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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Cabaret (1972) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Cabaret (1972) - Part (2)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Cabaret (1972).

About the movie: A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cabaret (1972)?
a.		The three girls getting an autograph from Zoller in the cinema wear the distinctive brown jackets of the Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM), the girls branch of the Hitler Youth.
b.		This film was first released through the indie exchanges on August 6,1937. Columbia Pictures purchased the film in late 1937, re-did all of the advertising, posters and other related printed material and sent it out via their own distribution as a Columbia film on 17 February 1938. They also changed the billing order from that on the original print.
c.		The original Broadway production of "Cabaret" opened at the Broadhurst Theater on November 2, 1966, ran for 1165 performances and won the 1967 Tony Award for the Best Musical. Joel Grey recreates his role in the movie for which the won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical.
d.		William Holden and Richard Widmark became good friends during the production of the film. When Widmark became ill with the flu and was confined to his room, Holden bought him a snare drum because he knew Widmark played the drums. Widmark later remarked, "That four months of being constantly together on a film location was the equivalent of ten or fifteen years of friendship."

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cabaret (1972)?
a.		Gary Rogers was inspired to make this film 50 years ago when he first saw Cecil B. DeMilles, The Ten Commandments.
b.		The movie is one of three RKO-distributed films that were edited heavily after their initial unsuccessful first runs; the others were All That Money Can Buy (aka "The Devil and Daniel Webster") and Joan of Arc. All three have been restored to their full length (or, in the case of "Mourning Becomes Electra", approximately their full length) on DVD.
c.		The source Agatha Christie novel was set in Petra, Jordan but this filmed adaptation was set in Jerusalem, Israel. The Golan-Globus Production Company was an Israeli company.
d.		Many of the interiors of the film were done on sound stages in Munich recently vacated by the cast and crew of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cabaret (1972)?
a.		The strange woman appearing at the beginning of the movie sitting in the back of the Kit Kat Club holding a cigarette is based on the painting "Portrait of Journalist, Sylvia Von Harden" by German Expressionist painter Otto Dix.
b.		Terry Crewss line "Oh no my brother, you gotta get your own" (spoken to Shawn Wayans when Shawn is pretending to be a parking valet) is taken from a record commercial that used to air frequently on BET (Black Entertainment Television) during the 1980s.
c.		The brain matter that splattered on Doves face was a mixture of fake blood and left over chicken from craft services.
d.		Kevin Costner was on the set 157 days, working 6 days a week.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cabaret (1972)?
a.		When Gandalf has his big stand-off scene with the Balrog, Ian McKellen is actually acting to a ping pong ball.
b.		Won Best Feature Film in its first festival at the 2007 Longbaugh Film Festival.
c.		The song "Maybe Its the Moon" by Bob Wright and Chet Forrest was written for the picture but not used.
d.		Originally sung in English, "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" was dubbed in German for the French and German versions of the film.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cabaret (1972)?
a.		There is much speculation about the identity of the singer of "Tomorrow Belongs to Me". Apparently, Bob Fosses biography states that the song was recorded for the film by Broadway actor/singer called Mark Lambert. This actor is said to have refused to dye his hair blond so a German extra (the "Nazi youth") stood in for him on camera.
b.		Very early on in the pre-production stage, Judy Garland, June Allyson, and Ann Miller were considered for the role of Kathy Selden, but all were considered "too old". Jane Powell and Leslie Caron were also briefly considered before Debbie Reynolds (then a newcomer) was cast.
c.		In a 1972 interview with Dick Cavett, Alfred Hitchcock revealed that the plane crash scene was filmed by using footage shot from a stunt plane diving on the ocean, rear projected on rice paper in front of a cockpit set. Also behind the rice paper were two chutes aimed at the cockpits windshield connected to large tanks of water. With the press of a button at the right moment, water came crashing through the rice paper, into the plane simulating the plane crashing into the sea from the cockpit view.
d.		During the casting process, both Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgraves names were mentioned as possible stars for the film. The producers initially vetoed both actresses on the advice of the publicity department, fearing that the absolute worst option would be to cast Fonda and Redgrave, both of whom were known for their outspoken political beliefs, in a film together. In the end, of course, both actresses were cast and the film went on to great critical and box office success.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cabaret (1972)?
a.		"Tomorrow Belongs to Me" was written by John Kander and Fred Ebb in the style of a traditional German song, sung by the Nazi youth in the movie, to stir up patriotism for the "fatherland". It has often been mistaken for a genuine "Nazi anthem" and has led to the songwriters being accused of anti-Semitism. This would be most surprising, as they are, in fact, Jewish (This fact has not stopped openly racist and anti-Semitic rock groups, like Skrewdriver, from recording the song and performing it at White Power rallies). It is also the only song sung outside of the cabaret setting to survive the transition from stage to film.
