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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Hannah and Her Sisters (1986).
About the movie:
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)?
a.
When Angie is cooking dinner for her father and brothers, she is seen wearing a Kearney Tigers sweatshirt. The Kearney Tigers are a basketball team belonging to a popular all girls high school in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
b.
Lloyd Nolan
never lived to see the release of the picture. He died about four months before it premiered.
c.
Originally intended to be short film, "What Is It?" expanded out to be a feature over the 9 years of its production.
d.
Four sound discs and one sound reel and trailer sound disc plus excerpts are held by the UCLA Film and Television Archives. The excerpts are also featured on a MGM/Au release called the dawn of sound which a copy is held in the Library of Congress.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)?
a.
Parts of the script are based on a short story that Radu wrote when he was 17. He directed the film was he was 26.
b.
Final feature film of
Margaret Hamilton
.
c.
The poem Eliot gives Lee which contains the line "nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands", is the poem "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond", by
e.e. cummings
.
d.
Carole Shelley
was nominated for the 1987 Tony Award (New York City) for Supporting or Features Actress in a Musical for "Stepping Out" for her portrayal of Maxine.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)?
a.
George Lucas
had hoped to remake the original
Flash Gordon
, but when he learned that
Dino De Laurentiis
had already bought the rights, he wrote
Star Wars
instead.
b.
The play opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 4 February 1938 at Henry Millers Theatre, and had 338 performances.
Frank Craven
,
Martha Scott
(her Broadway debut),
Arthur B. Allen
and
Doro Merande
originated their movie roles in the play, and
Teresa Wright
was an understudy. The popular Pulitzer Prize play also had 3 revivals on Broadway.
c.
The book of poems by e.e. cummings is entitled ?Complete Poems 1913 ? 1962?, and the poem ?Somewhere? is on page 366.
d.
Shot in 13 days.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)?
a.
The film was shot and edited with the span of 5 months.
b.
A major part of the movie revolves around the fact that
Jane Wyman
s character is supposed to be substantially older than
Rock Hudson
. In reality, Jane Wyman was only 38 and Rock Hudson was only 30 when they filmed this movie.
c.
The e.e.cumings poem isnt actually on page 112 of the book that Elliot buys for Lee.
d.
Gore Verbinski
was brought in to take over the last 18 days of shooting, as
Simon Wells
was suffering from "extreme exhaustion". Wells returned for post-production.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)?
a.
Columbia Pictures chief
Harry Cohn
thought the movie would ruin his star,
Rita Hayworth
, and held the release of the picture back for one year. Cohn ordered director
Orson Welles
to insert "glamour" shots (close-ups) of Hayworth. Because of the success of Hayworths singing in other films, Cohn ordered filming of the scene where Hayworth sings "Please Dont Kiss Me."
b.
As a fan of the comic strip,
Warren Beatty
wanted to put in as many characters from the comics into the film as he could. This was a measure used by Beatty in case the film didnt have a sequel.
c.
Woody Allen
has said that he was inspired to write this film after a chance re-reading of Tolstoys novel "Anna Karenina"
d.
Richard Matheson
combined two stories by
Jules Verne
for this screenplay: "Clipper of the Clouds" (1886) and its sequel "Master of the World" (1904).
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)?
a.
Gore Vidal
had originally scripted the role of Drusilla (at least in the very early drafts of the screenplay) for his close friend,
Claire Bloom
.
b.
Regina King
, who played Mia, was pregnant during the filming of this movie and didnt tell anyone until the movie was finished.
c.
The trailer contains a scene not included in the final film: April (
Carrie Fisher
) and David (
Sam Waterston
) appear in an art gallery discussing a painting.
d.
Original director
Nicholas Niciphor
, a.k.a. Henry Suso, was a USC film student who had made some excellent shorts. He had been in an agents office pitching himself in order to get representation, when the agent called
Roger Corman
. As it turns out, Corman and others at New World had seen and enjoyed Niciphors shorts and Niciphor subsequently got hired to do a re-write for and direct "Deathsport".
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)?
a.
Except for a few shots where she was doubled by
Audrey Scott
,
Jeanette MacDonald
did most of her own horseback riding.
b.
Average Shot Length = ~7.7 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~6.8 seconds.
c.
Several actors auditioned for the role of Kevin, but none of them quite fit the part. When rap artist Kaine Karerra (Ben McQuay) met with producer/director Elgin Cahill about recording some songs for the soundtrack, he was asked if hed ever had any acting experience. Elgin thought that Ben was perfect for the part, and Ben was cast in his very first acting role.
d.
Many of Hannahs scenes were filmed in
Mia Farrow
s actual apartment. Allen said that Farrow once had the eerie experience of turning on the TV to a chance broadcast of the movie thus viewing her own apartment on TV while she was sitting in it.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)?
a.
In the original script, Tom gains Senator Gearys support by paying off his gambling debts.
b.
The name of the weather man (Dallas Coleman) and the name of the sportscaster (Fred Donohue) are both combinations of famous Los Angeles area newscasters: weather men
Dallas Raines
and
Fritz Coleman
, and sportscasters
Fred Roggin
and
Todd Donoho
.
c.
The work "fuck" and its derivatives are said 225 times.
d.
According to USA Today, upon the films original release, a movement was afoot to try to make Allens script the first screenplay to be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)?
a.
After actors
Max von Sydow
and
Barbara Hershey
finished filming their characters break-up scene, the film crew gave them a standing ovation.
b.
Sophia Loren
s salary for the film was $1,000,000 becoming the second actress (behind
Elizabeth Taylor
for
Cleopatra
) to receive that amount for a single film.
c.
This is the first time that
Sylvester Stallone
,
Arnold Schwarzenegger
, and
Bruce Willis
have appeared in a film together, in any combination. The three action mega-stars are long-time friends, even working together (with Willis ex-wife
Demi Moore
) as original venture capitalists and promoters for the "Planet Hollywood" restaurant and casino chain.
d.
Family Ties
is playing on the TV when spiders start crawling over the screen.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)?
a.
At the end, Bond winks at the camera. The only other Bond films in which 007 breaks the "fourth wall" are
Casino Royale
, which was a deliberate spoof, and
On Her Majestys Secret Service
, where the character was perhaps talking to himself.
b.
The storm drain car chase scene was shot in a large air duct tunnel below the four main bores of the Fort McHenry Road Tunnel in Baltimore, MD. Fort McHenry permits Interstate 95 to pass under Baltimores harbor. The air duct is only accessible from the Tunnels Admin Building by stairs and a small elevator, so the cars in the scene were chopped into several sections, taken three levels below, reassembled and painted. Once filming was complete they were disassembled once again and removed from the duct. The water was hosed in from a nearby sprinkler main.
c.
Prior to filming,
Wiley Wiggins
(Mitch Kramer) had never thrown a baseball in his life. Because of this, a double was used in the pitching scenes.
d.
Woody Allen
was originally going to have a more downbeat ending, but the studios asked him to make it more upbeat.
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