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French film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for his work in the thriller film genre, having directed The Wages of Fear (1953) and Les Diaboliques (1955), which are critically recognized as among the greatest films of the 1950s. He also directed documentary films, including The Mystery of Picasso (1956), which was declared a national treasure by the government of France.
Henri-Georges Clouzot
His best-known work is the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause, starring James Dean. He is appreciated for many narrative features produced between 1947 and 1963, including They Live By Night (1948), In A Lonely Place (1950), Johnny Guitar (1954), Bigger Than Life (1956), and King of Kings (1961), as well as an experimental work produced throughout the 1970s titled We Can’t Go Home Again, which was unfinished at the time of death.
Nicholas Ray
He is celebrated for works including The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959),[12] The Music Room (1958), The Big City (1963) and Charulata (1964) and the Goopy–Bagha trilogy.
Satyajit Ray
1902 film by Georges Melies: Professor Barbenfouillis initiates the idea of travelling to the Moon, and only five astronomers decide to join him on his exciting expedition.
A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune)
Charlie Chaplin’s second film where the Tramp character appeared for the first time in 1914?
Kid Auto Races at Venice (Mabel’s Strange Predicament was filmed before but released after)
Which 1916 epic silent film directed by D. W. Griffith was the follow-up to 1915 The Birth of a Nation? the three-and-a-half-hour epic intercuts four parallel storylines, each separated by several centuries: first, a contemporary melodrama of crime and redemption; second, a Judean story: Christ’s mission and death; third, a French story: the events surrounding the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre of 1572; and fourth, a Babylonian story: the fall of the Babylonian Empire to Persia in 539 BC.
Intolerance
1920 German silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. Considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema, it tells the story of an insane hypnotist (Werner Krauss) who uses a brainwashed somnambulist (Conrad Veidt) to commit murders.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
He is widely-known for directing the landmark 1920 film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and a succession of other expressionist films.
Robert Wiene
Which 1920 film did Buster Keaton first star in a full length comedy?
The Saphead
Who directed 1922 Nosferatu?
FW Murnau
American actress, considered the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood, as well as the first Chinese American actress to gain international recognition. During the silent film era, she acted in The Toll of the Sea (1922), one of the first films made in color, and in Douglas Fairbanks’ The Thief of Bagdad (1924). Disappointly got beat to O-Lan role in The Good Earth by Luise Rainer.
Anna May Wong
1924 American silent adventure film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Douglas Fairbanks, and written by Achmed Abdullah and Lotta Woods. Freely adapted from One Thousand and One Nights, it tells the story of a thief who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph.
The Thief of Bagdad
1927 British silent thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June Tripp, Malcolm Keen and Ivor Novello. Hitchcock’s third feature film. Its plot concerns the hunt for a Jack the Ripper-like serial killer in London.
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
Who directed Metropolis (1927), M (1931) and Dr Mabuse the Gambler (1922)?
Fritz Lang
first film in the Dr. Mabuse series about the character Doctor Mabuse who featured in the novels of Norbert Jacques. It was directed by Fritz Lang and released in 1922. The film is silent and would be followed by the sound sequels The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) and The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960).
Dr Mabuse the Gambler (Der Spieler)
1930 German musical comedy-drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings and Kurt Gerron. Presents the tragic transformation of a respectable professor into a cabaret clown and his descent into madness. Dietrich plays Lola Lola.
The Blue Angel
Who directed the 1903 classic The Great Train Robbery (where gun shot at audience), The Prisoner of Zenda (1913), Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was the first American film to use intertitles which helped the audience?
Edwin S Porter
German Bohemian and American cinematographer and film director. He is best known for photographing Metropolis (1927), Dracula (1931), and television’s I Love Lucy (1951–1957). Freund was an innovator in the field of cinematography, often noted for pioneering the unchained camera technique.
Karl Freund
1904 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès. Inspired by Jules Verne’s 1882 play Journey Through the Impossible, and modeled in style and format on Méliès’s highly successful 1902 film A Trip to the Moon, the film is a satire of scientific exploration in which a group of geographically minded tourists attempt a journey to the Sun using various methods of transportation.
The Impossible Voyage
relating to or characteristic of the end of a century, especially the 19th century. French for end of century.
Fin de siecle
“First Lady of American Cinema”, and is credited with pioneering fundamental film performance techniques. This included her leading role in the highest-grossing film of the silent era, Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1915). Her other major films and performances from the silent era are: Intolerance (1916), Broken Blossoms (1919), Way Down East (1920), Orphans of the Storm (1921), La Bohème (1926), and The Wind (1928). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Duel in the Sun.
Lillian Gish
1987 American drama film directed by Lindsay Anderson and starring Bette Davis and Lillian Gish (in her final film appearance) as elderly sisters. Also in the cast were Ann Sothern as one of their friends, and Vincent Price as a peripheral member of the former Russian aristocracy. The story is based on the play of the same title by David Berry.
The Whales of August
1946 American epic psychological Western film directed by King Vidor, produced and written by David O. Selznick, and starring Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lillian Gish, Walter Huston, and Lionel Barrymore. Based on the 1944 novel of the same name by Niven Busch, it follows a young orphaned Mestiza woman who experiences prejudice and forbidden love, while residing with her white relatives on a large Texas ranch.
Duel in the Sun
1955 American film noir thriller directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish. The screenplay by James Agee was based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Davis Grubb. The plot involves a serial killer (Mitchum) who poses as a preacher and pursues two children in an attempt to get his hands on $10,000 of stolen cash hidden by their late father.
The Night of the Hunter
1924 Austrian silent film of Robert Wiene of namesake concert pianist who loses his hands and gets transplanted those of a serial killer.
The Hands of Orlac
Who plays Dr Caligari in The Cabinet of Dr Caligari?
Werner Krauss
Who plays Count Orlok in Nosferatu 1922?
Max Schreck
Who directed the 2024 upcoming remake of Nosferatu starring Bill Skarsgard as Count Orlok and Nicholas Hoult as Thomas Hutter?
Robert Eggers
2019 film directed and produced by Robert Eggers, from a screenplay he wrote with his brother Max Eggers. It stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson marooned in a storm.
The Lighthouse
2021 folk horror film[6] directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Sjón. The film’s plot is about the birth of a human/sheep hybrid of mysterious origin and the couple who adopts the child as their own. Starring Noomi Rapace.
Lamb
Swedish actress.[2] She achieved international fame with her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish film adaptations of the Millennium series (2009): The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest.
Noomi Rapace
2022 film by Robert Eggers. It focuses on Amleth, a Viking prince who sets out on a quest to avenge the murder of his father.
The Northman
Icelandic poet, novelist, lyricist, and screenwriter with mononym name meaning sound. frequently collaborates with the singer Björk and has performed with The Sugarcubes as Johnny Triumph. Films include Lamb and The Northman. Done Codex 1962, From the Mouth of the Whale and The Blue Fox?
Sjon
figure in a medieval Scandinavian legend, the direct inspiration of the character of Prince Hamlet, the hero of William Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Also inspiration for Robert Eggers film The Northman.
Amleth
Danish film director, actor, writer and producer, best known for Babette’s Feast (1987), which he wrote and directed based on novel by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) - first Danish film to win Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
Gabriel Axel
Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 Soviet epic Battleship Potemkin was dramatization of a mutiny which took place in which year?
1905
1927 American synchronized sound romantic drama directed by German director F. W. Murnau (in his American film debut) and starring George O’Brien, Janet Gaynor, and Margaret Livingston. The film’s plot follows a married farmer (O’Brien) who falls for a woman vacationing from the city (Livingston), who tries to convince him to murder his wife (Gaynor) in order to be with her.
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Firstly, which British anti-vaccine activist was struck off the medical register for his involvement in a 1998 study that fraudulently claimed a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and autism?
Andrew WAKEFIELD
First name Bobby, which man joined Bill Medley in the original line-up of the American singing duo called The Righteous Brothers?
Bobby HATFIELD
The daughters of a 1960s pop star, what was the shared surname of Shelly and Karen who charted in the 1990s under the group name “Alisha’s Attic”?
Shelly and Karen POOLE (Brian Poole and the Tremeloes)
Amongst many other popular TV roles, which man has played Pete Sutcliffe in Gavin and Stacy since 2007?
Adrian SCARBOROUGH
“How can we be lovers” was one of the first hits in the UK for which American ballad singer?
Michael Bolton
Which American bassist and singer has won 5 grammy awards? The most recent of these was the 2022 Best Jazz vocal grammy for her “Songwriters apothecary lab” album. Debut album Junjo (2006), 12 Little Spells (2018).
Esperanza Spalding
1924 silent movie Buster Keaton stars as Projectionist, who moonlights as an amateur detector. When the cinema is empty, he reads the book How to be a Detective. He is in love with The Girl (Kathryn McGuire) but has a rival, “The Local Sheik” (Ward Crane).
Sherlock, Jr
1928 silent comedy directed by Charles Reisner: The film is known for what may be Keaton’s most famous film stunt: The facade of a house falls around him while he stands in the precise location of an open window to avoid being flattened.
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Who plays Joan of Arc in Otto Preminger’s 1957 Saint Joan?
Jean Seberg
Who plays Joan of Arc in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc?
Maria Falconetti
Danish film director directed The Passion of Joan of Arc? His other well-known films include Michael (1924), Vampyr (1932), Day of Wrath (1943), Ordet (The Word) (1955), and Gertrud (1964).
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Born in Ukraine, Austrian-American theatre and film director, film producer, and actor. Several of these later films pushed the boundaries of censorship by dealing with themes which were then taboo in Hollywood, such as drug addiction (The Man with the Golden Arm, 1955), rape (Anatomy of a Murder, 1959) and homosexuality (Advise & Consent, 1962).
Otto Preminger
Name of film poster and title sequence designer. Among his best known title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict’s arm for Preminger’s The Man with the Golden Arm, the credits racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of a skyscraper in Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, and the disjointed text that races together and apart in Psycho.
Saul BASS
Starring Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Arnold Stang and Darren McGavin, it recounts the story of a drug addict who gets clean while in prison, but struggles to stay that way in the outside world. Sinatra nominated for Oscar.
The Man with the Golden Arm
American writer. His 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National Book Award and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name. The lover of French writer Simone de Beauvoir, he is featured in her novel The Mandarins. his novel A Walk on the Wild Side (1956). The latter was adapted as the 1962 film of the same name (directed by Edward Dmytryk, screenplay by John Fante).
Nelson Algren
1959 American courtroom drama starring James Stewart as Paul Biegler. Based on novel by John D Voelker where he was a defence attorney. Directed by Otto Preminger, poster by Saul Bass.
Anatomy of a Murder
Austrian born film director He is best known for his film collaboration with actress Marlene Dietrich in the 1930s, including the highly regarded Paramount/UFA production The Blue Angel (1930) and also for Morocco (1930 starring Gary Cooper). Also nominated for Oscar for Shanghai Express (1932), seven films with Dietrich in the end.
Josef von Sternberg
Who directed 1948 Bicycle Thieves
Vittorio De Sica
1930 German silent drama The film follows a group of residents of Berlin on a summer’s day during the interwar period. Hailed as a work of genius, it is a pivotal film in the development of German cinema and Hollywood. Early work by writer Billy Wilder before he escaped Nazi Germany.
People on Sunday
This was Chaplin’s first full-length film as a director. It was a huge success and was the second-highest-grossing film in 1921.
The Kid
1931 film The story follows the misadventures of Chaplin’s Tramp as he falls in love with a blind girl (Virginia Cherrill) and develops a turbulent friendship with an alcoholic millionaire (Harry Myers).
City Lights
1936 American part-talkie comedy film produced, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. In Chaplin’s last performance as the iconic Little Tramp, his character struggles to survive in the industrialized world.
Modern Times
an American silent film actress, director and screenwriter. She was a popular star and collaborator of Mack Sennett in their Keystone Studios films. On screen, she appeared in twelve successful films with Charlie Chaplin and seventeen with Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, sometimes writing and directing (or co-writing and directing) films featuring Chaplin as her leading man. 1893-1930
MABEL Normand
Born in St Malo 1900, His most memorable role was Henry Frankenstein, the creator of the monster, in the 1931 film Frankenstein and its 1935 sequel, Bride of Frankenstein.
Colin CLIVE
He is best remembered for several horror films: Frankenstein (1931), The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935), all considered classics. Whale also directed films in other genres, including the 1936 film version of the musical Show Boat.
James WHALE
American film director career spanned the silent and sound film eras. He is known as the director of Dracula (1931),[3] Freaks (1932),[4] and his silent film collaborations with Lon Chaney and Priscilla Dean.
Tod Browning
1939 French satirical comedy-drama film directed by Jean Renoir, Renoir’s portrayal of the wise, mournful Octave anchors the fatalistic mood of this pensive comedy of manners. The film depicts members of upper-class French society and their servants just before the beginning of World War II, showing their moral callousness on the eve of destruction. At the time most expensive French film ever made, now critically acclaimed, panned then.
The Rules of the Game
French film director born 1894, His films La Grande Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939) are often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made.
