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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Man on a Tightrope (1953) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Man on a Tightrope (1953)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Man on a Tightrope (1953).

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1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Man on a Tightrope (1953)?
a.		Christopher Crowe worked on rewrites of the script.
b.		This film was the second collaboration of legendary arch-enemies Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins, (Their previous collaboration had been The Old Maid.) The fact that in 1939, Bette Davis had an affair with Miriam Hopkins then-husband, director Anatole Litvak, only added to their mutual hatred. To their credit, the two actresses had a sense of humor about the situation and allowed publicity photographs to be taken of them facing each other wearing boxing gloves, with director Vincent Sherman between them.
c.		Marlene Dietrich turned down the role that eventually went to Gloria Grahame.
d.		One of the very first World War II films made by an American studio in which the members of each country spoke nearly all their dialog in the language of that country: the Germans spoke German, the French spoke French, and the Americans and the British spoke English. There were subtitles on the bottom of the screen to translate the various languages. There were two versions of this movie, one where all the actors spoke English and the other(the better known one) where the French and German actors spoke their respective languages.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Man on a Tightrope (1953)?
a.		The movie shows Union Station in its heyday. Due to closures and a subway that was built, many of the scenes in "Union Station" (ie the scenes involving the ransom payments) cannot be shot again in the same way.
b.		The cello concerto written for this film by Erich Wolfgang Korngold was composed as two shorter pieces for filming purposes. After the film was released, they were combined as two movements of a finished concerto, making Korngolds "Cello Concerto" one of the shortest on the concert hall stage, at about 12 minutes.
c.		Hildegard Knef was supposed to play the female lead, but shortly before filming began, Elia Kazan cast Gloria Grahame instead.
d.		The first draft script called for Pink Floyds "Money" where "Little Green Bag" is now. It was later changed because Quentin Tarantino heard "Little Green Bag" over the radio and became extremely nostalgic.