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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Bathing Beauty (1944) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Bathing Beauty (1944)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Bathing Beauty (1944).

About the movie: A contrived misunderstanding leads to the breakup of a songwriter and his fiancée. She returns to work as a gym teacher at an all-girls school, but a legal loophole allows the man to enroll as one of her students.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bathing Beauty (1944)?
a.		Some initial credits are not in the second set of credits, so the cast ordering uses the initial credits first and fills in the rest with the subsequent credits, according to IMDb policy.
b.		The toothless old man who greets Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson as they enter Fredericksburg with the line "Yankees evawhere, evawhere!" is a wink to the films predecessor, Gettysburg, which was produced ten years earlier. In it, there is a scene where Buford rides into Gettysburg and is greeted by a similarly toothless old man who shouts, "Johnny Rebs evawhere, evawhere!" The scene was deleted from the final print and is only available on TV broadcasts and the expanded directors edition.
c.		The song that plays at the end of the movie, and used predominately as the theme throughout is called "In The Hall of the Mountain King".
d.		James Stewart celebrated his fiftieth birthday during filming.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bathing Beauty (1944)?
a.		The Alice in Chains painting that appears on the wall of the store and is later sold, is of the cover art from that bands 1990 debut album, Facelift.
b.		At the time of its release, this was MGMs third-highest grossing film, after Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ and Gone with the Wind.
c.		Frank Oz: At the board meeting for "Ocean Breeze Soap".
d.		When shooting on location in Norway, a fierce snow storm hit the hotel where cast and crew were staying. This would have normally halted filming, but director Irvin Kershner thought these weather conditions were an excellent opportunity to film the scene where Luke wanders through the snow after escaping the Wampa cave. He did this by sending Mark Hamill outside into the cold, while he and the cameraman stayed and filmed inside the hotels front hall.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bathing Beauty (1944)?
a.		Due to the war, the movie was not released in either Germany or Japan before the 1950s. In 1951, when the movie was released in Germany, it was dubbed with rather unknown actors. Only Horst Buchholz, as the voice of Lampwick, was to become famous in later years. In 1971, the movie was re-dubbed along with other Disney classics such as Dumbo and Bambi. The original dub is now unknown in Germany.
b.		Janis Paiges film debut.
c.		Stephen King had originally planned to release the novel under his pseudonym, Richard Bachman. While writing it, however, it was discovered that King was Bachman. King subsequently published the novel under his real name, and announced that Bachman had died from "cancer of the pseudonym."
d.		Although the previous film received a PG-13, this film received an R. Notable as many film series have transitioned away from the R-rating, but fewer have transitioned to the R-rating.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bathing Beauty (1944)?
a.		Al Pacino spent time with then-New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and former Mayors Edward I. Koch and David Dinkins to help prepare for his role.
b.		In one sequence Red Skeltons character is trapped inside a house by a large dog. He escapes by removing the hinge pins from the door, picking up the door and, as the dog comes inside he holds the door between them and goes out. Red said that they had written themselves into a corner and could not come up with a way for him to get out. They were going to scrap the scene when the comedian Buster Keaton visited the set, took one look and told them how to do it.
c.		Lloyd Bacon replaced director William K. Howard, who was discharged over a disagreement with the studio. Reportedly he wanted to have Rockne to convert to Catholicism in the film.
d.		In movie, Anthony John stars in a Broadway production of "Othello" that plays more than 300 performances and runs over a year. In reality, no production of a William Shakespeare play has chalked up anywhere near that many performances on Broadway; at best, most are lucky to run several months, like Richard Burtons four-month stint in a 1964 production of "Hamlet", which undoubtedly owed much of its success to his then-notorious relationship with Elizabeth Taylor.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bathing Beauty (1944)?
a.		The movie was initially to be titled "The Co-Ed" with Red Skelton having top billing. However, once MGM execs watched the first cut of the film, they realized that Esther Williams role should be showcased more, and so changed the title to "Bathing Beauty", giving her top billing and featuring her bathing-suit clad figure on the posters.
b.		The second of fourteen films based on Arthur Conan Doyles fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson.
c.		According to The Peoples Almanac, at one point the movie was to have included a line of dialogue giving the Monster the name, Adam. The Almanac indicates that an early print of this film may have indeed been released with just such a scene, but that it was cut when audiences began referring to the Monster by the name Frankenstein.
d.		Prior to Cameron Diaz landing the role of Tina Carlyle, the producers had originally suggested a relative unknown but up and coming blonde Anna Nicole Smith for the role. Ultimately the decision was reversed when they found Cameron Diaz while leaving a modeling agency.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bathing Beauty (1944)?
a.		In one sequence Red Skeltons character appears in a tutu. In a later interview Red said it was uncomfortable because he had to have his chest, back and underarms shaved for this costume.
b.		A Bluebird Production. Universal, lacking its own theater chain, devised a 3-tiered branding system to help it market its product to independent theater owners: Red Feather (low budget programmers), Bluebird (mainstream releases) and Jewel (prestige pictures designed to command higher roadshow ticket prices). This branding system would end in late 1929.
c.		In George Lucas paperback novelization of the film, the book begins with a short prologue recited by Princess Leia. In the prologue, she tells the story of the fall of the "Old Republic", the rise of the Empire, and the rise of the Rebel Alliance. This would be part of the basis for Episodes 1-3 of the "New Trilogy".
d.		The songs the characters sing or hum within the film are actual Medieval melodies. For example, the song Friar Tuck sings is set to the tune of a song called Bacche Bene Venies, from the 13th century Codex Buranus.