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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - 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: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967).
About the movie:
Matt and Christina Drayton are a couple whose attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)?
a.
Angela Bassett was planning her nuptials with then-fiancé Courtney B. Vance when cast in the lead role. The start of production kept being pushed back by producer Deborah Schindler which was a blessing and a curse for Bassett. The continued delay of production gave her ample time to get her body in perfect shape for the film but it also prevented her from being able to set a definite date for her wedding. Determined to get married in the fall of 1997, Bassett and Vance stood their ground and set a firm date for the ceremony, October 17, 1997, by that point Bassett had been filming for about a month on "Stella."
b.
Naomi Watts
filmed her scenes in between takes while working on the film
The Ring Two
.
c.
This movie was still showing in theaters at the time
Martin Luther King
was assassinated. Originally, there was a line in the movie where Joey (
Katharine Houghton
) tells the maid another person is coming to dinner, to which Tillie (
Isabel Sanford
), the maid guesses, "The Reverend Martin Luther King?" When King was murdered, the studio immediately called the theaters showing the film and gave instructions to cut that scene from the movie.
d.
Lisas pink camera is a disc camera. Disc cameras were discontinued in the mid-1990s.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)?
a.
Spencer Tracy
received a posthumous Best Actor Academy Award nomination for his film
Guess Whos Coming to Dinner
. His widow Louise attended the ceremony in the event that he would win. However, the award went instead to
Rod Steiger
for
In the Heat of the Night
.
b.
One snow globe was destroyed in the spoof of Citizen Kane. It was a Winnie the pooh snow globe that belonged to the professor whose office the scene was shot in. The snow globe was later replaced by the more relevant Orson Wells snow globe.
c.
Premiered at the Pacific Hollywood Theatre located at 6433 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
d.
The final scene in the film was shot on the actual set of the Broadway production at the Music Box Theatre of Deathtrap which was running at the time the movie was made.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)?
a.
The real Stage Door Canteen on 44th Street was unable to be used for the filming as it was still an operating nightclub during World War II. As such, for this movie, it was re-created in the RKO Radio Pictures studio at Culver City in California which wasnt actually in New York.
b.
A theatrical play version of "Guess Whos Coming to Dinner" is being developed, directed by
Kenny Leon
and adapted for the stage by
Todd Kreidler
. The producers anticipate the Broadway production will open in the fall of 2008.
c.
Co-star of the film
Walter Matthau
said after death of
Elvis Presley
this about him: ""He Elvis Presley was an instinctive actor...He was quite bright...he was very intelligent...He was not a punk. He was very elegant, sedate, and refined, and sophisticated."
d.
In 2006,
Tom Hanks
was inducted into the US Armys Ranger Hall of Fame as an honorary member, largely thanks to his portrayal of company commander John Miller in this film.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)?
a.
Xavier Palud
and
David Moreau
chose to direct this film over
The Last House on the Left
which ended up being directed by
Dennis Iliadis
.
b.
The film debut of
Isabel Sanford
, who later gained fame as Louise on
The Jeffersons
. In 1981, she became the first African American woman to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
c.
Billy Wilder
and
Charles Brackett
s 17th and final screenplay collaboration. After the completion of "Sunset Boulevard," Wilder shocked his longtime collaborator by announcing that he wished to dissolve their partnership. The two men never worked together again.
d.
Henry Rollins
and
Josh Mostel
ad-libbed most of their lines.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)?
a.
The film had two endings. Director
Nicholas Ray
raised the issue of a directors right to final cut, and at this time the collective contract with directors did not stipulate this right.
b.
During the battle of Helms Deep, a song with non-English lyrics is heard on the soundtrack. The words Isengard and Mordor can be clearly discerned. The song is not in any of Tolkiens invented languages, instead composer
Leonard Rosenman
had his choir sing nonsense lyrics to get the desired effect. According to the liner notes of the CD soundtrack, part of the lyrics also include the composers name backwards.
c.
According to the time the movie was made (in the 60s) and the place where the couple have met (Hawaii),
Sidney Poitier
s line: "your daughter is optimistic, she thinks our child will be President of the United States" (as well as
Spencer Tracy
s answer) has gained a greater importance since Obamas election.
d.
