Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Foolish Wives (1922) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Foolish Wives (1922) Quiz

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Foolish Wives (1922).

About the movie: "Count" Karanzim, a Don Juan is with his cousins in Monte Carlo, living from faked money and the money he gets from rich ladies...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Foolish Wives (1922)?
a.		Emilio Estevez appears in an uncredited role in this film. Tom Cruise had previously made a similarly uncredited cameo in Estevez earlier film Young Guns.
b.		According to Sam Raimi in the book "The Evil Dead Companion" by Bill Warren, Charles Napier was to play Ashs boss in S-mart, but his role was totally cut. Likewise, Bridget Fonda was scheduled to have more screen time as Linda.
c.		As the films production costs skyrocketed, Universal Pictures attempted to use the situation to garner some publicity for it. The studio erected an electronic sign on a rooftop overlooking Broadway, across the street from its New York offices. The sign read "Universal Pictures and Erich von Stroheim (v) will spend $XXX,XXX to entertain you with Foolish Wives." Each week the numbers of the production costs were updated on the electronic sign, telling how much more the picture had cost. In the end, the total cost of the film, as reported by Universal, was $1,103,736.38. Von Stroheim later claimed that the real cost was only around $700,000.
d.		According to Wade Williams in Alice Faye: The Star Next Door, when Alice Faye saw a rough cut of the film and realized that Otto Premingers editing had diminished the impact of her performance in favor of newcomer Linda Darnell, she got up from the screening, drove off the 20th Century Fox lot, threw her dressing room key to the security guard, and vowed never to work for the studio again.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Foolish Wives (1922)?
a.		During the kicking scene, Bette Davis kicked Joan Crawford in the head, and the resulting wound required stitches. In retaliation, Crawford put weights in her pockets so that when Davis had to drag Crawfords near-lifeless body, she strained her back.
b.		The Ambassador, played by Rudolph Christians, has his back to the camera for most of the second half of the movie because Christians died in the middle of production and his part was completed by Robert Edeson.
c.		This movie was made and released about five years after author Derek Lamberts source novel Touch the Lions Paw was first published in 1975.
d.		First James Bond film approved by Chinese censors. All other films in the series were available in China only as illegal bootlegs.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Foolish Wives (1922)?
a.		The ShenaniganZ restaurant was actually a converted Bennigans restaurant (hence the extreme similarities). It has since been completely renovated and is now a Verizon Wireless retail store. (2009)
b.		Originally 6 hours long, censored to about 130 minutes.
c.		Harveys house in Illinois is an actual house that was originally owned by Robert R. McCormick, a colonel in the Big Red One, the first Infantry, in WWII. He was also the owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune for decades. His home is now a museum along with a museum dedicated to the Big Red One.
d.		Ian McKellen was set to play Antonio, but had to drop at the last minute due to scheduling conflicts.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Foolish Wives (1922)?
a.		It was rumored that producers Harold Hecht and Burt Lancaster financed the movie as a tax-write off, believing the picture would lose money.
b.		During a Q&A at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, director Michael Greenspan and producer Kyle Mann revealed that the movie was shot in just 18 days and filmed in order.
c.		One of the reasons Brian Levant was selected as the director was because he was a genuine fan of the cartoon series. He reportedly has a large personal collection of Flintstones merchandise.
d.		Initially budgeted at $250,000, the films production soared above $1 million, thanks to Erich von Stroheims excesses. He started shooting in July 1920 and kept going for 11 months, until he was taken off the picture in June 1921. Afraid that the movie might bankrupt Universal, studio chief Carl Laemmle sent his assistant, 21-year-old Irving Thalberg, from New York to Hollywood to try to get von Stroheim to finish the film. When Thalberg threatened to replace him with another director, von Stroheim laughed in his face, pointing out that he was the star of the movie as well as the director; if he were replaced, the movie would never be finished. However, Thalberg outsmarted him. He carefully watched production on the picture and, when he thought enough footage had been shot to make up a story, took von Stroheims cameras away, reminding the director that they were studio property. For proving his mettle against von Stroheim, Laemmle made Thalberg the new head of production at Universal Pictures.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Foolish Wives (1922)?
a.		A Super Jewel Production. Universal, not owning a proprietary theater chain, devised a 3-tiered branding system in order to market its feature product to independent theater owners: Red Feather (low budget programmers), Bluebird (mainstream releases) and Jewel (prestige pictures produced to draw higher roadshow ticket prices). At $1.104 million, this production was so costly that the studio wanted to differentiate it from even its Jewel releases, branding this a "Super" Jewel, ensuring it special promotion and premium admission prices. Although the film made a nice profit, Erich von Stroheim (acting as producer as well as director) was rapidly becoming unemployable due to his flagrant excesses which enraged Carl Laemmle.
b.		Claude Berri and Roman Polanski were interested in directing.
c.		One of the cars license plate is "HTT1195," which references the company "Hi Tech Tunes," which produced the film.
d.		Before casting Adis Gutic, director Simon G. Mueller considered Croatian-German actor Dennis Cubic for the role of Milorad Mijatovic. Dennis declined due to scheduling problems. Another actor considered for the role was Austrian-Croatian actor Tomislav "Tommy" Maros. Tommy appeared in a leading role for Muellers no-budget-feature-film-debut "Stylers" in 2005, co-starring with later cinematographer Markus E. Mueller.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Foolish Wives (1922)?
a.		After six months in the editing room, Erich von Stroheim turned over his cut of the film to Universal Pictures in December of 1921. The film was 32 reels and 8 hours long, but von Stroheim insisted it was now "a perfect story." When asked how it would be possible to present 32 reels for an evenings entertainment, he replied, "Thats a detail I hadnt time to bother about" (the magazine "Photoplay" suggested that the movie should be re-titled, "Foolish Directors," and released as a serial). Universal took over the movie, and edited it down to 14 reels, with a 210-minute running time. Von Stroheim hated the shorter version, complaining that all that was left of his masterpiece was "the bones."
b.		Shipped to theaters under the code name "List After List".
c.		Although this film is frank about some matters, the Production Code of the Hays Office - i.e., censorship - was still in effect. In one 16mm print there is a curious moment of dead air at the end of Lillian Larues parting speech to George Simon. She says (approximately), "Well, for Gods sake, what do they expect for fifteen thousand dollars?" John Barrymore keeps looking at Larue (Thelma Todd as if she is still speaking, and she must be, but there is no sound. Her last words in the text of the play are, "A virgin?"
d.		The family names called out when the conscription notices are being handed out (with the exception of the Fa family) are actually family names of Rita Hsiaos childhood friends.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Foolish Wives (1922)?
a.		Although it is often claimed by fans that the moves Roy plays to checkmate Tyrell are from a famous game played in 1851 between Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky, known as "The Immortal Game". In the real game, Anderssen did actually sacrifice his Queen in order to force checkmate in very next move. However, Ridley Scott has stated that any similarities to the real game in the movie game were purely coincidental. In any case, the position of the pieces on Sebastians board do not correspond with the positions on Tyrells board.
b.		To prepare to play the Four Bs, a close group of marines, River Phoenix (Birdlace), Richard Panebianco (Berzin), Mitchell Whitfield (Benjamin), and Anthony Clark (Oakie) were sent for a week of simulated boot camp, run by retired U.S. Marine Corps Captain Dale Dye.
c.		After the films paltry distribution and thus small profit, Emilio Estevez considered quitting the film business.
d.		Erich von Stroheims attention to detail was such that he ordered an engraver to print copies of French money as props for the movie (he was playing the role of a counterfeiter). Unfortunately, the money printed was realistic enough that, shortly before shooting began, von Stroheim was arrested and hauled into court on counterfeiting charges. He escaped punishment by arguing to the judge that "the money was for use in pictures only."

