Trivia About Classic Movies, Actors, Directors and More
What movie has Anthony Perkins explain: "Understand, I don't hate
her. I hate what she's become. I hate her illness"?
A: Psycho.
What Clint Eastwood screen role was originally offered to
John
Wayne, Frank Sinatra and
Paul Newman?
A: Dirty Harry.
What ladies' man was the first person since Orson Welles to be up
for four Oscars in a single year, in
1982?
A: Warren Beatty.
What was the first Arnold Schwarzenegger movie to win four
Academy Awards?
A: Terminator 2.
What movie earned Tom Hanks his third straight Oscar nomination,
in 1996?
A: Apollo 13.
What screen character is the world's fastest ice sculptor and
topiary artist?
A: Edward Scissorhands.
What movie sees Tom Hanks utter: "All my life I've been waiting
for someone, and when I find her she's a
fish"?
A: Splash.
What movie sees Elvis Presley sent to the slammer for
manslaughter?
A: Jailhouse Rock.
What was the 1993 sequel to the
1979 thriller When a Stranger
Calls?
A: When a Stranger Calls Back.
What 1994 movie hit featured cameos by JFK, LBJ and George
Wallace?
A: Forrest Gump.
Whose will left $10,000 for care and upkeep of the dummy Charlie
McCarthy?
A: Edgar Bergen's.
What Michael Douglas movie was hyped: "A brutal
murder. A
brilliant killer. A cop who couldn't resist the danger"?
A: Basic Instinct.
What Sylvester Stallone movie was hyped: "His whole life was a
million-to-one shot"?
A: Rocky.
What sci-fi thriller set attendance records during the
Fourth of
July weekend in 1996?
A: Independence Day.
Who played Sid Vicious, Lee Harvey Oswald, Count Dracula and
Beethoven in movies?
A: Gary Oldman.
What nickname did Spencer Tracy give to
Humphrey Bogart?
A: Bogie.
Who's been praised for doing everything Fred Astaire did
"backward and in high heel"?
A: Ginger Rogers.
What 1982 movie had critic Janet Maslin carp: "The Oscar seemed
to have been mistaken for the Nobel Peace Prize"?
A: Gandi.
What movie classic has James Stewart sigh: "I suppose it'd been
better if I'd never been born at all"?
A: It's a Wonderful Life.
What movie made the word "babelicious" famous?
A: Wayne's World.
What blond sex symbol of the 1990s claims to have an IQ of 154?
A: Sharon Stone.
What 1991 Disney animated feature was hyped as "the most
beautiful love story ever told"?
A: Beauty and the Beast.
What Michelle Pfeiffer movie got a boost from the Coolio song
Gangsta's Paradise?
A: Dangerous Minds.
