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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Memphis Belle (1990) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Memphis Belle (1990) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Memphis Belle (1990).
About the movie:
It's May 1943 at a US Air Force base in England. The four officers and six enlisted men of the Memphis Belle...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Memphis Belle (1990)?
a.
During filming, actress
Kimberly Beck
experienced strange occurrences of a man watching her while she ran in the park, accompanied by strange phone calls at all hours. This stopped when production was over.
b.
While filming a chase scene, a bus ended up rolling over a camera and crushing it.
c.
Screen debut of
Tom Ewell
.
d.
The co-pilot of the real Memphis Belle was James Verinas. Col. Morgan always referred to him as the "other" pilot of the "Belle" since he was such an important part of the crew
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Memphis Belle (1990)?
a.
Tennessee Williams
was so dismayed by the film made from his play he threatened to have his name taken off the credits.
b.
The character of Huey was originally written to be edgy, unlikeable and bossy; eventually his character was changed to be slightly lighter and more fun so that he seemed as if he would be someone Molly would be friends with.
c.
The pilot of the real Memphis Belle was Robert K Morgan. After reaching the rank of Lt. Col. he lead the first B-29 formation over Tokyo. The name of Morgans B-29 was "Dauntless Dotty". The mission was the first bombing of Tokyo by US bombers since the Doolittle raid of April 1942.
d.
This film was originally slated to be a direct follow-up to the events of
Star Trek: Insurrection
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Memphis Belle (1990)?
a.
The hockey mask Angela used in
Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers
is seen in the fishing scene. As it is pulled out of the water, another camper remarks that the date is "Saturday the 14th."
b.
Lucille Ward
is in studio records for the role of Mrs. Walsh, but she did not appear in the film. Modern sources add
Hattie McDaniel
,
Bill Robinson
,
Bessie Lyle
and
Nora Cecil
(as Head of Home Finding Society), but none of these actors were in the film either.
c.
The poem Sgt. Danny Daly (
Eric Stoltz
) reads is "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death", by Irish poet
William Butler Yeats
(but a stanza referring to Ireland is left out).
d.
Two dream sequences for this film were made in the 2-color Technicolor process. This was the first commercially released color footage to be lit with artificial light.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Memphis Belle (1990)?
a.
The left waist turret gunner of the real Memphis Belle was Claence "Bill" Winchel. The right waist gunners of the real Memphis Belle were E. Scott Miller and Casimer Nastel.
b.
The climatic train crash at the end of the film was shot in an airplane hanger.
c.
The jellyfish attack sequence used a combination of puppets, computer-generated images, and footage of real jellyfish filmed at a nearby aquarium. The footage of real jellyfish was played at three to five times its normal speed to make the jellyfish appear more aggressive.
d.
Reflections won the AUDIENCE AWARD at the Fear No Film Festival, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Memphis Belle (1990)?
a.
Producer
Catherine Wyler
is the daughter of
William Wyler
, who directed the wartime documentary
The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress
, which this movie was based on.
b.
The film was shot in May and June of 2008 so production moved 30 tons of snow to create the winter scenes. The majority of real snow was shavings from local ice rinks.
c.
More than 10 years after the initial draft, the Writer
Eric Wilkinson
decided to rewrite a new and improved version of the script after receiving positive feedback from friends
Orlando Bloom
and
Jennifer Chambers Lynch
regarding the story.
d.
One of the reasons that
Clark Gable
hesitated to do the film was his participation in a previous costume drama
Parnell
in 1937. The film was a terrible, embarrassing failure and Gable regretted accepting the role.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Memphis Belle (1990)?
a.
The tail gunner of the real Memphis Belle was John Quinlan. He was also awarded 3-kills in the pacific theater after his tour when he was assigned to B-29s
b.
Alan Ball
originally intended to write a script about
Amy Fisher
, the "Long Island Lolita" who shot lover
Joey Buttafuoco
s wife
Mary Jo Buttafuoco
in 1992; but each successive draft of the script drifted farther away from that story, until it essentially disappeared.
c.
