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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Days of Wine and Roses (1962) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Days of Wine and Roses (1962) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Days of Wine and Roses (1962).
About the movie:
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Days of Wine and Roses (1962)?
a.
The shot showing Air Force One in flight is taken from
Air Force One
.
b.
Evidence of
Stanley Kubrick
s attention to detail: there are visible replacement instructions for the explosive bolts in the ejection apparatus of the pods.
c.
According to director
John Boorman
,
Stanley Kubrick
wanted to cast
Bill McKinney
in the role of Gunnery Sgt. Hartman. However, Kubrick was so unsettled after viewing McKinneys performance in
Deliverance
that he declined to meet with him, saying he was simply too frightened at the idea of being in McKinneys presence.
d.
The films title comes from the poem "Vitae Summa Brevis" by Ernest Dowson: "They are not long, the days of wine and roses: / Out of a misty dream / Our path emerges for a while, then closes / Within a dream." Dowson also wrote the poem from which the title
Gone with the Wind
came.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Days of Wine and Roses (1962)?
a.
There are four 100% CG shots in the film: the shot of the bomb falling toward the USS Arizona, the two shots of the explosion of the Arizona as it jumps upwards in the water, and the two Japanese Zeroes pitching down towards Battleship Row.
b.
Katherine Hepburn credits director
George Stevens
for her change in the publics perception, by helping her, in "Alice Adams", portray more warmth and vulnerability than she had ever shown previously.
c.
Actor Sam Tarpley died during the making of the film
d.
Director
Blake Edwards
claims he hypnotized
Lee Remick
to help her perform her sloppy drunk motel scene.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Days of Wine and Roses (1962)?
a.
The cast and crew were very concerned that the bleak ending would be changed. Director
Blake Edwards
recalled for Entertainment Weekly magazine that studio head
Jack L. Warner
wanted a lighter ending, but he came into a screening with a very attractive date who blasted the decision. Warner reluctantly gave in. In addition,
Jack Lemmon
purposely flew to Paris after filming had wrapped so he would be "unavailable" for re-shoots.
b.
The film is based on the real life story of Steven Jay Russell.
c.
Christian evangelist
Billy Graham
claimed an actual demon was living in the celluloid reels of this movie.
d.
They considered getting two different actors for the role of Captain America. One for the role of the weak pre-superhero Steve Rogers and another for the superhero Captain America, but decided to get an actor that could play both roles instead.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Days of Wine and Roses (1962)?
a.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on June 12, 1939 with
Fay Bainter
and
Jackie Cooper
reprising their film roles.
b.
Film debut of
Lynn Borden
.
c.
This movies opening prologue states: "The American Pacific Fleet was attacked and partially destroyed by Japan on . . . Sunday Morning December 7, 1941. This attack led to the entering of the United States into World War II. All of the events and characters depicted are true to historical fact."
d.
While going to USC film school with writer David Young, Dinielli meet and became good friends with Jeef Bassetti, Chris Fetherolf, Keith Martin, Steve Ebersole, Jeff Mattas and Chris Hutchings, who were all roommates and attending various other films schools at UCLA and AFI. They all helped with each others productions and vowed to make their first feature together, which they did.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Days of Wine and Roses (1962)?
a.
At one point, Charlie asks Patsy what shes done all day and she responds, "Ive been sipping champagne with Kirk Douglas". When the scene was filmed
Jessica Lange
actually said, "Ive been sipping champagne with Rock Hudson", but Hudson was revealed to have had AIDS before the film was released and the producers thought a reference to him would be distracting.
b.
Jack Lemmon
disclosed in a TV interview interview that during his straitjacket scene, wherein his character rather violently suffers the DTs, hed gotten so into it that the crew had to shake him out of his hysterics after the cameras had stopped rolling.
c.
Claire Bloom
only has 10 lines.
d.