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Foolish Wives (1922)?
a.		In 1998 a licensed novel called "Planet X" brought together the characters of Star Trek: The Next Generation and the X-Men, and notes the physical similarities of Professor Charles Xavier and Starship Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Sir Patrick Stewart had played Picard, and went on to play Xavier.
b.		This film had a budget of $2,000,000. Of that sum, $600,000 was spent on the live action scenes while $1,400,000 was spent on the extensive and elaborate special effects.
c.		In the scene when Elliot (Dwayne Johnson) is chasing Raji (Vince Vaughn) around the car, most of the scene was improvised. At the end, when Raji was saying, "E. Weasy" and started to dance, once the camera moves back, you can see Elliot smiling.
d.		The most expensive part of the movie were the lavish sets, built at Universal Studios. The sets featured a full exterior replica of Monte Carlo, complete with an artificial lake. The total cost of the sets was $421,000. Erich von Stroheim said in an interview that he ought to know what Monte Carlo looked like, for he had been "busted there twice."

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Foolish Wives (1922)?
a.		The filming of the "Last Stand" sequence from this movie involved some 200 horsemen charging around in pretend battle and was so dangerous that one day during filming Anthony Quinn, who played Crazy Horse, arranged as a gag for a hearse to show up at the filming location
b.		Mrs. Hughes can be seen reading a book with the title "Foolish Wives", written by Erich von Stroheim.
c.		At one point, Fox executives suggested that the story be changed so that the King would be gored by a white elephant, rather than become ill because of a personal humiliation. Understandably, this made Yul Brynner furious, and he insisted that the story stick to the stage version.
d.		When fighting in Jackies apartment, Burt is shown slamming Jackies face into the kitchen counter twice. He was filmed doing it only once; the second slam was created with precise editing.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Foolish Wives (1922)?
a.		Eleven extras playing Wehrmacht soldiers were injured on the set when they fell out of a moving lorry (truck). One suffered a serious back injury, the rest had bruises, cuts, and head injuries. An insurance company investigation concluded that an extra closed the side panel improperly, causing it to open while the lorry was in motion.
b.		In an episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, entitled "Hollywood Follies," a young Indiana Jones (played by Sean Patrick Flanery) is sent to Hollywood by Carl Laemmle to order Erich von Stroheim (played by Dana Gladstone) to shut down production on "Foolish Wives" - something the egomaniacal director refuses to do, despite Indys efforts. Ironically, one of the actual cast members of "Foolish Wives" was Harrison Ford, a noted silent movie actor (and no relation to the "Indiana Jones" series star).
c.		Vitaphone production reels #3809-3815.
d.		The film was seen as so offensive in Chile and Argentina that Molotov cocktails were reportedly thrown at the screen in some cinemas.

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