The parts played by
John Turturro
,
John Goodman
,
Jon Polito
and
Steve Buscemi
were all written with them in mind.
d.
Most of the movie was filmed in 1967 but due to a lack of financing it wasnt completed until 1972 when the producers had acquired enough money to complete the film, but without any of the original cast members.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Memphis Belle (1990)?
a.
The original version of Texas Lightning was a serious drama called "The Boys", which producer Edward L. Montoro forced director Gary Graver to re-cut and shoot additional comedic footage for. The new version was released to the theaters as Texas Lightning, while the original cut of the boys remains officially unreleased to this day. An illegitimate video was released in Finland in the early 90s. There might also be other European bootleg editions.
b.
The "fire organ" featured in the film was inspired and built by French sound artist, Michel Moglia.
c.
The Radio Operator of the real Memphis Belle was Robert Hanson
d.
The Mummy
was set in 1932, the year of its release. The first sequel,
The Mummys Hand
is also chronologically coherent, set in 1940.
The Mummys Tomb
takes place thirty years following the events of "Hand", with
The Mummys Ghost
approximately two years after that. We learn that this movie is set an additional twenty five years after "Ghost", meaning that the events take place around 1997.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Memphis Belle (1990)?
a.
Elvis Presley
actually drove the beach buggy for most of the high-speed opening scene.
b.
The final version of the opening crawl for this movie was co-written by
Brian De Palma
after complaining that the previous (third draft) version was too difficult to understand.
c.
The top turret gunners of the real Memphis Belle were Leviticus "levy" Dillon, Eugene Adkins, and Harold Loch.
d.
John Travolta
and
Antonio Banderas
were both considered for the role of the Phantom. Banderas actually spent several years in vocal preparation, and sang the role of the Phantom in
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration
.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Memphis Belle (1990)?
a.
John Badham
: The captain of the yacht.
b.
David Bowie
and
Gary Oldman
have both played Pontius Pilate. Bowie played the role in
The Last Temptation of Christ
, and Oldman played him in
Jesus
.
c.
The plane which portrayed the Belle in the movie is actually a converted B-17G, while the real Belle is an F Model. The G Model has a chin turret, which was removed for the film and for the subsequent appearances made at airshows around the United States. The plane is owned by David Tallichet, who has repainted the plane to match the real Memphis Belle (the Warner Bros. paint scheme is not accurate, thus avoiding any legal concerns over duplicating the earlier scheme). Forgotten in the post-war rush to disarm, the real "Belle" was rescued off a salvage yard at Altus, Oklahoma in 1946 by an alert Memphis citizen who convinced the city fathers to reclaim the bomber before it was scrapped. The "Belle" was displayed at several locations in Memphis from 1948 to 2003, and was then transported to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in October 2005 for restoration and eventual display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
d.
This film is widely credited for reviving the long-dead Ku Klux Klan. The organization staged its "rebirth" in Stone Mountain Georgia the same year that this movie was released.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Memphis Belle (1990)?
a.
Director
Ernst Lubitsch
died early in production;
Otto Preminger
completed the film.
b.
For her dual role as Jean Gray/Phoenix,
Famke Janssen
extensively researched dissociative identity disorders and split personalities to make her performance convincing.
c.
The word "Sparta" and its derivatives (mostly the term "Spartans") are used a total of 72 times. This means the word Sparta is used at least .62 times per minute.
d.
There are only five real B-17 flying in the movie. Two were flown in from the US, two came from France, and one was already based in England. One of the French airplanes crashed during filming. Although everyone onboard survived, the aircraft was a total loss in the post crash fire. Only one of the airplanes was a genuine F-model, like the real Memphis Belle, accurate to the time the story is set. All others were G-models, that came later in the war. Two different airplanes played "Memphis Belle" during the movie, one of which is in real life named Sally B.
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