QuizAssess

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Lady and the Tramp (1955) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Lady and the Tramp (1955) - Part (2)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Lady and the Tramp (1955).

About the movie: The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lady and the Tramp (1955)?
a.		In 1937, story man Joe Grant approached Walt Disney with some sketches he had made of his Springer spaniel called Lady. Disney really liked the sketches and told Grant to put them into a storyboard. However, Disney ultimately didnt think much of the finished storyboard. Six years later, he read a short story in Cosmopolitan by Ward Greene called Happy Dan the Whistling Dog. He was sufficiently interested in the story to buy the rights to it. Then in 1949, after Joe Grant had left the studio, his spaniel drawings were unearthed and a solid story using his designs started to take shape. Grant never received any acknowledgement for his contribution to the film until the Platinum Edition DVD in 2006.
b.		Preceded by The Broadway Melody and Broadway Melody of 1936. Followed by Broadway Melody of 1940. Another film in the series was planned, "Broadway Melody of 1943" starring Eleanor Powell, Gene Kelly, and Lena Horne. However, that project was abandoned, and the numbers that had been filmed for this project were placed into Thousands Cheer and Broadway Rhythm.
c.		This film is actually a remake of the comedy Bedtime Story.
d.		Director Paul Thomas Anderson had seen Philip Baker Hall in Robert Altmans Secret Honor and had him in mind for the part of the Sydney from the start. He persuaded Hall to appear in his short film Cigarettes & Coffee. That short film played at the Sundance Film Festival where producer Robert Jones approached Anderson about expanding the short into a feature.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lady and the Tramp (1955)?
a.		"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on March 6, 1950 with Veronica Lake reprising her film role.
b.		The character Michael Langs motorcycle is a BSA 441cc Victor made by the Birmingham Small Arms company of Small Heath, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
c.		Instead of pot, the actors smoked broken down cigarettes without the filter.
d.		Disneys 15th animated feature.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lady and the Tramp (1955)?
a.		Joyce Bryant and Elizabeth Foster also did screen tests for the role of Carmen Jones. Dorothy Dandridge did her screen test working opposite veteran actor James Edwards in the role of Joe. Edwards, whose career was on the decline, was never considered for the role.
b.		The decision to film in Cinemascope was made when the film was already in production, so many background paintings had to be extended to fit the new format. Overlays were often added to cover up the seams of the extensions.
c.		Barbara Barries first film.
d.		Robert De Niro studied Midwestern dialects to come up with Travis Bickles flat voice.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lady and the Tramp (1955)?
a.		The BTK Killer, in which the Dolarhyde character is based on, was captured in 2005 and sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences spanning until no earlier than 2080.
b.		Shirley MacLaine turned down the role of Diane Freeling in Poltergeist to play the Oscar-winning role of Aurora Greenway in Terms of Endearment.
c.		Terry Funk: one of the bookies.
d.		The Beaver character was effectively recycled as the Gopher in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, right down to his whistling speech pattern. This voice was originally created by Stan Freberg who had a background in comedy voices. The demands of voicing the character proved too much, however, so Freberg eventually resorted to using a real whistle to capture the whistling effect.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lady and the Tramp (1955)?
a.		Ryan Reynolds was the first and only choice to play Paul Conroy.
b.		Although the Statue of Liberty was undergoing renovation in preparation for its centennial when the film was made, the filmmakers shot on and around the actual statue and its scaffolding as well as on a full-sized replica (from just below Libertys book to the top of her torch) which was constructed in Mexico City. Because of weather and scheduling, the sequence required additional photography during the summer following the original mid-December (New York) and late-February (Mexico) shoots. Two different locations photographed during three separate time periods illustrates the value of storyboards and thorough pre-visualization.
c.		The sets, costumes, dancers, choreography, and even Marjorie Reynolds voice double (Martha Mears) are all recycled from Tonight and Every Night
d.		As the story was being developed at the studio, Ward Greene wrote a novelization. Walt Disney insisted that this be released some two years before the film itself to give audiences time to familiarize themselves with the plot.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lady and the Tramp (1955)?
