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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : It Happened to Jane (1959) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : It Happened to Jane (1959) Quiz
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About the movie:
Jane Osgood is trying to support her two young children by running a lobster business. After one of her shipments is ruined by inattention at the railroad station...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: It Happened to Jane (1959)?
a.
Christopher Walken
made the difficult trick shot to win the match against Taras (Eastwood) boss on the first take. He was supposed to make a "trial run" for the scene, but he asked that the cameras go ahead and roll, in case he happened to make it on his first try, and he did.
b.
George Denhams car is a 1951 Studebaker Champion Regal Convertible.
c.
Filming of
The Dionne Quintuplets
took place at their home in Callander, Ontario, Canada, for only 45 minutes per day under the technical supervision of Dr.
Allan R. Dafoe
.
Dorothy Peterson
,
Jean Hersholt
, director
Henry King
, camera and sound men spent 17 days getting as much film shot as they could. King basically discarded the script at that point and let the quintuplets do the things that toddlers do. Twentieth Century-Fox agreed to hire the same number of Canadian technicians as Americans who entered Canada for the movie, after Canadian union men protested the lack of Canadians for the job.
d.
The last 300-400 feet (about 3-4 minutes), which is the big musical finale, was filmed in two-strip Technicolor, is missing from surviving prints and is apparently lost.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: It Happened to Jane (1959)?
a.
Doris Day
wrote that her manager/husband
Martin Melcher
was terribly concerned over the box-office failure of this film and
The Tunnel of Love
. Their failures caused Day to drop out of the Top Ten Box Office Stars. Day and Melcher had words about him hustling her into almost any film for the money instead of waiting to find good scripts that would have produced better results.
b.
Much of this movie was filmed at the Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) State Hospital, which was still in use for treatment of mentally ill patients until it closed in 2005.
c.
Originally
Matt Damon
was supposed to play the role of Lance Dowds. However, Damon was also filming
The Good Shepherd
at the same time and couldnt make it. So
Jason Lee
took over the role during a day off from his show
My Name Is Earl
.
d.
Although
Patti LuPone
(who originally played Evita on Broadway) has never seen the film, she did admit in an interview that she heard part of the soundtrack. She expressed disappointment with the fact that many of the songs keys had been changed, thereby altering their emotional effectiveness.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: It Happened to Jane (1959)?
a.
The twelfth of forty-seven Charlie Chan movies starring
Warner Oland
.
b.
The original shooting script included a different ending for the film where we discover that Jimmy had betrayed Sydney and given his name (and Johns and Clementines) to the man who was being held hostage in the motel. The man tracks down Sydney outside the same highway coffee shop where he met John and shoots him three times, killing him. Its not known whether this scene was ever actually filmed.
c.
The final feature film (on-screen acting) project for
Paul Newman
.
d.
Jack Lemmon
wrote that he thought this was a good, funny movie that didnt do well because of its "terrible title". He thought he and
Doris Day
had very good chemistry together, and he regretted that they never did another film.
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