Q 01/05
A) Robert Altman
B) Arthur Penn
C) Mike Nichols
D) Sidney Lumet
Answer · why
He was a Broadway star director but a Hollywood unknown, and every studio turned the project down before Joseph E. Levine financed it.
Q 02/05
A) Warren Beatty
B) Dustin Hoffman
C) Charles Grodin
D) Robert Redford
Answer · why
He was just short of 30 when he auditioned to play a 21-year-old, and was paid $20,000 for the role.
Q 03/05
A) Jeanne Moreau
B) Lana Turner
C) Anne Bancroft
D) Patricia Neal
Answer · why
She was only six years older than Hoffman and eight years older than Katharine Ross, who played her daughter.
Q 04/05
A) Katharine Ross
B) Mia Farrow
C) Candice Bergen
D) Faye Dunaway
Answer · why
Simone Signoret recommended her to Nichols after they made the thriller Games together.
Q 05/05
A) Richard Yates
B) Charles Webb
C) Philip Roth
D) John Updike
Answer · why
He wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College and later gave away almost every dollar it earned him.
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