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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Captain January (1936) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Captain January (1936) Quiz
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About the movie:
Shirley lives with a lighthouse keeper (Kibbee) who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer (Haden) decides she should go to boarding school...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Captain January (1936)?
a.
For the epilogue scene, all actors are required to accompany the original Schindlerjuden they portrayed in the movie in pairs (actor and the Jew they portrayed carrying and placing a pebble on the grave). This actually explains why
Liam Neeson
was the one placing the flowers on the stone before the end credits roll in.
b.
A scene in which
Shirley Temple
dances the hula was deleted after shocked test audiences said that the hula was immoral.
c.
Sam Raimi
originally intended the film to maintain an aspect ratio of 1.85:1 like
Spider-Man
. However, when he realized that in order to have Dr. Octopus and Spider-Man in the same shot, the frame would need to be wider in order to accommodate Dr. Octopus metal tentacles. So Raimi upgraded the ratio to 2.35:1.
d.
The movie was inspired by a newspaper article about a plane that transports convicts.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Captain January (1936)?
a.
Joel Coen
and
Ethan Coen
came up with the story while working on
The Hudsucker Proxy
. While filming the scene in the barbershop, the Coens saw a prop poster of 1940s haircuts and began developing a story about the barber who cut the hair in the poster.
b.
Before
Samuel Goldwyn
outbid Paramount for production rights, the studio was hoping to assemble this dream cast:
Clark Gable
as Sky Masterson,
Bob Hope
as Nathan Detroit,
Jane Russell
as Sergeant Sarah Brown and
Betty Grable
as Miss Adelaide.
c.
Time Magazine noted that this film broke box office records in some major cities, including Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Boston and Baltimore.
d.
Backstories for the characters Max and Sol were conceived by Sean Guilette and Darren Aronofsky, but never written for the film. They included: Max was proved to be a math prodigy very young, and soon attended Columbia University, where he met Sol, an Russian expatriate, who was captured by American Forces and was given the chance to assist in the building of nuclear weapons because of his great math prowess, he refused, and was relocated to Siberia, where he was soon let out, and got a job teaching math at Columbia University. If you look closely at Sols wrists, you can see prison tattoos.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Captain January (1936)?
a.
It took
Greer Garson
125 takes to enunciate the word "No" to the directors satisfaction. Co-star
Robert Mitchum
claimed later that this incident was when he first stopped taking Hollywood seriously.
b.
This
Charles Bronson
movie was released between between his pictures
The Mechanic
and
Death Wish
.
c.
In one scene of this film,
Shirley Temple
s character is given a crane for her birthday. This crane continually pecked at cast and crew members, so a prop man nailed its webbed feet to the floor. Director
David Butler
insisted that this was not painful for the crane, and Shirley Temple later recalled that the crane never seemed to be suffering, even after the nails were removed. The local humane society learned of the incident and sent an agent to the set to investigate, but when the agent tried to get a closer look at the crane, it pecked at her, too.
d.
During downtime while shooting the picture,
Brad Dexter
saved
Frank Sinatra
from drowning when he dived into the ocean and saved the floundering Sinatra.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Captain January (1936)?
a.
Brett Ratner
was originally set to direct the project, but pulled out.
b.
Reportedly, one of the extras, Austin Martin, was commended by several of the main cast, including
Jamie Foxx
, for his very realistic looking beard. The actors believed it to be skillful work by the costume department, when, in reality, it was entirely natural.
c.
According to Ridley Scott in the DVD commentary, he had envisioned a moment in the ending scenes of Ripley and the alien in the space shuttle in which the alien would be sexually aroused by Ripley. Scott says that in the scene, after Ripley hides in the closet, the alien would find her and would be staring at her through the glass door. The alien would then start touching itself as if comparing its body to Ripleys. Although this idea was scrapped, an alien/human sex scene would occur in "Alien: Resurrection" in which Ripley would mate with the alien queen, thus creating the man-alien monster.
d.
In his review of this film, author
Graham Greene
called it "sentimental, a little depraved, with an appeal interestingly decadent.
Shirley Temple
acts and dances with immense vigor and assurance, but some of her popularity seems to rest on a coquetry."
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Captain January (1936)?
a.
During filming
Ava Gardner
flew to London to have an abortion after she became pregnant with
Frank Sinatra
s child.
b.
The lobsters that appear in the background during the "At the Codfish Ball" sequence were real. To prevent them from crawling out of their baskets, the props crew cooked them, which turned them from their natural dark color to bright red. The crew painted them back to the original color, and as soon as the scene was completed, they cracked the lobsters opened and ate them on the spot.
c.
Jeff Conaway
once played Danny Zuko on Broadway.
d.
In the scene when Jonathon moves in with May, he is carrying a stack of albums in his arms, noticeable in that scene and a later one is
The Partridge Family
s "Up To Date" LP. May is played by
Susan Dey
, who played Laurie Partridge in
The Partridge Family
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Captain January (1936)?
a.
Although almost no footage survives, part of the last reel surfaced in a private collection sometime before 1978.
b.
One of the actresses tested for the lead role was
Katharine Ross
, who was working in a theater group in San Francisco at the time and was brought down to Los Angeles to test. She didnt get the part, but executives at Universal Pictures saw her test, liked it and signed her to a long-term contract.
c.
John Carradine
as "East Indian" is in studio records/casting call lists for this movie, but he did not appear or was not identifiable. Both
Gareth Joplin
and
Mary Carr
were listed as cast members in a contemporary Hollywood Reporter production chart, but they were not in the movie either.
d.
Last of four Don Quixote films featuring Fernando Rey in some role. In this one, he played the narrator in the closing scene. He was previously in
Don Quijote de la Mancha
,
Don Quijote
and
El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes
.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Captain January (1936)?
a.
Exterior shots of the 747 seen in the film are lifted from the disaster film
Airport 1975
.
b.
Mrs. Ng
as "Chen Tsus Mother" is in studio records/casting call lists, but the character did not appear in the movie. Because of period and location makeup, some of the other actors are difficult to recognize.
c.
Because many members of the cast were not members of the Screen Actors Guild,
Chalo González
had to hand in his SAG card before he could play the role of Tio Tomas.
d.
The earliest script of the movie called for Captain January to die at the end, just before Star is taken away from him by her relatives: "On their final evening together, he allows her to light the lamp in the lighthouse something she has always wanted to do. She is unaware that the Captain has suffered a massive heart attack and is unable to carry out his duties. January sees the lamp lit and dies."
Shirley Temple
s producer,
Darryl F. Zanuck
, made extensive changes to this script.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Captain January (1936)?
a.
The Vietnam jungle scenes were shot in a California paint-ball park.
b.
Following the death of Caesar, the two princes supporters carry banners with the same colors as modern Romes two rival soccer teams: A.S. Roma (yellow/red) and S.S. Lazio (white/pale blue). Director
Julie Taymor
, however, has said that this was unintentional.
c.
Despite training in martial arts since the age of six, and having choreographed his own fight scenes in many previous films,
Jackie Chan
assigned a fight choreographer with only six years experience.
d.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on January 27, 1941 with
Shirley Temple
reprising her film role.
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