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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959).
About the movie:
A wily old codger matches wits with the king of the leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him as caretaker.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)?
a.
When Michael doesnt kiss Katie, King Brian (
Jimmy ODea
) exclaims "And him a Dublin man!" ODea was born and raised in Dublin.
b.
One of the combat sequences in this movie centered around a fight to capture a German position hold up in an Italian farmhouse. This included a scene where two German soldiers, manning a MG42 machine gun, are filmed firing belts of ammunition at the attacking Americans. Apparently when the first takes of this action were made, using blank ammunition, it didnt look real enough. This perceived flaw was eventually resolved by filming two GIs from Fort Lewis, dressed as German troops, firing live ammunition from the machine gun. It was the only way that they could think of to get the impressive muzzle flash when the weapon was fired.
c.
Taylor Lautner
had to wear a wig for his role as Jacob Black.
d.
Mira Sorvino
auditioned for the role of Dorothy Boyd.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)?
a.
The "Valdosta" courthouse in the movie (where the trial is held) is not actually Valdostas courthouse. The real one is white brick, the movie courthouse has red brick.
b.
Walt Disney
was initially hoping to cast
Barry Fitzgerald
in the dual roles of Darby OGill and King Brian. Fitzgerald reportedly declined due to his advanced age (although his eventual replacement as Darby,
Albert Sharpe
, was three years his senior). Disney regretted the loss of Fitzgerald in the lead role, and blamed the films disappointing box-office performance partly on this loss.
c.
David O. Selznick
s last film.
d.
There is a point where a body double was used for the girl in red. They are the only scenes where the girls face is not shown.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)?
a.
Albert Sharpe
did not know how to play the fiddle, so two professional musicians were hired to create the illusion. One handled the bowing and the other handled the frets while Sharpe kept his hands out of the way.
b.
The copyright expired and was not renewed, so the film fell into "public domain", meaning that virtually anyone could copy it and sell it without having to pay royalties. Thats why there are so so many shoddy, badly cut, grainy copies of it on the market, put out mainly by companies that specialize in public-domain films.
c.
The restaurant where Carl and James eat lunch is called Good Stuff. There are three locations in the Los Angeles area - they filmed at the location in Hermosa Beach on The Strand, which James mentions during lunch as a desired location for the surf shop he and Carl dream of opening.
d.
When Pumpkin tells Maindrian that they have to give Eleanor back because the car is not insured, Maindrian reads the owners address from a newspaper - 18511 Mariposa, Gardena. This was in fact director/star
H.B. Halicki
s own real home address at the time.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)?
a.
Warner Brothers originally wanted
Diahann Carroll
for the role of Lisa.
b.
Was originally titled All Lit Up.
c.
During shooting,
Clint Eastwood
sustained what he describes as the worst injury he has ever had on set when a horse he was riding fell through thin ice and launched him forward. Clint suffered a dislocated shoulder.
d.
Walt Disney
visited Ireland in December of 1948 and publicly announced the production of this film, then entitled simply, "The Little People". It would be another decade before the film was actually made.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)?
a.
The movie was released one year after the copyrights expired on the stories by Herminie Templeton Kavanagh.
b.
A friend of a friend of the filmmakers lived in an apartment complex near Porn Legend,
Ron Jeremy
s home. Ron was then approached to make a cameo in the film, but passed.
c.
Filmed in 1943 on the MGM lot in Culver City during the Second World War, the film features an unusual assortment of non-Asian actors with odd accents playing Chinese and Japanese: Russian-born and Stanislavski-trained
Akim Tamiroff
as Wu Lien;
Turhan Bey
, Viennese born son of a Turkish father and Czechoslovakian mother as the middle son, Lao Er Tan; New England patrician
Katharine Hepburn
as his wife; American
Aline MacMahon
, no longer one of the wisecracking
Gold Diggers of 1933
, as the wife of Ling Tang; English born
Henry Travers
(best remembered as Clarence the Angel from
Its a Wonderful Life
) as the Third Cousin;" Irish-America
J. Carrol Naish
as the Japanese Kitchen Overseer; and finally Jewish-American
Robert Lewis
, co-founder of the Actors Studio and
Meryl Streep
s teacher at the Yale Drama School as the Japanese Captain Sato.
d.
