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1 Who played eight different members of the D’Ascoyne family in the Ealing comedy, Kind Hearts and Coronets?
A Alec Guinness
2 Which Peter Sellers’ 1964 movie saw him play three roles: a Group Captain, the US President and a German Doctor?
A Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
3 In what 1952 film does Gene Kelly not mind getting wet?
A Singin’ in the Rain
4 Which comic actor played the character of a bumbling schoolmaster in many films in the 1930s and 40s?
A Will Hay (he was a dedicated and respected amateur astronomer with a personal observatory in his back garden and was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society)
5 Who starred in the highly successful series of ‘Road’ movies?
A Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour
6 Which 1942 film centres on an exiled American bar owner in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II?
A Casablanca
7 In which black comedy of 1944 is the hobby of two old ladies to poison lonely old men and bury them in the cellar?
A Arsenic and Old Lace (Frank Capra actually filmed the movie in 1941 because of star Cary Grant’s availability, but it was not released until 1944 after the original stage version had finished its run on Broadway)
8 Which 1934 comedy directed by Frank Capra, stars Clark Gable as a reporter and Claudette Colbert as a spoiled heiress?
A It Happened One Night (it won all 5 major Academy Awards, only two other films have done that since One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991))
9 In which 1954 film does Charles Laughton play the owner of a successful bootmaker’s shop in nineteenth-century Salford?
A Hobson’s Choice (also starred John Mills and a very young Prunella Scales)
10 In what film does a secretary on-the-run check into a remote motel managed by a young man dominated by his mother?
A Psycho (secretary Marion Crane played by Janet Leigh)