#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