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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Dark Victory (1939) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Dark Victory (1939) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Dark Victory (1939).
About the movie:
A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour, and must decide whether she'll meet her final days with dignity.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dark Victory (1939)?
a.
Eight up-and-coming actors including
Michael Douglas
,
Jon Voight
and
Peter Fonda
turned down the role of Oliver, despite being offered 10% of the gross.
b.
Lions Gate Films bought the movie for an undisclosed sum in the "high seven figures", with an eight-figure commitment to prints and advertising. Its the most money Lions Gate has ever spent acquiring a motion picture.
c.
The play originally opened in New York City, New York, USA on 9 February 1937 and ran for 405 performances.
d.
In 1938,
Barbara Stanwyck
and
Melvyn Douglas
starred in a Lux Radio Theatre version of the play, and in 1939
Bette Davis
and
Spencer Tracy
starred in another radio version of the story.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dark Victory (1939)?
a.
In an interview with
Dick Cavett
in 1971,
Bette Davis
said that the movie took four weeks to shoot.
b.
Eddie Murphy
was offered the role of Carter, but turned it down to make
Holy Man
instead.
c.
There was wide spread fan gossip that
George Clooney
was set to play Archie Knox before the film began production.
d.
Joanne Rose is the only real-life vegan in Vegan 101. She has been a vegan since 1994.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dark Victory (1939)?
a.
During the filming of the emotionally-charged scene when
Bette Davis
character needs to find her way upstairs to her room after the brain tumor has caused her blindness, the cast and crew and several visitors were watching as Davis grasped the banister and began to feel her way up the steps, one-by-one. Halfway to the top of the staircase, Davis paused, stopped the scene, briskly walked back downstairs, and addressed director
Edmund Goulding
. "Ed," Davis said, "is Max Steiner going to be composing the music score to this picture?" Goulding, surprised by the question, replied that he didnt know, and asked Davis why the matter was important enough to stop the filming of the scene. "Well, either Im going to climb those stairs or
Max Steiner
is going to climb those stairs," Davis responded, "but Ill be God-DAMNED if Max Steiner and I are going to climb those stairs together!"
b.
Matt Damon
and
Heath Ledger
were originally cast in opposite roles. They petitioned and switched their roles.
c.
When
Edmund H. North
adapted the story, he stuck close to the original source and
John Derek
was considered for the role of Dix because in the novel he was much younger. Norths treatment was not used, and
Andrew Solt
developed the screenplay with regular input from producer
Robert Lord
and director
Nicholas Ray
, and the end result is far different from the source novel. Solt claimed that
Humphrey Bogart
loved the script so much that he wanted to make it without revisions - Solt retains that the final cut is very close to his script - but further research shows that Ray made regular re-writes, some added on the day of shooting. In fact, only 4 pages of the 140 page script had no revisions.
d.
Nelsan Ellis
(stable hand Eddie Sweat) was nuzzled, bitten in the stomach, and once even got stomped on by the horse during the production.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dark Victory (1939)?
a.
In Jackies final scenes, he is wearing a Baltimore Orioles cap.
Edward Norton
is from the Baltimore suburb of Columbia and an avid Orioles fan; he took batting practice with the team to help publicize the movies premiere in July 2001.
b.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on January 8, 1940 with
Bette Davis
reprising her film role.
c.
In the DVD commentary,
Diane Lane
says that
Tom Cruise
got the script for the film while shooting
The Outsiders
and had asked Lane to audition for the role of Lana. Her father later told the producers there was "no way his daughter was playing a twenty-something hooker".
d.
In the video game and some versions of the script, Ray Sawyer was nicknamed Mr. Jangles because of his keys. When you hear them jangling, you know hes near.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dark Victory (1939)?
a.
The picture portion of the sound version survives in 16mm. The soundtrack discs are evidently lost.
b.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
had to film Scooby-Doo around her already hectic
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
schedule. The producers of both productions arranged it that she would spend two weeks in Los Angeles shooting Buffy, then the next two weeks in Queensland, Australia filming Scooby-Doo.
c.
Greta Garbo
was the original choice for Judith Traherne.
d.
After two minutes of the hypnosis scene, the cinematographer started to weave and his head sunk back. Herzog grabbed him and put him softly back to the camera where he continued. Not only that, but Roth was actually able to hypnotize the young woman as well, again Herzog stating that one "cannot act waking up from hypnosis" like we see in the film.
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