Easter Parade Movie Trivia
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50 free Easter Parade Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Easter Parade is the 1948 MGM musical that brought Fred Astaire out of retirement, gave Ann Miller her big MGM break and handed Judy Garland one of her most beloved numbers in the tramp duet 'A Couple of Swells'. This quiz has 49 free Easter Parade movie trivia questions with answers. It covers the plot (Pastini's, Juanita, the Ziegfeld audition, the bunny in the top hat), the songs Irving Berlin dug out of his trunk and the ones he wrote on the spot, the casting near-misses involving Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse and Frank Sinatra, the Oscar it won, the number that was cut as too risqué, and the fire that means the soundtrack will never be heard in stereo. There are questions on the title song's 1933 origins too. Each answer was checked against Wikipedia's entries on the film, its songs and its stars, and every question carries a citation, so it is safe to use for an Easter family quiz or a classic-film night.
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Q 01Easter Parade missed Easter 1948 and finally opened in which season?
Summer
Summer. Recasting and other delays meant the Easter musical was not ready for the holiday, and it reached cinemas more than three months late.
Q 02Which director, then married to Judy Garland, was removed from Easter Parade days into rehearsals?
Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli was replaced on the advice of Garland's psychiatrist, who felt the couple should not work together again so soon after their last film had strained the marriage.
Q 03Who directed Easter Parade?
Charles Walters
Charles Walters, a former dancer, thought the script made its hero a heel, and a new writer was brought in to lighten it.
Q 04Who produced Easter Parade for MGM?
Arthur Freed
Arthur Freed began as a lyricist: he wrote the words to 'Singin' in the Rain', sung in a 1929 film revue, more than twenty years before he produced the musical named after it.
Q 05Who wrote the songs in Easter Parade?
Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin first offered the idea to 20th Century-Fox, which balked at his price; MGM paid him $600,000 for his songs, his name and his story advice.
Q 06Which star was cast opposite Judy Garland in Easter Parade but broke his ankle before filming?
Gene Kelly
Gene Kelly told MGM he had been hurt in rehearsal, and only later admitted that he broke the ankle playing ball.
Q 07Which business did Fred Astaire launch during the retirement Easter Parade ended?
A chain of dance studios
A chain of dance studios opened under his name in 1947. Before saying yes to the film, he phoned the injured star he was replacing to check that he didn't mind.
Q 08In Easter Parade, Don and Hannah work their way up through which kind of theatre?
Vaudeville
Vaudeville is where the pair flop with a feathered ballroom routine, then click once Don builds comic numbers around Hannah instead.
Q 09On stage, Judy Garland often reprised Easter Parade's tramp duet, then sang which song still in the costume?
Over the Rainbow
Over the Rainbow became her quiet finale from her 1951 run at New York's Palace Theatre, sung sitting at the edge of the stage in the tramp outfit.
Q 10Which crooner was announced for Easter Parade's cast in 1947 but never appeared in the film?
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra was named in early casting reports along with Kathryn Grayson and Red Skelton, but all three parts had vanished by the time filming began.
Q 11In Easter Parade, what is the name of Ann Miller's character, who leaves Don to go solo?
Nadine Hale
Nadine Hale signs a solo contract without telling Don, then pulls him into one of their old dances on the night his new act triumphs.
Q 12Ann Miller took over her Easter Parade role from which dancer, sidelined by a leg injury?
Cyd Charisse
Cyd Charisse had to give up the part, and waited five years to become Astaire's leading lady, in The Band Wagon.
Q 13Judy Garland's tuxedo jacket, first worn in a number cut from Easter Parade, became famous in which song?
Get Happy
Get Happy was added to Summer Stock after Garland had finished her other scenes: she came back to film it in the half-tuxedo from the deleted number.
Q 21Which Easter Parade screenwriter later became a bestselling thriller novelist?
