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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Going in Style (1979) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Going in Style (1979) Quiz
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About the movie:
Three friends who are living on the dole decide to organize a bank robbery.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Going in Style (1979)?
a.
Laura Z. Hobson wrote her novel after Senator John Rankins anti-Semitic comments were applauded in Congress. It was then serialized in Cosmopolitan from November 1946 to February 1947, immediately causing quite a stir. This prompted Darryl F. Zanuck (who was one of the few studio heads who was not Jewish) to snap up the novels rights.
b.
The frog dressed as a mime is named Marcel. This is a reference/homage to famed French mime artist
Marcel Marceau
. The frog in question is dressed as Marceaus famed character named Bip.
c.
With filming taking place at Kaufman Astoria Studios, the setting for Joe, Al and Willies apartment was chosen with convenience in mind - its just a handful of blocks away, at 4408 Broadway.
d.
The scene where
Al Capone
(
Robert De Niro
) pulls out a baseball bat at a dinner party and suddenly beats to death one of his men is based on a true incident which happened on May 7, 1929. Two of Capones most feared hit men,
Albert Anselmi
and
John Scalise
, had hatched a plot to kill Capone and take over his gang. Capone got wind of it and invited all his associates to a dinner party, including Anselmi and Scalise. In the middle of the party, Capone pulled out a baseball bat and battered both men to death, then shot them both in the head. A conflicting version of the story has Tony "Joe Batters" Accardo, one of Capones hit men, as the man who bludgeoned the traitors to death.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Going in Style (1979)?
a.
A neon sign outside Joe, Al and Willies apartment advertises Schaefer Beer. Now a relatively little-known brand, New York-based Schaefer was once the worlds best-selling beer, a title which it ceded to Budweiser in the 1970s.
b.
It was suggested to give the entire cast special wigs of different colors, to keep the essence of the "Dragon Ball" anime;, but
James Wong
vetoed this idea to make the film more realistic. However,
Emmy Rossum
had a blue streak dyed in her hair and
Justin Chatwin
had his hair touched to make it spiky so that their respective characters possessed a classic yet distinctive look.
c.
John Cleese
made a brief cameo in the film at one point during the Paris sequence, but his cameo was cut out because it didnt have anything to do with the film. Also, the reason Scooby-Doo and Shaggy make cameos in the film, even though they are not Looney Tunes, was because director
Joe Dante
wanted some non-WB characters in the film like Tom & Jerry, and Droopy, but WB thought that would be too weird, so they told him a Scooby-Doo cameo would seem more "appropriate". If one looks closely, the animation of Scooby and Shaggy is stiffer and more limited than that of the Looney Tunes characters, referring to the drastically cheaper budgets of the Hanna-Barbera studio at the time the original Scooby series was created.
d.
A nitrate print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Going in Style (1979)?
a.
The television series
Lost in Space
was set in the future of 1997 - the year the film began production.
b.
Barbra Streisand
was considering
Robert Blake
for the role of Billy Rose, whom he resembled more than the actor who eventually played him in the film,
James Caan
. Streisand had Blake come to her house and read the script with her. After the read-through, an impressed Streisand asked Blake if hes like to do the part. "I just did," said Blake, miffed that he had been made to audition. He walked out of Streisand house, and the role was given to Caan.
c.
In the scene where Joe (George Burns) is looking through his old photos and other memorabilia, he looks at a photo of a young couple - presumably Joe and his wife - and it makes him start to cry. The photo is actually a picture of George Burns and his real (late) wife Gracie Allen. They were a famous show business team from vaudeville through early television. She died in 1964.
d.
Bilkos group (Company B) switches the sign on their barracks with the sign on Company As barracks. One of the names on Company Bs sign is Cpt. Hiken.
Nat Hiken
was the creator of the original
The Phil Silvers Show
, on which this movie is based.
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