Jean Renoir
1937 French war drama film directed by Jean Renoir, who co-wrote the screenplay with Charles Spaak. The story concerns class relationships among a small group of French officers who are German prisoners of war during World War I and are plotting an escape. Title comes from 1909 book by Nobel Prize winner Normal Angell.
La Grande Illusion
German-born American film director. Among his best known works are Trouble in Paradise (1932), Design for Living (1933), Ninotchka (1939), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), To Be or Not to Be (1942) and Heaven Can Wait (1943). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director three times for The Patriot (1928), The Love Parade (1929), and Heaven Can Wait (1943).
Ernst Lubitsch
American actress. Married to Clark Gable in 1939. To Be or Not To Be (1942), Mr and Mrs Smith (1941), Vigil in the Night (1940). Killed in a plane crash aboard TWA Flight 3 while returning from a war bond tour. She was 33 years old. Today, she is remembered as one of the definitive actresses of the screwball comedy genre and American comedy and as an icon of American cinema.
Carole Lombard
1943 Italian crime drama film directed and co-written by Luchino Visconti, in his directorial debut. It is an unauthorized and uncredited adaptation of the 1934 novel The Postman Always Rings Twice by American author James M. Cain, and stars Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, and Juan de Landa in the leading roles.
Ossessione
Following debut Ossessione, best-known films include Senso (1954) and The Leopard[2] (1963); historical melodramas adapted from Italian literary classics, the gritty drama Rocco and His Brothers (1960), and his “German Trilogy” – The Damned (1969), Death in Venice (1971) and Ludwig (1973).
Luchino Visconti
Two part 1945 film Set in the theatrical world of 1830s Paris, it tells the story of a courtesan and four men — a mime, an actor, a criminal and an aristocrat — who love her in entirely different ways.
Directed by Marcel Carne.
Children of Paradise
French film director. A key figure in the poetic realism movement, Carné’s best known films include Port of Shadows (1938), Le Jour Se Lève (1939), Les Visiteurs du Soir (1942) and Children of Paradise (1945); the latter has been cited as one of the great films of all time.
Marcel Carne
1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler and starring Myrna Loy, Fredric March, The film is about three United States servicemen re-adjusting to societal changes and civilian life after coming home from World War II. The three men come from different services with different ranks that do not correspond with their civilian social class backgrounds. Won 7 oscars.
The Best Years of Our Lives
Affecting Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s what did HUAC stand for?
House Un-American Activities Committee.
nominated for 24 Academy Awards, winning three: The Informer (1935); Now, Voyager (1942); and Since You Went Away (1944). Besides his Oscar-winning scores, some of his popular works include King Kong (1933), Little Women (1933), Jezebel (1938), and Casablanca (1942), though he did not compose its love theme, “As Time Goes By”. In addition, he scored The Searchers (1956), A Summer Place (1959), and Gone with the Wind (1939).
Max Steiner
British film director and screenwriter best known for the 1949 black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets and the now acknowledged 1947 classic It Always Rains on Sunday.
Robert Hamer
English film producer known for his leadership of Ealing Studios in West London from 1938 to 1955.
Michael Balcon
English film director and producer, best known for Odd Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948), The Third Man (1949), and Oliver! (1968),[1] for which he was awarded the Academy Award for Best Director.
Carol REED
Born in now Slovakia 1904, international sensation in the Weimar Republic–era film M (1931), directed by Fritz Lang, in which he portrayed a serial killer who preys on little girls. His second English-language film, following the multiple-language version of M (1931), was Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), made in the United Kingdom. He was later cast playing Mr. Moto, the Japanese detective, in a series of B-pictures. First to play Le Chiffre in tv version of Casino Royale.
Peter Lorre
1944 screwball comedy Cary Grant as Mortimer Brewster, directed by Frank Capra. Writer and notorious marriage detractor Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) falls for girl-next-door Elaine Harper (Priscilla Lane), and they tie the knot on Halloween. When the newlyweds return to their respective family homes to deliver the news, Brewster finds a corpse hidden in a window seat.
Arsenic and Old Lace
1953 American film noir crime film directed by Fritz Lang starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, and Jocelyn Brando[sister] about a cop Dave Bannion who takes on the crime syndicate that controls his city. Famous quote: Debby Marsh: “We’re sisters under the mink”.
The Big Heat
what does murderer whistle in M by Fritz Lang?
In the Hall of the Mountain King from Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No.1
Name of the murderer in Fritz Lang’s M played by Peter Lorre
Hans Beckert
Groucho Marx plays which character in 1933 Duck Soup?
Rufus T Firefly
American stage and film actress. She is best remembered as the comic foil to the Marx Brothers in seven of their films; Groucho Marx called her “practically the fifth Marx brother.”
Margaret Dumont
Real first name of Chico Marx
Leonard
Real first name of Harpo Marx
Arthur
Real first name of Groucho Marx
Julius
Real first name of Gummo Marx
Milton
Real first name of Herbert Marx
Zeppo
1929 first full length film to star the Marx Brothers?
The Cocoanuts
British animator and special effects creator who created a form of stop motion model animation known as “Dynamation”. His works include the animation for Mighty Joe Young (1949) with his mentor Willis H. O’Brien (for which the latter won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects); his first color film, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958); and Jason and the Argonauts (1963), which featured a sword fight with seven skeleton warriors. His last film was Clash of the Titans (1981), after which he retired from filmmaking.
Ray Harryhausen
French film director who helped establish poetic realism in film in the 1930s. Noted for two films that affected the future development of both French and world cinema: Zero for Conduct (1933) and L’Atalante (1934). Died of TB in 1934.
Jean Vigo
1930 French surrealist satirical comedy film directed by Luis Buñuel about the insanities of modern life, the hypocrisy of the sexual mores of bourgeois society, and the value system of the Catholic Church. Much of the story is told with title cards like a predominantly silent film. The screenplay is by Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. Un Chien Andelou has been released a year earlier.
L’Age d’Or
Blue Moon written by which duo? Other of their many hits include “My Funny Valentine”, “Falling in Love with Love”, “Here In My Arms”, “Mountain Greenery”, “My Heart Stood Still”, “The Blue Room”, “Ten Cents a Dance”, “Dancing on the Ceiling”, “Lover”, “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered”, “Mimi”, and “Have You Met Miss Jones?”.
Rodgers and Hart
Who plays Bride of Frankenstein in 1935 Bride of Frankenstein? Also played Anne of Cleves in The Private Life of Henry VIII.
Elsa Lanchester
Who directed The Wizard of Oz? King Vidor filmed a few scenes.
Victor Fleming
Who played the two leads in the original 1937 A Star is Born?
Janet Gaynor and Fredric March
1954 A Star is Born directed by George Cukor starred who in lead roles?
Judy Garland and James Mason
Who plays the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz?
Ray Bolger
Who played the Tin Man in Wizard of Oz?
Jack Haley
Who played Glinda in The Wizard of Oz?
Billie Burke
Hungarian film director. produced many outstanding classics of the British film industry, including The Private Life of Henry VIII, Rembrandt, Things To Come, The Thief of Baghdad and The Third Man. In 1942, he became the first filmmaker to receive a knighthood.
Alexander Korda
Who played Scarlett O’Hara in 1939 Gone with the Wind?
Vivien Leigh
Who says the line “After all… tomorrow is another day” in the movie Gone with the Wind?
Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh)
First British woman to win a Best Actress oscar? Born in Darjeeling in 1913.
Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind
The fourth most-nominated woman for the Best Actress Oscar, won for role of Kay Miniver in Mrs Miniver? Nominated for Goodbye Mr Chips, Blossoms in the Dust, Madame Curie, Mrs Parkington, The Valley of Decision
Greer Garson
Which 1940 film has editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant) and ex-wife journalist Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) in the newspaper world while he tries stopping her remarrying? Directed by Howard Hawks.
His Girl Friday
Born USA 1896, director of Rio Bravo (1959), Scarface (1932), Bringing Up Baby (1938), His Girl Friday (1940), To Have and Have Not (1944) and The Big Sleep (1946)?
Howard Hawks
1948 American Western film, directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift. It gives a fictional account of the first cattle drive from Texas to Kansas along the Chisholm Trail. The dramatic tension stems from a growing feud over the management of the drive between the Texas rancher who initiated it (Wayne) and his adopted adult son (Clift).
Red River
1959 American Western film directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, and Ward Bond. the film stars Wayne as a Texan sheriff who arrests the brother of a powerful local rancher for murder and then has to hold the man in jail until a U.S. Marshal can arrive. With the help of a lame old man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter, they hold off the rancher’s gang.
Rio Bravo
1958 American film noir written and directed by Orson Welles, who also stars in the film. The screenplay was loosely based on the contemporary Whit Masterson novel Badge of Evil (1956). The cast included Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff and Marlene Dietrich. A story of corruption in a Mexican border town.
Touch of Evil
What newspaper is owned by Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane?
New York Inquirer
American screenwriter who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1941). Won Oscar for this. Has a brother so both names needed.
Herman J Mankiewicz
long Hollywood career, and won both the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in consecutive years for A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and All About Eve (1950), the latter of which was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won six. Has sibling so both names needed.
Joseph L Mankiewicz
American cinematographer known for his innovative use of techniques such as deep focus, examples of which can be found in his work on Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941), William Wyler’s The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath, and The Long Voyage Home (both, 1940). He is also known for his work as a director of photography for Wuthering Heights (1939), The Westerner (1940), Ball of Fire (1941), The Outlaw (1943), Song of the South (1946) and The Bishop’s Wife (1947). Won Oscar for Wuthering Heights.
Gregg Toland
first film score was for Welles’s film debut, Citizen Kane (1941), An Academy Award-winner for The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), known mostly for association with famous director? Last score was Scorsese’s Taxi Driver.
Bernard Herrmann
achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original stage productions of The Philadelphia Story (1939) and Sabrina Fair (1953). He then gained worldwide fame for his collaborations with Orson Welles on three films, Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), and Journey into Fear (1943).
Joseph Cotten
Who directed Casablanca in 1942?
Michael Curtiz
Who plays Victor Laszlo in Casablanca?
Paul Henreid
Who plays Captain Louis Renault in Casablanca?
Claude Rains
Name of Rick Blaine’s bar in Casablanca - three word name
Rick’s Cafe Americain
Character Humphrey Bogart played in The African Queen opposite Katherine Hepburn’s Rose Sayer?
Charlie Allnut
1942 American black comedy film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Carole Lombard and Jack Benny, The plot concerns a troupe of actors in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who use their abilities at disguise and acting to fool the occupying troops. The film was released one month after actress Carole Lombard was killed in an airplane crash.
To Be or Not To Be
She was best known for her portrayal of the title character in the film Laura (1944), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Ellen Berent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven (1945).
Gene Tierney
1944 American film noir produced and directed by Otto Preminger. It stars Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, and Clifton Webb, New York City Police Department Detective Mark McPherson is investigating the murder of a young, beautiful, highly successful advertising executive killed by a shotgun blast to the face just inside the doorway of her apartment.
Laura
a fashion designer born to an aristocratic Russian family with maternal Italian ancestry born 1913 Paris, He became particularly well known as a designer for Jacqueline Kennedy while she was First Lady of the United States. The “Jackie Look” was to become highly influential and much admired. Married Gene Tierney.
Oleg Cassini
Great apes (including humans), lesser apes, and monkeys belong to the infraorder Simiiformes, one of two infraorders in the superorder Haplorhini. The other infraorder consists solely of which family of mammals, our closest non-simian relatives?
TARSIERS
Often used in indigenous communities what does the ‘2s’ stand for in the acronym 2SLGBT? This phrase is used to describe native people who fulfil a traditional third gender role.
Two Spirit
The 2009 rugby union scandal known as ‘Bloodgate’ involved winger Tom Williams using fake blood capsules while playing for which English club in a European tie against Leinster?
Harlequins
Originally a hit for the Equals in 1968 - in 1994, which singer teamed up with members of UB40 to release a cover version of ‘Baby Come Back’?
Pato BANTON
Soft unpasteurised cheeses and pates are a source of which gram positive bacterium, named after an antiseptic pioneer, which can be fatal to immunocompromised individuals and pregnant women through infiltration of the brainstem and meninges, causing gastroenteritis and meningoencephalitis?
Listeria
The proposed mirorder Primatomorpha comprises the orders Primates and Dermoptera. The latter order consists of a single extant family, Cynocephalidae, which contains the two living species of which arboreal, gliding mammals of southeast Asia, the closest living relatives of the primates?
COLUGOS
The phrase Two Spirit comes from the language of which indigenous community? This group is the 2nd largest First Nation group in Canada behind the Cree.
OBIJWE
Roberto Rojas, the goalkeeper of which country, deliberately cut himself with a razor to feign injury during a World Cup qualifier game at Maracanã Stadium in 1990?
Chile
In 1992, which band reached the top 10 on two separate occasions with dance cover versions? First came a cover of Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty, followed by a cover of ‘Never Let Her Slip Away’ by Andrew Gold?
Undercover
Yahima was a two-spirit character in which HBO television series? This series was based on a novel by Matt Ruff.
Lovecraft Country
Originally released in 1979 by KC and the Sunshine Band - in 1993, which band topped the UK singles chart with their cover of ‘Please Don’t Go’? It was a double-A side with ‘Game Boy’.
