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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Moonstruck (1987) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Moonstruck (1987) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Moonstruck (1987).
About the movie:
A widowed Brooklyn book-keeper is torn between her fiancé and his brother.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Moonstruck (1987)?
a.
Scott watched
Terrence Malick
s
Badlands
for inspiration for the look of the film.
b.
Reel 1 of this 5 Reel film survives in the Library of Congress.
c.
Sam Raimi
: [chainsaw] Ash contemplates using a chainsaw to dismember his demonic girlfriend.
d.
Nicolas Cage
s screen test didnt impress the studio, and they wanted to get someone else to play Ronny. But
Cher
insisted that Cage was the one to play that role, and threatened to quit unless he was hired. After a few days, the studio relented.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Moonstruck (1987)?
a.
Although
Nino Rota
s score for
The Godfather
was withdrawn an Oscar nomination because he reused the same theme from his previous score for
Fortunella
, he was still awarded the Oscar for Best Original Score for the sequel even though it still used the same love theme from the first film.
b.
Despite the plot which says that all machines in the world come alive and begin killing people, Camp and the Curtis cars never becomes sentient. Even Hendershots car, identifiable by the license plate BUBBA stamped on it, never comes alive itself and (along with nearly all of the other cars in the truck stop parking lot and in other scenes) remains sedate throughout the entire movie.
c.
According to
Audrey Hepburn
, the scene where Regina spills ice cream on Adams suit is based on a real-life accident where Hepburn spilled red wine over
Cary Grant
s suit at a dinner party.
d.
Like several other members of the production crew, costume designer
Theoni V. Aldredge
is also credited on the poster for "La Boheme" shown at the beginning of the film.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Moonstruck (1987)?
a.
Ranked #8 on the American Film Institutes list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Romantic Comedy" in June 2008.
b.
The small plane which (in the movie) collides with the 747, a Beechcraft Baron, tail number N9750Y, was actually destroyed in a real midair collision with a Cessna 180 over Tracy, California, on 24 August 1989.
c.
The biggest money-maker for
Vincente Minnelli
from his years at MGM.
d.
In 1999,
John Ritter
married
Amy Yasbeck
in real life.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Moonstruck (1987)?
a.
When Johnny hails a cab at the airport after his return from Sicily, he asks the driver to take him to "19 Cranberry Street, Brooklyn." This is a real house located a few blocks from the East River, just like the exteriors shown in the movie.
b.
The only "Beach Party" movie to include any swearing. Princess Yolanda (
Bobbie Shaw Chance
) barks "Like hell!" to Chicken Feather (
Benny Rubin
), as they discuss J. Sinister Hulk (
Jesse White
)s latest scheme.
c.
Timothy Olyphant, who plays Todd, thought the character needed a tattoo, after talking it over with the director, Doug Liman, Doug thought it was a bad idea. The next day, Olyphant showed up with a temporary tattoo that the make-up department had. Liman ended up liking it and it stayed in the movie. It appears on the left side of his neck; its a pair of flaming dice
d.
The wolf that fights with Old Yeller is actually not a wolf at all. It was a German Shepherd made to look like a wolf. Both animals were trained to play-fight and were muzzled for that sequence.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Moonstruck (1987)?
a.
In order to correctly write a script that would depict the experience of a woman being arrested and imprisoned, screenwriter
Jeanie Macpherson
arranged, at
Cecil B. DeMille
s behest, to be imprisoned for stealing a fur piece from a friend (with whom she had worked out an agreement beforehand). She was arrested in Detroit, and spent three days in jail before a police official discovered the truth and arranged for her release.
b.
Admiral Ackbars backstory is that he was once the slave of Grand Moff Tarkin, as well as his personal pilot.
c.
The movies line "Snap out of it!" was voted as the #96 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).
d.
Filmed August 8-October 11 1940, the 7th of 8 features to star
Boris Karloff
and
Bela Lugosi
, and the only time that fellow Hungarians Lugosi and
Peter Lorre
ever shared the screen.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Moonstruck (1987)?
a.
The biker invasion was shot over two nights.
b.
David Koepp
lifted several set pieces from the original Jurassic Park novel for use in this sequel. These include: The procompsognathus attacking the young girl; hiding from the Tyrannosaur behind a waterfall, while the creature tries to find them using its tongue; Dieter Stark being killed by Procompsognathids (Hammond in the novel); Roland Tembo tranquilizing the Tyrannosaur (Robert Muldoon in the novel).
c.