b.		Ernest Borgnine claims in his memoirs that reason why the film special effects are so cheap looking that the huge amount of location shooting absorbs what was usually spent on FX.
c.		Assistant director Nat G. Deverich was almost killed during the scene showing the destruction of a ship at sea, which was filmed off the coast of Monterey, CA, and was not--as was reported in the press at the time--a miniature shot in a tank at the studio.
d.		A new sequel that continues directly from the unresolved finale of the original Robotech series. This feature is not related to the scrapped Robotech 3000 project.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cabaret (1972)?
a.		From the hull number on the bow during Scotts retirement and another shot later on, it would appear that much of the shipboard filming was done aboard USS Antietam (CV-36).
b.		When Liza Minnelli won the Best Actress Academy Award for this movie, she became the first and to date (2009) only person to win an Oscar whose parents (Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli) had both won Academy Awards.
c.		Immediately prior to the closing sequence of Norman Bates in his jail cell, as the camera moves down the hallway to where police have confined him, the uniformed guard at the cell door is Ted Knight, best remembered as pompous, dim-witted news anchor Ted Baxter on Mary Tyler Moore.
d.		The shots of the ocean liner blowing up are stock footage from Deep Rising.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cabaret (1972)?
a.		German actress Hildegard Knef was supposed to play the part of "Baroness Kessler", but had to drop out of the film because of illness.
b.		Years before Cabaret was filmed Liza Minnelli performed Maybe This Time when she appeared with her mother Judy Garland at the London Palladium.
c.		Laura Duguid, the daughter of the youngest child who did not appear in the movie, brought to the set the engagement ring that J.M. Barrie was going to propose to Sylvia with in real life. Sylvia died before he had the chance.
d.		There are over 102 visual effect shots in the film which were completed by the visual FX artist, Jon Whisman on his personal computer.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cabaret (1972)?
a.		The MPAA objected strongly to the scene where Molly is trying to insert her diaphragm but the scene was kept in.
b.		Instead of writing a new ballad for the film, John Kander and Fred Ebb were persuaded by Liza Minnelli (and later, Bob Fosse) to use a song from their trunk - "Maybe This Time", a tune Liza had recorded for her very first album. Fosse wasnt initially a fan of the song, but changed his mind after deciding on how to stage it (in the empty nightclub). Minnelli has said that Fred Ebb jokingly blamed her for the loss of an extra Oscar nomination in the Best Original Song category for her desire to sing a previously-written title.
c.		When Dr. Zorka drops the bomb on the dirigible, the stock footage is of the actual news footage of the explosion and crash of the Hindenburg.
d.		Robert Pattinson refused to let his eyebrows be plucked/waxed down as they had been in the previous two films.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cabaret (1972)?
a.		The infamous "I drink your milkshake!" is, in part, a real quote. Paul Thomas Anderson found the metaphor in congressional transcripts from the 1920s Teapot Dome scandal, in which New Mexico Republican Senator Albert Fall was convicted of accepting bribes for oil drilling rights to various lands. According to Anderson, "I think it was Albert Fall, who was asked to describe drainage before Congress. And his way of describing it was, If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and my straw reaches across the room ... Im sure I embellished it and changed it around and made it more Plainview. But Fall used the word milkshake, and I thought it was so great. It was mad to see that word among all this official testimony and terminology - a fucking milkshake. I get so happy every time I hear that word."
b.		When Horton is turning his ears into different hats, one of the hats is one worn by Bartholomew Cubbins in the Dr. Seuss book "500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins".
c.		In a November 2010 interview on the National Public Radio program "Fresh Air," Anne Hathaway told interviewer Terry Gross that she actually has no idea whether or not her character, Lureen, tells the truth in the phone conversation in which Lureen tells Ennis how Jack died. Hathaway said that she shot two takes of the scene: one in which Lureen "knew what was going on with Jakes character Jack and that hed been cheating on me with men and that I knew about the gay bashing," and one in which Lureen "had no idea... you know, it was a terrible accident with a car tire." Hathaway told Gross that instead of using all of either take, there were shots from both takes edited into the final movie, so she doesnt know what the directors or the editors intentions for her character or for the truth about Jacks death really were. She also said that she has never asked director Ang Lee what he thinks the truth is because "Ang knows the truth in his head, and its not important to me. I actually think I get to be a part of the film as an audience member because I dont know, because I think the ambiguity is what is the strength of that scene and whats heartbreaking about it."
d.		In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #63 Greatest Movie of All Time. It was the first inclusion of this film on the list.

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