Miscellaneous Film Trivia Questions and Answers.

Motion Picture trivia questions and answers.

After the formation of their comedy team, what was the only film made by Lou Costello without Bud Abbott?
A: The Thirty-foot Bride of Candy Rock, on 1959.

Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe, who both were Olympic swimming champions and played Tarzan in the movies, made only one film together. what was it?
A: Captive Girl, in 1950.

The famous advertisement, "Gable's back and Garson's got him.," ws used for what 1945 Clark Gable-Greer Garson film?
A: Adventure.

Who was Barbra Streisand's first choice as her co-star in the 1976 remake of the movie, A Star Is Born?
A: Elvis Presley. (Kris Kristofferson got the part when Miss Streisand and Col. Tom Parker, Elvis's manager, couldn't agree on terms.)

For what crime was Lucas Jackson (played by Paul Newman) convicted in the 1967 movie, Cool Hand Luke?
A: Cutting the heads off parking meters.

Who is the only actor to win an Oscar for playing Santa Claus?
A: Edmund Gwenn, who won the Best Supporting Actor award for his role as Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street, in 1947.

The 1954 film White Christmas, starring Bing Crosby, was a remake of an earlier film in which he also starred, and which introduced the famous song. What was the title of the original film?
A: Holiday Inn, made in 1942, was the original vehicle for the song, "White Christmas."

What popular Hollywood actor alls his production company Oak Productions because of an early nickname?
A: Muscleman Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was known as the Austrian Oak in his body-building days.

Where did the clairvoyant in director Tim Burton's Pee Wee's Big Adventure tell Pee Wee he would find his bicycle?
A: At the Alamo. In the basement.

Who had a cameo playing the president of the United states in Mike Myers' psychedelic comedy, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me?
A: Tim Robbins.

In the 1989 cult fairy tale The Princess Bride, for what did the initials R.O.U.S. stand?
A: Rodents of Unusual Size.

What movie heart throb played the corpse in The Big Chill--but ended up on the cutting room floor?
A: Kevin Costner.

Who posed for Cosmopolitan magazine's first nude centerfold in April 1974?
A: Burt Reynolds.

Until 1990, what was the only Western to have been awarded the Oscar for best Picture?
A: Cimarron, in 1931. It would be nearly 60 years before another western-themed movie, Dances with Wolves would win, ln 1990. two years later Clint Eastwood's brooding Western, The Unforgiven, would also claim the award.