KWS
The primates and the colugos form two of the three orders that make up the superorder Euarchonta. The other order, Scandentia, contains the two families of which mammals, the next closest relatives of the primates, after the colugos? Also known as banxrings, these small mammals, native to the tropical forests of South and Southeast Asia, were, as their common name suggests, once believed to be members of the order Insectivora.
Treeshrews
Operation Aderlass, known in English as Operation Bloodletting, was a doping investigation sparked by the confession of Johannes Dürr, a competitor in which winter sport? His highest sporting achievement was finishing third in the TdS.
Cross Country Skiing
Caught by exposure to raw meat and cat faeces, and the reason why pregnant women are told to avoid soiled litter trays, which opportunistic protozoan infection produces neuropsychiatric symptoms and visual impairment through invasion of the central nervous system. Its characteristic features are brain abscesses and necrotizing retinitis.
Toxoplasmosis
Rimmel were pressured to drop Kate Moss after her cocaine use became public, but she was defending by other figures in fashion including which designer, who walked out of a fashion show wearing a shirt reading “We love you Kate”? Known for his inclusion of skull motifs in many of his works, he passed away in 2010.
Alexander McQueen
Which artist and illustrator was behind one of the biggest puzzle hunts of the 20th century - his 1979 book Masquerade contained clues to the location of a jewel encrusted golden hare, buried somewhere in Britain?
Kit Williams
Whose only UK top 10 hit was a 1995 dance cover of Bonnie Tyler’s ‘Total Eclipse of The Heart’?
Nicki FRENCH
Filmmaker TJ Cuthand coined which alternative term for two-spirit which does not rely on binary conceptions of gender?
INDIGIQUEER
Spoken by more than 90% of the population, Krio is an English-based creole language native to which nation? Due to people from this nation acting as traders across West Africa, Krio is also spoken in neighbouring nations like Liberia and the Gambia.
Sierra Leone
Newsworthy due to a 2024 outbreak in Devon, which parasitic infection can result in severe watery diarrhoea, biliary and respiratory infections, particularly in the immunocompromised, as a result of contact with faecal contaminated water and handling items from infected people?
CRYPTOSPORIDIUM
Primates, colugos, and treeshrews, make up one of the two superorders in the clade Euarchontoglires. The other superorder contains the two orders that are the next closest relatives of primates. One of those orders is Rodentia, while the other is which order comprised of the familes Leporidae and Ochotonidae? Please give the scientific name of this order.
LAGOMORPHA
Filipino-English singer Beatrice Laus is better known by what stage name?
Beabadoobee
The TV series Softly, Softly was a spin-off of which earlier police procedural series, broadcast from the 1960s on?
Z-Cars
Landscape with the Flight into Egypt’ was a 1515 work by which painter of the Flemish Renaissance? He is generally credited with inventing the world landscape genre.
Joachim Patinir
What surname was shared by father and son Flemish Renaissance painters with the forenames Frans? The Elder Frans father Pieter was also a prominent painter.
Pourbus
Which Canadian sprinter broke the world record, running a 9.84 second 100 metres to win gold at the 1996 Summer Olympics?
Donovan Bailey
Which artist of the Flemish Renaissance was known for specialising in market and kitchen scenes with elaborate displays of food? His 1568 work ‘Fish Market’ is amongst his most famous works.
Joachim BEUCKELEAR
The publishing house Aux Quatre Vents was founded by which member of Flemish Renaissance? He produced a series of 12 elaborate etchings during 1558.
Hieronymus Cock
Which French female runner broke the world record running a 48.26 second 400 metres to win gold at the 1996 Summer Olympics?
Marie Jose PEREC
Much of the first half of the Eastern Zhou’s rule of China corresponds roughly with which period in Chinese history that is named after an ancient Chinese chronicle? Confucius lived in the later part of this period, lasting from around 770 to 481 BCE, which ended with the partition of the Jin state.
Spring and Autumn Period
South Africa’s first gold medallist in the post-apartheid era was which woman who won gold in both the 100m and 200m breaststroke?
Penny HEYNS
French romantic drama film by Marcel Carné, produced under war conditions in 1943, 1944, and early 1945 in both Vichy France and Occupied France. Set in the theatrical world of 1830s Paris, it tells the story of a courtesan and four men — a mime, an actor, a criminal and an aristocrat — who love her in entirely different ways.
Children of Paradise
French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain popular in the French-speaking world, particularly in schools. His best-regarded films formed part of the poetic realist movement, and include Les Enfants du Paradis (1945). Book of poetry Paroles in 1946.
Jacques Prevert
French actress, singer, and fashion model with mononymous stagename. As an actress she is particularly known for classics directed by Marcel Carné, including Hotel du Nord (1938), Le jour se lève (1939) and Children of Paradise (1945). She was found guilty of treason for an affair with a German officer during World War II.
Arletty
Hungarian photographer who specialized in animal photography. At the time of her death she “was generally considered the most proficient animal photographer in the world.” In 1955, she was fatally injured after falling from a jeep while photographing a bullock cart race during festivities in Bharatpur, North India.
Ylla
Born 1889 France, in 1917 wrote Parade the story for a ballet composed by Erik Satie, his most famous novel Les Enfants Terribles (1929), first short film 1930 The Blood of a Poet about Oprhoeus but 1946 but La Belle et la Bete.
Jean Renoir
Film making partnership of the Archers production company making films like A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus and Red Shoes?
Michael Powell and
Emeric Pressburger
Emeric Pressburger’s only Oscar was for Best Screenplay for which 1941 British war film?
49th Parallel
1943 British romantic-war film written, produced and directed by the British film-making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook. The title derives from the satirical comic strip by David Low.
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1946 British fantasy-romance film set in England during World War II. Written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, the film stars David Niven, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Kim Hunter and Marius Goring. The film was originally released in the United States under the title Stairway to Heaven.
A Matter of Life and Death
1947 British psychological drama film jointly written, directed and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and starring Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar, and Flora Robson. The film is based on the 1939 novel by Rumer Godden. It revolves around the growing tensions within a small convent of Anglican sisters who are trying to establish a school and hospital in the old palace of an Indian Raja.
Black Narcissus
1948 British drama film written, directed, and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It follows Victoria Page (Moira Shearer), an aspiring ballerina who joins the world-renowned Ballet Lermontov, owned and operated by Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook).
The Red Shoes
Who is the slum landlord in It’s a Wonderful World?
Mr Potter
George Bailey’s brother in It’s a Wonderful Life?
Harry
1934 American pre-Code romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed and co-produced by Frank Capra in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father’s thumb and falls in love with a roguish reporter (Clark Gable).
It Happened One Night
His career as a major film leading man began in 1935, but his most renowned role was in Billy Wilder’s film noir Double Indemnity. From 1959 to 1973, he appeared in numerous Disney films, including The Shaggy Dog, The Absent-Minded Professor, Follow Me, Boys!, and The Happiest Millionaire. He starred as Steve Douglas in the television series My Three Sons.
Fred MacMurray
1944 film by Billy Wilder, The film stars Fred MacMurray as an insurance salesman, Barbara Stanwyck as a provocative housewife, and Edward G. Robinson as a claims manager.
Double Indemnity
He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the romantic comedy, It Happened One Night (1934). He was further Oscar-nominated for his roles as Fletcher Christian in the drama Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), and Rhett Butler in the historical romance drama Gone with the Wind (1939).
Clark Gable
1953 Technicolor adventure/romantic drama film directed by John Ford and starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, and Grace Kelly, Shot on location in Equatorial Africa, with a musical soundtrack consisting entirely of actual African tribal music recorded in the Congo, the film was adapted by John Lee Mahin from the play Red Dust by Wilson Collison.
Mogambo
Guardian angel from It’s a Wonderful Life?
Clarence Odbody
1936 American comedy-drama romance film directed by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur in her first featured role. Based on the 1935 short story “Opera Hat” by Clarence Budington Kelland.
Mr Deeds Goes to Town
In Frank Capra film Mr Deeds Goes to Town what is Mr Deeds first name?
Longfellow
American actress had feature roles in three Frank Capra films: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) with Gary Cooper, You Can’t Take It with You (1938) co-starring James Stewart, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), also starring Stewart. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1944 for her performance in The More the Merrier (1943), a comedy which also starred Joel McCrea.
Jean ARTHUR
In the Frank Capra film Mr Smith Goes to Washington, what is Mr Smith’s first name?
Jefferson
1938 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra, and starring Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, and Edward Arnold. Adapted by Robert Riskin from the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1936 play of the same name. the film is about a man from a family of rich snobs who becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family. Best Picture and Best Director (his third in five years).
You Can’t Take It with You
1939 American romantic comedy film made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch and starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. Written by Billy Wilder. Russian diplomat goes to Paris to ensure jewels sale seized during Russian Revolution.
Ninotchka
1945 American drama film noir directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman. It was based on Charles R. Jackson’s 1944 novel of the same name about an alcoholic writer Don Birnam. Won BP, BD and BA, shared Grand Prix at Cannes so with Marty and Parasite, one of three who have done GP and BP.
The Lost Weekend
1953 American war film directed by Billy Wilder. It tells the story of a group of American airmen confined with 40,000 prisoners in a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp “somewhere on the Danube”. William Holden plays JJ Sefton.
Stalag 17
1954 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder, The picture stars Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn playing the title character, and William Holden.
Sabrina
1957 American legal mystery thriller film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, and Elsa Lanchester. The film, which has elements of bleak black comedy and film noir, is a courtroom drama set in the Old Bailey in London and is based on the 1953 play of the same name by Agatha Christie.
Witness for the Prosecution
Marilyn Monroe character name in Some Like It Hot
Sugar “Kane” Kowalczyk
Marilyn Monroe character name in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Lorelei Lee
Tony Curtis character name and instrument in Some Like It Hot
Joe/Josephine - Saxophone
Jack Lemmon character name and instrument in Some Like It Hot
Jerry/Jerraldine later Daphne - Double Bass
Which instrument did Sugar Kane Kowalczyk by Marilyn Monroe play in Some Like It Hot?
Ukulele
1963 American romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond, based on the 1956 French stage musical of the same name by Marguerite Monnot and Alexandre Breffort. The film stars Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine playing the title character.
Irma la Douce
In the 1950 Henry Koster film Harvey, James Stewart plays Elwood P Dowd who sees a big white rabbit described as which four letter term for a creature of Celtic, English, and Channel Islands folklore. Considered to be bringers both of good and bad fortune, they could help or hinder rural and marine communities and have dark or white fur.
Puca
Which ex-Strictly dancer died in February 2024? Getting a 2024 LGBT award.
Robin Windsor
Screenwriter known for Ealing comedies such as Passport to Pimlico, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Titfield Thunderbolt and Barnacle Bill? Won Oscar for TLHM.
TEB Clarke
directed Alec Guinness in The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), directed The Titfield Thunderbolt. For his final film, the acclaimed comedy A Fish Called Wanda (1988), he was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
Charles Crichton
Czech-British actor, was in The Ladykillers, War and Peace and Spartacus. He also proved a skilled comic actor in The Pink Panther franchise, playing the beleaguered Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus in seven films. He also originated the role of the King of Siam in the original West End production of The King and I.
Herbert Lom
1951 British satirical science fiction comedy film made by Ealing Studios. It stars Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood and Cecil Parker and was directed by Alexander Mackendrick. In this instance the hero falls foul of both trade unions and the wealthy mill owners who attempt to suppress his invention.
The Man in the White Suit
1949 British Ealing comedy adapted from Compton Mackenzie 1947 novel. The story—based on a true event, the running aground of the SS Politician.
Whisky Galore!
1953 British comedy film directed by Charles Crichton and starring Stanley Holloway, concerns a group of villagers trying to keep their branch line operating after British Railways decided to close it.
The Titfield Thunderbolt
1953 British war film based on the novel of the same title by Nicholas Monsarrat. The film portrays the conditions in which the Battle of the Atlantic was fought between the Royal Navy and Germany’s U-boats, seen from the viewpoint of the British naval officers and seamen who served in convoy escorts.
The Cruel Sea
English actor and theatre manager who was the father of film director Carol Reed?
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
In which capital city did Oliver Reed die in 1999 after big binge drinking session?
Valletta
Dutch professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or right winger for Bundesliga club RB Leipzig, on loan from Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain, and the Netherlands national team. Spanish first name.
Xavi Simons
a genre of film, television, video game, and theatre in Japan. Literally meaning “period dramas”, it refers to stories that take place before the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Examples: Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood.
Jidai-Geki
Rashomon based on which author’s short story In A Grove?
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Name of the bandit in Rashomon played by Toshiro Mifune
Tajomaru
Japanese actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1934 and 1981. He appeared in 21 of Akira Kurosawa’s 30 films (more than any other actor), including as a lead actor in Drunken Angel (1948), Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (1954).[3] He played Professor Kyohei Yamane in Ishirō Honda’s original Godzilla (1954) and its first sequel, Godzilla Raids Again (1955).
