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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Double Wedding (1937) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Double Wedding (1937) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Double Wedding (1937).
About the movie:
Two sisters of differing temperaments, the younger's milquetoast fiancé, and a free spirited artist in an auto trailer have romantic complications in this screwball comedy.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Double Wedding (1937)?
a.
The
Nicolas Cage
character, Vincent "Mad Dog" Dwyer, was based on an actual Irish gangster named Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll. (Cage is also the nephew of director
Francis Ford Coppola
.) In real life, Coll was a young hothead who started a bootlegging war with Dutch Schultz in 1931. As in the film, Coll was responsible for a drive-by shooting where he and his henchmen tried to kill one of Schultzs men, but a child playing on the street was accidentally killed. (In the film, the child who is killed in the shooting is played by a young
Sofia Coppola
.) Also, like Dwyer, Coll was shot to death by Scultzs men while making calls in a drugstore telephone booth.
b.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by MCA ever since. In the television prints, the original 2-strip Technicolor sequences were printed in black and white.
c.
The seventh of fourteen films pairing
William Powell
and
Myrna Loy
.
d.
When Mater is trying to drive away from McQueen while driving backwards, Darryl Cartrip mentions "Hes got to be the best backwards driver in the world!" Mater had made this claim himself in the first Cars movie.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Double Wedding (1937)?
a.
Director
Norman Jewison
showed the film uncompleted at the 1999 Toronto International Film Festival, without credits or proper color. He had been working on the movie the night before it was shown, and submitted it to the festival with the film still splinted together in hundreds of pieces. Before showing the movie he said to the eager audience, "Im so nervous that the splints may fall apart."
b.
Production was partially shut down because of the death (7 June 1937) of
Jean Harlow
, to whom
William Powell
was engaged.
c.
Jay Hernandez had to learn many of his Spanish lines phonetically because he does not speak fluent Spanish.
d.
Kiss the Girls
director
Gary Fleder
turned down the chance to direct this film, opting to make
Impostor
instead.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Double Wedding (1937)?
a.
The three Viking ships in the film were designed using blueprints for an actual Viking ship salvaged from the water and restored by a Viking museum in Norway. It turned out that the boats built for the film were too accurate, because the modern actors were taller than their historical counterparts. Every other oar hole had to be plugged so the modern men would have room to row with a full oar stroke. Otherwise, they would hit the backs of the oarsmen seated in front of them when pushing the oar handles forward to start each new stroke.
b.
The films initial gross of $18 million didnt even cover the cost of its production. It did another $10 million in the wake of its Oscar nominations but the film was still deemed to be a box office flop.
c.
Score recorded on LP CBS 4653701 (France) and on CD Columbia in the USA in 1989.
d.
Several performers in studio records and casting call lists were not seen in the movie. These were, with their character names,
Charles Coleman
(Mrs. Blys Butler),
Josephine Whittell
(Woman Customer),
Mitchell Lewis
(Orator) and
John Skins Miller
(Pickpocket). According to a news item,
Robert Benchley
was to have a featured role, but he wasnt in the movie either.
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