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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948).

About the movie: A man and his wife decide they can afford to have a house in the country built to their specifications. It's a lot more trouble than they think.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)?
a.		The other two portraits in the meeting room also represent previous Leagues. The first shows Robin Hood (from various legends/poems), Ivanhoe (from Sir Walter Scotts novel) and the Black Arrow (a Robert Louis Stevenson novel). The Black Arrow, though, is set in the 15th century (during the War of the Roses), far later than Robin Hood and Ivanhoe, but this may be one of the many who took the name prior to the novels setting. The other portrait displays the Four Musketeers - Porthos, Athos, Aramis, and DArtagnan (from the various novels by Alexandre Dumas père), the Sea Hawk and Captain Blood (both pirates created by Rafael Sabatini and, incidentally, both played by Errol Flynn in the movies). These are according to the screenplay of the film.
b.		Grand total for the house and property was $38,000 according to Mrs. Blandings in their first night in the house. Assuming the factor used to arrive at the 2004 value show above is correct, the total cost of the house and property would be $298,000.
c.		In 1929, Lina Basquette received a fan letter from Austria in connection with the film. The sender said she was his favorite American actress. It meant nothing to Basquette at the time, but the sender of the letter was Adolf Hitler.
d.		Robert Altman says that during filming, Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland together went to the studio and complained that Altman was filming too much of the secondary characters. They requested that he be removed from the film, but the studio refused. After the film was completed and received its accolades, only Gould confessed the matter to Altman. As a result, he received parts in other Altman pictures, whereas the director never again used Sutherland.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)?
a.		Virginia Vale, who was female lead in most of George OBriens RKO westerns, makes her only Tim Holt western appearance here.
b.		"Screen Directors Playhouse" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on July 1, 1949 with Cary Grant reprising his film role.
c.		Reports of kidnappings in Colombia forced the location shoots to be done in Mexico.
d.		The weapon used by Billy Zane in this movie is not an H&K PSG-1, an expensive precision semi-automatic rifle commonly used by special forces snipers. It is an H&K SR-9 TC , a similar but cheaper version of the PSG-1 that was designed for civilian sales.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)?
a.		The film was released on a Friday the 13th
b.		"Screen Directors Playhouse" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on June 9, 1950 with Cary Grant again reprising his film role.
c.		Earlier in pre-production, Tim Burton was offered the chance to direct the movie, but declined because he was already in production with Edward Scissorhands.
d.		The small turquoise-and-black, blue-and-black, and red-and-black birds seen in some parts of the film (such as Nigels song "Pretty Bird") are honeycreepers.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)?
a.		Docs phone number in 1955 is Klondike 54385. The letters "K" and "L" are both on the digit 5; thus, the number still begins with the 555- prefix, indicating a fictional number.
b.		Many critics in 1948 felt that Cary Grant and Myrna Loy were too old to play the naive young couple who dont know about building a house.
c.		In the original script, when Jason makes it to the dock, a dog starts barking at him and he kicked it. Kane Hodder, who was playing Jason, felt that kicking the dog was going too far and so the scene was dropped.
d.		When we first see Deckard driving his sedan, its raining but the windscreen wipers are not switched on. This was because the wipers on the stage prop were not working.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)?
a.		"Romantic" co-stars Rudolf Nureyev and Michelle Phillips got along so poorly during the making of this film that they were reported to have engaged in an on-set slapping match during shooting of the love scenes.
b.		Chapter Titles: 1. The Drums of Doom 2. The Wolf Man 3. Empty Saddles 4. Flaming Arrows 5. The Invisible Enemy 6. The Fatal Name 7. The Ordeal of Fire 8. The Man Who Knew 9. Traitors Hour 10.The Secret of the Cane 11.Red Shadows 12.Painted Faces
c.		During the opening credits for Austinpussy, Danny DeVito (as Mini-Me) is seen firing an M-249 light machine gun, or as it is known in Europe, the FN MINIMI.
