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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : From Here to Eternity (1953) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : From Here to Eternity (1953) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: From Here to Eternity (1953).
About the movie:
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: From Here to Eternity (1953)?
a.
Chapter Titles: 1. Millions For Defense 2. The Curtain Falls 3. The Decoy 4. High Stakes 5. Desperate Chances 6. The Human Target 7. Midnight Tragedy 8. The Devils Disguise 9. Between Two Fires 10.The False Trail 11.Heavy Odds 12.The Enemy Within 13.Mission For Mercy
b.
Nia Vardalos
re-wrote the script based on
Mike Reiss
draft, which was based on his frequent traveling experiences.
c.
The now classic scene between
Burt Lancaster
and
Deborah Kerr
in the rushing water on the beach was not written to take place there. The idea to film with the waves hitting them was a last minute inspiration from the director.
d.
The miniatures of the Surprise and the Acheron were built by WETA workshops in New Zealand who then spent five weeks filming them in action.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: From Here to Eternity (1953)?
a.
Harry Cohn
was so convinced that
Deborah Kerr
could not be "sexy" enough to play the lead in this film that he almost did not cast her.
b.
The book Dalton is reading is Jim Harrisons "The Woman Lit by Fireflies".
c.
The book Rhoda claims to have won in Sunday School, Elsie Dinsmore , was a story with religious themes about a pious eight-year-old; it was written by Martha Finley in 1867.
d.
First cinema film of
Donal Donnelly
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: From Here to Eternity (1953)?
a.
The novel was deemed unfilmable for a long time because of its negative portrayal of the US army (which would prevent the army from supporting the film with people and hardware/logistics) and the profanity. To get army support and pass the censorship of the time crucial details had to be changed. The brothel became a night club, the whores hostesses. The profanity was removed, the brutal treatment in the stockade toned down and Captain Holmes removed from the army instead of promoted.
b.
If we assume that the story takes place in 1971, when the film was shot, this would mean that the character of Melissa Strickland would have been born in the year 1844.
c.
According to contemporary news stories, special parental consent was required in order to allow the nude scenes featuring
Michelle Johnson
as she was not yet 18 at the time they were filmed.
d.
True to form, Mad Magazine ran a mini-parody of their own film called "Mad Magazine Resents: Throw Up the Ecchadamy".
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: From Here to Eternity (1953)?
a.
Montgomery Clift
didnt manage to move like a boxer despite extensive boxing lessons, so he had to be doubled by a real boxer for the long shots in the boxing match. The fight had to be carefully edited so the close-ups and other shots matched satisfactorily. Nonetheless, the use of the double is obvious if you pay attention to the details.
b.
Seth Rogen
originally wrote the part of Saul Silver for himself to play, it wasnt until the table read that he realized
James Franco
would be funnier in the role of Saul.
c.
The scenes in the mental hospital were shot in the former Bangour Village Hospital, a disused insane asylum, in West Lothian, Scotland, near Edinburgh. As The Jacket was released, several other film scouts expressed an interest in the hospital building as a location, but the area had already been earmarked for housing development. Since then, the housing development has been scrapped, and Bangour Village Hospital still stands as it did at the time of filming, and continues to attract ghost-hunters as certain of the patient villas are believed to be haunted.
d.
The Autobots have upgraded their alternate modes: Bumblebee has received an upgrade and is now a 2011 Chevrolet Camaro Ratchets color scheme now includes white and his green is more grass-green than his previous neon/yellow green Sideswipe is now a Chevrolet Centennial Corvette convertible
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: From Here to Eternity (1953)?
a.
Each day of filming began with a word of prayer.
b.
In the scene where
Burt Lancaster
and
Montgomery Clift
play drunk sitting on the street, Clift actually was drunk, but Lancaster was not.
c.
Gia Mantegna
auditioned for the part of Mandy on the day of her 19th Birthday.
d.
Michael J. Fox
based his portrayal of Lewis Rothschild on
George Stephanopoulos
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: From Here to Eternity (1953)?
a.
