Q 01/05

Which birth name did Cary Grant slip into an ad-libbed line in His Girl Friday?

A) Marion Morrison

B) Archie Leach

C) Bernie Schwartz

D) Issur Danielovitch

Answer · why

B) Archie Leach

Archie Leach. His character warns that the last man to cross him that way was Archie Leach, shortly before he cut his throat: an in-joke about the nam...

Q 02/05

In which English city was Cary Grant born in 1904?

A) Bristol

B) Liverpool

C) Birmingham

D) Manchester

Answer · why

A) Bristol

Bristol. He ran away from home there as a schoolboy to join a troupe of acrobats, sailed with them for America at 16 and stayed behind when the tour e...

Q 03/05

When Cary Grant was a boy his mother vanished from home; where had his father in fact sent her?

A) A debtors' prison

B) A mental institution

C) A tuberculosis sanatorium

D) A convent in Ireland

Answer · why

B) A mental institution

A mental institution. He was told she had gone away and grew up believing her dead; he was past thirty, and a film star, before he learned the truth a...

Q 04/05

How old was Cary Grant when he discovered his mother was still alive?

A) 45

B) 24

C) 18

D) 31

Answer · why

D) 31

His father confessed the lie shortly before his own death; Grant visited her regularly afterwards, including after filming Gunga Din.

Q 05/05

Which actor mimicked Cary Grant's voice in Some Like It Hot, then co-starred with him in Operation Petticoat?

A) Jack Lemmon

B) Rock Hudson

C) Tony Curtis

D) Dean Martin

Answer · why

C) Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis. As a teenager he had joined the Navy's submarine service after seeing Grant in Destination Tokyo; in Operation Petticoat he at last serve...