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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Blue Hawaii (1961) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Blue Hawaii (1961) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Blue Hawaii (1961).
About the movie:
Chad Gates has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blue Hawaii (1961)?
a.
The following products and brands can be seen in the film: Food - Dunkin Donuts, Miller Lite, Miller High Life, Miller Genuine Draft, Budweiser, Lady Lee Milk (Lady Lee was now-defunct Lucky supermarkets house brand. In real life, Lady Lee package graphic design was completely changed immediately following this films release, probably due to the gruesome scene in which the milk appears), Pepsi, Subway, Lays; Video Games - Atari, Bally, Midway (Trog!, Space Invaders), Sega (After Burner), Williams (Hit the Ice); Magazines - Traditional Home, Interior Design, House Beautiful; Vehicles - Chevrolet, Toyota, Freightliner, Mitsubishi, Harley Davidson, Ford; Bands - Public Enemy, Guns & Roses; Other - Pentax, Pacific Bell (now AT&T).
b.
This film is believed lost. Please check your attic.
c.
Approximately seven minutes before "The End," Maile (Joan Blackman) kicks Chad (Elvis) out of her room on Kauai, then peeks through the blinds. Briefly in her view is a couple paddling a canoe. The woman, blond and seated in front, is Pop singer
Patti Page
. How Patti paddled her way into being an extra came about because she was then married to
Charles OCurran
, a choreographer and music stager for many films produced by
Hal B. Wallis
, including "Blue Hawaii."
d.
The real Lucius Verus, who is portrayed as a young kid in the movie, was Marcus Aurelius adopted brother and died 8 years into his reign. Commodus selection as Caesar was made when he was 5 years old and coins were made with his likeness on it.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blue Hawaii (1961)?
a.
Hal B. Wallis
: walking down the street.
b.
Production was endangered by the great fire at Paramount.
William Shatner
helped fight the fire and rescue a crewmember before firefighter reinforcements arrived. Shatner said that his motivation for doing so was purely to save a day on the shooting schedule, as he had a make a deadline to be available for shooting on a new season of
T.J. Hooker
.
c.
Final film of
Ward Bond
.
d.
Santiago Segura
: "Distinguished Customer" in the auction scene is a frequent player in movies directed by
Guillermo del Toro
, and voices Johann Krauss in the Spanish dubbed version.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blue Hawaii (1961)?
a.
Director
Garry Marshall
plays the first baseman.
b.
Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 50 Greatest Comedies Of All Time" in 2006.
c.
The book that Joel Glicker (
David Krumholtz
) is holding when he enters the Harmony Hut only for it to be taken away is
Stephen Hawking
s "A Brief History of Time".
d.
Pamela Austin
s movie debut.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blue Hawaii (1961)?
a.
The production was so overbudget after wrapping that they were unable to pay most of the extras who had participated in the film until almost a year later.
b.
Doris Day
did not want to make this movie but had to under contract obligations.
c.
The closing scene, where Elvis is getting married by the pool, was shot at the Coco Palms Resort on Kauai, where Elvis was staying when filming the movie.
d.
In the scene in the Merton-Flemmer building lobby, when Craig browses the floor listings to find LesterCorp, the camera scrolls past the listing "Eric Zumbrunnen, CPA".
Eric Zumbrunnen
is the films editor.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blue Hawaii (1961)?
a.
Jessica Alba
was shocked at how much co-directors
Xavier Palud
and
David Moreau
smoked, but was impressed by their creativity and taste in food.
b.
The soundtrack album for this movie is not only Elvis most successful chart album, but it is also the number one album overall for 1961. "Blue Hawaii" spent 20 consecutive weeks at the #1 spot of the Billboard Top LPs chart in 1961-1962 (a record to be broken only in 1977 by
Fleetwood Mac
s "Rumors" album), and it stayed on the charts for 79 weeks.
c.
The character Budiansky (
Colin Salmon
) was taken from the graphic novel Widowmaker.
d.
The first name of Patricia Bradley (
Dee Wallace
) provides a hint to her criminal past, revealed later in the film. She is named after
Patricia Hearst
, also known as Patty Hearst, a girl who was taken hostage by an urban guerrilla group, then brainwashed into sympathizing with her kidnappers and helping them rob banks.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blue Hawaii (1961)?
a.
Shawnee Smith
shot all her scenes in one day.
b.
Juliet Prowse
, Presleys co-star in
G.I. Blues
, was signed to play Maile, but she wanted to use another studios make-up artist and have the studio pay to fly her secretary to Hawaii, she pulled out of the film.
c.
The original U.K. video release of the 25th Anniversary version was wrongly labeled as a P.G. rating, when it should have been a 12 rating, due to
Roy Scheider
saying the "F" word in the documentary. The mislabeled videos have been withdrawn.
d.
Written by Russian writer, Nalalie Zhivolup, the movie made its way to the screen despite the complications of having key production players in both Russia and the United States.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blue Hawaii (1961)?
a.
Bill Moseley
and
Tony Todd
reprises their roles as Johnny and Ben from the remake
Night of the Living Dead
.
b.
Final American studio film of
Ralph Meeker
.
c.
Angela Lansbury
, who played Elvis mother, was only 35 years old when the movie was filmed, a mere 10 year older than Elvis.
d.
Despite being a horror film there is only one fatality in this film - which is off-screen.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blue Hawaii (1961)?
a.
Director
Leonardo Corbucci
asked
Alfonso Cuarón
to send a "special" letter to the local Bulgarian production crew, to ask them to assist Corbucci in achieving a complicated helicopter scene which the crew were reluctant to shoot as they thought it was impossible. After 6 months of preparation the sequence was finally shot. Corbucci framed Cuaróns letter to remind the crew that in movies, nothing is impossible.
b.
Elvis gave his famous ukulele from this film to
Hank Garland
, nicknamed "Sugarfoot." Garland was one of the top session guitar player during the 1950s in Nashville. He recorded with Elvis and toured with him from 1958-1961. Elvis etched his initials into the ukulele for Garland. During his 1961 Hawaiian benefit concert (for the Arizona Memorial), Elvis was quoted as saying that Garland was "one of the finest guitar players in all of the country."
c.
Katharine Hepburn
had one very close call with the leopard. She was wearing a skirt that was lined with little metal pieces to make the skirt swing prettily. When Hepburn turned around abruptly, the leopard made a lunge for her back. Only the intervention of the trainers whip saved Hepburn. The leopard was not allowed to roam around freely after that, and Hepburn was more careful around it from then on.
d.
With the exception of
Montgomery Clift
and
Paul Douglas
, all military personnel in the film were actual members of the US military on duty in Germany at the time.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blue Hawaii (1961)?
a.
Alonzo Hawks character role, was acted well by
Keenan Wynn
. He portrayed the same evil character and with the exactly same name and personality, from oldest to newest, in
The AbsentMinded Professor
,
Son of Flubber
and in
Herbie Rides Again
.
b.
One of the numbers listed at the top of the ransom note is 814-949-9207, the fax number for Lakemont Park in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
c.
Shot in 17 days in a Barcelona studio.
d.
Turn the sound up loud when Chad (Elvis) is first seen leaving the plane - you will hear hundreds of screaming fans who were watching the shoot.
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