Movie, Film, and Motion Picture Trivia Questions and Answers Including Sammy Davis jr., Elvis Presley, Steve McQueen, Bette Davis, and More!

 

 

Film, Movie, and Motion Picture trivia questions and answers; Elvis Presley, Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Sammy Davis jr., Burt Reynolds, Ryan O'Neal, and others.

What 1937 film starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis and Wayne Morris is shown on television under the title Battling Bellhop to avoid confusion with a 1962 Elvis Presley musical remake?
A: Kid Galahad.

Who did actor Steve McQueen replace when he was hired to appear in Frank Sinatra's 1959 war film Never So Few?
A: Sinatra's "rat pack" buddy Sammy Davis jr., who was dropped from the cast following a quarrel with Sinatra.

How much per hour did Paramount Pictures pay the U.S. Defense Department for each of the $37 million F-14 jets used in the 1986 Tom Cruise film Top Gun?
A: $7,600. The total paid to the Defense Department for equipment and assistance was $1.2 million.

How much was actor Burt Reynolds paid for posing as Cosmopolitan magazine's first nude centerfold in April 1972?
A: He got what he was wearing---absolutely nothing. He posed for free.

What physical feature did both Rudolph Valentino and George Raft have changed with plastic  surgery?
A: Their bat ears.

Why did Italian movie director Federico Fellini call his 1963 autobiographical film 8-1/2?
A: He considered it his No. 8-1/2 directorial effort--having completed seven full-length and three short (or half-length) features.

What 1988 film ends with 763 names--the longest list of credits on record?
A: Who Framed roger Rabbit? The credits take 6-1/2 minutes and don't include Kathleen Turner, who asked not to be listed as the voice of Jessica Rabbit.

To what famous actress did Winston Churchill propose marriage?
A: Ethel Barrymore.

When did Charlie Chaplin's 1952 film Limelight win an Oscar?
A : The movie won the Oscar for Best Original Dramatic Score in 1972, when it was first screened in Los Angeles.

In the 1985 film Back to the Future starring Michael J. Fox, what does Marty McFly's mother-to-be mistakenly think his name is?
A: Calvin Klein. The reason, she tells him, is, "It's written all over your underwear."

For the 1981 Oscar-winning movie Chariots of Fire, where was the race around the Great Court of Trinity college at Cambridge filmed?
A: At Eton College. The dons at Trinity refused to have anything to do with the movie.

Who provided the voice of Mufasa, Simba's father, in the 1994 movie, The Lion King?
A: James Earl Jones.

After demanding top billing over Katherine Hepburn on the 1949 film Adam's Rib, what did Spencer Tracy reply when someone asked if he'd ever heard of "ladies first"?
A: "This is a movie, not a lifeboat.

What was the name of the 1986 sequel to the 1979 film Alien?
A: Aliens.

What famous Hollywood legend--named Carol Jane Peters at birth--took her stage name from a New York City drugstore?
A: Carole Lombard. The drugstore was the Carroll, Lombardi Pharmacy on Lexington Avenue and 65th Street in Manhattan.

What father and daughter were originally scheduled to star in the 1973 film Paper Moon n the roles that went to Ryan O'Neal and his daughter Tatulm?
A: Paul Newman and his daughter Nell Potts. Their deal was called off when John Huston bowed out as director and Peer Bogdanovich took over.