Takashi Shimura
Japanese film director and screenwriter. His work displays a vast range in genre and style, from the anti-war films The Burmese Harp (1956) and Fires on the Plain (1959), to the documentary Tokyo Olympiad (1965), which won two BAFTA Film Awards,[1] and the 19th-century revenge drama An Actor’s Revenge (1963). His film Odd Obsession (1959) won the Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.
Kon Ichikawa
Japanese term that is commonly associated with media involving giant monsters
Kaiju
Who plays struggling screenwriter Joe Gillis in the Billy Wilder 1950 film Sunset Boulevard?
William Holden
Name of Gloria Swanson’s character in Sunset Boulevard, a former silent-film star who draws him into her deranged fantasy world, where she dreams of making a triumphant return to the screen?
Norma Desmond
1951 sci-fi film Set in the Cold War during the early stages of the nuclear arms race, the storyline involves a humanoid alien visitor who comes to Earth, accompanied by a powerful robot, to deliver an important message that will affect the entire human race.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
fictional humanoid alien character best known from his appearances in the 1951 science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still and its 2008 remake. Associated with phrase “_____ barada nikto”.
Klaatu
a fictional humanoid robot that appeared first in the 1951 20th Century Fox American science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still and later in its 2008 remake.
Gort
Who was the only lead actor from the original Broadway production not to appear in the 1951 film of A Streetcar Named Desire? She played the role of Blanche DuBois in the original Broadway run.
Jessica Tandy
Who directed A Streetcar Named Desire in 1951?
Elia Kazan
Who played Stella in 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire? She also portrayed the chimpanzee Zira in Planet of the Apes (1968).
Kim Hunter
Actor who first achieved acclaim in the original Broadway productions of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons and Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire in 1946-7. Recreating the role of Mitch in the 1951 film of Streetcar, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Played Father Pete Barry in On The Waterfront.
Karl Malden
She made her film debut in Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront (1954), opposite Marlon Brando. One of her most notable roles came playing Eve Kendall opposite Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (1959).
Eva Marie Saint
Actor originated the role of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s 1949 play Death of a Salesman under the direction of Elia Kazan, and was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for On the Waterfront (1954) playing Johnny Friendly and The Brothers Karamazov (1958). Played Juror #3 in 12 Angry Men and was in The Exorcist.
Lee J Cobb
He starred as Marlon Brando’s mobster brother Charley in On the Waterfront (1954), the title character Sol Nazerman in The Pawnbroker (1964) which won him the Silver Bear for Best Actor, and as police chief Bill Gillespie opposite Sidney Poitier in the film In the Heat of the Night (1967) which won him the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Rod Steiger
He was one of the most prominent directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing to the movement with films such as Rome, Open City (1945), Paisan (1946), and Germany, Year Zero (1948). He is also known for his films starring Ingrid Bergman, Stromboli (1950), Europe ‘51 (1952), Journey to Italy (1954), Fear (1954) and Joan of Arc at the Stake (1954).
Roberto Rosselini
1953 American romantic war drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and written by Daniel Taradash, based on the 1951 novel of the same name by James Jones.
From Here to Eternity
In 1953, this actor played the illicit lover of Deborah Kerr in the military drama From Here to Eternity. Later in the 1950s, he starred in The Rainmaker (1956), with Katharine Hepburn, earning a Best Actor Golden Globe nomination, and in 1957 he starred in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) with frequent co-star Kirk Douglas. Playing a charismatic biblical con-man in Elmer Gantry in 1960 won him the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Actor. He played a Nazi war criminal in 1961 in the all-star, war-crime-trial film, Judgment at Nuremberg. Playing a bird expert prisoner in Birdman of Alcatraz in 1962, he earned the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor and his third Oscar nomination.
Burt Lancaster
Born 1920 Omaha, He is best remembered for his roles in Howard Hawks’s Red River (1948), George Stevens’s A Place in the Sun (1951), Fred Zinnemann’s From Here to Eternity (1953), Stanley Kramer’s Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), and John Huston’s The Misfits (1961).
Montgomery Clift
1951 American drama film based on the 1925 novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, tells the story of a working-class young man who is entangled with two women: one who works in his wealthy uncle’s factory, and the other a beautiful socialite. George Stevens directed Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Shelley Winters.
A Place in the Sun
Director Among the subjects covered in his films were racism (in The Defiant Ones and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner), nuclear war (in On the Beach), greed (in It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World), creationism vs. evolution (in Inherit the Wind), and the causes and effects of fascism (in Judgment at Nuremberg).
Stanley Kramer
He won four Academy Awards for directing and producing films in various genres, Among his films were The Search (1948), The Men (1950), High Noon (1952), From Here to Eternity (1953), Oklahoma! (1955), The Nun’s Story (1959), The Sundowners (1960), A Man For All Seasons (1966), The Day of the Jackal (1973), and Julia (1977).
Fred Zinnemann
1953 thriller film directed and co-written by Henri-Georges Clouzot, and starring Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck and Véra Clouzot. The film centres on a group of four down-on-their-luck European men who are hired by an American oil company to drive two trucks over mountain dirt roads, loaded with nitroglycerin needed to extinguish an oil well fire. It is adapted from a 1950 French novel by Georges Arnaud.
The Wages of Fear
1955 French psychological horror thriller film co-written and directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse and Charles Vanel. It is based on the 1952 novel She Who Was No More (Celle qui n’était plus) by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. The story blends elements of thriller and horror, with the plot focusing on a woman and her husband’s mistress who conspire to murder the man.
Les Diaboliques
He is best remembered for his work in the thriller film genre, having directed The Wages of Fear (1953) and Les Diaboliques (1955), which are critically recognized as among the greatest films of the 1950s. He also directed documentary films, including The Mystery of Picasso (1956), which was declared a national treasure by the government of France.
Henri-Georges Clouzot
1954 film tells the story of Gelsomina, a simple-minded young woman (Giulietta Masina) bought from her mother by Zampanò (Anthony Quinn), a brutish strongman who takes her with him on the road. It won the inaugural Best Foreign Language Film in 1957.
La Strada
1963 comedy-drama with a metafictional narrative centers on Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni), a famous Italian film director who suffers from stifled creativity as he attempts to direct an epic science fiction film.
8 1/2
best-known films include I vitelloni (1953), La Strada (1954), Nights of Cabiria (1957), La Dolce Vita (1960), 8½ (1963), Juliet of the Spirits (1965), _______ Satyricon (1969), Roma (1972), Amarcord (1973), and ______’s Casanova (1976).
Federico Fellini born Rimini 1920
Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli’s Shakespeare screen adaptations, and for the first two installments of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather trilogy, earning the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II (1974).
Nino Rota
American costume designer who won a record eight Academy Awards for Best Costume Design, The Heiress, All About Eve, Samson and Delihah, A Place in the Sun, Roman Holiday, Sabrina, The Facts of Life and The Sting.
Edith HEAD
American costume designer for stage and screen. Her work earned her five Academy Awards and a Tony Award. An American in Paris, The King and I, West Side Story, Cleopatra and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Irene Sharaff
She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design twelve times, winning four awards for Chicago (2002), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), Alice in Wonderland (2010), and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016); the latter is the first Wizarding World film to win an Academy Award.
Colleen Atwood
Italian costume designer gained prominence for her collaborations with directors Stanley Kubrick, Francis Ford Coppola, and Wes Anderson. She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design nine times, winning four awards for Barry Lyndon (1975), Chariots of Fire (1981), Marie Antoinette (2006), and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014).
Milena Canonero
American costumer designer, he was instrumental in getting Academy to start costume design oscar, won three for All About Eve, The Robe and Love is a Many-Splendoured Thing.
Charles LeMaire
British costume designer She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design fifteen times, winning three awards for Shakespeare in Love (1998), The Aviator (2004), and The Young Victoria (2009).
Sandy Powell
1998 musical drama film written and directed by Todd Haynes from a story by Haynes and James Lyons. It is set in Britain during the glam rock days of the early 1970s, and tells the story of fictional bisexual pop star Brian Slade, who faked his own death.
Velvet Goldmine
English costume designer She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design twelve times, winning three awards for A Room with a View (1985), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), and Cruella (2021). She has also received ten nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design, winning four awards for A Room With a View, Gosford Park (2001), Mad Max: Fury Road, and Cruella.
Jenny Beavan
English costume designer for film and stage. He won three Academy Awards, for Travels with My Aunt (1972), Death on the Nile (1978) and Tess (1979). Also forged a collaboration with director Steven Spielberg, creating the period-appropriate costumes for both Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Created the over-the-top costumes for her Cruella de Vil in the live action remake of 101 Dalmatians (1996) and its sequel 102 Dalmatians (2000).
Anthony Powell
Australian-American Hollywood costume designer. Until being overtaken by Catherine Martin in 2014, he was the most prolific Australian-born Oscar winner, having won three Academy Awards for Best Costume Design for An American in Paris, Les Girls, Some Like It Hot.
Orry-Kelly
German-born American director went on to win the Academy Award for Best Director three times, for Mrs. Miniver (1942), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and Ben-Hur (1959), all of which also won for Best Picture. He was Oscar-nominated for Dodsworth (1936), Wuthering Heights (1939), The Letter (1940), The Little Foxes (1941), The Heiress (1949), Detective Story (1952), Roman Holiday (1953), Friendly Persuasion (1956), and The Collector (1965).
William Wyler
1957 drama film co-written and directed by Federico Fellini. It stars Giulietta Masina as the title character, a prostitute living in Rome. The cast also features François Périer and Amedeo Nazzari.
Nights of Cabiria
Which film director plays Claude Lacombe, a French government scientist in charge of UFO-related activities in the United States, in Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
Francois Truffaut
1959 French coming-of-age drama film, the film is about Antoine Doinel, a misunderstood adolescent in Paris who struggles with his parents and teachers due to his rebellious behavior.
The 400 Blows by Francois Truffaut
French actor best known for being an important figure of the French New Wave and his portrayal of Antoine Doinel in a series of films by François Truffaut, beginning with The 400 Blows (1959). He has worked with Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, and Jacques Rivette.
Jean-Pierre Leaud
Born 1921 Calcultta, He is celebrated for works including The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959),[12] The Music Room (1958), The Big City (1963) and Charulata (1964) and the Goopy–Bagha trilogy.
Satyajit Ray
What are the three films that made up the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray?
Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956) and The World of Apu (1959)
1962 French New Wave romantic drama film directed, produced and co-written by François Truffaut. Set before and after World War I, it describes a tragic love triangle involving French Bohemian (Henri Serre), his shy Austrian friend (Oskar Werner), and his girlfriend and later wife Catherine (Jeanne Moreau).
Jules and Jim
1960 French New Wave crime drama film directed by François Truffaut that stars Charles Aznavour as the titular musician Eduoard Saroyan with Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, and Michèle Mercier as the three women in his life. It is based on the novel Down There by David Goodis.
Shoot the Piano Player
1973 romantic comedy-drama film co-written and directed by François Truffaut. The metafictional and self-reflexive film chronicles the troubled production of a melodrama, and the various personal and professional challenges of the cast and crew. It stars Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Dani, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Léaud and Truffaut himself. At the 1975 Oscars, the film was nominated for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress for Valentina Cortese.
Day for Night (La Nuit Americaine)
Finnish film director and screenwriter. He is best known for the award-winning Drifting Clouds (1996), The Man Without a Past (2002), Le Havre (2011), The Other Side of Hope (2017) and Fallen Leaves (2023), as well as Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989). He has been described as Finland’s best-known film director.
Aki Kaurismaki
Polish film director, In 1967 he was awarded the Golden Bear prize for his Belgian film The Departure (1967). He received the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2016 Venice Film Festival. His film EO (2022) was awarded the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.
Jerzy Skolimowski
Born 1941 Parma, director of 1972 Last Tango in Paris. Also 1970 The Conformist, 1900 (1976), La Luna (1979) and Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (1981).
Bernardo Bertolucci
He is known for directing the movies from Trilogy of Life (The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights). Unsolved and extremely brutal abduction, torture, and murder at Ostia in November 1975 prompted an outcry in Italy, where it continues to be a matter of heated debate. 1975: Salo.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
French film director and film critic most commonly associated with the French New Wave and the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. He made twenty-nine films, including L’Amour fou (1969), Out 1 (1971), Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974), and La Belle Noiseuse (1991).
Jacques Rivette
feature film debut was La Pointe Courte (1955), one of her most notable narrative films, Vagabond (1985), and Kung Fu Master (1988). Also known for her work as a documentarian with such works as Black Panthers (1968), The Gleaners and I (2000). Married to Jacques Demy.
Agnes Varda
Best known for the two musicals he directed in the mid-1960s: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967).
Married to Agnes Varda before death.
Jacques Demy
Gained international acclaim around 1969 when his film My Night at Maud’s was nominated at the Academy Awards. He won the San Sebastián International Film Festival with Claire’s Knee in 1971 and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for The Green Ray in 1986. The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (2007).
Eric Rohmer
His most acclaimed films include Breathless (1960), Vivre sa vie (1962), Contempt (1963), Band of Outsiders (1964), Alphaville (1965), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Masculin Féminin (1966), Weekend (1967) and Goodbye to Language (2014).
Jean-Luc Godard
1960 French New Wave crime drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It stars Jean-Paul Belmondo as a wandering criminal named Michel, and Jean Seberg as his American girlfriend Patricia.
