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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Easter Parade (1948) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Easter Parade (1948) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Easter Parade (1948).
About the movie:
Don Hewes and Nadine Hale are a dancing team, but she decides to start a career on her own. So he takes the next dancer he meets...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Easter Parade (1948)?
a.
Focus Features were able to recoup its $14 million budget by selling the overseas rights to the film.
b.
David Lynch
: [highway at night]
c.
The two bars shown in the movie were physically the same bar, decorated differently.
d.
Sidney Sheldon
revealed this in an interview decades after the film came out: On the first day of filming, before the first scene, Sidney Sheldon was telling
Judy Garland
a story. Though it was time to shoot, Judy pressed him to continue on, ignoring the calls. When Sidney jokingly asked if she wanted to do the scene, Judy said no because the first scene was a kissing scene with
Fred Astaire
and she had never met him before, though it was assumed that they had since Astaire and Garland were both already big stars at the time. Sidney introduced Judy to Fred, and they all went on to filming the movie.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Easter Parade (1948)?
a.
According to director
John Waters
, the films budget was so tight, that he could not afford "A" and "B" reels. The work print was in effect the master copy.
b.
Christopher Lloyd
s film debut.
c.
Ernst Lubitsch
disliked
Gottfried Reinhardt
and
S.N. Behrman
s original screenplay, so he commissioned a rewrite from
Billy Wilder
,
Charles Brackett
and
Walter Reisch
. Lubitsch himself made some significant uncredited contributions to the screenplay.
d.
The original title for the song "Easter Parade" was "Smile and Show Your Dimple".
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Easter Parade (1948)?
a.
The song "Easter Parade" that the movie was based upon was first sung in
Irving Berlin
s 1933 Broadway revue "As Thousands Cheer" by
Marilyn Miller
and
Clifton Webb
and was inspired by the annual event in New York City where people stroll down Fifth Avenue displaying their new hats (some very outrageous) and their Easter finery. The song also appeared in the Irving Berlin movie
Holiday Inn
.
b.
This is
Greg Kinnear
s first leading man role. He previously co-starred with
Harrison Ford
in the remake of
Sabrina
a year prior to this film in a supporting role.
c.
The actual correct full name of the real Cannonball Run race was the Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash. Besides The Cannonball Run, it was also known as the Cannonball Baker.
d.
During auditioning and casting, any interested actors were to submit a 10-minute video of themselves describing an important sexual experience. The director received approximately 500 tapes.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Easter Parade (1948)?
a.
Ramon Novarro
s weekly salary of $10,000 was 80 times more than what he earned while filming
The Prisoner of Zenda
- $125 per week - just three years previously.
b.
His role as Lt. Matt Carson became the final film appearance for
Kenne Duncan
, ending a career of approximately 250 films stretching back to silent films.
c.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on March 22, 1951 with
Judy Garland
and
Fred Astaire
reprising their film roles.
d.
During the scene in the van with
R. Lee Ermey
(The Sheriff) and
Jonathan Tucker
(Morgan), Tucker forced the gun down his throat in order to make himself vomit every take. If you watch carefully you can see him spit the vomit out of his mouth in the scene.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Easter Parade (1948)?
a.
Ann Miller
had to perform her biggest numbers in a back brace. In an interview with Robert Osborne, she revealed that she had been thrown down the stairs by her then husband. She was also pregnant at the time and was in a lot of pain.
b.
This film is believed lost. Please check your attic.
c.
In his autobiography "Timebends",
Arthur Miller
speculates that his unconscious mind picked the name "Loman" for Willy Loman, the protagonist of "Death of a Salesman", based on his conscious experience of being thrilled by from _Testament des Dr. Mabuse, Das (1933)_, which featured a character named "Inspector Lohmann".
d.
As an in-joke, the names of some of the crew members are visible on a few headstones at the graveyard scene near the end of the film.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Easter Parade (1948)?
a.
"Screen Directors Playhouse" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on July 12, 1951 with
Henry Fonda
reprising his film role.
b.
This was MGMs highest grossing film of 1948.
c.
The first scene that
Gregory Peck
shot showed him returning home from his characters law office while his children ran to greet him.
Harper Lee
was a guest on the set that day, and Peck noticed her crying after the scene was filmed. "Why are you crying?" Peck asked. Peck had looked just like her late father, the model for Atticus, Lee explained; Peck even had a little round pot belly like her fathers. "Thats not a pot belly, Harper," Peck told her, "Thats great acting."
d.
Bette Davis
s performance as Margo Channing is ranked #5 on Premiere Magazines 100 Greatest Performances of All Time.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Easter Parade (1948)?
a.
The trombonist in Judy Garlands first number (she puts a hand on his shoulder) is the father of Dan Barker, author of "Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of Americas Leading Atheists".
b.
Although she played his mother in the film,
Jo Van Fleet
was only 11 years older than
Paul Newman
.
c.
In one scene, Harveys wife, takes him to the beach where a large electrical sign reads "Happy Birthday". Originally, she was to lead him to the beach as filmed but the Goodyear blimp flies over with the birthday message. Because the camera could not be set up on time for the shot, it could not be used and the blimp was called off (which is why the Goodyear company gets mentioned in the end credits). The chief electrician
Ben Batzdorff
suggested the alternative and he and his crew put it together on the beach.
d.
Trade reviewed at the Hitching Post theatre in Hollywood on 17 October 1946, 15 months after first release.
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