Hollywood trivia

This family quiz has questions for everyone. Children get extra points for blues and reds.

 

Orange - For all the family
Blue - For grown-ups
Red - For grown-up know-it-alls

 

1. Actress Tippi Hedren was discovered by Alfred Hitchcock. What was the first Hitchcock film in which she starred?

 

2. Which Hollywood personality and sometime actress, when asked ‘How many husbands have you had?’ replied ‘You mean, apart from my own?’

3. The film Some Like it Hot starred Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. But who played the part of the gangster Spats Colombo?

 

4.  In 1975 an unlikely tale of a giant shark called Jaws broke all previous box-office records. Who directed the film?

5.  This British-born comic actor and film-maker was once described as the ‘single most important artist produced by the cinema’, but in the 1950s his permit to enter the USA was revoked. Who was he?

6.  Humphrey Bogart starred as Rick Blaine in the 1942 film Casablanca. Who played his ex-lover Ilsa Lund? 

7. Which director of slapstick comedies helped make the name of early Hollywood stars such as Fatty Arbuckle and Harold Lloyd?

 

8.  Elizabeth Taylor had a tempestuous relationship with her co-star in the 1963 film Cleopatra. Who was he?

9. Female fans adored the star of the 1921 silent weepy The Sheik. What was his name?

10. Marion Michael Morrison was the real name of one of Hollywood’s greatest stars, an all-American hero who personified the frontier spirit. What was his screen name?