#Movies
Wallace Beery, Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Lewis Stone, Jean Hersholt
1932: 2 of the starring guests registered at MGM's "Grand Hotel"
Ray Milland
1945: He lost a weekend but won an Oscar
William S. Hart
1946: A leading Shakespearean actor in the 1890s, this movie cowboy died June 23, 1946
The Sound of Music
1959: With this musical premier, the Hills came Alive
Jean Harlow
1965: Carroll Baker and Carol Lynley played this '30s star in 2 movies with the same title
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968: First visual effects Oscar went to Kubrik's look 33 years into the future
Shadowlands
1993 Movies: Anthony Hopkins played the role of author C.S. Lewis in this Richard Attenborough film
Beethoven
1993 Movies: In his most recent film, this St. Bernard has a girlfriend named Missy & 4 puppies
The Nightmare Before Christmas
1993 Movies: This Tim Burton movie was made using stop-motion animation
Sister Act 2
1993 Movies: This sequel was subtitled "Back in the Habit"
Jurassic Park
1993 Movies: With a gross of over $330 million, this Steven Spielberg film was the big hit of 1993
Blow
4 Letter Words: Bacall's last word on how to whistle
Dorothy Lamour
40s Film Facts: In 1941 she starred in "Caught in the Draft", "Road to Zanzibar" & "Aloma of the South Seas"
Cat People
40s Film Facts: Kittenish actress Simone Simon showed her claws in this classic horror film about feline folk
Pinocchio
40s Film Facts: Marjorie Belcher, who later became Marge Champion, was the model for the Blue Fairy in this Disney film
Rome
40s Film Facts: Roberto Rossellini depicted the Nazi occupation of this capital city, his birthplace, in "Open City"
Veronica Lake
40s Film Facts: This blonde with peekaboo hair was Alan Ladd's leading lady in "The Blue Dahlia" & "This Gun for Hire"
Kim
50s Film Facts: Dean Stockwell was a teenager when he played the title lad in the 1950 film of this Kipling classic
Sinatra
50s Film Facts: He sang "All The Way" when he played singer-turned-comedian Joe E. Lewis in 1957's "The Joker is Wild"
Charlie Chaplin
50s Film Facts: His children Michael, Josephine & Geraldine played street urchins in his 1952 film "Limelight"
Elvis Presley
50s Film Facts: In 1956 he made his movie debut in a Civil War film called "Love Me Tender"
Rommel
50s Film Facts: James Mason portrayed this general in the '50s films "The Desert Fox" & "The Desert Rat"
Peyton Place
50s Film Facts: Lana Turner earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination for this film based on Grace Metalious' novel
Jayne Mansfield
50s Film Facts: Little Richard sang the title tune for this blonde bombshell's 1956 comedy "The Girl Can't Help It"
The Brownings
50s Film Facts: Poetic pair played by Jennifer Jones & Bill Travers in 1957's "The Barretts of Wimpole Street"
Hale
50s Film Facts: She starred in the 1951 film "Lorna Doone", but you probably know her better as TV's Della Street
Audrey Hepburn
50s Film Facts: This "fair lady"s radiant performance in "The Nun's Story" earned her a 1959 Oscar nomination
Seven Samurai
7 Movies: "The Magnificent 7" was based on this 1954 Japanese film
Seven Little Foys
7 Movies: James Cagney reprised his George M. Cohan role in this Bob Hope film
Seven Beauties
7 Movies: Lina Wertmuller's 1976 film that fits this category
The Seven Year Itch
7 Movies: Marilyn Monroe's immortal billowing skirt photo is a still from this film
The Seen Percent Solution
7 Movies: This title refers to Sherlock Holmes' cocaine habit
Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty
70s Cinema: 3 of the 4 actors who sought "Deliverance" in that 1972 film
The Last Picture Show
70s Cinema: Movie that helped launch the careers of Jeff Bridges, Cybil Shepherd, & Peter Bogdanovich
Network
70s Cinema: Movie that spawned the phrase "I'm as mad as hell, & I'm not going to take it anymore
Paper Moon
70s Cinema: Tatum O'Neal won an Oscar for her film debut in this 1973 picture
American Graffiti
70s Cinema: Top grossing film ever with budget under a mil., it gave George Lucas clout to make "Star Wars"
Deer Hunter and Coming Home
70s Movies: 2 films of the Vietnam battlefront & homefront that took 1978's top 5 Oscars
The Last Detail
70s Movies: By escorting Randy Quaid to Prison in 1973, Jack Nicholson & Otis Young carried out this title task
Gary Busey
70s Movies: He was Buddy Holly in "The Buddy Holly Story"
The Godfather II
70s Movies: One of the few sequels to critically surpass the original, this film won Best Picture for 1974
Coma
70s Movies: Sadly for Tom Selleck fans, Genevieve Bujold didn't solve the mystery before he lapsed into this
Lynn Redgrave
A nursing mother who wouldn't make house calls, she's Vanessa's sister
SEG
Acronyms: Actors belong to SAG, but extras belong to SEG, this union
Louis Jourdan
Actors and Actresses: This handsome actor whom Leslie Caron fell for in "Gigi" appeared in the 1982 movie "Swamp Thing"
Jimmy Cagney
Actors and Roles: 1 of 3 actors who won Best Actor Oscar for playing an actor - FJ
Dan Akroyd and Eddie Murphy
Actors and Roles: 2 "Saturday Night" alumni who tried "Trading Places"
Meryl Streep
Actors and Roles: 2-time** Oscar winner who made her feature film debut in Julia & played W. Allen's ex in Manhattan
Frances Farmer
Actors and Roles: Both Susan Blakely & Jessica Lange played this tragic Hollywood actress in 1980s films
John Huston
Actors and Roles: Clint Eastwood's role in White Hunter, Black Heart was inspired by this director of The African Queen
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Actors and Roles: David Bowie seemed at home portraying an alien in this "76 film
Olivia de Havilland
Actors and Roles: Errol Flynn's last film with this frequent leading lady was They Died With Their Boots On
Once Upon a Time in America
