Let's face it, there are far more trivia than publishers can manage, even if we were to confine them to just classic movie trivia. In TCM Classic Movie Trivia, the editors have produced a very organised book that can be a source for party fun or just a quiet nostalgic flick refresh fading memory. It starts with Chapter 1 on Early Holly wood: 'Which leading lady was born with the surname Gustafsson? The book provides a choice of 4 possible answers. The true answer is revealed at the end of the book. Not inconvenient to find because of the superb organisation of the chapters and questions.
The book continues with questions about the stars and Hollywood in 1930s, the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s - and beyond. Each part has specific subjects, such as 'The Leading Men' and 'Comedies'. And if you think this is not sufficient, the excellent collection of black and white photographs are so absolutely stunning - do we need digital photography when black and white film produces such quality?
And yes, What is Barbara Stanwyck's second film with Gary Cooper? (a) Ball of Fire (b) Love in the Afternoon (c) Night Nurse (d) The lady Eve? (Answer: Ball of Fire).
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Review by a guy who has worked in Hollywood since 1980....
Well aside from being a true fan of TCM and of all types of film (B&W Silents to Film Noir to rare foreign films to Hwd Blockbusters), I actually work in Hollywood... I've been in live action film production in LA since 1980; thus I was really expecting this Book to be filled with all kinds of fascinating stories and tidbits of Hollywood Lore & Legends...BUT... I regret to say that I was really terribly disappointed... Yeah sure, it's packed with 4,000+ multiple choice questions... but NOT Trivia! I mean, come on! This is NOT (as advertised) "...the definitive movie trivia book..." Granted Robert Osborne was a great host for TCM, but this book falls far short of being a definitive or even a mediocre compilation of some of the many outrageous stories & legends about Stars, Directors and mishaps that occurred over the years (especially during Hollywood's Golden Age) on the huge sound stages in LA or out On Location.Where's the Classic story about how William Bendix clobbered Alan Ladd so hard (during the filming of a fight scene in The Blue Dahlia ~ 1946), that he actually knocked Ladd out cold! Bendix was so horrified, he stayed by Ladd until he was revived. They became life-long friends.Or what about the historic John Wayne prank where he and a bunch of Stunt Men (Rodeo guys) got kicked out of the penthouse bar in the iconic Sunset Tower on the Sunset Strip (note the 1955 photo). They'd been working on a John Ford Western out in the middle of nowhere, and had just got back into town (still wearing their dirty costumes & boots with spurs) and got wasted & eventually "too rowdy" for the Management... hence they were asked to leave; and when they refused, they were told that the LAPD would be along shortly to escort them off the premises!Well, Wayne got really "pissed" to say the least... so he and the boys went out to a Ranch in (nearby) Burbank and loaded a long-horn steer onto one of the Studio's flat-bed trucks and took it back to the Sunset Tower... and then they forced it into the elevator! But just before the doors closed and they sent it up to the bar, someone (Wayne?) poked it with an electric cattle prod in the Bull's "privates" !!! Needless to say it went ballistic and when it got out of the (now destroyed) elevator... well, the bar was closed for over a month in order to repair the damage!Paramount was having a bad year that year over various other PR scandals involving their Stars and didn't need another... so they shelled out Big Buck$ to keep it hushed up as much as possible.Anyway... THAT's the kind of stuff I was hoping to find in this book... Not necessarily that outrageous, but certainly not just a "pop quiz" of obscure film credits. Maybe I should start collecting some of these and write my own book...
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Linda Forrest-Castonguay
Served it's purpose.
Reviewed in Canada on January 12, 2020