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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Dodsworth (1936) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Dodsworth (1936) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Dodsworth (1936)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Dodsworth (1936).

About the movie: A bittersweet tale of the increasing estrangement of a retired automobile tycoon and his wife. Increasingly obsessed with maintaining an appearance of youth...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dodsworth (1936)?
a.		It is Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche jumping in the water themselves (despite having stunt people). It was reportedly freezing and muddy. But in the close up shot of Juliettes face in the water, the man pulling her is not Johnny. This was shot in a water tank.
b.		The film featured new music from Lou Barlow and John Davis.
c.		"Theater Guild on the Air" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on October 6, 1946 with Walter Huston reprising his film role.
d.		Kris Kristofferson said: "Filming with Streisand is an experience which may have cured me of the movies."

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dodsworth (1936)?
a.		"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on February 1, 1943 with Walter Huston reprising his film role.
b.		41 different sets were constructed for the film; there were 1500 cast members; 3000 rounds of ammunition was shot in the riot scenes.
c.		The blood that Satine (Nicole Kidman) coughs up is really a mixture of red food coloring, corn syrup and water.
d.		The first American film that defied the "Production Code" of the Hays Office, which dictated what could and could not be shown on screen.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dodsworth (1936)?
a.		Only five characters in the movie appear in more than two chapters (Hans Landa, Aldo Raine, Donny Donowitz, Shosanna, and Adolf Hitler). Hans Landa appears in four chapters, the most of any character throughout the movie.
b.		Writer Stanley Clements played Stash starting in the Eastside Kid comedy, Smart Alecks. When Leo Gorcey left the Bowery Boys in 1955, Clements was cast as Duke Coveleskie starting in Fighting Trouble and ending in 1958 when the series completed its run.
c.		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.
d.		This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1990.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dodsworth (1936)?
a.		"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on October 4, 1937 with Walter Huston reprising his film role.
b.		In the novel, the ape society is technologically comparable to the 1950s or 1960s, with cities, automobiles, televisions, etc., technology left over from the planets human population. However, the budget could not accommodate the setting, so a more primitive depiction of ape society was used.
c.		(At 1:01:35) The fish eyed effect when Max realizes his family is not moving to Chicago after all, was achieved by doing a close-up using a wide-angle lens, while the swimming distortion effect in shots of his parents was achieved using a "mesmerizer" lens that could be dialed around while in use.
d.		Several jokes were created in editing, such as The Interlocutor saying "See you guys later," and the repetition of "Are you sure this is the right trail?" which strung together several unused takes in alternate locations. The last unanswered "Are you sure this is the right trail?" is actually in the final location, from a take in which Dave Deshler missed his cue. The image is flipped to disguise it from the identical shot that follows.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dodsworth (1936)?
a.		The song sung by Georgina Hale within the movie: "Its never too late to fall in love" was also sung by Georgina Hale in Ken Russells "The Boyfriend".
b.		Its commonly believed that Delia is the only character who dies that same way in the movie as in the novel. If you listen closely while the bishop is being killed, when the scene cuts to the surveillance van, you can hear V saying "now open your mouth and stick out your tongue." In the novel, the bishop died after eating a poisoned communion wafer.
c.		The original Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theater and ran for 147 performances.
d.		In the beginning of the movie, The Terminator drives over a toy semi truck..towards the end of the movie, The Terminator is run over by the same model of semi truck.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dodsworth (1936)?
a.		"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on March 17, 1952 with Barry Fitzgerald and Ann Blyth reprising their film roles.
b.		A popular bar/music venue on the east side of Milwaukee changed its name to Shank Hall after the fictitious Milwaukee location at which the band appears midway on their fateful tour.
