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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Carefree (1938) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Carefree (1938) Quiz
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About the movie:
Dr. Tony Flagg's friend, Steven, has problems in the relationship with his fiancee, Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Dr...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Carefree (1938)?
a.
Irving Berlin
s "The Night Is Filled With Music" was not filmed but instead played as background music in the release print.
b.
When explaining why he thinks implanting an idea is not possible, Arthur says "dont think about elephants" to actually make Saito think of them and thus "insert" an idea into his mind. The line is a reference to the title of a famous cognitive semantics book, Dont Think of an Elephant by
George Lakoff
. The book describes conceptual framing, the use of certain words to literally insert certain ideas about a subject into the listeners mind in a surreptitious way, e.g. implanting the idea that taxes are a bad thing by using the phrase "tax relief."
c.
Anne Reid
was offered a major role, but choose to do
Roger Michell
s
The Mother
instead.
d.
When Greg and Rowley are outside building the snowman, they fix up the snowman to look like he was peeing in the snow.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Carefree (1938)?
a.
Reels 2,4 and 5 of this 5-reel film survive in the Library of Congress.
b.
The Los Angeles Times in October 1948 announced that
Olivia de Havilland
would be playing
Agnes Newton Keith
in this movie but the lead part eventually went to
Claudette Colbert
.
c.
Of the ten Astaire-Rogers match-ups, this picture contains the least musical sequences - just four.
d.
In 1948, when "A Song Is Born" was released, the American Federation of Musicians was striking the record companies and union musicians could not legally make records. Nonetheless, the union allowed Capitol Records to make an album of music from the film because the company agreed to donate the proceeds to the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund, In the year between the film shooting and the recording sessions, Benny Goodman had radically changed the personnel of his band - notably adding two bebop musicians, trumpeter Theodore "Fats" Navarro and tenor saxophonist Wardell Gray - so the version of "Stealin Apples" on the record doesnt sound at all like the one heard in the movie.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Carefree (1938)?
a.
Irving Berlin
loved
Ethel Merman
, having first worked with her in a previous cavalcade of his songs,
Alexanders Ragtime Band
. After that film, Berlin told her that he was so impressed with her talent that he promised to work with her again. He kept that promise and wrote two Broadway shows especially for her: "Annie Get Your Gun" in 1946 and "Call Me Madam" in 1950, the latter of which also starred Merman in the film adaptation:
Call Me Madam
. The song "Theres No Business Like Show Business" is from "Annie Get Your Gun".
b.
The movie makes connections to three of the four historical assassinations of American presidents. 1) Frank Horrigan was on the Secret Service detail of
John F. Kennedy
. 2) Mitch Leary call himself Booth, the assassin of
Abraham Lincoln
. 3) Mitch Leary tries to shoot the president with a gun concealed in a handkerchief, which was how
Leon Czolgosz
assassinated
William McKinley
. The fourth, James A. Garfield, was assassinated by Charles Julius Guiteau, July 2, 1881.
c.
In her 1991 autobiography, "Ginger: My Story," Miss Rogers related that the entire film originally was planned for Technicolor. However, other sources, including Arlene Croces "The
Fred Astaire
&
Ginger Rogers
Book," a lauded study published in 1972, maintained that just one
Irving Berlin
song, "I Used to Be Color Blind," would have bust into Technicolor during the dance. Miss Croce explained that color tests were shot, but their quality was poor, so the scheme was dropped.
d.
Pat Hingle
(Commissioner Gordon) and
Michael Gough
(Alfred Pennyworth) are the only actors to appear in all four of the Batman films.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Carefree (1938)?
a.
When J & K are watching the Light of Zartha video in Newtons room, J comments on the corny video, saying "Looks like Spielbergs work". The films executive producer is
Steven Spielberg
.
b.
Director
William A. Wellman
based much of his work in the film on his experiences as a combat pilot during World War I. While stationed in France, Wellman joined the French Foreign Legions Lafayette Flying Corps, N.87, les Chats Noir (Black Cat Group). The plane he flew was Nieuport 24 fighter, which he named "Celia" after his mother. He was credited with three recorded "kills" of enemy aircraft, plus five probable kills. Wellman was shot down in combat and survived the crash, but walked with a limp for the rest of his life. He received the Croix du Guerre for his service. After the war, Wellman returned home and joined the U.S. Army Air Corps for two years, where he taught combat tactics to new pilots at Rockwell Field in San Diego.
c.
Fred Astaire
refused to sing the
Irving Berlin
song "The Yam" because he thought it was silly, so
Ginger Rogers
got a rare chance to sing it alone. Later Fred joined in the dance after Ginger was finished singing.
d.
John Vernon
s final acting project.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Carefree (1938)?
a.
After this film was released,
Shirley Temple
s fan mail reached five hundred letters a day.
b.
The segment with the rocket powered car features
MythBusters
host
Jamie Hyneman
and Adam Savage (II) as the surplus salesman. The first episode of MythBusters dealt with that particular urban legend.
c.
A comic scene in which psychiatrist Tony Flagg (
Fred Astaire
) attempts to analyze a light-headed patient (
Grace Hayle
) was deleted from the release print.
d.
To get
Dean Stockwell
in the proper mood, director
Francis Ford Coppola
had him pretend to be a sadistic monarch who sentenced every cast member to a beheading.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Carefree (1938)?
a.
Goorjian started out with practically no script. First, he shot the "teenage" film, then went to the goth film, and finally the ending. He then approached Kirk Douglas to offer him a role in the movie.
b.
Film debut of
Clarence Williams III
.
c.
Burt Gummers wall of guns had to be completely rebuilt many times as the wall of guns scene was filmed in different locations.
d.
The eighth (of ten) dancing partnership of
Fred Astaire
and
Ginger Rogers
.
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