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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Damn Yankees! (1958) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Damn Yankees! (1958)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Damn Yankees! (1958).

About the movie: Film adaptation of the George Abbott Broadway musical about a Washington Senators fan who makes a pact with the Devil to help his baseball team win the league pennant.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Damn Yankees! (1958)?
a.		Gwen Verdon was famous on Broadway for her hip movements, especially her bumps, as they were called, but in 1958, bumps such as these were not allowed in films, so her first number, "A Little Brains," contains odd static pauses where she had done her bumps on stage.
b.		One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. However, because of legal complications, this particular title was not included in the original television package and may not have ever been televised.
c.		"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on March 22, 1937 with Fredric March reprising his film role.
d.		As part of the Freddy makeup, Jackie Earle Hayley had half of his face covered in a green appliance so it could be digitally altered in post production via green screen technology.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Damn Yankees! (1958)?
a.		Kirk Douglas was 87 years old during production, making him one of the oldest leading actors in film.
b.		"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on January 28, 1946 with Judy Garland reprising her film role.
c.		This movie was filmed in 1981, but released in 1983.
d.		The actors had to sing along with a metronome because the musicians who would have accompanied them normally were on strike at the time.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Damn Yankees! (1958)?
a.		The movie was originally intended to be shot in Czechoslovakia, but the Russian invasion of that country in 1968 forced a change in plans.
b.		Sir Alec Guinness filmed his cameo in just a day.
c.		Howard Da Silva also appeared in the 1974 film version of The Great Gatsby as the gangster Meyer Wolfsheim.
d.		The original theatrical trailer carried the name of the movie as "Whatever Lola Wants" instead of Damn Yankees! (although the actual name was added parenthetically in smaller letters at the bottom of the screen).

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Damn Yankees! (1958)?
a.		When Merlin is trying to catch a fish it was trapped underwater by blocking it off with stones.
b.		A big cut in production at 20th Century-Fox as it moved toward an all-CinemaScope production schedule left many of its contract directors, writers, and actors idle. Fox arranged to lend these contractees to Leonard Goldstein and his newly formed Panoramic Productions in return for a release agreement. This was one of several pictures, financed by Fox but made at the RKO-Pathé studio, that resulted from the agreement.
c.		First James Bond movie in the EON Productions official series not to have a major pre-credits action stunt sequence since The Man with the Golden Gun.
d.		The musical play "Damn Yankees" opened at the 46th Street Theater in New York City on May 5, 1955, and ran for 1,019 performances. Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Russ Brown, Jean Stapleton, Shannon Bolin, Nathaniel Frey, James Komack, Rae Allen, and Robert Shafer reprise their roles in the movie. "Damn Yankees" won the 1956 Tony Award (New York City) for Best Musical.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Damn Yankees! (1958)?
a.		Majority of actors cast directly from Fear House.
b.		According to the 2005 book Kiss Me Like A Stranger by Gene Wilder, this was the picture in which he and actress Gilda Radner met and were later married. The two met on 13 August 13 1981 during the filming of this movie and became friends. At the time, Radner was married to G.E. Smith.
c.		George Buck Flower plays a porn director named "Rex Boorski". When adult-film director Alex de Renzy started shooting porn on video instead of film, he used the name "Rex Borski", apparently as a jab - good-natured or otherwise - at his colleague Henri Pachard (who directed this film using his real name: Ronald Sullivan).
d.		The first film of Jean Stapleton.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Damn Yankees! (1958)?
a.		Humphrey Bogart was the star of Casablanca, the classic film that this movie is considered to be a modern version of. Lauren Bacall was first married to Bogart and was later married to Jason Robards who stars in this picture. As such, both of Bacalls two husbands have starred in both these movies, Casablanca and its (arguably) remake.
b.		Peter Sellers reportedly played a number of practical jokes on cast and crew during filming, including once calling Neil Simon up whilst imitating co-star Alec Guinness and demanding a re-write of a key scene in the middle of the night. Neither Guinness nor Simon was amused.
c.		The stadium used for filming was the old Wrigley Field minor-league park in South Los Angeles. It hosted Major League games for only one season, in 1961, when the new expansion Los Angeles Angels played there. The park was torn down in 1966.
d.		The title song for this film, "Dance Into the Fire (A View To A Kill)", was the last song recorded by the rock group Duran Duran before the band briefly split up. According to the sleeve notes for this movies CD soundtrack, as a joke, composer John Barry used the melody from this song in the score for the scene where James Bond and Stacy Sutton escape from the fire in San Francisco City Hall. The leader singer, Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran, shares a surname with Sir Otto Le Bon, ancestor of James Bond mentioned in On Her Majestys Secret Service. At the end of the music video for this song, Simon Le Bon says: "Bon. Simon Le Bon" like the famous Bond catchphrase of the film series, "Bond. James Bond". Coincidentally, the Danish title for the earlier James Bond movie Thunderball was actually called "Agent 007 Into The Fire."

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Damn Yankees! (1958)?
a.		Director Damien Sage has used various filters, lighting and filming techniques to make the film appear as a "warped home movie. Faded, aged and distorted in the mind of The Patient from years of lies, delusion and pain."
b.		The idea to set the story in Californias Silicon Valley was a concept conceived by producer and co-writer Michael G. Wilson. In the first draft, Zorin wanted to destroy Silicon Valley by changing the course of the Halley Comet, but it was later decided that this plot was not believable.
c.		The scenes in which Superman straightens the leaning tower of Pisa and then leans it back in the end were originally planned for Superman II.
d.		The Mambo Dancer who dances with Gwen Verdon in the tribute to Joe Hardy was Bob Fosse--who was not only the choreographer of this film (and choreographer-director of later films, such as Cabaret) but also Verdons husband.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Damn Yankees! (1958)?
a.		John Malkovich kills Richard Jenkins with an axe in the same way Peter Stormare killed Steve Buscemi in Fargo.
b.		Gwen Verdon won the Tony for Best Actress (Musical) in 1956 for "Damn Yankees!" for the role she recreated in the film version. Russ Brown won the 1956 Tony Award Best Featured Actor in a Musical and Rae Allen was nominated for the 1956 Tony Award Best Featured Actress in a Musical and both roles were recreated in the movie version by the same actors.
c.		Meg Ryan was the original choice for Annabelle.
d.		Susan Elaine, who plays Alma Hirsig, just finished her first full length novel.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Damn Yankees! (1958)?
a.		Several endings were filmed in order to shroud the real conclusion in secrecy.
b.		The role of Klaatu was originally intended for Claude Rains.
c.		The first film of Shannon Bolin.
d.		Lady Amaltheas name comes from Greek mythology; when young Zeus was hidden from his father, the brutal Kronos, he was feed from the milk of a goat named Amalthea. Years later, and after Zeus finally defeated Kronos and established himself as the new King of Olympus, he rewarded the goat who fed him by turning one of her horns into the famous Horn of Abundance.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Damn Yankees! (1958)?
a.		Of Joe Pasternaks 57 MGM productions released between 1942 and 1966, this movie was only the second which did not receive a contemporary New York Times review. The previous film was The Strip.
b.		Final film of Douglas Kennedy.
c.		American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films 1931-1940 incorrectly identifies June Bupp as June Grisold, Eddie Phillips as John Preston, and Fred Burns as Sheriff. None of these players appear in the film. The roles in question were played by June Brewster, Bill Patton, and Hank Bell, all now correctly identified in the list above.
d.		Right after the mambo number, as the male dancer (choreographer Bob Fosse) leaves the stage, the Joe Hardy character shakes the dancers hand and says, "Great work, Fosse!"