Actors and Roles: Film in which Robert DeNiro and James Woods, of Italian and Irish ancestry, play Jewish gangsters
Cyrano de Bergerac
Actors and Roles: G. Depardieu was named best actor at Cannes for playing this swordsman; you might say he won by a nose
Sean Connery
Actors and Roles: He may "Never Say Never Again" when asked to be Bond
Edward G Robinson
Actors and Roles: Himself a dying man, he played a man who chooses to die in his last film "Soylent Green:
Coca-Cola Bottle
Actors and Roles: In "The Gods Must Be Crazy", this inanimate object has a "starring" role
Albert Brooks
Actors and Roles: In 1985, he got "Lost in America" with Julie Hagerty
Michael Jackson
Actors and Roles: In his 1st feature film, he played The Scarecrow in "The Wiz"
Marathon Man
Actors and Roles: In this '76 flick, Olivier "drilled" Dustin Hoffman for information
Colonel Chick Yeager
Actors and Roles: Sam Shepard played this barrier breaker in "The Right Stuff"
Saturday Night Fever
Actors and Roles: Since the face wasn't shown, a stand-in stood in for John Travolta in famous opening shot of this fil
Marilyn Monroe
Actors and Roles: The blonde preferred in the film "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
Rita Hayworth
Actors and Roles: The first film she starred in after her brief marriage to a prince was 1952's Affair in Trinidad
Anne Bancroft
Actors and Roles: The movie is called Garbo Talks, but she has all the lines
Queen Elizabeth I
Actors and Roles: The queen Glenda Jackson played in "Mary Queen of Scots" & PBS mini-series
Matt Houston
Actors and Roles: Though he works in California, Lee Horsley's character shares name with this Texas town
Andy Hardy Series
Andy: A Family Affair was the 1st of 15 films in this Mickey Rooney series
Angels in America
Angels: Tony Kushner won a 1993 Pulitzer Prize for this play
Cannes
Annual Events: In May, 1993, this city on the Riviera held its 46th International Film Festival
Capricorn
Astrology: Sign that shares name with Hitchcok film and torrid tropic
George Bernard Shaw
Awards: 26 years after writing it for the stage, he won Oscar for the screenplay Pygmalion
Jackie Coogan
Awards: A Youth in Film Award is named for this late actor who was a kid when he played "The Kid" in 1921
Robert Ebert
Awards: He may disagree with Gene Siskel, but he won '75 Pulitzer prize for film criticism
Academy Award
Awards: Liza Minnelli, Lili Fini Zanuck & 67 other women who've won this award posed for a historical photo in 1993
Kramer v. Kramer
Awards: Nominated 5 times for Best Actor, Dustin Hoffman took home the Oscar only for this film
Oscars
Awards: The annual awards given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
Birdman of Alcatraz
B Movies: Burt Lancaster film in which his only friends were feathered
Breakfast at Tiffany's
B Movies: In 1961 movie, Audrey Hepburn's alternative to brunch in bed
Being There
B Movies: Poignant movie in which Peter Sellers turned on the TV and turned out the world
Boys in the Band
B Movies: Sensitive Mart Crowley treatmetn of gays marching to a different number
Baby Doll
B Movies: The title describes Carroll Baker's thumb-sucking character and nightie she wore
A Star is Born
Barbra Streisand: This film's Evergreen earned Barbra a composing Oscar
ET
Best Sellers: Having "phoned home", his adventure continues in "The Book of the Green Planet"
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Bicycle: 1985 film that was a story of a "rebel & his bike"
The Civil War
Books on Audiotape: Ken Burns reads excerpts from the companion volume to his PBS miniseries about this war
Albert Cubby Broccoli
Botanical Names: Agronomist-turned-film producer, he claims ancestor developed namesake green vegetable
Jack Lemmon
Botanical Names: The guy who was Tony Curtis' "leading lady" in "Some Like It Hot"
The Emerald Forest
Brazil: 1985 film set in Brazil that featured the fierce people, the invisible people, & the bat people
59th Street Bridge
Bridges: Colloquial name of the Queensborough Bridge and real name of the song Feeling Groovy
Peter Fonda
Brothers and Sisters: An easy rider whose sister played an easy lady in Klute
General Motors
Business and Industry: In the 1989 film "Roger & me", Roger was Roger Smith, the CEO of this auto corporation
Nine
By the Numbers: Broadway hit that takes Fellini film a ½ step further
00
By the Numbers: The 2 digits that give James Bond license to kill
A Title of the Play Which the Film Was Based - Casablanca
Casablanca: "Everybody comes to Rick's" is a line in the film & also this
A Hill of Beans
Casablanca: According to Rick, "The problems of three little people" in this world don't amount to this
Paul Henreid
Casablanca: He played Victor Laszlo, Ilsa's husband
By Humming the Song
Casablanca: When Sam says he can't remember "As Time Goes By", Ingrid Bergman reminds him by doing this
Inside the Piano (Sam's Piano)
Casablanca: Where Rick hides the letters of transit Ilsa needs
Maggie the Cat
Cat-egory: Elizabeth Taylor character that could have burnt her paws on a hot tin roof
Cat People
Cat-egory: Malcolm McDowell and Natassja Kinski's purrfect roles in 1982
Kathleen Turner
Celebrities: This leading actress' first film with Michael Douglas was Romancing the Stone
Leslie Nielsen
Celebrity Jeopardy: Sugar Babe's husband on "The Real McCoys", Sylvester Stallone rescued me in "Rambo III"
Richard Crenna
Celebrity Jeopardy: Sugar Babe's husband on "The Real McCoys", Sylvester Stallone rescued me in "Rambo III"
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Classic Cinema: Bette Davis played a deranged ex-child star in this 1962 film that co-starred Joan Crawford
As Time Goes by
Classic Cinema: In "Casablanca" it's the song Bogart is referring to when he says, "If she can stand it, I can!"