c.		This movie is one of only two pictures starring Charles Bronson which use alliteration rhyming his last name with the pictures title. The words BRONSON - BREAKOUT share the same first two letters: "B" and "r". The other movie which also did this was Breakheart Pass, interestingly, made by the same director (Tom Gries) and also made in the same year.
d.		At the time of filming, Mary Astor was going through a very public and very scandalous divorce from her husband, who used Astors diary to prove that she had been having an affair with playwright George S. Kaufman. With the press constantly stalking her, she sometimes slept on the set to avoid confrontation. Many of the cast sided with Astor throughout the ordeal, including William Wyler, Samuel Goldwyn and Ruth Chatterton, who appeared as a character witness on Astors behalf.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dodsworth (1936)?
a.		Executive producer Roger Corman called this film "my homage to Jaws (1975)."
b.		David Mamet, in his book "Bambi vs. Godzilla", cites this film as one of his favorites.
c.		The main locomotive in the film, OP&E #19, was actually converted to burn oil in the 1920s. For the Emperor of the North, the filmmakers removed the oil bunker in the tender, installed a smaller one in its place, and hid it under the coal pile, so that it appeared to burn coal. This was done so that shoveling coal into the firebox could be used as a tool to add suspense.
d.		Although the novel upon which this film is based is set before the events of the novel "The Da Vinci Code", the film has been written as a sequel to follow after events in The Da Vinci Code.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dodsworth (1936)?
a.		Mary Astor wrote in her memoirs that Edith Cortright was her favorite role, also reflecting that she channeled her struggle of her public divorce into her role: "When I went into court and faced the bedlam...that would have broken me up completely, I kept the little pot boiling that was Edith Cortright."
b.		The graffiti-covered buildings shown in the film are all that is left of some radar buildings built by Howard Hughes.
c.		Originally in the script, after Igor drops the brain jar, he was to turn to the camera and quip, "Funny thing is, I tried!"
d.		Mina Badie is co-director Jennifer Jason Leighs half-sister.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dodsworth (1936)?
a.		A modified 1/10 scale 2wd Associated RC10 off road racer with an off-the-shelf Parma International 1963 Chevrolet Corvette body was used in the famous chase scene in which "Dirty Harry" Callahan is being pursued through the streets of San Francisco, California by a highly explosive bomb disguised as an R/C car. The "bomb" was driven by world-champion race driver Jay Halsey. The car was in fact was sold with an electric motor being a competition model, which for cars in that scale was at that time only sold and permitted to enter competitions with electric motors; the internal combustion engine soundtrack were added in post-production.
b.		Shortly before the barracks scene, Keith David fell off of a seven foot railing outside the building while the actors were between shots, breaking two ribs and cracking two vertebra. He when on to film the scene in great pain and then went to the hospital afterwards.
c.		The play opened on Broadway on 24 February 1934 and had 315 performances. Walter Huston, Harlan Briggs and Charles Halton reprised their stage roles in the film, but Haltons footage was cut from the final print. Also in the opening-night cast were Fay Bainter as Fran Dodsworth, Hal K. Dawson, Beatrice Maude (also in the film), Ivan Miller, Kent Smith, Ninetta Sunderland (Hustons real-life wife) and Frederick Worlock.
d.		Carl Fredricksens face and gruff personality are based on Spencer Tracy and Walter Matthau.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dodsworth (1936)?
a.		Some of the big car crash stunts were done for real, using explosive jacks that were later erased using computer graphics. The pipe and plate footing for the gag are shown falling away from the car(s) in un-processed scenes.
b.		In addition to rigging a camera to shoot down the rope swing when the kids were looking up at the sky, they used a second camera rig shooting up for a POV (point of view) shot of what the kids saw.
c.		William Wyler spent a whole afternoon shooting the sequence where Fran (Ruth Chatterton) burns a letter from her husband; he wanted the letter to specifically blow gently along the terrace, stop for a moment, and then continue to flutter as the scene faded to black as a metaphor for Fran and Sams failing marriage.
d.		The Pizza Joint sequences were shot in 1956 for the unfinished film Rock and Roll Hell, also known as Hellborn.

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