Breathless (A Bout de Souffle)
1959 film Hiroshima mon Amour was directed by which French director?
Alain Resnais
Who plays Elle (Her) in Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima mon Amour?
Emmanuelle Riva
Who played Lui (“Him”) in Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima mon Amour?
Eiji OKADA
Japanese writer, playwright, musician, photographer, and inventor. He is best known for his 1962 novel The Woman in the Dunes that was made into an award-winning film by Hiroshi Teshigahara in 1964.
Kobo Abe
Japanese avant-garde filmmaker and artist from the Japanese New Wave era. He is best known for the 1964 film Woman in the Dunes. He is also known for directing other titles such as The Face of Another (1966), Natsu No Heitai (Summer Soldiers, 1972), and Pitfall (1962) which was his directorial debut. The first person of Asian descent to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, accomplishing this in 1964 for his work on Woman in the Dunes.
Hiroshi Teshigahara
1962 French New Wave drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The film is divided into 12 “episodes”, each preceded by an intertitle with Anna Karina as Nana Kleinfrankenheim.
Vivre sa vie
Subtitled “A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution”, 1965 French new wave sci-fi film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It stars Eddie Constantine as Lemmy Caution (code number 003), Anna Karina, Howard Vernon, and Akim Tamiroff.
Alphaville
Born 1895 Eugène Émile Paul Grindel, French poet and one of the founders of the Surrealist movement. 1916 chose name matronymic borrowed from his maternal grandmother. Married to Gala Dali before Salvador Dali.
Paul Eluard
1965 French New Wave romantic crime drama road film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina. The film is based on the 1962 novel Obsession by Lionel White. The plot follows Ferdinand, an unhappily married man, as he escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by OAS hitmen from Algeria.
Pierrot le Fou
fictional mechanical character and science fiction icon who first appeared in the 1956 film Forbidden Planet
Robby the Robot
Canadian-American actor earned two Academy Award nominations for Best Actor, for his roles in Mrs. Miniver (1942) and Madame Curie (1943). Dr Edward Morbius in Forbidden Planet.
Walter Pidgeon
Forbidden Planet (1956) set on which planet?
Altair IV (Aquila constellation)
The 1956 film’s storyline concerns an extraterrestrial invasion that begins in the fictional California town of Santa Mira. Alien plant spores have fallen from space and grown into large seed pods, each one capable of producing a visually identical copy of a human. As each pod reaches full development, it assimilates the physical traits, memories, and personalities of each sleeping person placed near it until only the replacement is left; these duplicates, however, are devoid of all human emotion.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Swedish actor and stage director best known for portraying Death in The Seventh Seal (1957) directed by Ingmar Bergman. In 1956, he directed the world premiere of Long Day’s Journey into Night, considered the magnum opus of American playwright Eugene O’Neill as was first performed in Stockholm.
Bengt EKEROT
Which 1957 Ingmar Bergman film’s title refers to a passage from the Book of Revelation, used both at the very start of the film and again towards the end?
The Seventh Seal
Max von Sydow plays which character in 1957 film The Seventh Seal?
Antonius Block
Bergman film Professor Isak Borg is a widowed 78-year-old physician who specialized in bacteriology, played by Victor Sjostrom travelling to a uni to get a reward?
Wild Strawberries
Swedish actress who was best known for her frequent collaborations with filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, The films included The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Magician, The Passion of Anna, The Touch, and Persona.
Bibi Andersson
won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama in 1972 for the film The Emigrants, In 2000, she was nominated for the Palme d’Or for her second directorial feature film, Faithless. Born in Tokyo 1938. acted in many of his films, including Persona (1966), Cries and Whispers (1972), Scenes from a Marriage (1973), The Passion of Anna (1969), and Autumn Sonata (1978).
Liv Ullmann
1966 Swedish avant-garde psychological drama film written, directed, and produced by Ingmar Bergman and starring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann. The story revolves around a young nurse named Alma (Andersson) and her patient, well-known stage actress Elisabet Vogler (Ullmann), who has suddenly stopped speaking. They move to a cottage, where Alma cares for Elisabet, confides in her, and begins having trouble distinguishing herself from her patient.
Persona
1982 period drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. The plot focuses on two siblings and their large family in Uppsala, Sweden during the first decade of the twentieth century. Following the death of the children’s father (Allan Edwall), their mother (Ewa Fröling) remarries a prominent bishop (Jan Malmsjö) who becomes abusive towards the brother for his vivid imagination.
Fanny and Alexander
Danish director, 1987 film Pelle the Conqueror won the Palme d’Or, Academy Award and Golden Globe Award. He is one of only ten directors to win the Palme d’Or twice, winning the award again in 1992 for The Best Intentions, based on the autobiographical script by Ingmar Bergman. His filmography includes The House of the Spirits, based on the novel by Isabel Allende; Smilla’s Sense of Snow; Les Misérables; Night Train to Lisbon, Silent Heart, The Chinese Widow and A Fortunate Man.
Bille August
He won the Grand Prix du Festival at the Cannes Film Festival twice: in 1946 for Torment (Swedish: Hets) (part of an eleven-way tie), and in 1951 for his film Miss Julie (Swedish: Fröken Julie).
Alf Sjoberg
Francis Ford Coppola has won Palme d’Or twice for which two films?
The Conversation
Apocalypse Now
He has competed at the Cannes Film Festival on five occasions and won the Palme d’Or twice (for When Father Was Away on Business and Underground), as well as the Best Director prize for Time of the Gypsies.
Emir KUSTURICA
the only director from Japan to win two Palme d’Or awards: The Ballad of Narayama (1983) and The Eel (1997)?
Shohei Imamura
Their 2019 feature Young Ahmed won them the Best Director Award at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Their 2022 film Tori and Lokita won the 75th Anniversary Prize at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Won two Palme d’Or: Rosetta (1999) and L’Enfant (2005).
Jean-Pierre and Luc DARDENNE
an annual award given by the Danish Film Academy, launched in 1984. It is the Danish equivalent of the American Oscars, British BAFTAs for films, Australian AACTA Awards or french César
Robert Awards
film awards given in mainland China. The awards were originally given annually, beginning in 1981 giving the award their name The Golden _______.
Golden Rooster Awards
Taiwan’s Taipei based film awards The Golden ________
Golden Horse Awards
colloquially known as the Israeli Oscars or the Israeli Academy Awards, are film awards for excellence in the Israeli film industry awarded by the Israeli Academy of Film and Television. The award, named after an Israeli actor, has been granted since 1990.
Ophir Award
known for a few years from 2015 as Antalya International Film Festival, is a film festival, held annually since 1963 in Antalya, and is the second most important film festival in Turkey. Award has a fruity connection.
Golden Orange Awards
Film: A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master (Toshirô Mifune), enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon (Kamatari Fujiwara) and sake merchant Tokuemon (Takashi Shimura) to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.
Yojimbo
1985 Kurosawa film Ran is based on which Shakespeare play?
King Lear
The Outrage is a 1964 American Western film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Edward G. Robinson and William Shatner and a remake of which 1950 film?
Rashomon
an annual film festival with awards nicknamed Golden Lions first held in Gdańsk (1974–1986), now held in Polish seaport on Baltic Sea.
GDYNIA Film Festival
the national Romanian film awards, similar to the Academy Awards (US), the Goya Awards (Spain), or the César Award (France). Named after Romanian film director in 2007 50th anniversary of him winning prize at Cannes.
GOPO Awards
the main annual national film award in Russia, presented by the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Science, and seen as the national equivalent of the Oscars. Named after a Greek goddess.
Nika Award
The Sun in a Net Awards are annual awards that recognize accomplishments in filmmaking and television. It is the highest award of achievement in film awarded in which country?
Slovakia
1963 film that became a key film in the development of Slovak and Czechoslovak cinema from the mandated Socialist-Realist filmmaking of the repressive 1950s towards the Czechoslovak/Czech New Wave and socially critical or experimental films of the 1960s marked by a gradual relaxation of communist control. Gives name to a Slovakian film award.
The Sun in a Net
Finland’s premier film industry prizes, awarded annually to recognize the achievements of directors, actors, and writers. The name comes from a character in the 1924 and 1936 Pohjalaisia films.
Jussi Awards
the highest award given in Latvian cinema. Established in 1977, it is given out at the Latvian National Film Festival. Male name in the two word name.
Big Christopher
an award given annually at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund, Norway, to promote and improve Norwegian film. Name derived from a song, or sea shanty ______ fra Haugesund.
Amanda Award
English: The golden scarab) is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer. It is described as the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards.
Guldbagge Awards
Named after a symbolic statue of the Italian Renaissance, are film awards given out each year by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (The Academy of Italian Cinema).
David di Donatello Awards
the Portuguese cinematographic and film awards, assigned annually, which aim to recognize the best national productions. Its name was chosen in honor of the Portuguese poet and writer ______ de Mello Breyner Andersen
Sophia Awards
Belgian film award named after a painter of Les XX (formed by Octave Maus) who painted Christ’s Entry Into Brussels in 1889 (1888).
James ENSOR
the award of the Netherlands Film Festival, which is held annually in Utrecht. The award has been presented since 1981.
Golden Calf
The French Cesar Awards are named after which French sculptor?
Cesar BALDACCINI
an award that recognizes the best of Mexican cinema. Given annually, since 1946, by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences (AMACC). Name inspired by a series of short writings called El _____ by Uruguayan writer José Enrique Rodó that inspired generations of young Latin Americans in the first decades of the 20th century.
Ariel Award
Awards are given by the Colombian Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences to honor achievement in Colombian cinema named after a famous Colombian fictional town?
Macondo Awards
1949 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and written by Ozu and Kogo Noda, based on the short novel Father and Daughter (Chichi to musume) by the 20th-century novelist and critic Kazuo Hirotsu. Starring Chishū Ryū, who was featured in almost all of the director’s films, and Setsuko Hara, marking her first of six appearances in Ozu’s work. First in Noriko Trilogy.
Late Spring
1953 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama, about an aging couple who travel to visit their grown children.
Tokyo Story
His most widely beloved films include Late Spring (1949), Tokyo Story (1953) and An Autumn Afternoon (1962).
Yasujiro OZU
1960 Italian drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, the film is about the disappearance of a young woman (Lea Massari) during a boating trip in the Mediterranean, and the subsequent search for her by her lover (Gabriele Ferzetti) and her best friend (Monica Vitti). Followed by La Notte and L’Eclisse.
L’Avventura
the only director to have won the Palme d’Or, the Golden Lion, the Golden Bear and the Golden Leopard? L’Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), and L’Eclisse (1962
Michelangelo Antonioni
Golden Leopard is top prize at which European film festival?
Locarno
As of 2024 who is the only director to have won the Golden Leopard award at Locarno Festival twice, winning in the first two years of the festival?
René Clair
Which film director has two Golden Lion wins Justice is Done (1950) and Tomorrow is My Turn (1960)?
Andre Cayatte
most famous works include the crime thriller Elevator to the Gallows (1958), the romantic drama The Lovers (1958), the World War II drama Lacombe, Lucien (1974), the period drama Pretty Baby (1978), the romantic crime film Atlantic City (1980), the dramedy My Dinner with Andre (1981), and the autobiographical Au revoir les enfants (1987). He also co-directed the landmark underwater documentary The Silent World with Jacques Cousteau, which won the 1956 Palme d’Or and the 1957 Academy Award for Best Documentary.
Louis MALLE
Double Golden Lion winner for Atlantic City (1980) and Au revoir les enfants (1987)?
Louis Malle
Double Golden Lion winner for The Story of Qiu Ju (1992) and Not One Less (1999)?
Zhang Yimou
Ang Lee won two Golden Lion for which two films one 2005 and one 2007?
Brokeback Mountain
Lust, Caution
Ang Lee won two Golden Bears, the only director to have done so, which two films: 1993 and 1996?
The Wedding Banquet
Sense and Sensibility
2024 documentary film directed by Mati Diop. It is a dramatised account of 26 royal treasures held in a French museum. Won 2024 Golden Bear.
Dahomey
What is the film being made and eventually premiered at the end of Singin in the Rain?
The Dancing Cavalier
Actor played Cosmo Brown in Singin in the Rain? His best-known work was his “Make ‘Em Laugh” dance routine in Singin’ in the Rain (1952), won Golden Globe.
Donald O’Connor
best known for his performances in An American in Paris (1951), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Singin’ in the Rain (1952), which he and Donen directed and choreographed, and other musical films of that era such as Cover Girl (1944) and Anchors Aweigh (1945), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. On the Town (1949), which he co-directed with Donen, was his directorial debut.
Gene KELLY
She starred in Singin’ in the Rain (1952) with Gene Kelly, How the West Was Won (1962), and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964), a biographical film about the famously boisterous Titanic passenger Margaret “Molly” Brown. Her performance as Brown earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Debbie Reynolds
portrayed Armando in the Planet of the Apes film series from the early 1970s, starring in both Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) and Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972). As the villain Khan Noonien Singh, a genetically enhanced human, he starred in both the original Star Trek television series (1967) and the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982). played Mr. Roarke on the television series Fantasy Island (1977–1984).
