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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Helen of Troy (1956) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Helen of Troy (1956) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Helen of Troy (1956).
About the movie:
The Iliad's story of the Trojan war, told from the Trojan viewpoint.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Helen of Troy (1956)?
a.
Producer
Ray Stark
was forced to sue
Barbra Streisand
to make this movie after she refused; Streisand had only one film left on her contract with him. Reportedly, upon completion of filming, she presented him with a mirror on which shed written in lipstick, "Paid in full".
b.
The prosthetic faces of the soldiers during "I Want You" are casts of the face of Michael Balderrama, the lead dancer in this sequence.
c.
The original Broadway production of "Abe Lincoln in Illinois " by
Robert E. Sherwood
opened on October 15, 1938 at the Plymouth Theater, ran for 472 performances and won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1939.
d.
Peter van Eyck
was considered for a role in this film
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Helen of Troy (1956)?
a.
This was the first major role of
Dennis OKeefe
and the first time he used that name. In bit parts earlier, he was on the books as "James Edward Flanagan" or "Bud Flanagan".
b.
Kay Lenz
wanted badly the female lead role, because her previous attempts to be a movie star failed.
c.
Average Shot Length (ASL) = 6 seconds, very fast for an early CinemaScope film.
d.
The roofs of the "Chicken Walkers" bear an uncanny resemblance to the roofs of the gun turrets on WWII German Tiger tanks-especially the small railings that these tanks had.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Helen of Troy (1956)?
a.
Ice-T
almost refused the role as Scottie because he felt that if the film was a failure it would negatively affect his rap career. During an interview with MTVs
Kurt Loder
back in 1990, Ice T stated to Loder that he hated the police due to his past connection with the Crips. However, not only was the film a hit, but it also proved to give him his huge break as an actor.
b.
Esmond Knight
, who plays the High Priest, was also
Jacques Sernas
English Coach.
c.
While filming a scene where Selene and Michael look at each other longingly, director
Len Wiseman
surprised the cast and crew by playing
Bryan Adams
song "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)", at which everyone started laughing.
d.
In the scene where a cats head is squeezed and its eyeball pops out, the cat actually only had one eye; a glass eye was inserted into the empty socket before filming, and that was what popped out.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Helen of Troy (1956)?
a.
B.J. Novak
had to take a leave from appearing on
The Office
in order to play Pfc. Utivich. His absence on the show was explained by his character going to Thailand with friends from high school.
b.
Harry Andrews
nearly lost his part in this film when his previous film,
The Man Who Loved Redheads
went over scheduled filming duration.
c.
When actor George Williams (Leo) interrupts an acting class and walks right through them, that group represents the on screen cameos of writer Paul Osborne, and three of the films producers, Michael Mannheim, Gavin Franks and Brian Osborne. Fourth producer Michael Rogers cameos as a thug one scene later.
d.
First in US film for
Gérard Depardieu
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Helen of Troy (1956)?
a.
Charlton Heston
,
Roy Scheider
,
Dick Van Dyke
, and
William Holden
turned down the lead role.
Gregory Peck
, accepted the lead. William Holden starred in the sequel
Damien: Omen II
.
b.
While on location for this project,
Dwight Yoakam
wrote the songs he used for the album "The Long Way Home".
c.
In the warehouse scenes with the missiles, the containers have markings that refer to the "Redeye" M41 missile system, a predecessor to the "Stinger" that is referred to in the film.
d.
Eileen Moore
and
Anne Gunning
were screen-tested for Helen.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Helen of Troy (1956)?
a.
Sean Penn
took the role of David Kleinfeld just for the money so he could use it to fund his second film
The Crossing Guard
.
b.
The high school in the movie, Buffalo Glenn High School, is based on writer
Larry Doyle
s hometown of Buffalo Grove High School.
c.
The studio badly wanted
Stanley Baker
to be in this film and they didnt care which part.
d.
James Camerons two choices for Bud Brigman were
Ed Harris
and
Jeff Bridges
.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Helen of Troy (1956)?
a.
In her essay "Humphrey and Bogey,"
Louise Brooks
wrote that more than any other role that
Humphrey Bogart
played, it was the role of Dixon Steele in this movie that came closest to the real Bogart she knew.
b.
Niall MacGinnis
was only cast as Menelaus after the production team failed to secure a big name British actor.
c.
M. Night Shyamalan
was interested in directing this installment.
d.
Alvys (
Woody Allen
s) sneezing into the cocaine was an unscripted accident. When previewed, the audience laughed so loud that director Allen decided to leave it in, and had to add footage to compensate for people missing the next few jokes from laughing too much.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Helen of Troy (1956)?
a.
Yvonne Furneaux
was suggested for Andraste.
b.
"Anything You Can Do" (music and lyrics by
Irving Berlin
), sung by
Ethel Merman
and
Dan Dailey
, was cut from this movie. The song as filmed still exists. In 1946, Miss Merman and
Ray Middleton
had introduced this song in the Broadway musical "Annie Get Your Gun", and it also appears in the film adaptation
Annie Get Your Gun
starring
Betty Hutton
and
Howard Keel
.
c.
All the kids really play their instruments, and the backup singers are real vocalists.
Jack Black
also played a bit of guitar in the movie (for example, when he is teaching "Smoke on the water", "Iron man" and other songs to Zach), but he didnt do the guitar solos.
d.
Liberty City is named for the Liberty Square Housing Project built in the late 1930s for Miamis low-income African-Americans, the second of its kind in the South at the time, and the focal point of the infamous drug wars of 1998.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Helen of Troy (1956)?
a.
Among those interviewed for parts were
Barbara Leake
and
Gabriel Woolf
.
b.
Warner Bros. green-lit the movie after
Herman Raucher
denied them the rights to remake
Summer of 42
.
c.
Director/Co-Writer
George Miller
was given the rights to
Mad Max 2
and this one to get him to step aside as the director of
Contact
.
d.
When director
David Smith
took ill, producer
Albert E. Smith
(who was also his brother) took over direction of the picture until David became well enough to return.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Helen of Troy (1956)?
a.
Adrienne Wilkinson
was originally asked to play the lead role of Laura. When her schedule wouldnt allow her to play the role, she came on board as a producer instead. She chose to produce the picture because she feels the film has strong social value and needed to be told in terms of understanding and helping people recover from the epidemic of self injury.
b.
When
Niall MacGinnis
was first cast he and the production team had no idea what part he would end up playing.
c.
Although the film is set in London, trailers and ads for it included one shot showing a Los Angeles Blue Line train, which looks nothing like the London Underground trains.
d.
Although Scarlett and Charles son Wade Hamilton was omitted from the movie the letter Scarlett receives informing her of Charles dying is signed Wade Hampton. In the book, the character of Scarletts first child was named after Charles commanding officer and thus named Wade Hampton Hamilton.
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