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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Dirty Dancing (1987) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Dirty Dancing (1987) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Dirty Dancing (1987).
About the movie:
Spending the summer in a holiday camp with her family, Frances ('Baby') falls in love with the camp's dancing teacher.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dirty Dancing (1987)?
a.
Peter OToole
and
John Gielgud
claimed to have been unaware hardcore sex footage was being shot for the film.
b.
Mike Myers
has said that his glasses in all three films are meant to look like those worn by
Michael Caine
in
The Ipcress File
, so Caine took the original glasses (model "Teviot 74" by UK Optical) to the set and wore them as Nigel.
c.
At one point in the film, a sonar operator mentions a Soviet "Akula" class submarine. The Russians (former Soviets) do in fact have Akula class subs. Akula is Russian for "shark".
d.
The song "Shes Like The Wind", originally written for
Grandview, U.S.A.
, was later used in this movie instead.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dirty Dancing (1987)?
a.
Harrison Ford
was rumored to appear in the film in a role as V.P. Andrew Johnson at one point during the development of the film but has since become completely unsubstantiated after all the delays & turnarounds on the films development over the years.
b.
Throughout the film, Johnny and Baby always wear contrasting colors, Baby in very light colors, and Johnny in black or something very dark.
c.
The wall painting in Alcmene and Amphitryons bedroom is the famous "Spring Fresco" from the Greek island of Thera and can be seen at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.
d.
While not a true story, parts are based on experiences from
Rachel Star Withers
life: the exorcism, the conversations with the doctor, waking up places, losing parts of her day.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dirty Dancing (1987)?
a.
Val Kilmer
was initially offered the lead but declined.
b.
Writer
Sidney Howard
was paid $2,000 a week to do the screenplay. Many other writers contributed to the final script, with the final sum paid to every one of them being $126,000.
Sidney Howard
received sole screen credit.
David O. Selznick
also wrote much of the screenplay.
c.
When Paxton, Josh and Oli first arrive at the Slovakian hostel, the hostel personnel are watching a movie on TV. This movie is
Quentin Tarantino
s
Pulp Fiction
. (Tarantino was a producer for "Hostel".)
d.
This movie was shown overseas to servicemen before it was released in the United States.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dirty Dancing (1987)?
a.
Beating out established players like
Luis Figo
and
Ronaldo
,
Parminder Nagra
won the 2002 Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)s International Football Personality of the Year Presidential award, the first female to ever receive the honor.
b.
Film debut of American tough guy
Charles McGraw
who ironically plays a British horse groom here.
c.
Voted #2 Must See Movie of all time by listeners of Capital FM in London.
d.
The last film of veteran character actor
Tom Tully
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dirty Dancing (1987)?
a.
The dancing that
Patrick Swayze
and
Jennifer Grey
do during the love scene was actually the same dance that they did for the screen tests. It was not originally supposed to be in the film.
b.
As RoboCop approaches Dick Joness office in his first attempt to arrest him, Jones is tapping his fingers in time to the incidental music.
c.
As
John Wayne
refused to use a stunt-double in the movie, director
Edward Dmytryk
and screenwriter
Ben Barzman
wrote scenes for Wayne with dangerous stunts so that Wayne would want to use a stuntman. Not even this deterred Wayne who still did the stunts.
d.
Although the onscreen source listed is "Chéri-Bibi," its exact published title was "Chéri-Bibi et Cécily."
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dirty Dancing (1987)?
a.
The bar set was auctioned off after filming was done. It was part of the namesake for and actual bar of a German restaurant called "Haus Murphy" in Glendale, Arizona, until the restaurant moved to a new location down the street in late 2004. The bar wouldnt fit through the door of the new location and was sold to a private collector.
b.
Jonah Hill
wrote a cameo role specifically for
Johnny Depp
.
c.
Cynthia Rhodes
(Penny Johnson) was the first to be cast.
d.
Hugh Jackman
recommended his
Kate & Leopold
co-star
Liev Schreiber
for the role of Sabretooth, describing him as having the necessary competitive streak to portray Sabretooth. During filming, they dared each other to perform more and more of their own stunts.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dirty Dancing (1987)?
a.
In the scene where Johnny and Baby are practicing dancing, and she keeps laughing when he runs his arm down hers, it was not part of the scene, she was actually laughing and his frustration was genuine. They left it because it was effective. Her falling over in this scene was unplanned too.
b.
Cinematographer
Franz Planer
started the film but became seriously ill and had to withdraw. He was replaced by
Joseph Walker
.
c.
Petula Clark
was originally offered the role of Judy Hudson.
d.
The meaning and relevance of the films title "Five Graves to Cairo" is that it refers to five buried fuel and supplies dumps (the secret location of which was identifiable from each letter of the word Egypt in a map of the same) which were secretly established prior to World War II to prepare for this Germanys invasion of Egypt.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dirty Dancing (1987)?
a.
Xavier Palud
and
David Moreau
s second feature film and first American film. They were offered the job thanks to the success of their French horror film
Ils
.
b.
The lake practice scene was filmed at Mountain Lake in the mountains of Virginia in October. There are no close-ups because the actors were so cold that their lips were blue.
c.
Several alternate endings were written, one being where Miles ended up blackmailing Rowena. The final shot was to be a close up on his computer showing several files named Rowena, the last shot Rowenas face camera zooming into her eye. The writers later changed their minds at the last minute.
d.
While playing basketball, Epps mentions its legendary sportsman
Michael Jordan
. Jordan had starred in the sci-film
Space Jam
which was, like this film, an adaptation of a cartoon series (though an indirect one).
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dirty Dancing (1987)?
a.
The "Hogwarts Express" locomotive portrayed in this film, a 1937 4-6-0 "Hall" class steam engine number 5972, originally belonged to the Great Western Railway and went under the name of "Olton Hall".
b.
This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1992.
c.
The film was re-released in 1997 solely due to a petition led by late-night talk show host
Conan OBrien
in which he asked viewers to send letters calling for the films re-release. When exhibitors finally agreed, OBrien joked that he actually didnt like the movie all that much.
d.
Because the painstaking rehearsals for the film lasted an exhausting two weeks, filming had to be completed in an unprecedented 21 days.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dirty Dancing (1987)?
a.
The stained glass windows in Judes apartment feature 45 RPM records as the center of the flowers.
b.
The Martian machines were models suspended from wires. For the final sequences where the machines die, they are shown crashing into telegraph poles - this allowed the filmmakers to hide the suspension wires with the telegraph wires.
c.
The very famous scene where Johnny and Baby are practicing their dancing and they are crawling towards each other on the floor wasnt intended to be part of the film; they were just messing around and were warming up to do the real scene, but the director liked it so much he kept in the film.
d.
Sig Ruman
makes his first of three appearances in
The Marx Brothers
films.
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