Ricardo Montalban
1955 American drama romance film directed by Douglas Sirk, stars Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson in a tale about the social complications that arise following the development of a romance between a well-to-do widow and a younger man, who owns a tree nursery.
All That Heaven Allows
In the 1950s, he achieved his greatest commercial success with film melodramas Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind, A Time to Love and a Time to Die, and Imitation of Life. Vincent Vega orders a _____ ____ steak cooked bloody as hell in Pulp Fiction. Del Toro mentioned him in his speech for Best Picture for The Shape of Water.
Douglas Sirk
Three word French term for the stage design and arrangement of actors in scenes for a theatre or film production, both in the visual arts through storyboarding, visual themes, and cinematography and in narrative-storytelling through directions.
Mise-en-scene
1988 Spanish black comedy film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas and Julieta Serrano. The plot follows actress Pepa, who, after her lover Iván leaves without explanation, sets out to find the reason, and comes across an array of eccentric characters, including Iván’s son from a previous relationship and her best friend Candela, who has been held captive by a Shiite terrorist cell.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1999 comedy-drama film by Pedro Almodovar, The plot originates in Almodóvar’s earlier film The Flower of My Secret (1995) which shows student doctors being trained in how to persuade grieving relatives to allow organs to be used for transplant, focusing on the mother of a teenager killed in a road accident. Won Oscar.
All About My Mother
2002 Spanish psychological melodrama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, and starring Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Geraldine Chaplin, and Rosário Flores. The film follows two men who form an unlikely friendship as they care for two women who are both in comas. Won Screenplay Oscar for PA.
Talk to Her
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1925 directorial feature film debut?
The Pleasure Garden
Main character in The 39 Steps played by Robert Donat in the 1935 film?
Richard Hannay
He is best remembered for his roles in Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps (1935) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), winning for the latter the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Robert Donat
English composer, best known for film music, primarily his Warsaw Concerto, composed for the 1941 film Dangerous Moonlight (also known under the later title Suicide Squadron). Did Goodbye Mr Chips scoring and a bunch of others.
Richard Addinsell
English writer best known for his play Journey’s End, he was nominated along with Eric Maschwitz and Claudine West for an Academy award for writing an adapted screenplay for Goodbye, Mr. Chips which was released in 1939.[22] His 1955 screenplays, The Dam Busters and The Night My Number Came Up were nominated for best British screenplay BAFTA awards.
RC Sherriff
English diseuse, singer, actress and writer. She was known for the songs and monologues she wrote and performed, at first in revues and later in her solo shows. Had film roles, mostly comic, in many films, including Miss Gossage in The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950) and Police Sergeant Ruby Gates in the St Trinian’s series (from 1954).
Joyce Grenfell
1938 British mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave. Written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder, based on the 1936 novel The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White. Features pair Charters and Caldicott (cricket enthusiasts).
The Lady Vanishes
In the 1948 play and 1951 film The Browning Version, the title refers to the Browning version of which Greek tragedy?
Agamemnon
Who played Maxim de Winter in the 1940 film Rebecca? Opposite Joan Fontaine as the second Mrs de Winter. Hitchcock’s only film to win Best Picture.
Laurence Olivier
1940 American black-and-white spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It tells the story of an American reporter based in Britain who tries to expose enemy spies involved in a fictional continent-wide conspiracy in the prelude to World War II. Stars Joel McCrea.
Foreign Correspondent
1941 American romantic psychological thriller film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine as a married couple. Based on Francis Iles’s novel Before the Fact (1932). For her role as Lina, Joan Fontaine won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1941. This is the only Oscar-winning acting performance in an Alfred Hitchcock film.
Suspicion
1943 American psychological thriller film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten. Written by Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, and Alma Reville. Charlotte “Charlie” Newton and her parents live in very quiet Santa Rosa, California. An unexpected visit by Charles Oakley, her charming and sophisticated “Uncle Charlie”, brings much excitement to her family and the small town. That excitement turns to fear as young Charlie slowly realizes her uncle is in fact a wanted serial murderer known as the “Merry Widow” killer.
Shadow of a Doubt
She is best known for her humorous tales of modern youth collected in Junior Miss and her semi-autobiographical stories collected in Meet Me in St. Louis.
Sally Benson
1946 American spy film noir directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains as three people whose lives become intimately entangled during an espionage operation. The film follows U.S. government agent T. R. Devlin (Grant), who enlists the help of Alicia Huberman (Bergman), the daughter of a German war criminal, to infiltrate a circle of executives of IG Farben hiding out in Rio de Janeiro after World War II.
Notorious
Who wrote the story for the 1944 Alfred Hitchcock film Lifeboat?
John Steinbeck
1945 American psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, and Michael Chekhov. It follows a psychoanalyst who falls in love with the new head of the Vermont hospital in which she works, only to find that he is an imposter suffering dissociative amnesia, and potentially, a murderer. The film is based on the 1927 novel The House of Dr. Edwardes by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer.
Spellbound
American actor, student of Stanislavski and nephew of famous playwright, he made a few notable appearances on film, perhaps most memorably as the Freudian analyst in Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound (1945), for which he received his only Academy Award nomination.
Michael Chekhov
Who was Juror #8 in 12 Angry Men?
Henry Fonda
Born Baku, Azerbaijan in 1886 as Jacob Strelitsky, American film director and producer. He is best known for his films such as Leave Her to Heaven (1945), Imitation of Life (1934), The Keys of the Kingdom (1945), and Back Street (1932).
John M Stahl
1954 American mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich’s 1942 short story It Had to Be Murder.
Rear Window
Who played LB Jeff Jefferies in 1954 film Rear Window?
James Stewart
Who played Lisa Fremont the love interest in 1954 film Rear Window?
Grace Kelly
Who played the killer Lars Thorwald in the 1954 film Rear Window? He won Emmy Awards for acting in 1959 and 1961 for the role of Perry Mason, which he played for nine seasons (1957–1966) and reprised in a series of 26 Perry Mason TV movies (1985–1993). His second TV series, Ironside, earned him six Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations.
Raymond Burr
Name of Marion Crane’s sister in 1960 film Psycho? Played by Vera Miles.
Lila Crane
1948 American psychological crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1929 play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton. It is notable for taking place in real time and being edited so as to appear as four long shots through the use of stitched-together long takes. The original play was said to be inspired by the real-life murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924 by University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb.
Rope
1951 American psychological thriller film noir produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and based on the 1950 novel by Patricia Highsmith. Guy Haines and Bruno Antony played by Farley Granger and Robert Walker are the title characters.
Strangers on a Train
His role in Hitchcock’s Rope, a fictionalized account of the Leopold and Loeb murder case of 1924, earned him much critical praise though the film got mixed reviews. Hitchcock cast him again in Strangers on a Train, as a tennis star drawn into a reciprocal murder plot by a wealthy psychopath; he described this as his happiest film-making experience.
Farley GRANGER
He is often remembered for his portrayal of an alcoholic writer in Billy Wilder’s The Lost Weekend (1945), which won him Best Actor at Cannes, a Golden Globe Award, and ultimately an Academy Award—the first such accolades for any Welsh actor. Two standout films later in his career include Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder (1954) and Love Story (1970).
Ray MILLAND
Based on play by Frederick Knott, 1954 film In the mid-1950s, Tony Wendice (Ray Milland), a retired English professional tennis player, is married to wealthy socialite Margot (Grace Kelly), who has been having an affair with Mark Halliday (Robert Cummings), an American crime-fiction writer.
Dial M for Murder
1955 American romantic thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, from a screenplay by John Michael Hayes based on the 1952 novel of the same name by David Dodge. The film stars Cary Grant as a retired cat burglar who has to save his reformed reputation by catching an impostor preying on wealthy tourists (including an oil-rich widow and her daughter played by Grace Kelly) on the French Riviera.
To Catch a Thief
1955 American Technicolor black comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It starred Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Mildred Natwick, Jerry Mathers and Shirley MacLaine in her film debut. Film takes place during a sun-filled autumn in the Vermont countryside when nine residents find dead body of the title character.
The Trouble with Harry
French crime-writing duo who produced 43 novels: works were adapted into numerous films, most notably, Les Diaboliques (1955), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, and Vertigo (1958), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Boileau-Narcejac
1958 American psychological thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. The story was based on the 1954 novel D’entre les morts (From Among the Dead) by Boileau-Narcejac.
Vertigo
Film stars James Stewart as San Francisco detective John “Scottie” Ferguson.
Vertigo
Who stars as Judy Barton / Madeleine Elster in 1958 film Vertigo?
Kim Novak
1959 American spy thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason.
North by Northwest
Which Hitchcock film stars Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill?
North by Northwest
Who plays Eve Kendall in Hitchcock film North by Northwest?
Eva Marie Saint
He was the top box-office attraction in the UK in 1944 and 1945; his British films included The Seventh Veil (1945) and The Wicked Lady (1945). He starred in Odd Man Out (1947), the first recipient of the BAFTA Award for Best British Film. starred in such films as George Cukor’s A Star Is Born (1954), Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (1959), Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita (1962), Warren Beatty’s Heaven Can Wait (1978) and Sidney Lumet’s The Verdict (1982).
James Mason
1982 American legal drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by David Mamet, adapted from Barry Reed’s 1980 novel of the same name. The film stars Paul Newman as a down-on-his-luck alcoholic lawyer who accepts a medical malpractice case to improve his own situation, but discovers along the way that he is doing the right thing.
The Verdict
Which 1963 film stars Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren in her screen debut, alongside Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, and Veronica Cartwright?
The Birds
Which animator was nominated for Best Special Effects for the 1963 Hitchcock film The Birds? Better known for his work with Walt Disney Animation Studios in general, and for having worked on the development of the design of the character of Mickey Mouse.
Ub Iwerks
British officer and explorer of Australia, and part of the European exploration of Australia. He led several expeditions into the interior of the continent, starting from Sydney and later from Adelaide. His expeditions traced several of the westward-flowing rivers, establishing that they all merged into the Murray River, which flows into the Southern Ocean. He was searching to prove his own passionately held belief that an “inland sea” was located at the centre of the continent.
Charles Sturt
He started to gain popularity after starring in The Time Machine (1960), as H. George Wells. He later starred in the Disney film One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), voicing Pongo. In one of his most famous roles, he played Mitch Brenner in The Birds (1963), directed by Alfred Hitchcock. By the late 1990s, he had moved into semi-retirement. His final film role was in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (2009), portraying a fictionalized version of Winston Churchill in a cameo.
Rod Taylor
1964 American psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a screenplay by Jay Presson Allen, based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Winston Graham (better known for Poldark). The film stars Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery.
Marnie
Primarily used for changing direction, what name is given to the fins found on the sides of fish?
Pectoral
Similar to a percent sign (%) with an extra zero in the divisor. What name is given to the ‰ sign indicating how many parts per thousand a quantity is?
Per mille
Found in the extremely dense crusts of neutron stars, nuclei are believed to be deformed and fused together into exotic shapes known as gnocchi, spaghetti, lasagne and bucatini phases. This theoretical form of degenerate matter is collectively known as Nuclear [Blank]?
Pasta
Found Worldwide. What name is given to the small primitive, wingless insects in the order Zygentoma? Considered pests they are able consume paper, clothing, carpets, plaster, hair and sugar amongst other things. Lepisma Saccharinum
Silverfish
Also known as a Bolide. What 8 letter word beginning the ‘F’ is the name given to an exceptionally bright meteor appears brighter than the planets (with an absolute magnitude of -4 as defined by the International Astronomical Union)?
Fireball
With a name meaning ‘Wool Oil’ in Latin, what waterproof wax used in cosmetics and ointments is secreted by the sebaceous glands of sheep?
Lanolin
Often caused by the shigellosis bacteria and caught from drinking contaminated water. Which inflammation of the intestines has symptoms of abdominal pain, cramps, fever and bleeding diarrhea and was also known as ‘Bloody Flux’?
Dysentery
Abbreviated as ‘Cb’ in the International Cloud Atlas, which thunderstorm cloud, is a heavy and dense cloud in the form of a mountain or huge tower, with an upper part that is nearly always flattened in the shape of an anvil?
Cumulonimbus
Found in the rainforests and savannah of sub-saharan Africa, which species of viper is the largest and has the longest known fangs of a venomous snake growing up to 5 cm?
Gaboon Viper
What name is given to the planar zone of seismic activity coinciding with the subduction of a tectonic plate? Differential motion along these zones create earthquakes with foci reaching depths of up to ~700 km.
Benioff Zone
Named after a British epidemiologist, who’s paradox is the observation that at the species level, the incidence of cancer doesn’t correlate with number of cells an animal has? Despite animals such as Whales and Elephants having thousands of more cells than Humans they do not exhibit an increased cancer risk, which suggests some natural mechanism is much more effective in larger animals than Humans.
Peto’s Paradox
What colloquial name is given to the extinct flightless, carnivorous birds known as Phorusrhacids? Living between 53 to 0.1 million years ago they were one of the apex predators of South America during the Cenozoic period.
Terror Birds
Born Louis Burton Lindley Jr 1919, He is perhaps best remembered today for his comic roles in Dr. Strangelove, Blazing Saddles, 1941, and his villainous turn in One-Eyed Jacks with Marlon Brando. American actor and rodeo performer.