Donald mentions "Flowers for Algernon" as a film being about flowers. Charlie tells Donald that "Flowers for Algernon" was both not about flowers, nor was it a film. While Donald admits that he had never seen the film. Charlie is right in that it is not about flowers, however Flowers for Algernon was adapted into a film,
Charly
, for which
Cliff Robertson
won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1969.
b.
The night of the premiere, producer
Mark Hellinger
received a telegram to help calm his nerves. The telegram read: From all the wonderful things I hear of
The Roaring Twenties
. I dont need to wish you good luck. Hope you dont suffer too much.
Joan Crawford
.
c.
Joan Fontaine
was offered the role of Karen Holmes but had to decline due to family problems. She now regrets it and blames the failure of her late career to turning down the offer.
d.
Gene Kelly
screened
The Red Shoes
for the MGM executives to persuade them to back a dance film.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: From Here to Eternity (1953)?
a.
The scene in which Maggio meets Prew and Lorene in the bar after he walks off guard duty, was actually
Frank Sinatra
s screen test for the part of Maggio. To impress director
Fred Zinnemann
, he did an ad-lib using olives as dice and pretending to shoot craps. The entire sequence was kept as is and used in the picture.
b.
Morgan Freeman
wanted his character (the President) to be wearing an earring. Director
Mimi Leder
turned him down. Later we see the President addressing the nation from the oval office. His sleeves are rolled up and one of Freemans tattoos is showing. The director liked this. She felt it gave the President an everyman look.
c.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
originally wanted to cast a woman as the main villain but the studio refused, seeing as the film already had two female leads.
d.
At the time of filming,
Charles Chaplin
and
Georgia Hale
were having an affair, so that when their finales lingering kiss was filmed, it was (according to Hale in Unknown Chaplin 1983) "not acting". By the time the movie was re-issued in 1942, Chaplin was long done with Hale, and he trimmed their final scene to exclude the long kiss.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: From Here to Eternity (1953)?
a.
A false rumor has been circulating for years that
George Reeves
, who played Sgt. Maylon Stark, had his role drastically edited after preview audiences recognized him as TVs
Adventures of Superman
. According to director
Fred Zinnemann
, screenwriter
Daniel Taradash
and assistant director
Earl Bellamy
, the rumor is false. Every scene written for Reeves character was filmed, and each of those scenes is still present in its entirety in the film as released. This rumor is nonetheless repeated as truth in
Hollywoodland
, a movie about the investigation into Reeves death.
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 Universal ever since.
c.
This is the only film in the series that was filmed entirely in black and white.
d.
Hwang Jang Lee and Cynthia Rothrocks parts in the movie were originally supposed to be more detailed.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: From Here to Eternity (1953)?
a.
After years of being dubbed,
Akira Takarada
and
Akihiko Hirata
are heard using their own voices to speak English in this film.
b.
Flashback scenes with
Kevin Costner
as Alex were filmed, but cut. He is still visible as the body being dressed at the beginning of the film.
c.
Eli Wallach
accepted the role of Angelo Maggio, but then turned it down because he had agreed to appear in
Elia Kazan
s Broadway production of "Camino Real" and had a scheduling problem.
d.
Harrison Ford
apparently has kept himself in such good shape over the years that his costuming measurements for this film had not changed from those in
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
, nearly 20 years earlier. He performed many of his own stunts, because stunt technology had become safer since 1989; he also felt it improved his performance.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: From Here to Eternity (1953)?
a.
After the mild box-office results of
Phantasm II
, Universal Studios chose not to personally pursue a sequel but did offer to distribute it should
Don Coscarelli
and associates make it themselves. With no casting restrictions this time, Coscarelli offered the role of Mike to his original performer,
A. Michael Baldwin
, who returned to the role after almost 16 years.
b.
The US Copyright Notice field with the Library of Congress lists
Curtis Hanson
as co-writer.
c.
The movie was filmed in an abandoned, turn-of-the-century hotel in Allentown, Pennsylvania in the dead of winter where temperatures inside the unheated hotel sometimes dropped below freezing.
d.
The novel was a best seller when it was released. One actor always bragged to his friends that if they ever made a film of the book, hed play a part. Shortly after saying this, he was actually called to audition for the film. The actor was
Ernest Borgnine
.
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