coffeedan
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Nope . . . not quite.
Yesterday's answer: Admission to see CONTRABAND during its run at the Globe was the donation of a firearm -- pistol, rifle, or what-have-you. The collected weapons were then shipped to Great Britain for use by the Home Guard.
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Thursday's question: When Michael Powell's film CONTRABAND was shown at New York's Globe Theatre in December of 1940, what did the box office accept for the price of admission instead of cash?
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Hey, good job, karabeeyuns! You are correct! And welcome to the boards!
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Wednesday's question: Film actress Estelle Winwood always claimed that she was the first American woman to wear what in public?
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No takers? Yesterday's answer: Silent film star Francis X. Bushman once owned a home on the site now occupied by Grauman's Chinese Theatre. A plaque on the theatre commemorates that fact to this day.
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Tuesday's question: What silent film star once owned a home on the site now occupied by Grauman's Chinese Theatre?
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Right on, vallo! You are correct!
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Monday's question: What well-known actor used to be known as "Anglo-Saxon type 2008" when he worked for Central Casting?
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Greetings, everybody! It's an uncertain day in the Queen City today, with the clouds coming and going -- so much that I've turned the lights on and off a couple of times while working at the computer thus far.
But I think we're ready for another week of movie trivia now, so let's get to it!
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Yesterday's answer: Geraldine Page, who was nominated seven times before finally winning a Best Actress Oscar for THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL (1985).
That's it for this week -- hope you enjoyed the Oscar trivia. And we'll see you back here on Monday!
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BEYOND THE FOREST, released in 1949, is owned by Warner Brothers. TCM controls only the Warner Brothers films released through 1948. So if TCM wanted to show BEYOND THE FOREST, they would have to lease it from Warner Brothers.
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Friday's question: What performer was nominated the most times before finally winning an acting Oscar?
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Huzzah! Vallo and path named both films! Kudos to you both!
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Thursday's question: What two films hold the record for the most Oscar nominations (11) without a win? (Name either one.)
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Hmm, no takers -- not even a guess?
In 1990, AMPAS (the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) set a time limit of 45 seconds for an Oscar acceptance speech. The timer starts when the actor starts speaking. After 25 seconds, a red warning light flashes, and if the actor is still thanking everyone within earshot, the orchestra blares out exit music.
With that time restriction, I can see why some stars go through a long laundry lists of people on the dais, which nevertheless makes three-quarters of a minute seem a lot longer.
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Wednesday's question: What is the current official time limit for Oscar acceptance speeches, as set by AMPAS rules? (Let's see if you can guess this exactly.)
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Dead on, path! You are correct! Now stay tuned for Gabriel and the giant jackpot . . .
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Tuesday's question: Who was the first director to win the Oscar for his first film?
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Filmlover, you are correct! It was John Wayne, who won the Oscar for TRUE GRIT, his 141st starring role.
And you are so lucky to have met Norman Corwin! I know it was a thrill just to have been in My Client Curley, where I played four different roles in the production. That's the closest I've got!
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Monday's question: What film legend capped a long career by winning an Oscar for his 141st starring role?
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Greetings, everybody! One of the delightlful surprises from last night's Oscar ceremony was hearing that Eric Simonson's A NOTE OF TRIUMPH: THE GOLDEN AGE OF NORMAN CORWIN had won the Oscar for Documentary Short Subject. Corwin was one of the few real poets of radio's golden age back in the '30s and '40s, and a real inspiration to anyone who ever wrote for radio at any time (including me -- 10 years ago I participated in a local re-creation of one of Corwin's most popular radio plays, My Client Curley, which was the basis for the 1944 Cary Grant film ONCE UPON A TIME).
Corwin's first national fame came from his rhyming drama The Plot to Overthrow Christmas which was such a sensation it was repeated annually on CBS radio for many years. He is also known for his more ambitious projects from World War II, such as We Hold These Truths, an all-star tribute to the Bill of Rights broadcast on its 150th anniversary in 1941 (and restaged on National Public Radio for its 200th anniersary in 1991). The title of the documentary comes from Corwin's 1945 all-star broadcast, On a Note of Triumph, a poetic meditation on the end of World War II, and the documentary itself tells how that famous program came together. The public reaction to it was so great that the program was repeated the week after its original broadcast, and was later released on a set of 78 rpm records and published in book form.
Corwin has continued to write short and full-length plays for National Public Radio over the years, and at the age of 95 shows no signs of slowing down. You can hear excerpts from both his classic and modern work for radio at http://www.normancorwin.com.
Now, on to this week's movie trivia . . .
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First of all, although the TCM Movie Database lists over 120,000 titles, TCM owns only a small percentage of that -- about 3,500 feature-length films and 1,800 short subjects. That's the pre-1986 MGM films, the pre-1949 Warner Brothers films, and the entire RKO film library.
As the TCM web staff explained in another post, there was a TCM Library Search feature, but they discontinued it because hardly anybody used it. However, after receiving numerous complaints about its absence, it looks like they will be restoring it at some future date, so sit tight and be patient.
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And MrWriteLA, you are correct!
That's it for this week, everybody -- see you all on Monday!
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Friday's question: Who was the first performer to win an Oscar for a debut performance?
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Trivia -- Week of March 13, 2006
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Friday's question: What was D. W. Griffith's only feature-length film to be made without any retakes?
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