Sidney Sheldon
Sidney Sheldon came to thrillers late: he won an Oscar for a comedy script the year this film came out, and created I Dream of Jeannie before his first novel.
Q 22Which Academy Award did Easter Parade win?
Best Original Music Score
Best Original Music Score, in the category then called Scoring of a Musical Picture, went to Johnny Green and Roger Edens for their scoring, not to the man who wrote the songs.
Q 23Easter Parade's first writers, Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, had recently co-written which Christmas classic?
It's a Wonderful Life
Q 14In Easter Parade, what is Hannah's job when Don picks her as his new partner?
A chorus dancer
A chorus dancer in a restaurant floor show: Don, drowning his sorrows at the bar, picks her at random to prove he can replace his old partner with anyone.
Q 15In Easter Parade, what problem does Hannah reveal at her first rehearsal with Don?
Left-right confusion
Left-right confusion: Hannah can't tell one leg from the other at rehearsal, and Don's attempt to restyle her as an elegant ballroom dancer ends in a fiasco.
Q 16In Easter Parade, what exotic stage name does Don first give Hannah?
Juanita
Juanita comes with a wardrobe to match, but at the act's first show her feathered gown moults all over Don and the routine falls apart.
Q 17In Easter Parade, under what billing do Don and his new partner finally become a hit?
Hannah & Hewes
Hannah & Hewes is the billing they adopt once Don stops styling her as a copy of his old partner and builds the act around her own talents.
Q 18In Easter Parade, for which famous Broadway revue do Don and Hannah audition?
The Ziegfeld Follies
The Ziegfeld Follies wants the pair, but Don turns the offer down when he learns that his former partner is the show's star.
Q 19In Easter Parade, which live animal is among the anonymous gifts sent to Don?
A bunny in a top hat
A bunny in a top hat comes with flowers and a chocolate egg: Hannah is wooing Don with the kind of Easter presents he once showered on his old partner.
Q 20On which New York street do Don and Hannah stroll at the end of Easter Parade?
Fifth Avenue
Fifth Avenue was a set: MGM built about two blocks of the street on its backlot for the film's parade scenes.
It's a Wonderful Life was less than a year old, yet MGM still had the married team's finished Easter Parade script reworked by another writer.
Q 24Which Judy Garland solo was filmed for Easter Parade but cut before release?
Mr. Monotony
Mr. Monotony became a serial casualty: its songwriter tried it again in the stage shows Miss Liberty and Call Me Madam, and it was dropped from both.
Q 25Which camera effect lets Fred Astaire dance out of time with the chorus behind him in Easter Parade?
Slow motion
Slow motion, matched to a chorus singing and dancing at normal speed, was billed by MGM as a first, even though the number is meant to be live on a theatre stage.
Q 26Jules Munshin, the head waiter in Easter Parade, played one of three sailors on leave in which 1949 musical?
On the Town
On the Town came a year after his film debut in Easter Parade, where his big moment is tossing an elaborate salad entirely in mime.
Q 27Which song is Ann Miller's big solo tap number in Easter Parade?
Shakin' the Blues Away
Shakin' the Blues Away was her showcase in her first MGM film, which began an eight-year run in the studio's musicals for her, including Kiss Me Kate.
Q 28In which Easter Parade number do Fred Astaire and Judy Garland perform dressed as tramps?
A Couple of Swells
A Couple of Swells was turned out in about an hour, after the producer rejected the gentle walking song first written for the spot.
Q 29The moulting feather gown in Easter Parade spoofs a dress Fred Astaire's partner wore dancing to which 1935 song?
Cheek to Cheek
Cheek to Cheek, in Top Hat, is the target: his partner's ostrich feathers kept flying off into his face as they danced, which infuriated Astaire on set.
Q 30Which number does Fred Astaire perform in a toy shop early in Easter Parade?
Drum Crazy
Drum Crazy has him playing every drum in the shop to distract a small boy from the toy they both want, so that he can walk off with it.