Jesus
Classic Cinema: Jeffrey Hunter played this, his most famous role, in the 1961 film "King of Kings"
Hamlet
Classic Cinema: Laurence Olivier dyed his hair blond for this role, which won him an Oscar as the "Best Actor" of 1948
Mae West
Classic Cinema: She asked Cary Grant, "Why don't you come up sometime and see me? I'm home every evening"
Alfred Hitchcock
Cock a Doodle Do: He sat in a chair marked "Mrs. Bates" during the filming of "Psycho"
Gene Kelly
Dance: This "Singin' in the Rain" octogenarian helped choreograph Madonna's Fall '93 tour
Song of the South
Directions: Disney film which featured Br'er Rabbit & Uncle Remus
Sydney Pollack or Woody Allen
Directors on Film: 1 of the 2 directors who play the 2 main husbands in "Husbands and Wives"
Clint Eastwood
Directors on Film: He not only was "The Outlaw Josey Wales", he was the director, too
Spike Lee
Directors on Film: He was Mookie the delivery boy in "Do the Right Thing"
Steven Speilberg
Directors on Film: He's seen in John Landis' "The Blues Brothers" & Landis is seen in his "1941"
Danny DeVito
Directors on Film: When you watch his direction of himself & Jack Nicholson, he hopes you "Hoffa" good time
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Disney: Disney feature that won thisaward:
Toto
Dogs in Literature: He knocked over the screen concealing the Wizard of Oz
Footloose
Double Double Letters: 1984 film which featured the following:
Gone with the Wind
Double Meanings: Describes how Dorothy left Kansas, or a Mitchell novel
Fie Easy Pieces
Easy: Movie title which refers to a handful of etudes
Easy Rider
Easy: Slang for parasitical hanger-on or what Peter Fonda played in 69
Flirt (Gone with the Wind)
F Words: Miss Scarlet loved to do this with Ashley & the Tarleton Twins
Rin Tin Tin
Famous Animals: This canine who became a movie star was discovered by Lee Duncan in a WWI trench
Clarabelle
Famous Cows: Cow seen in Mickey Mouse cartoons who shares her name with a male Howdy Doody character
The Jazz Singer
Famous Firsts: "You ain't heard nothin' yet" until you've heard Al Jolson say the line in this 1st major talking film
Scarlett O'Hara
Fictional Characters: Mother of Bonnie Blue, she ran a sawmill after the Civil War - FJ
Daisy Miller
Fictional Characters: Title heroine of a Henry James story whom Cybil Shepherd played in a 1974 film
War and Peace
Fictional Heroines: Audrey Hepburn played the charming Natasha Rostova in this novel's 1956 film adaptation
Elephant Walk
Film Facts: Elizabeth Taylor found passion on a plantation before it was pulverized by pachyderms in this 1954 film
Field of Dreams
Film Facts: Kevin Costner starred in this 1989 film based on the novel Shoeless Joe
Blazing Saddles
Film Facts: Richard Pryor co-wrote this Western with Mel Brooks; its original title was Black Bart
It's a Wonderful Life
Film Facts: The first film Jimmy Stewart made after serving as a WWII bomber pilot was this holiday classic
Freddy de Cordova
Film Facts: Tonight Show executive producer who directed Bedtime for Bonzo and Bonzo Goes to College
Under Fire
Fire: In this 1983 film, Nick Nolte played a journalist in Nicaragua during the 1979 revolution
Citizen Kane
First Lines: 1st word in this Orson Welles movie is also the title character's last
Sommersby
French Film Remakes: "The Return of Martin Guerre", starring Gerard Depardieu, became this 1993 Richard Gere film
La Femme Nikita
French Film Remakes: Bridget Fonda becomes a government assassin in "Point of No Return", which was based on this film
Three Men and a Baby
French Film Remakes: The Cesar Award-winning 1985 film "Three Men and a Cradle" became this 1987 American film
Cousin Cousine
French Film Remakes: The Ted Danson film "Cousins" was based on this 1976 French hit
Thank God It's Friday
Friday: '78 disco film which featured Donna Summer
Friday the 13th
Friday: Mad killer Jason finally gets his in this film's final chapter
Elois (or Morlocks)
Futuristic Films: 1 of 2 races Rod Taylor meets circa 800,000 A.D. in "The Time Machine"
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Futuristic Films: Film which used the following as a greeting:
New York
Futuristic Films: In 1997, Kurt Russell & Season Hubley will try to "escape" from this city turned prison
Sleeper
Futuristic Films: In it, Woody Allen proves cryogenics works, if you don't mind waking up in a police state
Barbarella
Futuristic Films: It took a team of 8 writers to adapt a French comic strip into this 41st century ultra-high camp film
Hattie McDaniel
GWTW: Black Oscar-winner not allowed at premiere screening held in "whites-only" Atlanta theater
George Reeves
GWTW: He debuted as a Tarleton twin long before he took off as a superhero
Natural
Games: 7 or 11 in craps, or Robert Redford in recent movie
Blade Runner
Gay Blades: Ridley Scott's dim futuristic film view of Los Angeles
Z
Gay Blades: The mark left by George Hamilton's gay blade
Ghostbusters
Ghosts: Creators of "Casper" say this film's logo plagiarized 1 of their characters
Greage C. Scott
Great Scott: Known for refusing an Oscar, he accepted an Emmy for role in Arthur Miller's "The Price"
Soylent Green
Green: Charleton Heston movie in which useless people were turned into the title
Casper Gutman
Guts: He, along with Joel Cairo & Brigid O'Shaughnessy, sought the Maltese Falcon
The Stings of my Heart
Hearty Phrases: In the 1938 movie musical "Listen, Darling", Judy Garland sang, "Zing! Went" these
Madeleine Carroll
Hitchcock Blondes: In 1935, this elegant blonde was handcuffed to Robert Donat in the 39 steps
Eva Marie Saint
Hitchcock Blondes: In North by Northwest, Cary Grant asks her "How does a girl like you get to be a girl like you?"