Slim Pickens
Which American band leader and jazz pianist has a cameo in Blazing Saddles?
Count Basie
Joseph Pujol (professional fartist) and entertainer. He was famous for his remarkable control of the abdominal muscles, which enabled him to seemingly fart at will.
Le Petomane
She is known for comedic roles in films directed by Peter Bogdanovich and Mel Brooks, including What’s Up, Doc? (1972), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981), and her Academy Award–nominated role in Paper Moon (1973).
Madeline Kahn
Mel Brooks was married to whcih actress from 1964 to 2005 with a son Max known for World War Z?
Anne Bancroft
She won many accolades, including eight Primetime Emmy Awards from 22 nominations, making her the most nominated and, along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, most awarded performer in Emmy history. In film, she appeared in Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show (1971) as the neglected wife of a closeted schoolteacher in the 1950s; she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She was part of Mel Brooks’s ensemble cast, playing Frau Blücher in Young Frankenstein (1974), Nurse Diesel in High Anxiety (1977) and Madame Defarge in History of the World, Part I (1981).
Cloris Leachman
1977 film directed by Mel Brooks, Mel Brooks as Dr. Richard Harpo Thorndyke. It is a parody of psychoanalysis and Alfred Hitchcock films.
High Anxiety
Name of John Candy’s character in Spaceballs? Lone Starr’s mawg (half man half dog), parody of Chewbacca.
Barf
Joan Rivers character in Spaceballs, parody of C3P0.
Dot Matrix
1982 Sydney Pollack film It stars Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, and Charles Durning. In the film, Michael Dorsey (Hoffman), a talented actor with a reputation for being professionally difficult, runs into romantic trouble after adopting a female persona to land a job.
Tootsie
1933 film In the film, Groucho portrays the newly installed president of the fictional country of Freedonia. Zeppo is his secretary, while Chico and Harpo are spies for the neighboring country of Sylvania. Relations between Groucho and the Sylvanian ambassador deteriorate during the film, eventually leading the two countries to war.
Duck Soup
1931 Marx Brothers film, Much of the story takes place on an ocean liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Monkey Business
1932 Marx Brothers film, The film revolves around college football and a game between the fictional Darwin and Huxley Colleges. Groucho Marx as Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff.
Horse Feathers
1930 Marx Brothers film, Mayhem and zaniness ensue during a weekend party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding (Groucho Marx).
Animal Crackers
1938 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. It was released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film tells the story of a paleontologist in a number of predicaments involving a scatterbrained heiress and a leopard.
Bringing Up Baby
1940 American romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart and Ruth Hussey. About a socialite whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband and a tabloid magazine journalist. MGM remade the film as a 1956 musical called High Society.
The Philadelphia Story
1968 American comedy film directed by Gene Saks, produced by Howard W. Koch and written by Neil Simon, based on his 1965 play. It stars Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau as two divorced men.
The Odd Couple
1940 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. The plot centers on a newspaper editor named Walter Burns who is about to lose his ace reporter and ex-wife, Hildy Johnson, newly engaged to another man.
His Girl Friday
1997 farcical comedy film. While not literally a sequel, Fierce Creatures is a spiritual successor to which1988 film?
Fierce Creatures
1949 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor from a screenplay written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin. It stars Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn as married lawyers who come to oppose each other in court.
Adam’s Rib
He was replaced as one of the directors of Gone with the Wind (1939), but he went on to direct The Philadelphia Story (1940), Gaslight (1944), Adam’s Rib (1949), Born Yesterday (1950), A Star Is Born (1954), Bhowani Junction (1956), and won the Academy Award for Best Director for My Fair Lady (1964), which was his fifth time nominated.
George Cukor
1956 British adventure drama film directed by George Cukor, The film stars Ava Gardner as Victoria Jones, an Anglo-Indian who has been serving in the Indian Army, and Stewart Granger as Colonel Rodney Savage, a British Indian Army officer.
Bhowani Junction
1950 American comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor, based on the 1946 stage play of the same name by Garson Kanin. The film tells the story of an uneducated young woman, Billie Dawn (played by Judy Holliday, in an Oscar-winning performance) and an uncouth, older, wealthy junkyard tycoon, Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford) who comes to Washington to try to “buy” a congressman. When Billie embarrasses him socially, Harry hires journalist Paul Verrall (William Holden) to educate her. In the process, Billie learns how corrupt Harry is, and eventually falls in love with Paul.
Born Yesterday
1979 American satirical comedy-drama film starring Peter Sellers as Chance the Gardener, Shirley MacLaine, and Melvyn Douglas. Directed by Hal Ashby, it is based on the 1970 novel of the same name by Jerzy Kosiński. Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Sellers was nominated for Best Actor.
Being There
1987 Coen Brothers film It stars Nicolas Cage as H.I. “Hi” McDunnough, an ex-convict, and Holly Hunter as Edwina “Ed” McDunnough, a former police officer and his wife.
Raising Arizona
1934 American pre-Code comedy-mystery film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett. The film stars William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, a leisure-class couple who enjoy copious drinking and flirtatious banter.
The Thin Man
1941 American comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges. A satire on the film industry, it follows a famous Hollywood comedy director (Joel McCrea) who, longing to make a socially relevant drama, sets out to live as a tramp to gain life experience for his forthcoming film. Along the way he unites with a poor aspiring actress (Veronica Lake) who accompanies him.
Sullivan’s Travels
He was often paired with Veronica Lake in films noir, such as This Gun for Hire (1942), The Glass Key (1942), and The Blue Dahlia (1946). Whispering Smith (1948) was his first Western and color film, and Shane (1953) was noted for its contributions to the genre.
Alan Ladd
1936 American screwball comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring William Powell and Carole Lombard, who had been briefly married years before appearing together in the film. The story concerns a socialite who hires a derelict to be her family’s butler, and then falls in love with him.
My Man Godfrey
1971 American romantic black comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby and released by Paramount Pictures. It incorporates elements of dark humor and existentialist drama. Stars Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon as the title characters.
Harold and Maude
1975 American comedy film directed by Hal Ashby, and starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Tony Bill, and Carrie Fisher in her film debut. Co-written by Beatty and Robert Towne, the film follows a promiscuous Los Angeles hairdresser on Election Day 1968, as he juggles his relationships with several women. The film is a satire focusing on the theme of sexual politics and late-1960s sexual and social mores.
Shampoo
1964 comedy film directed by Blake Edwards in Panavision. Produced as a standalone sequel to The Pink Panther, it is the second installment in the eponymous film series, with Peter Sellers reprising his role as Inspector Jacques Clouseau of the French Sûreté.
A Shot in the Dark
British actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Cato in the Pink Panther films. He made appearances in many television programmes, including a portrayal of Imperial Japanese Army Major Yamauchi in the British drama series Tenko and as Entwistle in Last of the Summer Wine.
Burt Kwouk
1965 American western comedy film starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin, who won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his dual role. The story involves a woman who hires a notorious gunman to protect her father’s ranch, and later to avenge his murder, only to find that the gunman is not what she expected.
Cat Ballou
“Stinkin’ badges” is a paraphrase of a line of dialogue from which1948 film? It was also included in the 1974 Mel Brooks film Blazing Saddles, and has since been included in many other films and television shows.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Character who said quote “You don’t understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could’ve been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.”.
Terry Malloy
“Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.” Margo Channing which actress and film?
All About Eve - Bette Davis
Which actor speaks the famous quote in Cool Hand Luke: “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.”?
Strother Martin
Who says “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore in Apocalypse Now?
Robert Duvall
Who stars opposite Ryan O’Neal in Love Story?
Ali MacGraw
“The stuff that dreams are made of.” is a famous quote #14 in AFI list from which film/character/actor?
Sam Spade - Humphrey Bogart - Maltese Falcon
American actress. She was known as the raspy voice of E.T. in the 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
Pat Welsh
“Made it, Ma! Top of the world!” by character Arthur “Cody” Jarrett - actor and film?
James Cagney - White Heat
remembered for playing multifaceted tough guys in films such as The Public Enemy (1931), Taxi! (1932), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), The Roaring Twenties (1939), City for Conquest (1940) and White Heat (1949), finding himself typecast or limited by this reputation earlier in his career. He was able to negotiate dancing opportunities in his films and ended up winning the Academy Award for his role in the musical Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942).
James Cagney
“Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?” by character Lady Lou played by Mae West is in which 1933 film?
She Done Him Wrong
“You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.” spoken by Marie Slim Browning played by Lauren Bacall in which 1944 film?
To Have and Have Not
Who played Lou Gehrig in The Pride of the Yankees: “Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.”?
Gary Cooper
“Oh, Jerry, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We have the stars.” by Charlotte Vale played by Bette Davis is quote from which 1942 film?
Now, Voyager
He was one of the most popular American comedians in the 1930s and 1940s, with films like A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935), Earthworm Tractors (1936), and Alibi Ike (1935). In his later career he starred in Some Like It Hot (1959), as Osgood Fielding III, in which he utters the film’s famous punchline “Well, nobody’s perfect.”
Joe E Brown
“Go ahead, make my day.” quote from which 1983 film?
Sudden Impact
“You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?” quote from which 1971 film?
Dirty Harry
“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don’t know.” is a quote from which Marx Brothers film? Capt. Geoffrey T. Spaulding by Groucho Marx.
Animal Crackers
“There’s no crying in baseball!” by Jimmy Dugan by Tom Hanks which film?
A League of Their Own
Quote “What a dump” by Rosa Moline by Bette Davis from which 1949 film?
Beyond the Forest
Famous quote “They’re here!” by Carol Anne Freeling by actress Heather O’Rourke from which 1982 film?
Poltergeist
Famous quote “Is it safe?” by Dr Christian Szell by which actor and 1976 film?
Laurence Olivier - Marathon Man
“Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!” which 1927 film?
The Jazz Singer
“No wire hangers, ever!” by film character Joan Crawford said by which actress playing her in which 1981 film?
Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest
“Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?” by character Rico Bandello played by Edward G Robinson in which 1931 film?
Little Caesar
Who directed 1973 film Soylent Green? Also, including: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), The Vikings (1958), Barabbas (1961), Fantastic Voyage (1966), the musical film Doctor Dolittle (1967), the war epic Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970).
Richard Fleischer
“Sawyer, you’re going out a youngster, but you’ve got to come back a star!” by character Julian Marsh played by actor Warner Baxter in which 1933 film?
42nd Street
known for his role as the Cisco Kid in the 1928 film In Old Arizona, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 2nd Academy Awards. His notable sound films are In Old Arizona (1929), 42nd Street (1933), Slave Ship (1937) with Wallace Beery, Kidnapped (1938) with Freddie Bartholomew, and the 1931 ensemble short film The Stolen Jools. In the 1940s, he was well known for his recurring role as Dr. Robert Ordway in the Crime Doctor series of 10 films.
Warner Baxter
“Listen to me, mister. You’re my knight in shining armor. Don’t you forget it. You’re going to get back on that horse, and I’m going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we’re gonna go, go, go!” spoken by character Ethel Thayer in which 1981 film and which actress?
Katharine Hepburn in On Golden Pond
“Tell ‘em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.” by George Gipp by Ronald Reagan in which 1940 film?
Knute Rockne, All American
“A martini. Shaken, not stirred.” first said in which 1964 film?
Goldfinger
“Who’s on first.” routine by Abbott and Costello first in which 1945 film?
The Naughty Nineties
“Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!” by Mame Dennis by Rosalind Russell in which 1958 movie?
Auntie Mame
“My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.” by George M Cohan by James Cagney in which 1942 film?
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1939 American romantic comedy film made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch and starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. Whereas Grand Hotel was Garbo Speaks, this film was Garbo Laughs as was her first comedy role.
Ninotchka
Dudley Moore character in 1981 is Arthur with what surname?
Bach
1944 American screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton. Set against the backdrop of World War II-era America, its plot follows a wayward young woman who, after attending a party with soldiers in her small town, awakens to find herself married and pregnant, with no memory of her new suitor’s identity.
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
1941 American screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda. The film is based on a story by Monckton Hoffe about a mismatched couple who meet on board an ocean liner.
The Lady Eve
In 1941, she starred in two screwball comedies: Ball of Fire with Gary Cooper, and The Lady Eve with Henry Fonda. She starred with Fred MacMurray in the seminal film noir Double Indemnity (1944), playing the wife who persuades an insurance salesman to kill her husband, for which she received her third Oscar nomination. In 1937, she played the title role in Stella Dallas, for which she earned her first Academy Award nomination for best actress.
Barbara Stanwyck
1948 American horror comedy film directed by Charles Barton. The film features Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi) who has become partners with Dr Sandra Mornay (Lenore Aubert), in order to find a brain to reactivate Frankenstein’s monster (Glenn Strange). Comedy pair star.
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
1982 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Barry Levinson. It is Levinson’s screen-directing debut and the first of his “Baltimore Films” tetralogy, set in his hometown during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s; the other three films are Tin Men (1987), Avalon (1990), and Liberty Heights (1999). It stars Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke. The movie follows a close-knit circle of friends who reunite at a Baltimore restaurant when one of them prepares to get married.
