Cary Grant Trivia

1. What real life composer did Cary Grant portray in "Night and Day"?

From Quiz Grant Me a Movie

Answer: Cole Porter

Cary Grant played songwriter Cole Porter opposite to Alexis Smith, who played Cole's wife, Linda Lee Thomas. Cole Porter wrote lyrics for several popular Broadway musicals. Warner Brothers produced "Night and Day", which was released on July 2, 1946. Cary Grant performed "Bull Dog", "An Old Fashioned Garden" and "You're The Top" for the movie.

From Quiz A Day at the Movies with Cary Grant

Answer: Stoves

Ernest Bliss was a rich, bored young man who asked a doctor for advice. The doctor suggested that Ernest live for a year without touching his money. One of Ernest's jobs while trying to make a living on his own was to sell stoves. Cary Grant starred with Mary Brian.

From Quiz Cary Grant Movies

Answer: Loretta Young

With David Niven. Pleasant.

From Quiz Cary Grant and His Amazing Roles

Answer: Mortimer Brewster, a theater critic with a family trauma

The film itself is a dark comedy about two elderly sisters who poison lonely old men with arsenic-laced elderberry wine. Mortimer Brewster is their nephew who is a theater critic/author who is well known for writing against the institution of marriage. However, he has just married the girl next door and now must control the chaos that ensues when he stumbles on his aunts' secret. Interestingly, Grant was initially hesitant to take on the role, as he had only played suave leading men up until that point in his career. However, he ultimately agreed to take on the part and received critical acclaim for his comedic performance.

From Quiz More Cary Grant

Answer: Irene Dunne and a dog

The dog was Mr. Smith (Asta).

From Quiz Grant Me a Movie

Answer: Stephen

Cary Grant played an Olympic Javelin thrower named Stephen. Stephen was happily married to Claire, or so he thought. After returning home from the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, Stephen found his wife, Claire, ready to run off with another man to Venice, Italy. Stephen's best friend, Gerald, lied and told Stephen the tickets were for Gerald and his new wife. Hilarity ensued as Stephen's friend, Gerald, fell in love with the woman he hired to be his new wife and Stephen reunited with his cheating wife, all while vacationing in Venice. Paramount Publix produced "This is the Night" which was released on April 8, 1932.

From Quiz Movies of a Legend

Answer: Murder

In the classic comedy "His Girl Friday", Rosalind Russell plays Hildy Johnson, newspaperman Walter Burn's (Cary Grant) ex-wife. She is Walter's newspaper's top reporter, but she informs Walter she is leaving the paper to get remarried. When a murder is committed, Walter is able to convince Hildy to write a story on it and stay. By the end of the film Hildy and Walter get back together, of course!

From Quiz A Day at the Movies with Cary Grant

Answer: Rudyard Kipling & Kipling

"Gunga Din" took place in India during British rule. Rudyard Kipling also wrote "Captains Courageous" and "The Jungle Book".

From Quiz Cary Grant Movies

Answer: Wine

Elderberry wine, to be precise. Grant's best comedy?

From Quiz Cary Grant and His Amazing Roles

Answer: Dudley, a helpful angel

This holiday movie is about a bishop who prays for help in getting a new cathedral built. His prayers are answered in the form of an angel named Dudley, played by Grant. Dudley, however, is really there to help people spiritually. In the course of doing so, the angel becomes attracted to the bishop's wife and must deal with the unreturned sentiment. After several Christmas miracles, Dudley moves on while knowing he has helped people with their problems, including the bishop. Grant was not the first choice for the role of Dudley. The part was originally offered to Jimmy Stewart, who turned it down. Other actors considered for the role included David Niven and Van Johnson. However, Grant's performance as the charming and charismatic angel who helps a bishop and his wife rediscover the true meaning of Christmas was widely praised, and the film was a critical and commercial success.

From Quiz More Cary Grant

Answer: Katharine Hepburn and a leopard

All of the above eight actresses were in at least one film with Cary Grant.

From Quiz Grant Me a Movie

Answer: Lieutenant

Cary Grant played Navy Lieutenant B. F. Pinkerton. He married Cho-Cho San, a geisha, while in Japan and then left for the States. Three years later, Pinkerton returned with his new wife. Cho-Cho San committed suicide after learning Pinkerton had remarried. Paramount Publix produced the movie which was released on December 30, 1932.

From Quiz Movies of a Legend

Answer: Judge

Cary Grant stars as Richard Nugent, a man who somehow gets mixed up in the lives of Susan (Shirley Temple) and her older sister Margaret (Myrna Loy), a judge.

