Actor and Movie Trivia With Sleeping Beauty, Whoopi Goldberg, Dustin Hoffman, Zero Mostel, Milton Berle and More!

 

 

Motion Picture trivia questions and answers including Tootsie, Sleeping Beauty, The Ten Commandments, Milton Berle, Zero Mostel, Romeo and Juliet, Rex Harrison, The Wild One and more.

What size bra did Dustin Hoffman wear in the 1982 film Tootsie?
A: Size 36C.

What Oscar-winning actress placed a three-page thank you note in a movie trade paper listing all the people she had forgotten to mention in her 1987 acceptance speech?
A: Cher, who won the best actress Oscar for her performance in Moonstruck.

Who did James Cagney want to play the lead role in his life story?
A: Michael J. Fox.

What was the name of the prince who woke up Sleeping Beauty with a kiss in the Walt Disney version of the popular fairy tale?
A: Prince Philip. (Sleeping Beauty's name was Princess Aurora.)

Dudley Moore appeared in the 1984 film Unfaithfully Yours, about a conductor who suspects his wife is cheating on him. Who appeared in the same role in the 1948 film of the same name?
A: Rex Harrison

Caryn Johnson is a well-known comedienne, but she performs under another name. What is it?
A: Whoopi Goldberg.

What comic-to-be made his movie debut at age five as a little boy thrown from a moving train in the cliff-hanger serial The Perils of Pauline?
A: Milton Berle.

What late Broadway and Hollywood entertainer is known by a grade school nickname he acquired because of his poor marks?
A: Zero Mostel, who was born Samuel Mostel.

Actor Matthew Broderick was offered the lead in the 1983 film War Games after Kevin Costner turned it down to take lesser role in what other film?
A: The Big Chill. Costner signed up to play Alex, the character whose suicide leads to the reunion that provides the movie's setting, but he's not seen in the film. His part-- a 15-minute flashback scene--ended up on the cutting room floor.

Who played Moses as a baby in the 1956 film spectacular The Ten Commandments, which starred Charlton Heston?
A: Heston's son Fraser, who grew up to become a screenwriter and motion picture producer.

What famous leading man appeared in drag in two Marlene Dietrich movies?
A: John Wayne--in Seven Sinners in 1940 and The Spoilers in 1942.

What substance was used as fuel for the time-traveling car in Back to the Future Part II?
A: Miller beer. The car was a DeLorean.

What famous entertainer turned down the role of Romeo in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version of Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet before the part was given to teen unknown Leonard Whiting?
A: Paul McCartney.

According to Hollywood legend, what famous tradition was started in 1927 after actress Norma Talmadge tripped while walking along the street with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Mary Pickford?
A: Having movie stars leave hand or footprints on the sidewalk outside Grumman's Chinese Theater. That's where Talmadge tripped and fell into wet cement.

What was the name of the motorcycle gang led by Lee Marvin in the 1954 Marlon Brando biker movie The Wild One?
A: The Beetles.