Free Movie Trivia Quiz Questions
Lots of movie, actor, and actress questions with answers about Beau Geste, Shirley Temple, Walt Disney, Dirty Harry, and more.
What well-known Tasmanian-born leading lady launched her
entertainment career under the name Queenie O'Brien?
A: Merle Oberon. Born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson she went ton to
use a variation of her middle names for her professional name.
In what country was famous French actor Yves Montand born?
A: In Italy, as Yvo Livi.
What were the real first names of Beau Brummell and Beau Geste?
A: Brummell was George; Geste, Michael.
What famous character actor prepared for a career in
psychiatry--studying and working with pioneer psychoanalysts Sigmund
Freud and Alfred Adler--before he turned to performing?
A: Peter Lorre.
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What actor-and one-time New York Yankee batboy--portrayed ?Babe
Ruth in the 1948 movie biography of the Sultan of Swat?
A: William Bendix.
What actor's profile was once compared to "the steely prehensile
outline of an invariably victorious bottle opener"?
A: George C. Scott's. Critic Kenneth Tynan made the
comparison.
Who provided Mickey Mouse's high-pitched voice in the early Walt
Disney films starring the animated mouse?
A: Walt Disney, himself.
For what two films did Elizabeth Taylor win best actress Oscars?
A: Butterfield 8, in 1960; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, in 1966.
Who dubbed Miss Piggy's singing voice in "The Muppet Movie"?
A: Johnny Matthis.
When British film companies buy a product called Kensington Gore,
what are they purchasing?
A: Artificial blood, used for special effects.
What American actress once described herself as "pure as the
driven slush"?
A: Tallulah Bankhead.
What was the name of the popular Broadway musical that was turned
into the 1934 movie The Gay Divorcee?
A: The Gay Divorce. The Hollywood censors nixed that title
however, apparently finding it inappropriate to call a divorce
happy.
Who said: "A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then
he is finished"?
A: Oft-married Zsa Zsa Gabor.
What film did Ingrid Bergman make twice--first in Swedish and
then in English for her Hollywood debut?
A: Intermezzo: A Love Story.
What was the only horror film in which Humphrey Bogart appeared?
A: The Return of Dr. X. Bogart played a zombie in the 1939 film.
What color was actor Yul Brynner's hair--when he had hair?
A: Dark Brown.
Who was Gene Kelly's unusual dancing partner in an imaginative
pas de deux in the 1945 film Anchors Aweigh?
A: Jerry, the animated mouse from the Tom and Jerry cartoon.
What entertainer boxed under the name Kid Crochet as a teenager?
A: Dean Martin, was born Dino Crocetti.
How old was Shirley Temple when she appeared in her first film,
The Red-Haired Alibi?
A: Three years old.
For what offense was Australian-born Million Dollar Mermaid
Annette Kellerman, the first aquatic glamour girl, arrested in 1909?
A: Indecent exposure--for wearing one of her newly created,
one-piece bathing suits. The skirt less creation covered her legs
all the way down to the calf.
Who played Scorpio, the sadistic killer, in Clint Eastwood's 1971
film, Dirty Harry?
A: Andy Robinson, son of Edward G. Robinson.
What British actor made his screen debut as a Mexican wearing a
blanket in the very first Hopalong Cassidy movie?
A: David Niven, who noted, "Of course they daren't let me open my
mouth".
Who wrote the screenplay for The Misfits, the 1961 film that
marked the last screen appearances of both Clark Gable and Marilyn
Monroe?
A: Monroe's ex-husband, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur
Miller.