Janet Leigh
Hitchcock Blondes: It was curtains for this actress when the shower curtain was pulled back in Psycho
Princess Grace Kelly
Hitchcock Blondes: She met her prince while shooting her last Hitchcock film in Monaco
Tippie Hendren
Hitchcock Blondes: She was already Melanie Griffith's mother when she was attacked by The Birds
Raymond Burr
Hitchcock: Before playing Perry, he was killer James Stewart saw through the Rear Window
Cary Grant
Hitchcock: Called ideal Hitchcock hero, he starred in Notorious, Suspicion, and North by Northwest
Psycho
Hitchcock: Film where nutty Norman Bates was a real cut up
Rebecca
Hitchcock: His first American movie with Fontaine and Olivier in which title character never appears
The Man Who Knew too Much
Hitchcock: This movie wasn't his best, but Que Sera, Sera
Benji
Hollywood Dogs: Higgins played the title role of this 1974 film
Tri-Star
Horses: This is the Merv Griffin logo, this is the Columbia logo, & the following is this company's
The Towering Inferno
Hot Movies: Irwin Allen's tall tale that went up in smoke
In the Heat of the Night
Hot Movies: Poitier and Steiger made sparks fly in this '67 Oscar winner
Some Like It Hot
Hot Movies: The male stars tested their disguises for this '59 film by visiting studio ladies' room
Fahrenheit 451
Hot Movies: Words were heated when Truffaut filmed this Bradbury novel
Best Western
Hotels: In 1959, Maverick won the Emmy for this category, only year it was given
Holiday inn
Hotels: The film in which Bing sang about a white Christmas and an Easter parade
Terry Thomas
Hyphenated: Mad mad mad mad world star who says his hyphen comes from the gap between his teeth
Akira Kurosawa
Japan: The first Japanese film director to become famous internationally, his films include Rashomon and the Seven Samurai
The Dark Crystal
Jim Henson: The Skeksis and the Mystics were saved by the Gelflingsin this 1982 fantasy film
Casablanca
Last Words: Movie that ends with Rick predicting the beginning of a beautiful friendship
The Last of the Red Hot Loves
Last: In 1972, Alan Arkin was lead in movie version of this Neil Simon comedy
Star Wars
Light: 1977 film for which the light saber was invented
Cowardly Lion
Literary Lions and Tigers: He got a rap on the nose from Dorothy for threatening Toto
Love is a Many Splendored Thing
Love: 1955 Jennifer Jones-William Holden film whose title song became #1 for the 4 Aces
Singin' in the Rain
MGM Musicals: Donald O'Connor also made a splash in this 1952 musical singing "Make 'Em Laugh"
The Varsity Dog
MGM Musicals: In "Good News" June Allyson & Peter Lawford went "down on the heels, up on the toes" to do this
That's Entertainment
MGM Musicals: In 1994 MGM released its third film in this series featuring clips of classic musicals
The Wizard of Oz
MGM Musicals: Shirley Temple was the first choice to star in this 1939 musical but Judy Garland got the part
Frank Sinatra
MGM Musicals: The 3 sailors "On the Town" were Jules Munshin, Gene Kelly & this man
Steven Speilberg
Man in Space: On Sept. 29, 1985 this film director activated "META", a radio to contact extra-terrestrials
Steve McQueen
Mc Names: He Wanted to get out of television and made The Great Escape to films
Charlie McCarthy
Mc Names: The Smithsonian is now home to Candice Bergen's brother
Santa
Miracles: Macy's employee who performed the Miracle on 34th street
Asian Elephant
Movie Animals: Elephants which wore false ears in Johnny Weissmuller "Tarzan" films came from this continent
Dolphins
Movie Animals: George C. Scott playing Dr. Terrell, taught this animal to speak English
The Shaggy Dog
Movie Animals: He had 1959 title role, co-starring with Fred MacMurray
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Movie Animals: In 1973, James Franciscus was the voice of this animal
Rin Tin Tin
Movie Animals: The 3 dogs who later played this role all descended from the 1st German Shepherd to do so
(13x4) 52
Movie Math: "Friday the 13th" times its sequels**
4,995
Movie Math: "The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T" minus "5 Easy Pieces"
8 1/2
Movie Math: "The 7 Year Itch" plus "10 North Frederick" divided by "2 for the Road"
(7+3) 10
Movie Math: "The Faces of Dr. Lao" plus "The Faces of Eve"
13
Movie Math: Sum of the digits in "THX-1138"
The Hustler
Movie Quotes: "Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool" is a line in this 1961 film
Citizen Kane
Movie Quotes: A headline in this 1941 film reads, "Charles Foster Kane Defeated—Fraud at Polls!"
Network
Movie Quotes: Film in which Ned Beatty says to Peter Finch, "Good morning, Mr. Beale. They tell me you're a madman"
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Movie Quotes: In this film Elizabeth Taylor says, "Oh, Big Daddy, you don't think I ravished a football hero!"