The ranch house used for the McCandles ranch is the same house used for the Chisum ranch in
Chisum
, a
John Wayne
western made a year earlier. Note the scenery around the ranch.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)?
a.
In the scene near the end where
Spencer Tracy
gives his memorable soliloquy,
Katharine Hepburn
can be seen crying in the background. This was not acting: she knew how gravely ill her longtime lover was and was moved by his remarks about how true love endures through the years.
b.
Chapter titles: 1. An Apartment House Case 2. The Hidden Hands 3. The Pocket Wireless 4. An Old Grudge 5. On the Rack 6. The Unseen Terror 7. The House of Mystery 8. The Inherited Sin 9. Lost in London 10. The Ship of Horror 11. A Desert Vengeance 12. Neath Iron Wheels 13. Tongues of Flame 14. A Bolt from the Blue 15. The Black Box
c.
The scene in which Deeds meets several famous writers and columnists at a New York restaurant, and finds them to be witty but also sarcastic and rude, is a reference to the Algonquin Round Table, with the character Bill Morrow being loosely based on
Alexander Woollcott
.
d.
Marli Renfro
, unbilled nude model who doubled for
Janet Leigh
in portions of the murder sequence, was featured as a Playboy cover girl on the September 1960 issue while the film was still in theaters. Quite coincidentally, she was pictured on the cover taking a shower.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)?
a.
Both
Tim Burton
and
Michael Keaton
, from
Batman
, have said they were impressed by this film.
b.
The device used as underwater-housing during Ians death was a $15 Zip-Lock vacuum sealed sandwich bag with a Mini-DV camera.
c.
Like
Katharine Hepburn
, the films producer and director
Stanley Kramer
also put his salary in escrow as backing in order to placate the studio who was nervous about having
Spencer Tracy
star due to his poor health.
d.
Though
Katharine Hepburn
never received royalties as an actress in the film, because she was a part investor, the film did provide a financial return for her (and still does for her estate).
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)?
a.
Angie Dickinson
s film debut.
b.
In the scene where Bruno searches for the cigarette lighter in the drain,
Alfred Hitchcock
personally selected the items of rubbish that lie on the floor.
c.
The glass-and-wood home that George and Jim shared is a real house in Glendale, California: The Schaffer Residence, built in 1949 by the mid-century Modernist architect John Lautner (1911-1994).
d.
This film was instrumental in largely ending the marketing consideration of how films featuring African-American characters and themes were assumed to be likely rejected by mainstream audiences in the Southern States of the USA. In that regard, the film was such a major widespread success throughout the entire USA, including the South, that the marketing factor would never again be considered a major problem for any major film release.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)?
a.
Laura Linney
s movie debut.
b.
James Stephens, who plays law clerk Mason Woods to Supreme Court Justice Dan Snow (Walter Matthau), had played a law student on the television show "The Paper Chase" during the 1978-1979 television season. Although his character has a different name in this motion picture, the producers undoubtedly wanted to create a sense of verisimilitude and continuity by casting Stephens as a law clerk here - as though he had graduated from law school and moved on to this position.
c.
In an early draft of the script, writer-director Rae McGrath (I) specified the frequency of the radio station Mel Cobb listens to as "1610 AM"; however, after
William Brown
, who played Cobb, researched and advised McGrath of a 1997 decision by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) expanding the uppermost limit of the AM radio frequency to 1700 kHz from its prior cutoff of 1600 kHz, the fictitious stations frequency was changed (at Browns behest) to "1720 AM."
d.
Katharine Hepburn
is the only movie star to win four Academy Awards (2009) for her leading roles in
Morning Glory
,
Guess Whos Coming to Dinner
,
The Lion in Winter
, and
On Golden Pond
.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)?
a.
Rumors persist among cast and crew that
John Reynolds
was on LSD during filming, which would help explain his bizarre behavior and incessant twitching in virtually all of his scenes.
b.
Katharine Houghton
s feature film debut.
c.
Chris Columbus
: Holding a child and pointing to a stack of toys when the camera shows Kevin (
Macaulay Culkin
) walking through the toy store.
d.
Nicolas Cage
s son
Weston Cage
plays the young Mi-24 Hind helicopter mechanic Vladimir. In the movie, Cages character speaks to the mechanic in Russian: "Son, get off there before you get hurt."
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