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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Du Barry Was a Lady (1943) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Du Barry Was a Lady (1943) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Du Barry Was a Lady (1943).
About the movie:
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is love with a poor dancer...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)?
a.
Dennis Quaid
s film debut.
b.
The boots that
Clint Eastwood
wore in this film are the same boots that he wore in the TV series
Rawhide
. These boots are now a part of Eastwoods private collection and were on loan to the 2005
Sergio Leone
exhibit at the
Gene Autry
Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles, California. In essence these boots have book-ended Eastwoods career in the western genre.
c.
MGM hairstylist
Sydney Guilaroff
dyed
Lucille Ball
s hair flame red for this film, the color that she kept for the rest of her life and became her trademark.
d.
Director of photography
Amir M. Mokri
was replaced by
John Schwartzman
several weeks into shooting. This was reportedly due to "creative differences" between Mokri and director
Jon Turteltaub
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)?
a.
Final film of Sir
Alec Guinness
.
b.
The infamous multiple F word scene was only added to the movie so that it received a higher certificate. In the UK the movie is a 15 certificate, if it wasnt for this scene the movie would have been a PG.
c.
Although
Lucille Ball
was dubbed by
Martha Mears
in the performance of the title song, she did her own singing for "Friendship"--a song she would reprise years later on
I Love Lucy
.
d.
Dialogue by
Casey Siemaszko
s character is sampled in the seminal 1994 hip-hop song "Regulate" by
Warren G.
and
Nate Dogg
, but according to the DVD commentary Siemaszko had no clue that this happened nor had he heard of the song itself.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)?
a.
The "Be a Clown" sequence was cut by exhibitors in Memphis and other U.S. cities in the South because it included
The Nicholas Brothers
, who were black.
b.
Ann Sothern
was supposed to have the role of May Daly (Madame Du Barry) but discovered she was pregnant.
Lucille Ball
was given her role instead.
c.
During the fake interview scenes when Chris talks to the vandals - filming was shut down as the guys were kicked out of their location. They were in a mall parking garage and told filming wasnt permitted there.
d.
James Franco
plays
Danny McBride
s older brother in this movie. In real life, Franco is the younger one.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)?
a.
This was
Zero Mostel
s film debut.
b.
In the original Halloween when Laurie is in class we hear the teacher talking about fate. In Halloween H20 when Laurie is teaching, Michelle Williams gives an answer about fate.
c.
Terrence Malick
shot for 100 days in Australia, 24 in the Solomon Islands and three in the United States.
d.
GOOFY HOLLER: When both the King and the Grand Duke fall from the chandelier.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)?
a.
The first draft was written in two days, and the entire screenplay was completed in 7 days.
b.
Shawn Wootten
destroyed $40 of food during the first and only take of the Detox flip-out scene.
c.
"Du Barry Was a Lady" was adapted from a Broadway show that opened at the 46th Street Theatre on December 6, 1939 and ran for 408 performances. The opening night cast included
Bert Lahr
as Louis Blore,
Ethel Merman
as May Daly and
Benny Baker
,
Betty Grable
,
Janice Carter
,
Adele Jergens
,
Tito Renaldo
,
Kay Sutton
and
Charles Walters
. Much of the bathroom humor (Lahr played a bathroom attendant) was not acceptable to the censors and was omitted from the movie. Later,
Gypsy Rose Lee
was a replacement cast member for
Ethel Merman
.
d.
John Frankenheimer
: the TV director covering the Miami Superbowl game.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)?
a.
The name Alexander de Large (
Malcolm McDowell
s character in
A Clockwork Orange
) can be seen on Micks order book when he is working as a salesman.
b.
When the swami (
Zero Mostel
) makes mock-love to Mrs. McGowan (
Kay Aldridge
) as if she were
Hedy Lamarr
, hes parodying
Charles Boyer
, particularly his role as Pepe le Moko in
Algiers
.
c.
Jonah Hill
: Uncredited cameo as the Smithsonian guard Brandon/Brundon.
d.
Cochrane asks La Forge, "Dont you people in the 24th Century ever pee?" This is a reference to the fact that toilets are never shown in the series.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)?
a.
Near the end of the movie when
Red Skelton
, as Louis, has an arrow stuck in his rear-end, as he pleads for it to be removed he cracks: "Hurry up, this thing is starting to pick up several radio stations already". Coincidentally, three decades later his co-star
Lucille Ball
went public claiming she could hear radio programs directly in her head when driving near radio transmission towers. She explained that the metal fillings in her teeth detected strong radio signals making them audible to her.
b.
this survives in an incomplete print at the Library of Congress.
c.
The name of
Vincent Price
s character was changed to Henry Jarrod from Ivan Igor to avoid alienating Russian viewers.
d.
The Hague School was externally transformed into the FBI Academy. The changes included the stars and stripes being attached to the front of the school and a large fence was fabricated. This fence established a perimeter at the entrance with two FBI sentry shelters.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)?
a.
Marie Blake
is in studio records/casting call lists for a role in the movie, but she was not seen.
b.
Screenwriter
Ed Naha
s pseudonym, "M. Kane Jeeves," was borrowed from
W.C. Fields
.
c.
Author Fannie Flagg was good friends with Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics. In the movie, Mrs. Threadgoode suggests Evelyn would be "good with cosmetics" - so she becomes a successful Mary Kay beauty consultant.
d.
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