the movies crossword

Andrew Smith | Compiler

• 100% thematic!
• 52 challenging crossword puzzles
• Over 1,500 clues and answers about the movies
• Includes over 150 quotes

“Photography is truth. Cinema is truth 24 times per second.”—Jean-Luc Godard

Do you know...

• The first film made in Cinemascope
• Who coined the term "documentary"
• The actor who played Shakespeare on-screen more than anyone else
• The drug Cary Grant admitted and later denied having used
• The cost of make-up for Planet of the Apes
• Who was the voice of Betty Boop
• Dr. Seuss’s only live-action film
• Hedy Lamar’s 1933 topless swimming movie
• The famous painter who made an eight-hour film
• Who Hearst is rumored to have killed on his yacht
• The first major star actor to play a priest on screen
• Francois Truffaut’s only English-language film
• The famous dog movie star discovered in battle in World War I
• The movie for which Ronald Reagan’s first wife won an Oscar

ACROSS
1. Capra's isle of origin
4. Film titles employing this word include: "___ Evidence," "___ Graffiti," "___ Scandal"
10. In the 1930s, this was Hollywood's most continental studio
11. "Over the Rainbow" composer
12. His voice made its screen debut in 1933's "The Invisible Man"
13. 1935's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was this great stage director's only film
14. Ideals behind Vigo's work
16. 1938, this Oz star's salary was $125 a week
19. Garland's original name
21. Won a supporting Academy Award for "Jezebel" and was nominated the same year (1938) for "White Banners," as best actress
24. Playing an alleged Romonov survivor, this film marked Ingrid Bergman's return to American favor
25. Despite wretched reviews, his TV popularity made "The Santa Clause" a hit
26. This sequel averages one killing every 21 minutes
27. The power of a light source
28. In "Sister Act," Whoopi Goldberg violates much of this (2)
29. Shoes the computer wore