Movie and Actor Trivia - Peter Lorre, Elizabeth Taylor, The Muppet Movie, Shirley Temple, Walt Disney Films, Dirty Harry, Hopalong Cassidy & More!

 

 

Free trivia questions and answers - Movies actors, actresses, Miss Piggy, Peter Lorre, Elizabeth Taylor

Fun Trivia questions and answers - Movies and performers the likes of Peter Lorre, Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley Temple, Beau Geste, etc.

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.

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.