This week our film history expert answers your questions on age discrepancies between actors playing family members, silhouette cinema, and dwarf performers
\fs28 A\fs24 It seems to be. Michael J. Fox was a mere three years older than Crispin Glover when he played his son in Back to the Future (1985) and Jessica Tandy was only two years husband Hume Cronyn's senior when she essayed his daughter in The Green Years (1946). Helen Hunt was a year older than 'father' Nicolas Cage in Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), while Roger Daltrey was born three months before screen dad Robert Powell and only three years after 'mother' Ann-Margret in Tommy (1975).\par \par Cinema's smallest mother-child discrepancy is the six months separating Maureen Stapleton from Dick Van Dyke in Bye Bye Birdie (1963), while the father-child gap appears to be the 331 days between Roger Livesey and Laurence Olivier in The Entertainer (1960). Angela Lansbury was cast as the...
This week our resident expert answers your questions on Michael Winner and Marlon Brando's unusual bet, sepia-toned subtitles and the world's biggest multiplexes
This week, our trivia master answers your questions on Hollywood's most valuable legs, the vogue for director's cuts and more on the first female close-up
Our film historian digs up the facts on the first female close-up (facial hair was involved), a film about a dead man's jaunts and Hollywood's best-value stars
This week, our trivia treasure trove answers your questions on the illustrious precursors of product placement, TV spin-offs and who's who among the surviving cast of Gone With The Wind
This week, our movie trivia master answers your queries on cross-border collaborations, a long gestating animated movie and the history of projected images
