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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Desire Me (1947) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Desire Me (1947) Quiz
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About the movie:
Shortly after WWII, flashbacks tell the story of Marise, her husband Paul, and Jean, who was imprisoned with Paul in a German camp...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Desire Me (1947)?
a.
When
Charles Chaplin
first announced that he was going to make this film, the British government - whose policy at the time was one of appeasement towards Nazi Germany - announced that they would ban it. By the time of the films release, though, Britain was at war with Germany and in the midst of the blitz, so the governments attitude towards the film had completely changed toward a film with such obvious value as propaganda.
b.
During one scene, a huge wave swept Garson and co-star
Richard Hart
along the jagged rocks of the Monterey coast, inflicting bruises, cuts and back problems on Garson that would require many surgeries and hospital visits in the following months and years.
c.
The cast had a bet who would be the first to get arrested during filming. The winner - writer and producer
Nils Parker
, who urinated in a valet booth after a night of drinking.
d.
This films opening prologue states: "This is not the story of a beautiful city - not as we know it today - but as it was in its most perilous and also its most glorious hours. Paris in 1944, after four years of bitter occupation, was seething on the verge of revolt against the Nazi oppressors. With the allies almost at the doorstep, the French Resistance in the city, composed of many divergent groups, struggled bitterly among themselves to find the way to liberation. TIME WAS TERRIBLY SHORT . . . "
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Desire Me (1947)?
a.
For the climax,
Rutger Hauer
was rigged to a rope which would jerk him back twice, to simulate bullet hits. However, when the scene was filmed, he was unexpectedly and roughly jerked sideways, to find out to his dismay that this was done on
Sylvester Stallone
orders.
b.
Film historians tend to cite this film (regarded as the worst film made by MGM to that time) as the point where Loews Inc. chairman Nicholas Schenck lost confidence in
Louis B. Mayer
s leadership. Schenck would soon bring producer
Dore Schary
back to the studio from RKO and groom him as Mayers replacement.
c.
The narrator states that Tom meets Summer on January 8th. Since it is 500 days, Tom lets go of Summer (and meets Autumn) on May 23rd of the next year.
d.
Only film in which co-star
Laurence Fishburne
is credited under his birth name (Laurence Fishburne III).
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Desire Me (1947)?
a.
At the entrance of Emilys house, a Quileute drum is visible there. According to the production designer,
David Brisbin
, this was done as an appreciation to a young Quileute girl who gave Brisbin the drum that she made (as a custom) during meeting with the La Push Quileute executive council - Brisbin was with the design team meeting them at that time while preparing to design Jacob and Emilys house.
b.
When Del clears his sinuses in the motel room, his nose whistling sounds out the final chords to Shave and a Haircut.
c.
George Cukor and Mervyn LeRoy were among a number of directors who worked on this film without taking credit. Thus, leaving the film with no directors credit at all.
d.
One scene in the film quite realistically realizes author
James Salter
s description of Sevilles (Connell in the novel) first sight of the fighter pilots in their club at the base in Korea. Salter wrote that "It looked like a lumberjack camp. No two pilots dressed alike." In the film, Seville eventually wears a WWII sheepskin-lined leather cap and a sage green flight jacket over a blue flight suit, while Pell wears a flap-eared winter hat and a blue flight jacket over a green flight suit. Other pilots wear similar mixes of uniform clothing from both the WWII and Korean War eras.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Desire Me (1947)?
a.
It took
Greer Garson
125 takes to enunciate the word "No" to the directors satisfaction. Co-star
Robert Mitchum
claimed later that this incident was when he first stopped taking Hollywood seriously.
b.
Ginger Rogers
turned down the role of Hildy Johnson (eventually played by
Rosalind Russell
) in the
Howard Hawks
comedy
His Girl Friday
so she could co-star with
Ronald Colman
in this movie.
c.
Writer/Director
Bob Clark
gathered material for the movie over a 15 year period. The story is composite of incidents collected from the males of his generation along with some of his own personal memories from growing up in high school.
d.
At
Cecil B. DeMille
s first appearance, his on-set cry of "Wilcoxon!" is directed toward his associate producer,
Henry Wilcoxon
, who had starred in his epics
Cleopatra
,
The Crusades
and
Unconquered
, later moving to a position behind the camera as DeMilles associate until the older mans death in 1959.
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