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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Flying Down to Rio (1933) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Flying Down to Rio (1933) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Flying Down to Rio (1933)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Flying Down to Rio (1933).

About the movie: Aviator and band leader Roger Bond is forever getting his group fired for flirting with the lady guests...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Flying Down to Rio (1933)?
a.		Ex-racing driver Allen Padelford specially designed the MTV insert cars - a Mobile Technocrane Vehicle to allow filmmakers to shoot insert shots for horse race sequences. It run up to 45 mph and weighs at 28 thousand pounds. The car can fit a 30ft Technocrane dolly at the back and Wescam XR head at front. Another one was designed specifically two fit in two animatronic horses.
b.		The airplane that the character Roger Bond flies is a Monocoupe 90, designed in 1930 by Don Luscombe. It was capable of speeds of up to 100 knots (115 MPH - a very high-performance airplane for its day) but in no way could it reach Haiti from Miami without many fuel stops along the way. (If at all.)
c.		Several reasons have been put forward for the film being in black and white. John Ford once claimed it added to the tension, however others involved with production said Paramount was cutting costs and so they had to make the movie on sound stages at the studio. Without the budget restraints, Ford would have been in Monument Valley using Technicolor stock. It has also been suggested that since both John Wayne and James Stewart were playing characters thirty years younger than they actually were (Wayne was 54 when the movie was filmed in the autumn of 1961 and Stewart was 53), the movie needed to be in black and white because they would never have got away with it in color. The age difference was particularly noticeable in Stewarts case, since he was playing a young lawyer who had only just graduated from law school and had moved West without even practicing law back East.
d.		The movie-within-a-movie, Her Hour of Love, with Donald Cook and Evalyn Knapp, was not an actual film clip, but a new sequence especially filmed for Taxi.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Flying Down to Rio (1933)?
a.		Roger Corman had originally wanted this to be his second "Poe" picture following the success of House of Usher. He passed it over because he felt that certain plot elements were too close to Ingmar Bergmans recent Det sjunde inseglet.
b.		In the scene on the park bench, Robin Williams gives an example of love that Will hasnt experienced as "going to hell and back for it." In his next movie, What Dreams May Come, Williams does just that for his love played by Annabella Sciorra after she commits suicide.
c.		The first (of ten) dancing partnership of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
d.		The scenic elevator is actually one of two in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in San Francisco. This elevator was used in numerous movies including Time After Time.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Flying Down to Rio (1933)?
a.		Originally conceived by RKO as a vehicle for Dolores del Rio, this film is most notable for its star-making pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The two relative unknowns smoked up the screen in a dance number called "The Carioca" that generated such a positive response form critics and fans that they were eventually reunited in nine subsequent films.
b.		One of two films in which a young Fidel Castro appears as an extra, mostly in crowd scenes.
c.		The scene where The Wonders perform live on The Hollywood Television Showcase was filmed at the Bob Barker Studio (Studio 33) at CBS Television City in Hollywood, California where the long-running hit game show The Price Is Right is taped.
d.		Serena Scott Thomas did her love scene with Bond herself, turning down the offer of letting a body double do it for her.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Flying Down to Rio (1933)?
a.		At the beach house, Harry tells Boris that Lucy was a former Miss New Jersey. Karen Kopins, who plays Lucy, was a former Miss Connecticut.
b.		"Shabah" (the text on Phantoms headband) means "ghost" or "phantom" in Arabic.
c.		Buxton, where Andy says he proposed to his wife and buried the "treasure" for Red under the tree, is a real life small town in Maine (population 7452 as of the 2000 census) about 15 miles west of Maines largest city of Portland, where the movie says Andy was a banker.
d.		While looking through the window of a bakery shop in Rio, Ginger Rogers asks Fred Astaire, "Oh, Freddie. How do you ask for little tarts in Portuguese?" Fred replies, "Dont heckle me. Try the Culbertson System." This topical joke was funny for Depression-era movie audiences, for whom the game of Bridge was a major home pastime. The Culbertson System was a bidding strategy developed by Bridge champion Ely Culbertson. In the early 1930s, Culbertson became a celebrity by winning several international tournaments with his aggressive bidding system.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Flying Down to Rio (1933)?
a.		Paul Newman broke his ankle rehearsing the "grab-ass motorcycle race" sequence and filming had to be postponed for a few weeks.
b.		In the original prints, the "Orchids in the Moonlight" number was color tinted.
c.		The music that Juliette Lewis sings in the film was written by and originally performed by P.J. Harvey.
d.		Ians last name, the high schools name and the towns name of McKinley, refer to President William McKinley, who was assassinated.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Flying Down to Rio (1933)?
a.		Tom Bosleys movie debut.
b.		Despite his obvious on-screen chemistry in dancing with Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire was reluctant to make a second movie with her. He had previously been part of a dance duo with his sister, Adele Astaire, but wanted to establish himself as a solo dancer. After Flying Down to Rio, Astaire sent a note to his agent about Rogers. "I dont mind making another picture with her, but as for this team idea, its out! Ive just managed to live down one partnership and I dont want to be bothered with any more." But when the critics praised the Astaire-Rogers pairing in "Rio," Astaire was persuaded, and he and Rogers soon made the second film in their partnership, _The Gay Divorcee (1934)_ (QV).
c.		Based on the award winning stage play "Prospect" by writer/director Octavio Solis
d.		The character of Petey Skippen appears in screenwriter Brian Spaeths novel Prelude to a Super Airplane, and Calvin Stadiums is mentioned. Fictionalized versions of Producer Brad Radby and Prod. Asst. Eastham Way are also in the book.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Flying Down to Rio (1933)?
a.		On March 31st, 2010, the film premiered in Aarons hometown of Scottsdale, Arizona. This not only marked the 16th anniversary of his death, but also marked the day that he has been dead longer than he was alive.
b.		Singer/songwriter Barry Manilow was considered for the role of Ted Stryker before Robert Hays was hired.
c.		Joel McCrea was originally slated for the role of Roger Bond.
d.		Half of the $320,000 budget was spent on the Panavison cameras so the film would have a 2:35:1 scope. Donald Pleasence was paid $20,000 for 5 days work.

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