Lauren Bacall
Movie Quotes: This actress kisses Bogie in "To Have and Have Not" & says, "It's even better when you help"
Action
Movie Talk: Director's order to actors to begin playing a scene
Cannes
Movie Talk: French Riviera's film festival capital
PG 13
Movie Talk: Newest moving rating, it cautions Special Guidance for attendance of children under 13
Extra
Movie Talk: Nonspeaking actor in background role, or paperboy's cry
Trailers
Movie Talk: Previews of coming attractions they used to follow the main feature
Micki and Maude
Movie Title Pairs: Ann Reinking & Amy Irving
Kramer v. Kramer
Movie Title Pairs: Dustin Hoffman & Meryl Streep
Bonnie and Clyde
Movie Title Pairs: Faye Dunaway & Warren Beatty
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Movie Title Pairs: Fredric March & Fredric March or Spencer Tracy & Spencer Tracy
Melvin and Howard
Movie Title Pairs: Paul LeMat & Jason Robards
McCloud
Movie Trivia: "Coogan's Bluff" evolved into this 1970s TV police drama starring Dennis Weaver
M
Movie Trivia: 1930 film where Peter Lorne plays a child murderer
All The King's Men
Movie Trivia: 1949s Best Picture, its title came from Humpty Dumpty
Redgraves
Movie Trivia: 4-Generation film family which includes a knighted actor, his father, daughters, and grandchildren
Ghostbusters
Movie Trivia: A sequel's now being planned to this top grossing film, called in France SOS Phantomes
Burt Reynolds
Movie Trivia: Actor who captained the mean machine in the Longest Yard
Ali MacGraw
Movie Trivia: Actress who spoke the immortal line, Love is never having to say you're sorry
Dracula
Movie Trivia: Bela Lugosi was reportedly buried in the cape he wore for this role
Lioness
Movie Trivia: Blonde & beautiful Elsa, who weighed 400 lbs., was this
Abe Lincoln
Movie Trivia: Character from American history played on screen more than any other**
Wolfman Jack
Movie Trivia: Disc jockey heard on the radio in "American Graffiti"
The Jazz Singer
Movie Trivia: Film famous for the line "You ain't heard nothin' yet, folks"
The Dorothy Chandler Pavillion
Movie Trivia: For the first time in 68, the Academy Awards were held in this auditorium, its current home
Joel Grey
Movie Trivia: He sang his way to an Oscar in Cabaret
Groucho Marx
Movie Trivia: In "A Day at the Races", he quipped, "If I hold you any closer, I'll be in back of you"
Tony Curtis
Movie Trivia: In his best English Bronx accent he cried Younder lies the castle of my father
Casablanca
Movie Trivia: In it, Rick tells Ilsa, "I remember every detail; the Germans wore gray; you wore blue"
Key Largo
Movie Trivia: In this 1948 Humphrey Bogart movie, the Florida Hotel was really a set on the Warner Brothers lot
Marcel Marceau
Movie Trivia: Ironically, he spoke the only word in Mel Brooks' Silent Movie
The Maltese Falcon
Movie Trivia: It was known as the dingus, the stuff of dreams are made of and the black bird
Supercalifragisticexpialadotious
Movie Trivia: Mary Poppins' magical musical tongue twister
His French Accent
Movie Trivia: Maurice Chevalier's contract with Paramount would have been invalid if he'd lost this
The Summer of 42
Movie Trivia: Movie whose sequel was Class of 44
John Wayne
Movie Trivia: Since his 1st lead in 1930s "The Big Trail", he starred in more films than any other actor
Licorice
Movie Trivia: So that Charlie Chaplin could eat his boot during the Gold Rush, it was made of this
Giant
Movie Trivia: The title tune to this James Dean film is subtitled "This Then is Texas"
The Lone Ranger and Zorro
Movie Trivia: The two masked heroes Clayton Moore played on the screen
Smell O Vision
Movie Trivia: This gimmick introduced for the film Scent of Mystery was something to be sniffed at
Solar Eclipse
Movie Trivia: To darken sky for crucifixion in Barabbas, scene was filmed during this astronomical event
An Elephant's Eye
Movie Trivia: To fit the song's needs in Oklahoma, special cord twice as high as this was grown
Smile
Movie Trivia: To protect his image, Buster Keaton's MGM contract did not allow him to do this onscreen
Rocky III
Movie Trivia: Turned down to be an Our Gang member, she became top box office star of 1935
Shirley Temple
Movie Trivia: Turned down to be an Our Gang member, she became top box office star of 1935
Reds
Movie Trivia: Warren Beatty was Oscar nominated as actor, director & writer for this 1981 film
Pool
Movie Trivia: What Paul Newman's Hustler hustled
The Graduate
Movies: "Mrs. Robinson, do you think we could say a few words to each other first this time?" is a line from this film
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask
Movies: 1972 comedy, it's Woody Allen's only film based on a best seller
Breaking Away
Movies: 1979 Oscar-nominated film that climaxed in a bicycle race at Indiana University
True Lies
Movies: 1994 action film in which Arnold Schwarzenegger plays intelligence agent Harry Tasker
All Quiet on the Western Front
Movies: Anti-war film in which the hero is cut down while reaching for a butterfly
Vanessa Redgrave
Movies: As "Isadora", this actress said, "To dance is to live"
It Happened One Night
Movies: At the end of it, Gable trumpets & "The Walls of Jericho" fall
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Movies: Author Ken Kesey said it would have been better with Kirk Douglas in Jack Nicholson's part
Casablanca
Movies: Best Picture of '42, it featured the following:
Groundhog Day
Movies: Bill Murray becomes a better person after living the same day over & over again in this comedy
Bolero
Movies: Bo Derek film released unrated so it wouldn't get an X
Terry Thomas
Movies: British actor who played J. Algernon Hawthorne in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Blue
Movies: Color of the movies' "Dahlia", "Max", & "Lagoon"
West and East
Movies: Compass directions of the Wicked Witches killed in "The Wizard of Oz" - FJ
Franz Liszt
Movies: Composer profiled in "Song Without End" & "Lisztomania"
The Cotton Club
Movies: Controversial Coppola film about a 20s Harlem nightspot
Terms of Endearment
Movies: Current comic hit chronicling 30 years of a mother-daughter relationship
A Soldier's Story
Movies: Director Norman Jewison's alliterative tale of a black infantry unit
Gandhi
Movies: Dustin Hoffman & Alec Guinness were considered for this role that won an Oscar for Ben Kingsley
Miracle on 34th Street
Movies: Edmund Gwenn won the 1947 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Kris Kringle in this film
A Star is Born
Movies: Film featuring March & Gaynor, Garland & Mason or Streisand & Kristofferson
All of Me
Movies: Film where Lily Tomlin is really Steve Martin's better half
Maniac
Movies: Flashdance song whose lyrics were changed to make a mad killer a mad dancer
The Man Who Would be King
Movies: For this Kipling story, John Huston first thought of Gable & Bogart, not Michael Caine & Sean Connery
Pride of the Yankees
Movies: Gary Cooper got an Oscar nomination for his role as Lou Gehrig in this 1942 film
The Woman in Red
Movies: Gene Wilder's remake of the '77 French comedy Pardon mon Affaire
Supergirl
Movies: Helen Salter is playing this role, a cousin one played by Christopher Reeve
Barbra Streisand
Movies: Her film "Yentl" has been called "Tootsie on the Roof"
The Marseillaise
Movies: In "Casablanca", Frenchman drown out singing Germans with this song
Dorothy Lamour
Movies: In "Road to Rio", Bob Hope asked her, "How did you get into that dress--with a spray gun?"
