#8940, aired 2023-09-29 | FACTS ABOUT THE BEST PICTURE WINNER $1600: A 1935 article highlights Gable's negging of Colbert in this film: "Peter... tells her she's... spoiled & selfish" It Happened One Night |
#8075, aired 2019-10-18 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $400: Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian helped propel this 1935 film to best picture, the first remake to win the Oscar Mutiny on the Bounty |
#7139, aired 2015-10-01 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $6,000 (Daily Double): (Hi. I'm Ken Burns.) My film about this man who inspired Robert Penn Warren's "All the King's Men" depicts his road to the White House cut short by an assassin in 1935 Huey Long |
#7096, aired 2015-06-22 | TAKE A PHOTO $600: In 1935 Kodak introduced this product line, the first commercially successful amateur color film Kodachrome |
#6047, aired 2010-12-21 | A HAT-EGORY $200: A 1935 Fred Astaire film is named for this type of spiffy headwear Top Hat |
#5779, aired 2009-10-29 | MOVIES BY THE NUMBERS $2000: The title of this 1935 Hitchcock film starring Robert Donat & Madeleine Carroll refers to a spy organization The 39 Steps |
#5520, aired 2008-09-12 | THE SECOND FILM IN THE SERIES $600: The doctor methodically manufactures a mate for his monster in this 1935 follow-up Bride of Frankenstein |
#4928, aired 2006-02-01 | EGYPTIAN CINEMA $1600: Rita Hayworth makes a short, sultry appearance in the 1935 film about this Asian detective “in Egypt” Charlie Chan |
#4256, aired 2003-02-17 | PHOTOGRAPHERS $400: It was introduced to the public in 1935; in the '50s Ernst Haas was one of the first professionals to use it exclusively color photography/film |
#3895, aired 2001-07-06 | FORDS ON FILM $200: Credits on 1935's "The Informer" include Francis Ford as Flynn & this director, Francis' brother John Ford |
#3846, aired 2001-04-30 | LIT ON FILM $1000: A 1935 version of this Dostoyevsky classic is seen here Crime and Punishment |
#3816, aired 2001-03-19 | OUT FOR BLOOD $300: In this 1935 film Errol Flynn plays an Irish physician who's forced to become a pirate Captain Blood |
#3611, aired 2000-04-24 | RITA HAYWORTH $400: At age 17 in 1935, Rita was billed under her real name in the film about this Chinese detective "in Egypt" Charlie Chan |
#3552, aired 2000-02-01 | FILM ROLES IN COMMON $1,000 (Daily Double): Role played by Clark Gable in 1935, Marlon Brando in '62 & Mel Gibson in '84 Fletcher Christian (Mutiny on the Bounty) |
#3030, aired 1997-10-31 | UNIVERSAL MONSTERS $300: (Here's the Frankenstein Monster.) In a 1935 film Elsa Lanchester played my bride & in the prologue, this author Mary Shelley |
#2947, aired 1997-05-27 | MOVIE CLASSICS $1000: Peter Lorre played Raskolnikov in this 1935 film based on a Dostoyevsky novel Crime and Punishment |
#2774, aired 1996-09-26 | "WILD" MOVIES $200: In 1935 Clark Gable starred in this film version of a Jack London classic Call of the Wild |
#2573, aired 1995-11-08 | PIGS ON FILM $100: He made his debut in 1935's "I Haven't Got a Hat" & is famous for the line "That's all folks" Porky (Pig) |
#2476, aired 1995-05-15 | THE MOVIES $100: In this 1935 film, Boris Karloff says of Elsa Lanchester, "She hate me... like others!" the Bride of Frankenstein |
#2374, aired 1994-12-22 | NOVEL FILMS $600: Charles Laughton was originally set to play Mr. Micawber in this 1935 film but W.C. Fields replaced him David Copperfield |
#2267, aired 1994-06-14 | 1935 $400: In 1935 Kodak introduced this new color film for home photography Kodachrome |
#1875, aired 1992-10-30 | THERE ARE NO SMALL PARTS $200: When she danced in the 1935 film "Dante's Inferno", she was still using the name Rita Cansino Rita Hayworth |
#1659, aired 1991-11-14 | FAMOUS WOMEN $200: The 1935 film "Naughty Marietta" was her first collaboration with Nelson Eddy Jeanette MacDonald |
#1302, aired 1990-04-10 | PIRATE MOVIES $200: In this 1935 film that made him a star, Errol Flynn was Dr. Peter Blood, a physician who turns to piracy Captain Blood |
#1202, aired 1989-11-21 | MOVIES $400: His 1st film was 1935's "Splendor"; his last, 1983's "Curse of the Pink Panther" David Niven |
#723, aired 1987-10-28 | CINEMATIC ROSES $300: This 1935 film starred Nelson Eddy & Jeanette MacDonald, not Buddy Sorrell & Sally Rogers Rose Marie |
#635, aired 1987-05-15 | PIRATES $400: In a 1935 film, Errol Flynn played this pirate created by Rafael Sabatini Captain Blood |
#580, aired 1987-02-27 | PHOTOGRAPHY $600: In 1935, Eastman Kodak introduced this film to the world; in 1973 Paul Simon sang about it Kodachrome |
#537, aired 1986-12-30 | TOUGH MOVIE TRIVIA $1000: In 1935, this future 1st lady worked as an extra in "Becky Sharp" 1st full-color feature film Pat Nixon |
#448, aired 1986-05-28 | ACTORS & ROLES $600: He starred in both a 1935 & 1963 film called "The Raven" Boris Karloff |
#157, aired 1985-04-16 | BEST PICTURES $1000: In this 1935 film, Clark Gable starred in an Oscar winner for the 2nd consecutive year Mutiny on the Bounty |