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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Ben-Hur (1959) - Part (6) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Ben-Hur (1959) - Part (6) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur (1959).
About the movie:
When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur (1959)?
a.
After the film was made,
Gregory Peck
became great friends with the character he had played, Gen. Frank Armstrong, who clearly approved of Pecks portrayal of him.
b.
This is the final film completed by the Marx Brothers.
c.
The only Hollywood film to make the Vatican approved film list in the category of religion.
d.
Humphrey Bogart
was originally cast in this film, but
George Raft
refused to work with him.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur (1959)?
a.
According to
Frank Capra
,
Claudette Colbert
was the sixth actress that was offered the lead role. Colbert reluctantly accepted the role turned down by the other five actresses when Capra agreed to double her salary and guarantee that Colbert only had to work for four weeks or less.
b.
Spencer Tracy
was so eager to begin filming that he turned down
James Stewart
s role in
The Philadelphia Story
. Tracy was cast despite concerns that at 41 he was too old to play Jekyll.
c.
Martha Scott
was 45 at the time of filming, only 10 years older than her screen son. She also played
Charlton Heston
s mother in
The Ten Commandments
the same year.
d.
Cecil B. DeMille
was pressured to drop Ancarias seductive dance in the orgy scene by
Will H. Hays
of the Hays Office, but DeMille adamantly refused. Still, censors often cut out gruesome parts of the film, particularly, the cart carrying dead bodies out of the arena, a gorilla dancing around a semi-nude girl, elephants stomping Christians and picking them up with their tusks, crocodiles about to eat a bound girl, etc. These scenes are all in the restored version.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur (1959)?
a.
Charlie Bontempo (
Joe Pesci
) says to Grace Bontempo (
Helen Mirren
) after shes criticized his hat: "Who do you think you are, the queen of England?" Helen Mirren played Elizabeth II in
The Queen
, and also Elizabeth I in the TV mini-series by the same name.
b.
The zombie hand that Tom (
Keith Wayne
) hacks up with a kitchen knife was made of clay and filled with chocolate syrup.
c.
The USS Grissom is evidently named after real life astronaut Gus Grissom, who was killed after the Apollo 1 spacecraft itself was destroyed on 27 January 1967.
d.
Wyler left all the details of the chariot race - every shot, crash and stunt - in the hands of his second-unit director
Andrew Marton
. When he saw the final version of Marton and lead stuntman
Yakima Canutt
s work, Wyler remarked that it was "one of the greatest cinematic achievements" hed ever seen.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur (1959)?
a.
Haig Sutherland
was the first person to be cast.
Elizabeth Banks
was the second.
Gregg Henry
was the last actor to be seen for the part (out of more than 100 actors from Los Angeles and Vancouver) and nailed his audition.
Nathan Fillion
was the last actor to be cast, about a week before shooting began. Shooting lasted 47 days.
b.
Many of the bit roles in this film were played by real FBI agents, and this was their only film.
c.
One thing
William Wyler
was completely unable to do was get his leading man to cry on-screen. Youll note in
Ben-Hur
s crying scenes that
Charlton Heston
covers his eyes.
d.
Kay Lenz
and
Kristy McNichol
both reportedly wanted the role of Elvira, but
Brian De Palma
turned them down.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur (1959)?
a.
The 10 square block set that represents Jerusalem is an historically accurate one.
b.
This film is listed among the 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John WIlsons book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE® MOVIE GUIDE.
c.
Rather unusually,
James Newton Howard
started scoring the film before it had been shot, as he was able to work from
M. Night Shyamalan
s detailed storyboards.
d.
The onscreen credits for the source are "Colliers magazine stories" by
Richard English
, but the Screen Achievements Bulletin credits only "Strictly Ding Dong" in the Colliers issue of 25 June 1938. Perhaps "Ding Dong Gives" in Colliers issue of 28 October 1939, and other Richard English stories were also sources.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur (1959)?
a.
Debuting actor
Guy Madison
, who plays a sailor in the film, was really in the navy at the time of filming.
b.
Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, and Harvey Keitels frequent lawyer Jay Julien produced and appears in the film in a cameo.
c.