Conan
Movies: In '84 he's a destroyer, in '82 he was just a barbarian
Washington, DC
Movies: In 1983, Mr. T took a break from "The A-Team" to drive a cab in this city
George Burns
Movies: In his first screen role since 1939, he won the 1975 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for "The Sunshine Boys"
The Great Escape
Movies: In this 1963 P.O.W. film, Steve McQueen was the "Cooler King" & James Garner the "Scrounger"
Gone with the Wind
Movies: In this film Hattie McDaniel said, "You can't show your bosom 'fore three o'clock"
The Lost Weekend
Movies: In this film Ray Milland asked a bartender, "Come on, Nat. Join me--one little jigger of dreams, huh?"
Total Recall
Movies: It was filmed in Mexico by a Dutch director with an Austrian star (Sharon Stone changes the view on a window with a touch and Arnold Schwarzenegger says Let's move to Mars
Greenwich Village
Movies: It was the Next Stop for Paul Mazursky
Gone with the Wind
Movies: Its last line is "After all, tomorrow is another day"
The Omen
Movies: Its sequels were "Damien" & "The Final Conflict"
Mary Poppins
Movies: Julie Andrews made her film debut as the magical nanny in this musical
Body Heat
Movies: Kathleen Turner's first film was this steamy drama in which she & William Hurt plot to kill her husband
What's Up Doc
Movies: Movie question posed by Barbra Streisand & Bugs Bunny
Amadeus
Movies: Mozart's middle name becomes a movie
Handcuffs
Movies: Police equipment featured in ads for Clint Eastwood's Tightrope
Napoleon
Movies: Recently revived 1927 Abel Gance film, so big it takes 3 screens to show it all
Flashdance
Movies: Resembling a rock video, this film inspired off-the-shoulder sweatshirt fashions
Flubber
Movies: Rubbery stuff that made The Absent-Minded Professor's Model T fly
Dorothy Lamour
Movies: She hit "The Road" 7 times with Hope & Crosby
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Movies: Some of the character names rejected for this classic were "Gaspy", "Daffy", & "Snoopy"
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Movies: Spencer Tracy died in 1967, a few weeks after completing this film, his 9th with Katharine Hepburn
Star Trek III
Movies: Subtitled The Search for Spock
The Client
Movies: Susan Sarandon plays legal counsel to an 11-year-old in this film, based on a John Grisham novel
Cheeta
Movies: Tarzan co-star, now 55, who drinks a beer a day and lives with a man in Newbury Park, California
Christopher Lloyd
Movies: Taxi reverend who played bad guys in Star Trek III and Buckaroo Banzai
Heart and Fingertips
Movies: The 2 parts of E.T. that glowed
Volkswagen Beetle
Movies: The make of car that starts up immediately after 200 years in Woody Allen's "Sleeper"
It's a Wonderful Life
Movies: This 1946 Jimmy Stewart-Donna Reed film was based on the short story "The Greatest Gift"
Risky Business
Movies: Title describing Tom Cruise's precarious commercial enterprise
Tootsie
Movies: To Dustin Hoffman this '82 film was a "drag"
Sabotage and Saboteur
Movies: Two Alfred Hitchcock films which begin with the letters Sab-
Bad News Bears
Movies: Walter Matthau & Tony Curtis both coached this kids' baseball team
Jack Nelson
Movies: Went from bit part in film "Little Shop of Horrors" to Oscars for Best Actor & Best Support
Eating Raoul
Munchy Movies: 1982 satire in which 2 "bland" people spiced up their appetites with a bit of cannibalism
Fa
Music: 4th note of the musical scale or a long, long way to run
Anthony Quinn
Musical Theater: This actor who played Zorba on film also played him in a musical stage version
Sam Spade
Mysteries: Dashiell Hammett detective played on the screen by Humphrey Bogart
Oscars
Newspaper Fillers: On 3/25/85, Marty Pasetta opened telecast of this awards show with shot of auditorium upside-down
Nick of Time
Nick Names: When John Wayne always arrived with the calvary
Alan Dershowitz
Nonfiction: "Reversal Of Fortune", this attorney's book about the von Bulow case, was the basis for a 1990 film
Louelle Parsons
Notable Women: This long-time rival of Hedda Hopper was one of America's first movie columnists
Three
Number Please: Joanne Woodward's Eve had this many faces
Margaret O'Brien
O'Hollywood: At age 6, she asked the director, "Do you want the tears to run all the way, or shall I stop halfway down?"