Victor Mature
was approached for the role of
Sylvester Stallone
s father which eventually went to
Kirk Douglas
instead.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)?
a.
According to
Stephen Sommers
, total invisibility is impossible, but the camouflage cameras in the film (they project the view from a soldiers back onto their front) can allow for virtual invisibility.
b.
The death of
Kieron Moore
(Pony Sugrue) on July 15, 2007 leaves
Sean Connery
(Michael McBride) as the films last surviving cast member.
c.
The movie centers around the then-California Angels in Anaheim, but was filmed at the Oakland Coliseum due to the fact that the NFL season was taking place and the then-Los Angeles Rams were using the stadium in Anaheim. The Coliseum was not being used as the Raiders had not yet returned to Oakland.
d.
Jonathan Frakes
refused to shave his back for the love scene turned rape with Troi. The hair on his back was digitally removed by an effects house.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)?
a.
The lighting used to make sure the actors were kept in proper perspective without seeming false used up so much electricity it apparently blew out a substation in Burbank when the lights were turned on without warning.
b.
Izabella Miko
(Cammy) originally auditioned for the role of Violet.
c.
One stuntman broke his leg after slamming his motorcycle into the back of a car.
d.
Twentieth Century-Fox film studio publicity reveals that studio mogul
Darryl F. Zanuck
and producer
Robert Bassler
derived this movies story from a short Marine film called "Objective-Prisoners" labeling this as "the key". The essence of this short films plot was the high importance of capturing prisoners-of-war for interrogation as part of the military intelligence rationale.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)?
a.
Walt Disney
started planning for this movie in the 1940s. After World War II, Disney sent several artists to Ireland for background material.
b.
Summer Glau
trained intensely with the fight choreographers for three months before principal photography began.
c.
The Central Intelligence game that
Dabney Coleman
and
Charles Durning
play on each other is loosely based on Spy vs. Spy.
d.
Apparently,
Erwin Rommel
s widow,
Lucie Marie Rommel
acted as a technical consultant and adviser to this movie. She was played by
Jessica Tandy
in the film itself. Mrs. Rommel lent the production some of her husbands personal artifacts and liaised with
Nunnally Johnson
, the films producer and screenwriter. As Frau Lucie Maria Rommel, Mrs Rommel later also acted as a military consultant to the film
The Longest Day
made by 20th Century-Fox, the same studio that produced this movie.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)?
a.
Deweys guitar is a Gibson SG Standard.
b.
This was the final feature-length score for composer
Les Baxter
, who considered it to be one of his finest.
c.
Tom Cruise
auditioned for the role of Johnny Nogerelli, but director
Patricia Birch
wanted someone older and taller.
d.
This was the film that brought
Sean Connery
to the attention of
Albert R. Broccoli
, who then went on to cast Connery in his most famous role as James Bond.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)?
a.
Walt Disney
had seen
Albert Sharpe
in a stage production of "Finians Rainbow" in the 1940s and kept him in mind for the role of Darby. By the time he began casting this film a decade later, Sharpe had retired. Disney was able to convince him to come out of retirement.
b.
After
Clint Eastwood
became a star in the mid-60s, Fox re-released this picture, changing the advertising and credits to give Eastwood top billing.
c.
Jack L. Warner
considered this film one of his finest achievements.
d.
Originally, no film companies wanted to make this film, 20th Century-Fox had even passed on it. They stated various reasons, most being that it was too bloody. The only producer who wanted to make the film was
Roger Corman
, and it was not until
Walter Hill
came on board that it all changed. 20th Century-Fox agreed to make the film as long as the violence was toned down; even after that they still rejected the first cut for being "too bloody".
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