The famous poster art for the film where a woman is pictured screaming is not
Tippi Hedren
but is in fact
Jessica Tandy
taken from the scene where the birds come down the chimney.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Days of Wine and Roses (1962)?
a.
Chavela Vargas
, who sings a song (La Llorona) to Frida in the bar, knew the real
Frida Kahlo
with whom shed had an affair.
b.
Julian McMahon
said yes to the film without even reading the script.
c.
Learning that he had not been chosen to direct this movie adaptation when he had directed the acclaimed live TV drama on which this film was based,
John Frankenheimer
asked why and was told, "John, they say youre not a comedy director."
d.
William Peter Blatty
based his novel on a supposedly genuine exorcism from 1949, which was partially performed in both Cottage City, Maryland, and Bel-Nor, Missouri. Several area newspapers reported on a speech a minister gave to an amateur parapsychology society, in which he claimed to have exorcised a demon from a 13-year-old boy named Robbie, and that the ordeal lasted a little more than six weeks. Robbie was born June 1, 1935, resided at 3807 40th Avenue in Cottage City, MD, and was a member of St. James Parish. He entered the seventh grade at Bladensburg Junior High in the fall of 1947, and was removed in the middle of his eighth grade year on January 15, 1949. He had experiences that ended on April 19, 1949. He re-enrolled in the eighth grade at Bladensburg Junior High for the 1949-50 school year, then spent from the fall of 1950 until June 1954 at Gonzaga High School in Washington, DC.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Days of Wine and Roses (1962)?
a.
In preparation for the movie,
Warwick Davis
had to learn a modified accent, how to take care of a baby, how to ride a horse, how to sword fight, and how to perform magic.
b.
As the shoot ballooned from 55 days to 159, with the budget likewise spiraling, the film earned the nickname amongst the crew of "Flaws".
c.
Jack Riley
s film debut.
d.
The movie was announced in Hollywood trade magazines on March 4, 1977.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Days of Wine and Roses (1962)?
a.
Originally done on live TV;
Charles Bickford
repeated his TV role.
b.
House Party was originally written for DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, a.k.a.
Jeffrey A. Townes
and Will Smith.
c.
Brian De Palma
originally offered the role of Claire to
Juliette Binoche
.
d.
Dedicated to the memory of
Stan Winston
.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Days of Wine and Roses (1962)?
a.
Jack Lemmon
s and
Lee Remick
s San Francisco residence is located at 1800 Pacific Avenue between Franklin and Gough Street.
b.
The poem Lydia and Bob quote at the ball is "The Night has a Thousand Eyes" by Francis William Bourdillon, a late Victorian English poet (1852-1921). The text is "The night has a thousand eyes,/ And the day but one;/ Yet the light of the bright world dies/ With the dying sun./ The mind has a thousand eyes,/ And the heart but one:/ Yet the light of a whole life dies. /When love is done."
c.
Paul Douglas
was cast as Sheldrake but died before filming began.
d.
Jeffrey Stoltzfus actually hit himself over the head with a frying pan to record a believable sound effect for one scene.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Days of Wine and Roses (1962)?
a.
After having locked the Sanderson sisters in the school kiln, the three kids celebrate as they walk to the park. The house shown directly behind Max and Thackery while they talk is the residential edifice used as
Thora Birch
s home in 1999s
American Beauty
.
b.
The story was first performed live on an episode of
Playhouse 90
in 1958. Writer
J.P. Miller
conceived the original play as a love story between two drunks. The concept of alcoholic domesticity had never been executed commercially before. The recorded play, not in public domain, currently exists on videotape at CBS Television City in Hollywood.
c.
Despite the films title, none of the stories showcased appeared in the EC comic "The Vault of Horror." The story "The Neat Job" originally appeared in "Shock SuspenStories," and each other story originally appeared in "Tales from the Crypt."
d.
It is impossible to actually steal a copy of the SATs because there are several versions. Everyone who takes it has different questions or the questions are in a different order.
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