d.		Although this film was from the novel of the same name, much of the story is autobiographical. Eric Hodgins and his wife built the actual house in the rural Litchfield County, Connecticut town of New Milford. Located in the bucolic Merryall section of town, the house recently sold for $1.2 million.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)?
a.		Jill Quigg was discovered when the productions barricades in the streets of Boston prevented her from picking up her son from school. Ben Affleck was so impressed by her loud rants against the film crew that he asked her to read for the movie.
b.		This film uses some scenes from a video filmed by the same producer 25 years ago, Mamie Jean Calvert.
c.		"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on October 10, 1949 with Cary Grant reprising his film role.
d.		Sixth of seven movies that paired Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)?
a.		The stubs of the newly started towers of the World Trade Center, risen to 10 or so stories, are visible in the scenic view of Manhattan from the airplane. They are unmistakable because of their rusty red patina, which was still in place when the towers fell 32 years later.
b.		The pairing of Irene Dunne and Cary Grant was a consistent box office winner and director H.C. Potter wanted Dunne for the role of Muriel Blandings. Unfortunately, she was already working on another RKO film, I Remember Mama, and wasnt available for this production.
c.		The villain Charles Muntz is named after Charles Mintz, the Universal Pictures executive who in 1928 stole Walt Disneys production rights to his highly-successful "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit" cartoon series. This led Walt Disney to create Mickey Mouse, who soon eclipsed Oswald in popularity.
d.		The scene with the water tentacle coming up through the moon pool was written so that it could be removed without interfering with the story, because no one knew how the effect would come out. The actors were interacting with a length of heater hose being held up by the crewmen. When the effects were completed, though, they exceeded everyones expectations and wildest hopes.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)?
a.		Melissa Molinaro auditioned for the role of Celia Foote.
b.		In the movie, a flooded excavation plagues the Blandings and their builders, requiring pumps to empty it. In reality, Eric Hodgins reported in his interview with LIFE magazine that the movie set excavation leaked so badly that large pumps were required just to keep it filled for shooting.
c.		Quite a lot of the chocolate things such as trees, flowers etc featured in the movie were created by chocolate shop Choccywoccydoodah in Brighton, UK. The shop displayed and sold some of the creations in the shop after the release of the film.
d.		Jacques-Yves Cousteaus boat, the Calypso, was an old British minesweeper. The Belafonte was also an old minesweeper.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)?
a.		The house "Blandings Way" really exists on Indian Hill Road in New Milford, Connecticut. Its a beautiful huge white art deco/colonial house that has many of the actual rooms discussed in the movie - such as a room to cut flowers. Also less than a mile away on Long Mountain Road is executive producer of the movie and MGM head Dore Scharys old country home.
b.		Besides inspirations from William Shakespeares Hamlet, the story also has elements of the Osirian family myths of Ancient Egyptian mythology. In the Osirian myths, the king (Mufasa/Osiris) is killed by his jealous brother (Scar/Seth) and the rightful heir (Simba/Horus) is sent into exile as a boy. The murdered king visits and mentors his son in ghostly visits and when the heir comes of age, he returns to exact revenge on his fathers murderer.
c.		When Joe is being apprehended by the police in Costco, the background screens display why he is wanted: "For being a dick" "For excaping from jail" "For fucking up lots of shit"
d.		The child murders depicted in the film were loosely based on actual cases that had been worked by Det. Joe Depczynski, the films technical advisor. However, the cases were not thought to be the work of a single killer, as the film depicted, nor did the real detective come to the same end that Det. Jerry Black did.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)?
a.		Palpatines line "There is no civility, there is only politics" is a corruption of part of the Jedi Code which consists of a negative assertion followed by a positive one. For example: "There is no fear, there is only calm. There is no death, there is only the Force."
b.		The house built for the movie still exists in Malibu California at coordinates: 34 degrees 5 41"N 118 degrees 4243"W on the old 20th Century Fox Ranch.
c.		15 chapter serial with two feature versions, one under original title, the other called "Yellow Phantom," issued in 1942.
d.		Despite the 1969 copyright date on the title card, according to the date printed on a telegram shown during the scene immediately after the credits, the action of this film takes place during August 1966.

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