Peter O'Toole
O'Hollywood: In "My Favorite Year", his character admitted "I'm not an actor; I'm a movie star"
Donald O'Connor
O'Hollywood: In "Singin' in the Rain", he knew how to "Make 'Em Laugh"
Maureen O'Sullivan
O'Hollywood: Not "Rosemary's Baby", but "Rosemary's" real-life mother
Gofer, Runner, Production Assistant
Odd Jobs: Lowest member of a movie crew whose job is to go for anything
North by Northwest
Odds and Ends: Alfred Hitchcock probably knew that NxNW is an abbreviation of this direction
Katie Elder
Old West: Doc Holliday's mistress; Dean Martin & John Wayne were among her movie sons
Geena Davis
Oscar Night Fashion: In 1993 she was in "A League of Her Own" in a daringly low-cut black velvet gown designed by Bill Hargate
Susan Sarandon
Oscar Night Fashion: In 1993 this "Lorenzo's Oil" nominee poured herself into a tight gold gown that rivaled the Oscar itself
Marissa Tomei
Oscar Night Fashion: She picked up her Oscar for "My Cousin Vinny" in an elegant white Chanel gown with black stripes
Clint Eastwood
Oscar Night Fashions: He sported a snazzy red leather bow tie when he grabbed a fistful of Oscars for "Unforgiven"
Thanks for the Memory
Oscar Songs: '38 winner that became Bob Hope's theme song
Que Sera Sera or Secret Lover
Oscar Songs: 1 of 2 Oscar winners sung in the films by Doris Day
White Christmas
Oscar Songs: 1942 Irving Berlin classic that's sold more records than any other
Never on Sunday
Oscar Songs: 1960 song named for day Melina Mercouri rested
Talk to the Animals
Oscar Songs: As Dr. Dolittle, Rex Harrison sang this 1967 Oscar-winner to people too
Swinging on a Star
Oscar Songs: In "Going My Way", Bing Crosby asks "Would you rather" be doing this title task or be a fish
Irene Cara
Oscar Songs: She sang 80s Fame and 83 What a Feeling
The Continental
Oscar Songs: The first winner from Gay Divorcee, is also a Lincoln luxury car
Akira Kurosawa
People: This director of "Seven Samurai" is descended from the great 11th century samurai Abe Sadato
Purple Rain
Pop Music: The soundtrack to this 1984 Prince movie was No. 1 for 24 straight weeks
Twyla Tharp
Potpourri: A sometimes choreographer for ABT, she choreographed the 1979 film "Hair"
All Work and No Play
Proverbs: The 2 things that "make Jack a dull boy"
In the Line of Fire
Recent Films: "I Have A Rendezvous with Death", one of JFK's favorite poems, is mentioned in this Clint Eastwood film
The Firm
Recent Films: Mud Island, a Memphis tourist attraction, and its monorail are featured in this 1993 Tom Cruise film
Orlando
Recent Films: Part of this unusual epic based on a Virginia Woolf novel was shot in Uzbekistan
The Fugitive
Recent Films: Sela Ward of "Sisters" plays Helen Kimble in this 1993 film
Rosie O'Donnell
Recent Films: This comedienne & "Celebrity Jeopardy!" alumna posed as Richard Dreyfuss' wife in "Another Stakeout"
Niagara, The River of No Return
Rivers and Lakes: Either of two Marilyn Monroe films with watery titles
Rocky Horror (Picture) Show
Rockys: Musical featuring "Dammit Janet" & the following: "It's astounding Time is fleeting..."
Sam Spade
Sams: Created by Dashiell Hammett, played by Humphrey Bogart
John Huston
Screenwriters: "The Maltese Falcon" was the first film that he both directed & wrote
Spike Lee
Screenwriters: He wrote the screenplay of "Mo' Better Blues" & his father Bill wrote the musical score
King Lear
Shakespeare and Film: A poignant scene in "The Madness of King George" features George III reading aloud from this play - FJ
Othello
Shakespeare: Maggie Smith earned a 1965 Oscar nomination for playing Desdemona in this Laurence Olivier film
Ophelia
Shakespearean Actors: At Elsinore in 1937 Vivien Leigh played this role opposite Laurence Olivier's Hamlet
Cassius
Shakespearean Actors: Jack Palance had "a lean and hungry look" when he played this role in "Julius Caesar" in 1955
Jennifer Beals
Singers and Dancers: Marine Jahan Flashdanced as her double
Spinal Tap
Singers and Dancers: Rob Reiner's rockers who've gone from reel to real
Debbie Allen
Singers and Dancers: She keeps the kids from Fame on their toes
Nevada Smith
Singers and Dancers: The Carpetbaggers character who sequeled into a film of his own with Steve McQueen
Daryl
Spell That Name: Movie mermaid Hannah
Rollerball
Sports Movies: Film in which James Caan played a deadly game with skates, scooters, & a steel sphere
Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weissmuller
Sports: These former Olympic athletes became movie Tarzans
Dirty
Starts with D: Cinematically speaking, word that precedes Harry, Dozen, or Dingus Magee
007
Starts with OO: James Bond
Minnesota Fats
State Names: Champ whom Eddie Felson hustled in the Hustler
Montie Montana
State Names: Western star famous for rope tricks and Rose Parade appearance
Mean Streets
Streets: 1973 Martin Scorsese film starring Robert De Niro about hoodlums in NYC's Little Italy
Jayne Mansfield
TV Movies: Arnold Schwarzenegger played Mickey Hargitay in a TV movie about this actress
Barry Manilow
TV Movies: He played Tony Starr in "Copacabana", which was based on his own hit record
Farrah Fawcett
TV Movies: She played Francine Hughes, who was accused of murdering her husband, in "The Burning Bed"
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
TV Movies: The 1974 autobiography of this woman won 9 Emmy Awards, 2 for Cicely Tyson
The Waltons
TV Movies: This series grew out of 1971's "The Homecoming: A Christmas Story"
Tom Hanks
TV to Movie Stars: "Bosom Buddies" star who went on to make a "Big" splash in "Forrest Gump"
Robin Williams
TV to Movie Stars: A guest part on "Happy Days" led to his own series; later, he gave a genie a voice
Billy Crystal
TV to Movie Stars: He looked "mahvelous" on "Soap" & "Saturday Night Live" before becoming a "City Slicker"
Michael J. Fox
TV to Movie Stars: In 1994 this former "Family Ties" star got "Greedy" with Olivia d'Abo & Kirk Douglas
John Travolta
TV to Movie Stars: n 1978 "Grease" was the word for this Sweathog; in 1994 he was seen in "Pulp Fiction"
Japan
The '50s: Rashomon, Best Foreign Film of 51' was from this country
The Blackboard Jungle
The 50s: "Rock Around The Clock" became a big hit after it was used as
The Addams Family
The Movies: An ad for the sequel to this film said it was "Creepier. Kookier. Spookier. Ookier."