William Wyler
missed just 2 days of the lengthy shoot due to flu.
d.
Jon Voight
s role of Luke Martin was loosely inspired by paralyzed Vietnam veteran
Ron Kovic
, who was making inroads in Hollywood with his book "Born on the Fourth of July" at the time. Of course, Kovics book and story was in 1989 put on the screen with
Tom Cruise
in the role of Kovic.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur (1959)?
a.
Originally
William Wyler
had planned only to film the first unit and leave the second unit duties to producer
Sam Zimbalist
. These plans were scuppered by Zimbalists premature death. MGM persuaded Wyler to see the film through to completion by offering him a sizable amount of money.
b.
The only line of dialog Liz Purr (Charlotte Ayanna) has in the whole film is, "What are you doing to me?" which is a recording from the birthday card.
c.
The only Star Trek film that doesnt have Hikaru Sulu piloting the U.S.S. Enterprise, having been promoted to captain of the U.S.S. Excelsior.
d.
Blood is only ever seen three times on-screen: on the face of the civilian Batman that the Joker hangs, on Harveys pillow in the hospital, and on Batmans arm due to the dog attacking him; most of the violence either occurs off-screen or is obscured by camera angles.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur (1959)?
a.
The title of this movie is a play on words, but its also technically correct. This is not a film, it is a video that was shot on standard definition video at 30 frames per second giving it a very un-film like look.
b.
David O. Selznick
asked
Alfred Hitchcock
for help with the scene in which the women wait for the men from the raid on Shantytown and Melanie reads "David Copperfield". Hitchcock delivered a precise treatment, complete with descriptions of shots and camera angles. Hitchcock wanted to show Rhett, Ashley, etc. outside the house, dodging the Union soldiers. He also wanted an exchange of meaningful glances between Melanie and Rhett inside the house. Virtually nothing of this treatment was used.
c.
This was to be the last film for
Cathy ODonnell
who was then married to
Robert Wyler
, the directors brother.
d.
"State of the Union" won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1946.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur (1959)?
a.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
was extensively color graded and due to the films overly dark tones, Warner Bros. asked director
David Yates
and cinematographer
Bruno Delbonnel
to add more colors to the film, as they could barely see a thing on screen. After retouching some of the scenes Delbonnel realized that he had overused the grading and the final product was better. Yates remarked Delbonnels work on the film as "The choice of angles, the extreme close-ups, the pacing of the scenes...Its very layered, incredibly rich." It was the first film in the Harry Potter series to be nominated for a Cinematography Oscar.
b.
Stephen Boyd
,
Jack Hawkins
and all other actors, that had the role of a Roman, they had to wear darkened contact lenses, if their eye color was not brown.
William Wyler
didnt want his two leading men to have the same eye color. Boyds lenses constantly irritated and scratched his eyes, often leading to days where shooting had to be halted to allow the actors eyes time to recover.
c.
Harvey Keitel
, who plays Mickey Cohen in this film, portrayed Siegel in the 1974 TV movie
The Virginia Hill Story
.
d.
The outfit that Peter (
G.W. Bailey
) wears is an homage to
Smiley Burnette
who was the "sidekick" for
Roy Rogers
,
Gene Autry
and
Charles Starrett
in most of the western movies made in the 1940s and 50s. He always wore a checked shirt and a black hat with the brim turned up in front. He also rode a white horse with a black ring around one eye.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur (1959)?
a.
Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 50 Greatest Comedies Of All Time" in 2006.
b.
Such was the expense of the film, nervous studio executives flew out to Rome on a weekly basis to check on the progress of the production.
c.
Original screenplay was written by
Betsy Drake
,
Cary Grant
s wife. Grant originally wanted it to star her but his extra-marital affair with
Sophia Loren
complicated the project. Drakes script was drastically re-written by two other writers to accommodate Loren and bears little resemblance to Drakes concept.
d.
Don Turner
(Chick),
Robert Strange
(Callahan) and
Jimmy OGatty
(Mug) are listed in studio records for those roles, but were not seen in the movie.
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