From Quiz A Day at the Movies with Cary Grant

Answer: George Cukor

"The Philadelphia Story" starred Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and Jimmy Stewart. Howard Hawks directed "Bringing Up Baby", Hitchock directed "Notorious" and "North by Northwest", among others, and Frank Capra directed "Arsenic and Old Lace". George Cukor also directed "Holiday", which co-starred Katharine Hepburn.

From Quiz Cary Grant Movies

Answer: Cole Porter

Danny Thomas played composer Gus Kahn in a different movie.

From Quiz Cary Grant and His Amazing Roles

Answer: C.K. Dexter Haven, suave ex-husband of bride

'The Philadelphia Story' is about the complications of marriage, divorce, and remarriages. Katharine Hepburn plays a woman named Tracy who is from a family with a high social status and who has been divorced from Dexter Haven (played by Grant) for a couple of years. Tracy is getting married again and is planning a large wedding. "Spy" magazine wants the wedding scoop so sends in Haven, who is temporarily working for them, and two aides. During the ensuing festivities, relationships are questioned, actions are scrutinized, and endings are all twisted. The role of Dexter Haven was originally offered to Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy, both of whom turned it down. However, Grant's portrayal of the charming and witty Haven earned him critical acclaim and helped solidify his status as a Hollywood leading man. The film also starred Hepburn and James Stewart, and was a box office success, receiving six Academy Award nominations and winning two.

From Quiz Grant Me a Movie

Answer: Robert Mitchum

Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr were the Earl and Countess Rhyall. Victor and Hilary Rhyall lived in an English mansion they called Lynley Hall. After financial troubles forced them to open up their home for paid tours, the Earl and Countess met oil tycoon Charles Delacro (Robert Mitchum). The Earl invited Delacro to stay with them. Delacro took a liking to Hilary Rhyall. He and Victor Rhyall ended up in a duel for Deborah Kerr's affections, which Victor lost after he was shot. While tending to Victor, Hilary remembered how much she loved him. Charles left with Victor's female friend, Hattie (Jean Simmons) in this Grandon Productions movie, released on January 1961. "Hollywood Reporter" reviewed the movie as "the year's most disappointing". Robert Mitchum was best known for his role as the deeply disturbed former prisoner Harry Powell in the 1955 movie, "The Night of the Hunter". Moray Watson starred as the butler for the Rhyall family.

From Quiz A Day at the Movies with Cary Grant

Answer: Pilot

In "Only Angels Have Wings", which co-starred Jean Arthur, Geoff Carter was a pilot who delivered mail. Grant's character in "The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer" was an author, Cole Porter was a songwriter in "Night and Day", and Dudley was an angel in "The Bishop's Wife".

From Quiz More Cary Grant

Answer: The Bishop's Wife

1947 with Loretta Young and David Niven.

From Quiz Movies of a Legend

Answer: Bing Crosby

Grace Kelly played Tracy Lord, Katherine Hepburn's character, and Frank Sinatra played Mike Connor, Jimmy Stewart's character. This remake certainly does not receive the praise "The Philadelphia Story" enjoys.

From Quiz A Day at the Movies with Cary Grant

Answer: Notorious

"Notorious" was about an American agent during WWII. "Suspicion" co-starred Joan Fontaine, "An Affair to Remember" co-starred Deborah Kerr, and "Penny Serenade" co-starred Irene Dunn. Grant and Bergman made another movie together in 1958, "Indiscreet".

From Quiz Cary Grant Movies

Answer: Laraine Day

Russell was in "His Girl Friday". Hepburn was in "Charade". Fontaine was in "Suspicion". Overlooked Grant movie.

From Quiz Cary Grant and His Amazing Roles

Answer: Cole Porter, a composer and songwriter

This is a fictional movie biography of the composer Cole Porter, played by Grant. Porter starts off by studying law but soon follows a professor's advice, and his heart, and pursues songwriting. He is wounded in WWI then struggles through marital arguments due to his passion for composing. Porter later is extremely injured in a horseback accident and must deal with the pain as well as attempted reconciliation with his wife. There were over twenty Cole Porter songs in the film and it also represented the first time Cary Grant appeared in a color film. The movie was nominated for an Academy Award in 1947 but was later criticized as it fictionalized the life of Cole Porter to fit the era's censorship, notably omitting any mention of his homosexuality.

From Quiz More Cary Grant

Answer: Dudley

From Quiz Grant Me a Movie

Answer: New York

The movie was produced and distributed by RKO Radio. The movie starred Edward Arnold and Frances Farmer. Cary Grant was cast as the love interest for Frances Farmer. "The Toast of New York" was a historically factual movie based on three men's con game in the early years of the Civil War.

From Quiz A Day at the Movies with Cary Grant

Answer: 2 & Two

The names of their children were Joan and Betsy. Jim and Muriel Blandings were trying to build a home in the country because their city house was too small. Myrna Loy also co-starred with Grant in "The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer".

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