Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008) Quiz

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008).

About the movie: Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)?
a.		41 different sets were constructed for the film; there were 1500 cast members; 3000 rounds of ammunition was shot in the riot scenes.
b.		According to Curt Siodmak in Screenwriter: Words Become Pictures he originally wrote the story for Warner Brothers leading man Paul Henried. The actor declined saying, "Im not wild to play against a dead hand." The writer believed that it would have been more effective with a good-looking man like Henried instead of Lorre, whom the audience would automatically think was crazy.
c.		Frances McDormands character Guinevere Pettigrew claims to be raised by a clergyman, when in real life, McDormands adoptive father is Canadian minister Vernan McDormand.
d.		Bill Robinson claimed that the idea for his "staircase dance" with Shirley Temple came to him in a dream. He later recalled of the dream, "I was being made a lord by the King of England and he was standing at the head of a flight of stairs. Rather than walk, I danced up."

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)?
a.		Winifred Watsons book was published the fall of 1938 and it became a smash hit. Plans were in the works for a Hollywood film version starring Billie Burke as Miss Pettigrew, but the start of WWII brought those plans to a halt. The publisher re-released the book in 2000 which lead to it being "found" again by Hollywood after 60+ years.
b.		Voted number 28 in channel 4s (UK) "Greatest Family Films".
c.		The key of the beginning theme you hear at the beginning of every Matrix movie (rousing strings and horn blasts) ascends by one semitone with each movie. The Matrix starts in the key of E, Matrix Reloaded in F and Matrix Revolutions in the key of F-sharp.
d.		This was John Carradines first leading role on screen, filmed from December 10-31, 1942. Release took place July 2, 1943.

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