Diner
1934 American comedy film starring W.C. Fields. It was Fields’s 16th sound film, and his fifth in 1934 alone. The film concerns the trials and tribulations of a grocer as he battles a shrewish wife, an incompetent assistant, and assorted annoying children, customers, and salesmen. skits such as “The Picnic”, “A Joy Ride”, and most famously, “The Back Porch” are all featured in It’s a Gift.
It’s a Gift
1937 American comedy film, Groucho Marx as Dr Hugo Z. Hackenbush and a horse called Hi-Hat.
A Day at the Races
1937 American supernatural comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod, starring Constance Bennett and Cary Grant and featuring Roland Young. It tells the story of a stuffy, stuck-in-his-ways man who is haunted by the ghosts of a fun-loving married couple.
Topper
1972 American screwball comedy film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal. It was intended to pay homage to comedy films of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, especially Bringing Up Baby.
What’s Up, Doc?
1987 American romantic comedy drama film written, produced and directed by James L. Brooks. The film concerns a virtuoso television news producer (Holly Hunter) who has daily emotional breakdowns, a brilliant yet prickly reporter (Albert Brooks), and the latter’s charismatic but far less seasoned rival (William Hurt).
Broadcast News
1969 American mockumentary crime comedy film directed by Woody Allen. Allen co-wrote the screenplay with Mickey Rose and stars alongside Janet Margolin. The film chronicles the life of Virgil Starkwell, an inept bank robber.
Take the Money and Run
1937 American screwball comedy film directed by Leo McCarey, and starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. Based on the 1922 play by Arthur Richman, the film recounts a distrustful rich couple who begin divorce proceedings, only to interfere with one another’s romances. It was the first of three films co-starring Grant and Dunne, followed by My Favorite Wife (1940) and Penny Serenade (1941).
The Awful Truth
1971 American comedy film directed by Woody Allen and starring Allen, Louise Lasser, and Carlos Montalban. Written by Allen and Mickey Rose, the film is about a bumbling New Yorker who, after being dumped by his activist girlfriend, travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest revolution.
Bananas
1948 American comedy film directed by H. C. Potter, and starring Cary Grant plays title character, Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas. The movie was the third and last pairing of Grant and Loy, who had shared a comfortable chemistry in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) and Wings in the Dark (1935).
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1980 American comedy film directed by Colin Higgins, who wrote the screenplay with Patricia Resnick. It stars Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton as three working women.
9 to 5
1933 pre-Code American crime/comedy film starring Mae West and Cary Grant, directed by Lowell Sherman. The film is famous for West’s many double entendres and quips, including her best-known “Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?”.
She Done Him Wrong
1982 musical comedy film written and directed by Blake Edwards and starring Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras, and John Rhys-Davies. Remake of a 1933 German film.
Victor/Victoria
1942 screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, and starring Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor and Rudy Vallée. Screwball comedy husband and wife struggling so wife goes off to title location to marry rich so husband can do projects.
The Palm Beach Story
She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for It Happened One Night (1934), and received two other Academy Award nominations during her career. Her other notable films include Cleopatra (1934), The Palm Beach Story (1942) and Since You Went Away (1944).
Claudette Colbert
What are all the Road to… destinations in the Crosby and Hope and Lamour films? 1940, 1941, 1942, 1946, 1947, 1952, 1962
Singapore, Zanzibar, Morocco, Utopia, Rio, Bali, Hong Kong
1925 American silent comedy film that tells the story of a college student, Harold Lamb, trying to become popular by joining the school football team. It stars Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Brooks Benedict, and James Anderson. It remains one of Lloyd’s most successful and enduring films.
The Freshman
1973 American science fiction comedy film directed by and starring Woody Allen, who co-wrote it with Marshall Brickman. Parodying a dystopic future of the United States in 2173, the film involves the misadventures of the owner of a health food store who is cryogenically frozen in 1973 and defrosted 200 years later in an ineptly led police state.
Sleeper
1924 American comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton as Rollo Treadway. Title is the name of the ship, dons a diving suit at some point.
The Navigator
1980 American comedy film directed by Howard Zieff starring Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, and Armand Assante. She joins army after husband dies on wedding night.
Private Benjamin
1950 American romantic comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli[3] from a screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, based on the 1949 novel of the same name by Edward Streeter. The film stars Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, and Elizabeth Taylor, and follows a man trying to cope with preparations for his daughter’s wedding.
Father of the Bride
1985 American satirical road comedy film directed by Albert Brooks and co-written by Brooks with Monica Johnson. The film stars Brooks alongside Julie Hagerty as a married couple who decide to quit their jobs and travel across America.
Lost in America
1933 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor from a screenplay by Frances Marion and Herman J. Mankiewicz, based on George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber’s 1932 play of the same title. The film features an ensemble cast of Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Lee Tracy, Edmund Lowe, and Billie Burke. An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver (Lionel Barrymore), contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple.
Dinner at Eight
1991 American Western comedy film directed by Ron Underwood and starring Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby and Jack Palance. A sequel titled The Legend of Curly’s Gold was released in 1994 with the same cast, with the exception of Kirby, who was replaced by Jon Lovitz.
City Slickers
Who directed 1982 film Fast Time at Ridgemont High?
Amy Heckerling
Who wrote the 1982 film Fast Time at Ridgemont High? Went on to be a film director in own right.
Cameron Crowe
1979 American comedy film directed by Carl Reiner and written by Steve Martin, Carl Gottlieb, and Michael Elias (from a story by Martin and Gottlieb). This was Martin’s first starring role in a feature film and played Navin R. Johnson.
The Jerk
1942 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by George Stevens and starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. The film’s plot is about the relationship between Tess Harding—an international affairs correspondent and title character —and Sam Craig—a sportswriter—who meet, marry, and encounter problems as a result of her unflinching commitment to her work.
Woman of the Year
1972 American romantic black comedy film directed by Elaine May and written by Neil Simon, starring Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepherd, Jeannie Berlin, Audra Lindley, Eddie Albert, and Doris Roberts. In the film, a self-absorbed salesman marries his girlfriend after a short courtship. During his honeymoon, the salesman increasingly tires of his bride, finding that her earlier habits during courtship now irritate and repel him.
The Heartbreak Kid
Experimenting with genres, she directed the dark romantic comedy The Heartbreak Kid (1972), the gangster film Mikey and Nicky (1976), and adventure comedy Ishtar (1987). She later earned acclaim writing the screenplays for Warren Beatty’s Heaven Can Wait (1978), and Mike Nichols’ The Birdcage (1996) and Primary Colors (1998).
Elaine May
British actress and director became the first woman to direct a film noir, The Hitch-Hiker, in 1953. Her other directed films, the best known are Not Wanted (1949), about unwed pregnancy (she took over for a sick director and refused directorial credit); Never Fear (1950), loosely based upon her own experiences battling paralyzing polio; Outrage (1950), one of the first films about rape; The Bigamist (1953), and The Trouble with Angels (1966).
Ida Lupino
Also known as The Professor and the Burlesque Queen, 1941 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck and concerns a group of professors laboring to write an encyclopedia and their encounter with a nightclub performer who provides her own unique knowledge.
Ball of Fire
1958 American Technirama Technicolor comedy film based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Edward Everett Tanner III, stars Rosalind Russell as title character and directed by Morton DaCosta.
Auntie Mame
1976 American thriller comedy film, about a murder on a Los Angeles-to-Chicago train journey on the title train. It was directed by Arthur Hiller and stars Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, and Richard Pryor. This film marked the first pairing of Wilder and Pryor, who were later paired in three other films.
Silver Streak
1933 American pre-Code comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy. Directed by William A. Seiter, it was released in the United States on December 29, 1933. In the United Kingdom, the film was originally released under the title Fraternally Yours.
Sons of the Desert
The film stars Kevin Costner as “Crash” Davis, a veteran catcher from the AAA Richmond Braves, brought in to teach rookie pitcher Ebby Calvin “Nuke” LaLoosh (Tim Robbins) about the game in preparation for reaching the major leagues. Baseball groupie Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon) romances Nuke but finds herself increasingly attracted to Crash.
Bull Durham
1955 American historical musical comedy film starring Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury and Cecil Parker. The film centers on Hubert Hawkins, a carnival entertainer. He is a member of the Black Fox’s band of rebels (a parody of Robin Hood and his Merry Men) who are protecting the true infant King of Medieval England from a usurper.
The Court Jester
1963 American science fiction black comedy film directed, co-written (with Bill Richmond) by, and starring Jerry Lewis. A parody of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, it follows bullied scientist Julius Kelp as he creates a serum that transforms him into a handsome man, which he subsequently uses under his alter ego.
The Nutty Professor
Although other highly regarded teachers also developed versions of “The Method,” he is considered to be the “father of method acting in America,” according to author Mel Gussow.
Lee Strasberg
1947 American drama film based on Laura Z. Hobson’s best-selling 1947 novel of the same title. It concerns a journalist (played by Gregory Peck) who poses as a Jew to research an exposé on the widespread antisemitism in New York City and the affluent communities of New Canaan and Darien, Connecticut. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won three: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm), and Best Director (Elia Kazan).
Gentleman’s Agreement
1949 American drama film directed by Elia Kazan and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. The screenplay was adapted by Philip Dunne and Dudley Nichols based on Cid Ricketts Sumner’s 1946 novel Quality. It stars Jeanne Crain as the title character, a young light-skinned black woman who passes for white. It also stars Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters and William Lundigan.
Pinky
1955 American film noir thriller directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish. The plot involves a serial killer (Mitchum) who poses as a preacher and pursues two children in an attempt to get his hands on $10,000 of stolen cash hidden by their late father.
The Night of the Hunter
Gene Kelly character name in Singin in the Rain?
Don Lockwood
Who directed Rebel Without a Cause? Also twice for the Golden Lion, for Bigger Than Life (1956) and Bitter Victory (1957), and a Palme d’Or for The Savage Innocents (1960).
Nicholas Ray
1955 American film noir produced and directed by Robert Aldrich. It also features Maxine Cooper and Cloris Leachman appearing in their feature film debuts. The film follows a private investigator in Los Angeles who becomes embroiled in a complex mystery after picking up a female hitchhiker. Based on crime novel by Mickey Spillane.
Kiss Me Deadly
American crime novelist, called the “king of pulp fiction.”[2] His stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer.
Mickey Spillane
His most notable credits include Vera Cruz (1954), Kiss Me Deadly (1955), The Big Knife (1955), Autumn Leaves (1956), Attack (1956), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), The Dirty Dozen (1967), and The Longest Yard (1974).
Robert Aldrich
1956 American epic Western film directed by John Ford and written by Frank S. Nugent, based on the 1954 novel by Alan Le May. It is set during the Texas–Indian wars, and stars John Wayne as a middle-aged Civil War veteran who spends years looking for his abducted niece (Natalie Wood), accompanied by his adopted nephew (Jeffrey Hunter).
The Searchers
1939 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne as the Ringo Kid in his breakthrough role. The screenplay by Dudley Nichols is an adaptation of “The Stage to Lordsburg”, a 1937 short story by Ernest Haycox. The film follows a group primarily composed of strangers riding through dangerous Apache territory.
Stagecoach
1952 American romantic comedy-drama film directed and produced by John Ford, and starring John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Victor McLaglen, Barry Fitzgerald, and Ward Bond. The film features Winton Hoch’s lush photography of the Irish countryside and a long, climactic, semi-comic fist fight. Won John Ford his fourth Oscar.
The Quiet Man
1935 American drama thriller film directed and produced by John Ford, adapted by Dudley Nichols from the 1925 novel of the same title by Irish novelist Liam O’Flaherty. Set in 1922, the plot concerns the underside of the Irish War of Independence and centers on a disgraced Republican man, played by Victor McLaglen, who anonymously informs on his former comrades and spirals into guilt as his treachery becomes known.
The Informer
1941 American drama film directed by John Ford, adapted by Philip Dunne from the 1939 novel of the same title by Richard Llewellyn. It stars Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara. It tells the story of the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family, from the point of view of the youngest child Huw in South Wales Valleys.
How Green Was My Valley
1962 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and James Stewart. John Wayne as Tom Doniphon and
James Stewart as Ransom “Ranse” Stoddard. Lee Marvin as title character.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Who sang the theme song to The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance after the 1962 film written by Bacharach-David? 24 Hours from Tulsa too. He also wrote the early-1960s hits “Rubber Ball” recorded by Bobby Vee, “Hello Mary Lou” by Ricky Nelson, and “He’s a Rebel” by the Crystals.
Gene Pitney
A PT boat in WW2 stood for what?
Patrol Torpedo Boat
1955 Swedish comedy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. The film’s plot—which involves some couples who switch partners on a summer night—has been adapted many times, particularly as the theatrical musical A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler and Harold Prince.
Smiles of a Summer Night
1962 Soviet war drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. The film features child actor Nikolai Burlyayev along with Valentin Zubkov, Evgeny Zharikov, Stepan Krylov, Nikolai Grinko, and Tarkovsky’s wife Irma Raush. It tells the story of an orphaned boy, whose parents were killed by the invading German forces, and his experiences during World War II.
Ivan’s Childhood
