Wars, what name was originally planned for Luke Skywalker, the character played by Mark Hamill?
A: Luke Skykiller. The name ws changed on the first day of filming.

In what Cary Grant film is a tombstone shown inscribed with his real name--Archibald Leach?
A: The black-comedy classic Arsenic and Old Lace, which was released in 1944.

Mae West once said she liked two kinds of men. What were they?
A: "Domestic and foreign."

Elizabeth Taylor starred in 10 movies with husband Richard Burton. How many did she appear in with hubby Eddie Fisher?
A: One. Butterfield Eight, in 1960--for which she won an Academy Award for Bet Actress.

How much did a Masai chief offer for actress Carrol Baker in 1964, when the average Masi maiden was valued at $200 and 12 Cows?
A: He offered $750 along with 150 cows and 200 goats and sheep. She was in Kenya filming the movie Mr. Moses.

In what town did the Martian landing in Orson Welles' 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds allegedly take place?
A: Grovers Mill, New Jersey.

What was the name of the ancient souped-up spacecraft captained by Han Solo in the film classic Star Wars?
A: The Millennium Falcon.

What 1959 film spectacular ws nominated for 12 Oscars--and won all but one of them?
A: Ben-Hur. The Oscar that got away was for Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

Who was originally cast to play the role of T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia, the Academy Award winner for Best Picture in 1962?
A: Marlon Brando. He had to bow out when the shooting schedule of Mutiny on the Bounty was extended by several Months. The part went to a virtual unknown Peter O'Toole.

In what Academy Award-winning 1967 film did a teenage Richard  Dreyfuss make his movie debut in a one-line role?
A: The Graduate. He appears in the rooming house scene. His breakthrough role in American Graffiti came six years later.

Which American actress had the longest screen career on record?
A: Helen Hayes, whose career spanned 78 years. It started with her 1910debut in Jean and the Calico Doll, when she was 10, and ended with her appearance in the 1988 religious docudrama Divine Mercy, No Escape, when she was 88.

What was the source of the hundreds of authentic-looking early 19th-century tinware pieces used in the 1997 movie Amistad?
A: Old Sturbridge Village, a re-created 1830s New England community in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. The tinware was crafted in its tin shop.

Sales of what part of the male wardrobe dropped sharply after Clark Gable appeared in the romantic comedy It Happened One Night in 1934?
A: The undershirt. Gable didn't wear one in the film.

Whose family planned to erect a headstone that was a two-ton, nine-foot-tall marble replica of the Oscar--until the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences complained that it would be a copyright infringement?
A: Showman Mike Todd's.

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