a.		The films setting was partly inspired by Walt Disneys boyhood hometown of Marceline, Missouri.
b.		Channing Tatum originally didnt want to act in this film because he felt it glorified war. He changed his mind when he read the script. His friend and Stop-Loss-co-star Joseph Gordon-Levitt also encouraged him to sign on.
c.		The film originally was to end with a boat chase, but was changed to a horseback chase at the insistence of Jean-Claude Van Damme. See also Face/Off.
d.		Film debut of Charles Ruggles.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lady and the Tramp (1955)?
a.		The Scandal revolving around the case of Choiseul-Praslins murder of his wife was one of the contributing factors to the 1848 Revolution.
b.		The original story was created by Joe Grant while Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was nearing post-production. Ward Greene used Joe Grants original version as the basis for his novel. Greenes novel was still being written while the film was still in production. Grants wife was said to have been angry over the story being "stolen" but Walt Disney maintained all legal rights to the story.
c.		The duet that Frank Wood and his wife perform in the family talent show is "La ci darem la mano" from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts "Don Giovanni". The duet is a seduction scene in which Don Giovanni convinces Zerlina to leave her fiancé.
d.		Isabella Rossellini actually was naked under her velvet robe when she did the "ritualistic rape scene", a fact that her partner Dennis Hopper was not aware of, until the cameras started rolling and his co-actor opened her legs for him to kneel between. This scene was the very first time the two of them ever worked together.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lady and the Tramp (1955)?
a.		To maintain a dogs perspective, Darling and Jim Dears faces are rarely seen.
b.		The social commentary on racism some have seen in this film was never intended (an African-American man holing up in a house with a white woman, a posse of whites shooting a black man in the head without first checking to see if he was a zombie). According to the filmmakers, Duane Jones was simply the best actor for the part of Ben.
c.		The Batmobile was usually driven by stunt drivers, but Chris ODonnell insisted on driving it himself in the joyride scene - but he crashed it into a curb and dented a fender.
d.		Because of budget limitations, extensive use was made of stock footage from the serial The Jungle Goddess; even the story from the earlier serial was woven into the plot of the later one. Considering the changes in dramatic technique, film stock, makeup, etc., that had taken place in the intervening 13 years, plus the fact that the silent footage was printed and projected at an abnormally fast sound speed, the results were both hilarious and disastrous.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lady and the Tramp (1955)?
a.		In the film the Captain speaks to Jimmy Angel about doing a heist at the Coliseum. Originally the scene was shot at the Coliseum but the footage came out to dark. Due to scheduling conflicts Justin Kady had to use a new location which was Eden Lounge.
b.		The first official Bond film to start without the famous gun barrel intro, which is shown just before the opening titles. It is also a distinctly different style to any previous film. A more traditional gun barrel was included in the next film, Quantum of Solace, but it is not shown until right before the closing credits.
c.		Special effects wizard Stan Winston died during filming, making Terminator Salvation the last film he provided visual effects for.
d.		The background artists made models of the interiors of Jim Dear and Darlings house and shot photos from a deliberately low angle to simulate a dogs eye view of their world.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lady and the Tramp (1955)?
a.		The movies title, "Live Free or Die Hard", is a reference to New Hampshires State Motto "Live Free or Die". Consequently, the New Hampshire state film office received several phone calls asking where in the state the movie was filmed.
b.		Walt Disney read Ward Greenes story, "Happy Dan, the Whistling Dog" in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1943 and eventually hired Greene to include the Dan character in the film during the pre-production stage. But Greene wrote and published an entirely new story "Lady and the Tramp; the Story of Two Dogs," which became the source of the film.
c.		This movies German Auf der Fährte des Adlers title translates literally into English as On the trail of the Eagle.
d.		Last of four Don Quixote films featuring Fernando Rey in some role. In this one, he played the narrator in the closing scene. He was previously in Don Quijote de la Mancha, Don Quijote and El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes.