Classic Movie Trivia
Movie trivia has been around as long as movies have. Most people love a good trivia game, and it is exciting to get together with your friends and see who knows more about the movies we all love to see! It is fun to throw out the questions that we know the answers to and stump our friends. Of course, the best part is when we get to bask in the glory of being the only one who knows the correct answer! With movies, there are so many things that can be turned into trivia.
Cast
Who played Ashley Wilkes in Gone With the Wind? What great actress starred in the movie Casablanca? What movies had Shirley Temple in them, but never gave her credit for her roles?
Questions such as these are a lot of fun when playing trivia games. After you ask the question, you get to enjoy looking at your friends’ faces contort while they try to figure out the answers! There are so many classic movies to choose from, and for every classic movie there are at least four or five famous cast members. Trivia like this can keep you entertained for hours!
Quotes
There are so many wonderful quotes from the classic movie genre! For true classic movie buffs, the dialogue from the movies produced before the 1970s consist of lines with more feeling, more meaning, and more true writing talent than any movies produced after. Often, however, the quotes get a little mixed up over time and some people never even realize it. For example, one of the most famous movie quotes of all time is from the movie Casablanca. “Play it again, Sam” is known far and wide, even by those who have never seen the film. But did you know that the line was never actually said in the movie? It began as one line and was altered over the years by people who saw the movie once or twice and then never worried about it again. This is a sad but true fact of the modern American movie watching public.
Directors
The director of a classic movie is often one of the least known people in a film. This is kind of hard to imagine, when the talent of the director can easily make or break a movie, no matter how good the actors and script are. It takes a real lover of classic movies to be able to recall and share the names of the directors of even some of the most popular films. Do you know who directed The Great Escape, released in 1963? Or who directed For Whom the Bell Tolls, released in 1943?
Movie trivia is one way that people are able to share their love of great old classic movies. There are many online groups focused on this pastime. Remembering the past is one way of paying homage to those who made a movie great. Since movies have always been a part of the history in many countries, movie trivia just makes sense.
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