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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : His Glorious Night (1929) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : His Glorious Night (1929) Quiz
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About the movie:
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: His Glorious Night (1929)?
a.
The scene inside the subway (or train) while the commuter is running from the werewolf one of the movie posters on the wall is
Dance Craze
, the documentary of the British ska music scene that was going on at the time the move was filmed.
b.
The phone in the lounge lists the number as YL-7091. The corresponding number prefix (95) was reserved for radio station use in the 1950s.
c.
Appearing in this movie were father and son,
John Meillon
and
John Meillon Jr.
.
d.
It was in this film that silent screen legend
John Gilbert
made his disastrous talking-picture debut. His voice was said to have sounded high-pitched and frankly odd in a film that called for him to play a romantic swashbuckler. Audiences reportedly laughed at him at the most inappropriate moments.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: His Glorious Night (1929)?
a.
The production crew agreed upon a $20 fine any time anyones cell phone rang during shooting. The money would be donated to the homeless charity Chrysalis. By late February, it had over $600.
b.
This was not John Gilberts first talking picture. His first was "Redemption" but Gilbert was so dissatisfied with the way the film turned out that he asked to hold it back for a while, in hope that his next film would make a better talking debut. This is why the films came out in a reversed order. (source: Dark Star by Leatrice Gilbert.)
c.
Alfred Hitchcock
supposedly hired
Raymond Burr
to play Lars Thorwald because he could be easily made to look like his old producer
David O. Selznick
, who
Alfred Hitchcock
felt interfered too much.
d.
Christian Bale
and
Brad Pitt
were considered for the role of Will.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: His Glorious Night (1929)?
a.
Is the second film in Zach Hortons Disaster Trilogy (after Airplane Disasters).
b.
Legend has it that the reason
John Gilbert
s voice sounded high and reedy was that M.G.M. studio head L.B. Mayer bore a grudge against Gilbert and told technicians to speed up the soundtrack to discredit the increasingly drunken and troublesome star. Certainly Gilberts voice is flawless in the later
Queen Christina
.
c.
The third Disney film to undergo a painstaking computer restoration, after
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
in 1987 and 1993, and
Pinocchio
in 1992.
d.
The film is based on the true case of Christine Costner Sizemore who later wrote two books about her multiple personality problem, "Im Eve" (1977) and "A Mind of My Own" (1989).
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: His Glorious Night (1929)?
a.
Adapted from the 1967 musical play "Im Sorry the Bridge Is Out, Youll Have to Spend the Night" by Bobby "Boris" Pickett and Sheldon Allman.
b.
During production in San Francisco, filming had to be stopped for about two hours because some college students from UC Berkeley were playing a prank and systematically urinating in porta-potties, creating very loud peeing sounds that distracted the actors on set. It took about two hours to round up all of the students.
c.
"Tastee Wheat", which is mentioned when Mouse is trying to describe the food in the real world, was replaced by "Sex Crispies" in the German version of the movie.
d.
This film has been restored and preserved for historical purposes, and is presently owned and controlled by Paramount Pictures us who bought the rights from MGM when they remade it as
A Breath of Scandal
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: His Glorious Night (1929)?
a.
When Edgar is at the cemetery before the movie starts, on the movie screen is the title of the movie,
Hot Spell
, and pictures the two main characters. He mentions that the woman on the screen is his trifecta. When asked if he means literally the actress on the screen. He says "yes, literally." The actress on the screen is
Shirley MacLaine
, who plays his wife in the movie.
b.
The characters from the TV series are reversed in this film version. In the original TV series, Kelly Robinson (not Alexander Scott) was the white guy and the athlete, while Alexander Scott was the black guy and the non-athlete. In both cases, however, the
Bill Cosby
/
Eddie Murphy
character was a less experienced spy than the
Robert Culp
/
Owen Wilson
character.
c.
The filming of the movie and its disastrous reception were one of the main inspirations for the film
Singin in the Rain
.
d.
Some clips of the dogfights and Japanese ack-ack guns were from confiscated Japanese newsreels.
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