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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Becky Sharp (1935) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Becky Sharp (1935) Quiz
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About the movie:
Set against the background of the Battle of Waterloo, Becky Sharp is the story of Vanity Fair by Thackeray...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Becky Sharp (1935)?
a.
After the tremendous success of the short
La Cucaracha
,
John Hay Whitney
and his cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney formed Pioneer Pictures to produce color films, of which this was the first.
b.
Film debut of
Dolores Hart
.
c.
One innovation of
Robert Altman
was the almost constant overlaying of dialogue: as many as four conversations could be happening at once in a given shot. While this was considered unorthodox and revolutionary at the time, Altmans instinct was vindicated when audiences agreed that the technique contributed to the feeling that war was "messy and confusing". The technique has been emulated on several occasions since.
d.
Aron Ralston
filmed a daily video diary while he was stuck in the canyon; the footage has only been shown to close friends and family and is kept in a bank vault for safety. Before shooting began both
James Franco
and director
Danny Boyle
were allowed to view the footage in order to accurately portray the events in the movie.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Becky Sharp (1935)?
a.
Yvette Mimieux
was actually underage when shooting began (she turned 18 during the shoot) and was not legally supposed to work a full shooting schedule, but did. She was inexperienced - as she worked on this film she kept getting better and better so that by the end of the shoot they wound up going back and re-shooting some of her earliest scenes.
b.
An item in the Schenectady Gazette, dated September 5, 1934, announced this as a forth-coming production. The small article titled Leisen Directs Sylvia gave Red Woman as the films title.
c.
The first feature-length three-color film.
d.
John Landis
initially wanted to keep the werewolfs screen time to a minimum, having it only appear in a couple scenes, just enough to give an impression of something huge and ferocious. The long shot of the werewolf cornering Gerald Bringsley on the Underground escalator was an example of this. Landis decision to show the werewolf as much as it was shown was based on the fact that Landis loved
Rick Baker
s design of the monster.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Becky Sharp (1935)?
a.
Being the first Technicolor film, the color at the time did not look too realistic; one critic commented that the cast looked like "boiled salmon dipped in mayonnaise".
b.
The basketball game was shot in the gymnasium of what was, at that time, Broken Arrow Senior High, Broken Arrow Oklahoma. To make it look like a nighttime game, they put thick black paper over the windowpanes. This added to the heat generated by the summer weather, as they were filming daylight hours.
c.
Kim Cattrall
dieted for over two months to slim down to a size four to play the emaciated Judy McCoy.
d.
John Wayne
had intended to play a character in the part directed by
Henry Hathaway
, but
John Ford
insisted he appear in the Civil War sequence.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Becky Sharp (1935)?
a.
The central plot lines in all of the Beverly Hills Cop movies revolve around Axel Foley visiting Beverly Hills in order to investigate a shooting of a person that Axel is close to. In this movies case, the plot line involves Axel investigating the murder of his friend Michael Tandino.
b.
Marc Forster
: one of the workers in the scene where J.M. Barrie (
Johnny Depp
) visits the costume room at the playhouse.
c.
Quite a lot of the chocolate things such as trees, flowers etc featured in the movie were created by chocolate shop Choccywoccydoodah in Brighton, UK. The shop displayed and sold some of the creations in the shop after the release of the film.
d.
After only a few weeks filming, director
Lowell Sherman
developed pneumonia and died. His replacement,
Rouben Mamoulian
, scrapped his footage and began again from scratch.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Becky Sharp (1935)?
a.
Its $170 million budget is the highest approved budget to date (other movies cost more, but had smaller "approved" budgets).
b.
The dress worn by Gale Robbins in the "All Alone Monday" number is the same dress worn by Ann Miller in the "Girl on the Magazine Cover" in
Easter Parade
.
c.
This was
Jennifer Connelly
s first feature film role.
d.
Mrs. Leslie Carter, the legendary Broadway actress from the turn-of-the-century, has an uncredited part as "Woman" in this film. Five years later, Miriam Hopkins would portray Mrs. Carter in the Warner Brothers film _Lady With Red Hair (1940)_.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Becky Sharp (1935)?
a.
The film was financed by director
Harold Becker
, screenwriter
Joseph Wambaugh
, and many of Wambaughs friends, which allowed them to have total creative control.
b.
Preview audiences complained that the sound was unintelligible. RKO re-recorded the entire soundtrack by re-recording their Photophone track on a Western Electric rival process, and then transferred it to the Photophone system for the release print.
c.
The films writer,
Richard Wenk
, has reported that he originally conceived of the project with himself as writer and director and, before shopping it around to anyone else, first approached
Richard Donner
because they had a struck up a good relationship when Donner really liked his rewrite of a script for a
Lethal Weapon 4
, even though that script was not used. Wenk said that upon hearing his pitch for his new film, Donner "liked it so much that he didnt want me to direct it; he wanted to direct." Wenk tells this story in the documentary about screen writing,
Tales from the Script
.
d.
Filming took an exhausting 12-hour-a-day, 8-month shoot from January 1976 to August 1976. The New York climax was filmed in June 1976, with a casting call sent out for 5,000 extras needed. Come time for filming, over 30,000 people showed up and were gladly used.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Becky Sharp (1935)?
a.
Distributor-for-hire Freestyle Releasing distributed the film in 2,160 screens in the United States.
b.
The play by
Langdon Mitchell
, "Becky Sharp", opened in New York City, New York, USA on 12 September 1899 and had 116 performances. There were 3 revivals, the last in 1929. Another play with the title "Vanity Fair", by different authors opened in New York in 1911.
c.
The film originally had a subplot involving scenes with Dr. Satan. In an interview,
Rob Zombie
said that he cut these scenes because seeing Dr. Satan in this film would be like seeing Chewbacca in
Bonnie and Clyde
. Zombie then went on to explain that all the Dr. Satan scenes would be restored in the "deleted scenes" section of the the DVD.
d.
The original Broadway production of "The Homecoming" by
Harold Pinter
opened at the Music Box Theater in New York on January 5, 1967, ran for 324 performances and won the 1967 Tony Award (New York City) for the Best Play.
Ian Holm
,
Vivien Merchant
and
Terence Rigby
reprise their roles in the filmed production.
Ian Holm
won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play and
Vivien Merchant
was nominated for the 1967 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. The plays author also wrote the screenplay play for this filmed production.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Becky Sharp (1935)?
a.
The first
Oliver Stone
film to appear at Cannes. Stones earlier films
Natural Born Killers
and
U Turn
had been rejected. After screening the film at Cannes, Stone responded to the reception by making some changes to the ending.
b.
In the final scene of the movie, a "Southland Ice Company" ice wagon is shown. Southland Ice Company is the predecessor company to 7-11 stores.
c.
The restored version is being preserved by the UCLA Film Archives.
d.
Was the last movie produced and released by DEG (DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group) as the studio went bankrupt. As a result, the film did not receive much publicity during its release in the fall of 1987 which lead, in turn, to its box office failure.
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