Death Becomes Her Quiz Challenge - How Much Do You Know? | Movies

Answer: Performing in a Broadway musical

The show was called 'Songbird' and was a musical version of the Tennessee Williams play 'Sweet Bird of Youth'. It was not very well received, with the majority of the audience leaving before the finale.

Madeline did star in a thriller that a bitter Helen watches repeatedly years later, in which Madeline's character is garrotted. The movie appears to be called "Dark Window" as shown on a poster littering the wall of Helen's apartment.

Answer: Beauty secrets

People attending the opening of the book were amazed to find out that she was fifty years old. Later, of course, we discover this is due to the effects of the potion of immortality.

Answer: Undertaker

Helen tells Ernest that it is the years of marriage to a cruel Madeline that resulted in Ernest losing his talents as a plastic surgeon. Madeline referred to Ernest as "Ghoul!" and, in one hateful tirade, describes him as being as dead below the waist as his clients.

His secret was spray paint - mannequin paint to be exact - to give his 'clients' a lifelike appearance; understandably some family members weren't too thrilled to hear this.

He later confessed to Helen that he would give anything to be able to operate again.

Answer: Siempre Viva!

It is Spanish for 'Live Forever.' She says this to her many clients because, after taking the potion, they will be attached to their bodies for a very, very long time.

Answer: 71 years old

She described those who had taken the potion of immortality as "creatures of the spring", not having seen an autumn or winter in years.

When asked to guess Lisle's age, Madeline ventured "38? 28...23"?
Lisle was not impressed as she believed herself to look considerably younger than Madeline's first guess.

Answer: Greta Garbo, Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, and James Dean

Lisle explains to Madeline that she is allowed ten years of public life, after which she must retire, stage her own phony death, or as Greta Garbo, one of Lisle's clients, simply said "I want to be alone, yah".

Ernest runs into Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol, and Elvis (who is publicly chatised for "popping up in public to grab a few lines") while trying to escape a party held at Lisle's castle.

Later, Ernest steals James Dean's car from valet parking as Dean is having a cigarette lit for him by the valet.

Answer: A hole in her stomach

Her neck and wrist are broken after her initial fall down a staircase, after a heated argument with Ernest. This resulted in her death. This comes as such a shock to the doctor who treats her that he later dies.

Her neck injuries are later compounded when Helen firstly hits her on the head so forcefully with a shovel that her head and neck are both bent backwards, and later, hits her again with a shovel causing her head to sink up to her nose into her torso.

It is Helen that receives a gaping hole in her stomach after Madeline vengefully fires a shotgun at her; the blast is so powerful it hurls her backwards into a fountain where she too dies. Upon reviving, Helen states "That was totally uncalled for!"

Answer: So that Ernest could perform maintenance on Madeline and Helen forever

After the spray paint Ernest applied to their dead bodies starts to peel, Madeline and Helen concoct a scheme to keep him alive forever, to do touchups, anytime the paint covering their bodies failed.

Madeline and Helen did beg Ernest to drink the potion so that he would not die after falling from Lisle's rooftop, but not because they cared about him, only so he would be able to take care of their crumbling bodies.

Answer: He moves on with his life, dying 37 years later.

After 50, Ernest meets his wife, has two sons and four daughters, goes on to become a brilliant academic and rugged outdoorsman and opens the Meville Marriage Conuselling Clinic, the Menville Center for the Study of Woman, and a chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous. He often tells his friends and family 'tall tales' about the living dead in Beverly Hills.

The minister at the funeral says he has, in his own way, learned the secret of eternal life, living on in the memories of those left behind.
Madeline is not impressed, retorting "Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah."

Ernest does fall from the roof of Lisle's castle but, fortunately for him, falls into the castle's indoor swimming pool.

Answer: They fall to pieces.

After leaving Ernest's funeral, Helen slips on a can of spray paint that Madeline had accidentally dropped on the top of a staircase, on the way into the church. Just before falling, Helen manages to grab a bemused Madeline and as they hit the bottom of the stairs, they break into pieces.

As their disembodied heads finally come to a rest, Helen asks sarcastically if Madeline remembers where they'd parked their car.