Motion Picture Trivia Questions and Answers.

Motion Picture trivia questions and answers.

In what movie did burly character actor Rod Steiger make his singing and dancing debut?
A: In the 1955 movie musical Oklahoma!, in which he portrayed "Pore Jud" Fry.

What Oscar-winning film included scenes shot on the River Kwai in Thailand?
A: The Deer Hunter. the 1978 film won five Oscars--including one for Best picture. Bridge on the River Kwai, the 1957 Oscar winner for Best Picture, was filmed in Ceylon.

Who was Thomas "Pop" Dennehy, the prototype of the unseen "Mr. Dennehy" in comedian Jackie Gleason's "Joe the Bartender" skits?
A: The superintendent of the apartment building Gleason lived in when he was growing up in Brooklyn, New York.

What actor operated a hot-dog stand known as "Tiny's" before making it big in films?
A: Actor Alan Ladd, who was abut 5 feet 6 inches tall.

What Hollywood leading man ws once a dancer with the Eliot Feld Ballet company?
A: Patrick Swayze, who dazzled us with his dancing in the 1987 film Dirty Dancing.

What Hollywood star turned down the Jack Nicholson role in The Witches of Eastwick, the Dustin Hoffman role in Rain Man and the title role in Batman?
A: Bill Murray.

In the 1988 Oscar-winning movie Rain Man, the character portrayed by Dustin Hoffman memorizes a telephone book up to the names Marsha and William Gottsegen. Who are they?
A: Hoffman's mother and father-in-law.

What film roll was James Dean next scheduled to play when he died in 1955?
A: Boxer Rocky Graziano, in Somebody Up There likes Me --the role that set Paul Newman on the road to stardom.

Who accepted the Academy Award for best actress in a gown she made her self out of $100 worth of fabric?
A: Joanne Woodward. She won her Oscar for The Three Faces of Eve in 1957.

For what film did Hollywood hold its first nude screen tests?
A: Four for Texas, a 1963 Western comedy starring Anita Ekberg and Ursula Andress, along with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. The screen tests proved unnecessary--censors cut all the nude scenes.

What are the names of the young husband and wife who own Lady in Walt Disney's 1955 animated classic Lady and the Tramp?
A: He's Jim, Dear'; she's "Darling."

How many years passed between Paul Newman's making of The Hustler and its sequel The color of Money?
A: 25. The Hustler ws filmed in 1961; The Color of Money in 1986.

What ws the size of Scarlett O'Hara's waist in the Margaret Mitchell classic Gone With the Wind?
A: 13 inches.

What Oscar-winning actress dubbed the hair-raising voice of the devil in the 1973 chiller The Exorcist?
A: Mercedes McCambridge.

Why did actor Gary Cooper dress in a Yankee uniform with New York spelled backward during the filming of The Pride of the Yankees, the story of Lou Gehrig?
A: Because Gehrig was a lefty and Cooper was a righty. Cooper had tried to bat and field lefty for the part, but looked too awkward. So he was filmed batting righty and fielding righty from third base. then the negative was reversed to make it look like he was playing lefty. In reversing the negative New York was no longer spelled backward.