Eve’s right of course. How about this as an alternate phrasing of the question: After Gone With the Wind broke an existing censorship barrier by using the word “damn” in a major American film, what was the next major American film to use the word? This isn’t a trick question and it’s not an obscure movie.
You bet!
You’re only here so the rest of us can pick your brain on movie stuff, just as Chef Troy is here to help out when we’re trying to differentiate Havarti from Tilsit, Melin is here to expound on Southern California legal conundrums, and Mullinator is here to change the light bulbs without a ladder.
We’re all just Taxi Dancers of Knowledge, us members of the SDMB. Give one of us a spin and it’s on to the next.
Nemo:
Otto Preminger’s The Moon is Blue!
No, wait, that was “virgin”…
The Monster played himself.
How about what was the first line in “The Blues Brothers”?
Kinooning it up for 20 years and counting
Oh, damn. I can’t resist.
Now, how was Boris Karloff billed in THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN?
What movie was the first to broadcast the word “asshole” on network television?
Name two stand-alone movies (NOT sequels) where two actors portrayed two characters they had portrayed in an earlier film. (I said “Not sequels,” remember.) As an example, in THE SEVEN LITTLE FOYS, James Cagney portrayed George M. Cohan, which he portrayed in YANKEE DOODLE DANDY. But that’s just one actor in that one, so it doesn’t count.
In the original TILLIE’S PUNCTURED ROMANCE, what well-known comedian played the part of Tillie’s infant child (according to the comedian himself, who is not always trustworthy in these matters)?
Moe Howard of the Three Stooges first got into movies in the silent days, in comedies by the most popular American comedian of his day. What was the comedian’s name?
What is the top money earning documentary of all time?
Name the three film directors who won Oscars for the first movie they ever directed – but for best screenplay, not best director.
What person has won the most Oscars (all categories)?
What was the biggest money-losing movie of all time? (And no, it wasn’t WATERWORLD, though there was an ocean in it).
And finally:
In MODERN TIMES, what was the first and last name of the character played by Paulette Goddard? (She’s listed in the credits as “A gamin,” but what was her actual name in the film?)
“What we have here is failure to communicate.” – Strother Martin, anticipating the Internet.
He was billed as “KARLOFF.” All caps. And I think he was credited BEFORE the title of the movie.
That’s the only one I know offhand.
Top money making documentary? I think I know this one.
Michael Moore’s “Roger & Me”.
Here’s my one useless movie fact–what was the first movie to have a French kiss in it?
ROGER & ME is incorrect.
“What we have here is failure to communicate.” – Strother Martin, anticipating the Internet.
Thisyearsgirl—
How can you TELL from the outside if a kiss is “French” or not? For all we know, MOST movie kisses may have involved tongues, depending on how the performers felt about each other . . .
How about “Le Baiser” (1901) Jean d’Arnot and Justine Lavalle. D: Etienne du Champs.
Chess players in grade schools and high schools play in tournaments, and anyone that plays 10 games a year, out of a possible 40, gets a rating. They then set you up with a similar opponent.
What’s a 4 move, from start, check mate?
Oh man, this is so vague that It hardly constitutes an aswer at all, but the two old guys (one is Don Ameche, I don’t know his partner) from the movie Trading Places show up in an otherwise unrelated film. The main character (of the second film) throws a bunch of money in a dumpster. The two old guys are in the dumpster and one says to the other “Mortimer, we’re back!” I loved that, and it would be one case of the above…
Sweet Basil
Didn’t get voted for a damn thing!
(thanks guys…)
Basil, that’s in another Eddie Murphy movie, isn’t it? Coming To America, maybe?
I think the first time that “asshole” was used in the primetime broadcast of a movie was in Annie Hall. It’s in the scene where the young Alvy walks away from his parents’ obnoxious friend Joey Nickels, muttering, “What an asshole!”
One clear case of the same actor playing the same character is two unrelated films is Peter O’Toole, who plays Henry II in both Becket and The Lion in Winter. The other cases I can think of are really only cases where the actor does a cameo in one of the films. For instance, Edward Herrmann played FDR in Eleanor and Franklin and Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (which are sequels, so that doesn’t count) but he also played FDR in a cameo in Annie. Angela Bassett played Betty Shabazz (Malcolm X’s wife) in both Malcolm X and Panther, but the second is really just a cameo. In any case, that’s only one actor appearing as the same character, not two (which, now that I reread the question, is what was asked for).
Even if you were to count all of Kevin Smith’s films as being sequels, there’s also the appearance of Kevin Smith as Silent Bob and Jason Mewes as Jay in Scream 3. I guess that counts then. Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy played the same characters in both Trading Places and Coming to America, as has been previously mentioned. Are those the two cases you were thinking of, RealityChuck?
The biggest money-losing film of all time is Cutthroat Island, and that’s a fact that I’ve already mentioned on one thread there.
The biggest money-making documentary: I don’t know. Woodstock?
I should have written:
“The biggest money-losing film of all time is Cutthroat Island, and that’s a fact that I’ve already mentioned on one thread here.”
Geez, what’s happened to my proofreading skills.
I hadn’t thought of Silent Bob and Jay (I came up with the question before Clerks came out). Basil gets credit for his answer. The other two I was thinking of were Akim Tamiroff and Brian Donlevy, who reprised the characters they played in THE GREAT MCGINTY in MIRACLE OF MORGAN’S CREEK. (Once again, Preston Sturges was ahead of his time.) 
Yes, on CUTTHROAT ISLAND. Same on ANNIE HALL, since Woody Allen insisted on no cuts. As an interesting sidelight, ABC (which broadcast the film), had extra operators on duty, expecting a flood of calls over the word. They did get a flood of calls – but of people complaining that they were showing the reels out of order(!). Evidently, the non-linear plot of the film (it’s told in flashbacks and flashforwards) confused others.
And, no, the documentary isn’t WOOSTOCK.
Hints:
TILLIE’S PUNCTURED ROMANCE came out around 1915. The comedian is still alive, though he’s best known for TV.
Documentary: They did a sequel to it a couple of years ago.
Most Oscars: His name is one of the most famous in entertainment, and he often won four in a year – though not for major categories.
Three film directors: One of the films is an acknowledged dramatic classic. All three of the directors also acted (though one never acted in his own movies).
“What we have here is failure to communicate.” – Strother Martin, anticipating the Internet.
Most Oscars: The guy who does a lot of the music in Disney films? Whasisname? A little help…?
Oh, it’s movie trivia. I have no idea what i read it as.
I need some trivia answered. I’ve heard that both Walk on the wild side and Lay lady lay were supposed to be movie songs. I think the latter for Midnight Cowboy. Have I got this half right?