According to casting director
Howard Feuer
, both
Anne Bancroft
and
Maureen Stapleton
had been considered for the role of
Cher
s mother, but their fees were too expensive for the production budget. Feuer remembered
Olympia Dukakis
, a character actress known for years to most in casting, she read for director
Norman Jewison
and he hired her instantly.
d.
Elvis Presley
later said about the film: "I wasnt exactly a James Bond in this movie. But then, no one ever asked
Sean Connery
to sing a song while dodging bullets".
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Moonstruck (1987)?
a.
The pieces of paper blowing around throughout the course of the movie are actually the pages of the Latin Vulgate Bible, as can be seen on the close-up of Rosencrantzs apple pinwheel (specifically, The Prophecy of Zacharias, chapter 8).
b.
At his acceptance of the Oscar,
Lee Marvin
opened by saying, "Half of this probably belongs to a horse out in the Valley somewhere".
c.
Olympia Dukakis
is only 15 years older than her on-screen daughter
Cher
.
d.
Kim Cattrall
gained 20 pounds to play Monica. During filming, she would often go to bars to eat and drink.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Moonstruck (1987)?
a.
Ranked ninth on Premiere Magazines "20 Most Overrated Movies of All Time".
b.
Writer-Producer
Nunnally Johnson
wanted this film adaptation of the book by
Agnes Newton Keith
to be true to the memoir and realistically capture the harrowing ordeal of Keith and her fellow POWs. This unrelenting ordeal included degradation, violence, starvation, torture, and rape. Actress
Claudette Colbert
playing
Agnes Newton Keith
in this movie agreed with Johnsons philosophy for the film.
c.
Charlton Heston
initially turned down the role of ranch foreman Steve Leech because he didnt think the part was big enough. His agent convinced him that it would be worth it just for the opportunity to work with
Gregory Peck
and
William Wyler
.
d.
The ending was re-shot a few weeks before the film opened because the audience reactions at the test screening had been overwhelmingly negative.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Moonstruck (1987)?
a.
The opening title sequence was originally played on the score from La Boheme opera but was changed to the Dean Martin track "Thats Amore" as the preview drew negative test audience reaction. Many shifted uncomfortably on their seats thinking that they had been lured into an art film.
b.
Body count: 68 (not including the film-within-a-film). Possibly 69, if the Guy Who Dies First ends up dead.
c.
The world premiere in Omaha, Nebraska, was a three-day celebration that drew 250,000 people, doubling the population of the city and requiring the National Guard to help keep order. The special train en route from Hollywood to Omaha, carrying
Cecil B. DeMille
and stars
Barbara Stanwyck
and
Joel McCrea
, took three days and made stops along the way, drawing large crowds. The film was shown in three theaters simultaneously; President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
was reported to have started the premiere proceedings by pressing a button in Washington, DC, which opened the civic auditorium. An ad stated that the premiere, which involved parades, radio broadcasts and a banquet, was the biggest in motion picture history. An antique train continued on a 15-day coast-to-coast promotional tour, stopping at 30 cities around the country.
d.
In a 1933 press release,
Clark Gable
,
Wallace Beery
, and
Buster Keaton
were scheduled to film cameo appearances, while
Jean Harlow
,
Nina Mae McKinney
, and
Joan Crawford
were to perform musical numbers written by Rodgers & Hart ("Prayer", which later became "Blue Moon", "Im One of the Boys", and "Black Diamond"). But none of this materialized. Crawford allegedly filmed her number, which was then cut, and was reinstated in
Sadie McKee
, where sources say it was also deleted.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Moonstruck (1987)?
a.
The reality of the "Shall We Dance" sequence was that
Deborah Kerr
suffered continual bruising from the hoops in her skirt, and
Yul Brynner
- a chain smoker who had already lost a lung to his habit - had to take oxygen in between takes.
b.
Before this movie was made, any Warner Brothers film which showed a movie marquee would indicate that a movie named "Another Dawn" was playing at the cinema. Unable to come up with a title for this film, they decided to actually create a movie named "Another Dawn."
c.
Producer Patrick Palmer initially rejected the script saying that a special quality was not on the page.
d.
Alex North
was chosen to score the film after
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
s son Chris told him that North had done a magnificent job in composing a score for
Spartacus
.
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