Three's a Crowd! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Oliver Reed and Kiefer Sutherland

This famous story by Dumas is set in Seventeenth Century France and is about the young recruit, D'Artagnan, trying to become a full musketeer by impressing Athos, Aramis and Porthos (the eponymous musketeers) whose motto is "All for one, and one for all".

The original story was first published in serial form in a magazine called "Le Siecle" between March and July 1844. There have been many other films made based on this popular story and I am sure there will be more in the future. Oliver Reed is the nephew of director Carol Reed. Untrained as an actor, he had a huge physical presence on and off screen. From early roles in such films as "Curse of the Werewolf" (1961) through Bill Sykes in "Oliver", "Women in Love" and "Triple Echo", right up until his final role in "Gladiator" (1999) he always emanated danger. Due to his sad death during this final role some of it had to be completed with the use of a double and some outtakes. Kiefer Sutherland is the son of film star Donald.

He has a long list of film credits but is probably best-known for the TV series "24", which ran from 2001 until 2010.

Answer: The Three Stooges

The Three Stooges were known for the type of extreme violence to each other that you might only normally see in cartoons - it was often accompanied by bizarre sound effects too. As well as appearing in feature films between "Soup to Nuts" (1930) and "Kook's Tour" (1970), they also made about 190 "shorts".

These were one of the staples of "Saturday Morning Pictures" in the UK during the 1950s. They began as a vaudeville act before getting into films and their longevity meant there were regular changes of personnel throughout the life-time of their act.

Answer: Jules Munshin

Jules Munshin, not as famous as Kelly or Sinatra, nevertheless was a song-and-dance man who made his name on Broadway before moving into cinema. As well as "On the Town", he had roles in other MGM musicals - notably "Take Me Out To the Ball Game" and "Easter Parade".

Some of the music for the film was written by Leonard Bernstein and the plot involved the three sailors singing and dancing three girls that they meet across New York. The girls are played by Vera Ellen, Anne Miller and Betty Garrett.

Many of Bernstein's songs written for the Broadway musical were replaced in the film by new ones written by Roger Edens. Since then, the musical has been revived on stage, both in London and on Broadway, many times.

Answer: David Tomlinson

"Three Men in a Boat" was intended to be a travel book but turned into a comedy classic. Written in 1889, it is the story of a boating holiday on the River Thames taken by three men and a dog called Montmorency in which a string of funny incidents occur. David Tomlinson was in all sorts of British films in the mid-20th Century but will always be remembered as George Banks, the buttoned-up father of the children in "Mary Poppins" who eventually breaks away from his humdrum existence at a bank. Laurence Harvey was better known as a serious actor while Jimmy Edwards, an ex-WWll pilot, was a household name in the UK due to his radio and TV work.

Answer: Frankie Laine

The film was directed by Delmer Daves, who had many credits for directing westerns. It was from a book by Elmore Leonard. Glenn Ford was a Canadian born actor who had an amazing career in Hollywood which lasted from the late '30s into the early '90s, appearing in dozens of films. Van Heflin started at about the same time as Ford and also had an impressive filmography albeit cut a little short by his death in 1971 after a heart attack in his swimming pool. Frankie Laine was a massive singing star for many decades who had a habit of getting some great theme songs, such as "High Noon", "Gunfight at the OK Corral" and "Blazing Saddles" as well as "3.10 to Yuma".

In addition, he had much success with the TV western theme from "Rawhide". In 2007, the film was remade with Russell Crowe and Christian Bale starring.

Answer: Trapeze

The film paired two cinema greats with Gina Lollobrigida as a classic femme fatale who comes between them in their quest for Orsini to perform the elusive triple somersault on the trapeze, which Ribble, a once-great trapeze artist, can no longer do due to an injury sustained in an accident while performing. Carol Reed, of "Third Man" and "Oliver" fame, directed the movie and gave it an almost film noir quality.

Answer: Vienna

This much-loved film was also directed by Carol Reed and starred Orson Welles (as Harry Lime), Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli and Trevor Howard. It is set in a Vienna divided into four sectors - each controlled by one of the victorious allies. The plot is based around the mysterious Harry Lime and his "supposed" demise. Graham Greene wrote the screenplay and Anton Karas' iconic score became internationally famous - played on only a zither.

The actor Michael Rennie played Harry Lime in a TV series based on "The Third Man" during the late '50s and early '60s.

Answer: The Trevi Fountain

Nominated for Best Picture, the film did receive Oscars for Cinematography and Music. It starred Dorothy McGuire, Louis Jourdan and Rossano Brazzi. The most enduring part of the film, though, is the title song which has been recorded by many artists and has become a standard. Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn wrote it in an hour and Twentieth Century Fox failed to sign a contract with them, which meant that the writers were able to claim all the royalties.

As it won an Oscar for Best Original Song and was number one in the US by The Four Aces plus number one in the UK by Frank Sinatra, it was a pretty lucrative hour's work.

Answer: Jack Haley

This movie was made in 1939 and although it was nominated for other Oscars, the ones it actually received were for Best Song, Best Original Score and Best Performance by a Juvenile (Judy Garland). "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" must be one of the best known and most recorded songs ever written. Jack Haley was a song-and-dance comedian from vaudeville and radio who crossed over into movies.

He got the Tin Man role after Buddy Ebsen suffered a serious reaction to the makeup and became ill. Bert Lahr played The Cowardly Lion, Ray Bolger played The Scarecrow and Frank Morgan played The Wizard.

In 2010, Andrew Lloyd Webber ran a search for a new Dorothy in a UK series on BBC TV for his new musical production of the story in The West End. Oh, and he also found a new Toto!

Answer: Glenda Jackson

Barton (Brian Deacon) becomes Alice's lover and decides not to return to his regiment. He disguises himself as Alice's sister which goes well until a bullying sergeant (Oliver Reed) decides to take advantage of two lonely "women". He is rebuffed by Alice but Barton, foolishly, agrees to accompany the sergeant to a Christmas dance at the army base. That is where it all goes awry! Glenda Jackson had a star-studded career as an actress in film and TV before she decided to enter politics, becoming a very effective and outspoken Member of Parliament.

She was a Junior Transport Minister at one point but her strong opinions and disagreements with certain Blairite policies kept her on the back benches for most of her career.