Mary Pickford
The Movies: At age 26 this actress known as "America's Sweetheart" played a girl of 12 in "Pollyana"
Casablanca
The Movies: Film in which Humphrey Bogart said, "I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray. You wore blue."
High Society
The Movies: Grace Kelly's last film as an actress, it was a remake of "The Philadelphia Story"
The Fugitive
The Movies: Harrison Ford was on the run as Dr. Richard Kimble in this film
Killer Whale
The Movies: In "Free Willy", Willy is this type of creature
Joan Fontaine
The Movies: In "Rebecca" this actress' first line is "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley Again"
Chinatown
The Movies: In "The Two Jakes", Jack Nicholson reprised Jake Gittes, whom he first played in this 1974 film
Frank Sinatra
The Movies: In 1956 this singer took the title song from "The Tender Trap" to No. 7 on the pop charts
Ron Howard
The Movies: In 1977 this "Happy Days" star directed his first feature, "Grand Theft Auto"
Charles BRonson
The Movies: In the 1970s he played Joe Valachi, Vince Majestyk & an Apache named Chato
The Petrified Forest
The Movies: In this 1936 film, Humphrey Bogart recreated his Broadway role as gangster Duke Mantee
It's a Wonderful Life
The Movies: James Stewart film in which he said, "I suppose it had been better if I'd never been born at all"
Hook
The Movies: Musician David Crosby had a bit role as a pirate in this 1991 version of "Peter Pan"
Back to the Future
The Movies: Parts II & III of this Michael J. Fox movie series were filmed at the same time
Havana
The Movies: Robert Redford played a gambler in Batista's Cuba in this 1990 film
Andy Harris
The Movies: The 1937 movie "A Family Affair", starring Lionel Barrymore & Mickey Rooney, was the 1st in this series
The Song of the South
The Movies: The 1947 "Best Song" Oscar went to "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" from this Disney Film
James Clavell
The Movies: The 1967 Sidney Potier film "To Sir With Love" was directed by this "Shogun" author
Stand By Me
The Movies: This 1986 Rob Reiner film starring River Phoenix & Corey Feldman was narrated by Richard Dreyfuss
Mel Gibson
The Movies: This actor directed & starred in "The Man without a Face"
The Bride of Frankenstein
The Movies: This first sequel to "Frankenstein" was released in 1935; both films were directed by James Whale
Edith Head
The Movies: This great costume designer's last film was Steve Martin's "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid"
Creature from the Black Lagoon
The Movies: This movie monster was also known as the Gill Man
Z
The Movies: This one-letter Yves Montand film won 1969 Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film & Best Film Editing
Marlene Dietrich
The Oscars: 1961's Best Actor, Maximilian Schell, directed the 1984 Oscar-nominated film "Marlene", about this star
Elizabeth Taylor
The Oscars: After winning her first Oscar, for "BUtterfield 8", she went backstage & fainted
Glenda Jackson
The Oscars: British actress who won for showing "A Touch of Class"
On the Waterfront
The Oscars: Eva Marie Saint was 1954's Best Supporting Actress for her movie debut in this Marlon Brando classic
Barry Fitzgerald
The Oscars: He was nominated for both Best Actor & Best Support for his cantankerous priest in "Going My Way"
Jane Wyman
The Oscars: In '48, she became the only performer in the sound era to win Best Actress without uttering a word in the film - FJ
Marsha Mason
The Oscars: Neil Simon & this actress, his wife at the time, were both 1977 nominees for "The Goodbye Girl"
Sword
The Oscars: Oscar holds one of these
Greer Garson
The Oscars: She claims her speech for "Mrs. Miniver" Oscar, reputedly an hour long, was actually 5 1/2 minutes
Audrey and Katherine Hepburn
The Oscars: These 2 Hepburns competed against each other for the 1959 & 1967 Best Actress Oscars
Gigi
The Oscars: This Best Picture had the shortest title, using only 2 different letters** - FJ
Julie Andrews and Julie Christine
The Oscars: Winning Best Actress Oscars in 1964 & 65, these 2 British-born actresses share the same 1st name - FJ
Francis Ford Coppola
The Oscars: Winning director who explained why he made "Godfather II": "Paramount made me an offer I couldn't refuse"
Vivien Leigh
Thirysomething: "A Streetcar Named Desire" earned this actress her 2nd Oscar, at 38
Tom Cruise
Toms and Thomases: His fans had high hopes that he'd win an Oscar this year for Born on the 4th of July
Gremlins
Trends: Inspired by Spielburg hit, these dolls come in both cuddly and creepy
Zing, Zing, Zing
Triple Talk: While the trolley went "clang, clang, clang" my heartstrings went this
Gantry
Trivia: The moving tower used to service space launch vehicles or Burt's Oscar winning elmer
Star Trek
US Museums: In 1992 fans "beamed up" to the Smithsonian's Nat'l. Air & Space Museum exhibit devoted to this series
Barbarians at the Gate
Wall Street: This Bryan Burrough-John Helyar book about the RJR Nabisco buyout became an HBO movie
Barry Sadler (The Green Berets)
Wars: Himself wounded in Vietnam, he composed this ballad about the way
Water
Weapons: "Weapon" Dorothy used to kill the Wicked Witch of the West
Batarang
Weapons: Getting the 1st one from an Australian trainer; Batman now has 100 different kinds
Xavier
X, Y, Z: For silent film star Francis X. Bushman, "X." marked the spot for this middle name
Gigi Young
Young and Old: He called his Oscar for "They Shoot Horses..." a "lifeline for a drowning actor"
Trigger, Champion, Tony
amous Horses: 1 of 3 western movie horses to have his hoofprints In cement at Hollywood's Chinese theater
