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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936).
About the movie:
Longfellow Deeds, a simple-hearted Vermont tuba player, inherits a fortune and has to contend with opportunist city slickers.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)?
a.
From the start,
Frank Capra
was convinced that
Gary Cooper
would be perfect for the part of Longfellow Deeds. Production had to wait six months for Cooper to become available, incurring costs of $100,000 for the delay in filming.
b.
The music being played during the scene where they turn the "Gwendy" dolls into soldiers is the theme music from
Bride of Frankenstein
.
c.
Britta Phillips
actually played the bass before getting the role of Billie. She learned to play the guitar for her character in the film.
d.
The documentary "Showbiz Goes to War" says of this movie: "In 1943, Hollywood glorified New Yorks Stage Door Canteen in a movie of the same name and the public responded to its wartime sentiments by making it a big box-office attraction because the story was sympathetic to the romantic problems of the hostesses who fell in love with soldiers scheduled to go overseas. Audiences could identify with the theme of wartime separation because they were living it themselves . . . Stage Door Canteen was pure propaganda but it pointed out the loneliness of men and women during the Second World war when Saturday night was the loneliest night of the week."
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)?
a.
Screenwriter
Robert Riskin
considered this to be his favorite film.
b.
Film debut of
Fess Parker
.
c.
Many theater managers mistakenly wrote the films title on marquees and in showtime listings as "I Love Huckabees". This is most likely because on all promotional material and in the film itself the title is written with a heart symbol instead of the word "heart".
d.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
was considered for the role of Sarah Tobias, but was later discarded because she was "too nice" for the part.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)?
a.
Some scenes in the US and International trailer were not included in the final cut of the movie, such as the scene of Franks "Nothings forever, right?" line and the scene with Helen showing the Wheelers their soon-to-be home.
b.
The words of Father McCasslin at the burial are the last five lines from Chapter 25, "Death", in "The Prophet" by
Kahlil Gibran
.
c.
Carole Lombard
was originally down to play the female lead but she backed out three days before production began to go work on
My Man Godfrey
. Shooting had to begin without a female lead in place.
d.
Although Rock Hudson is top billing, he appears on screen only after 40 minutes of running time because the character he plays has quite different face and look after being transformed by a physical reconstruction surgery. John Randolph was chosen to play the scenes of the beginning before the physical reconstruction surgery.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)?
a.
An additional tragedy nearly occurred during filming when an 18-foot replica of the Bounty with two crewmen aboard separated from its tow and was adrift for two days before being found by a search party.
b.
First film for which
Harry Cohn
authorized
Frank Capra
to have his name above the title.
c.
Actor
Ken Clark
, a close friend of writer
DeWitt Bodeen
, brought
Louis LAmour
s book to Bodeens attention. Bodeen, a friend of director
George Cukor
, told him about the book, which Cukor read and was enthusiastic about. Bodeen was to write the script with LAmour himself, but LAmour wanted more money than the studio was willing to pay and was not hired. The final screenplay is signed
Dudley Nichols
and
Walter Bernstein
. Cukor thanked Clark by casting him as a soldier warning the traveling company about the presence of Indians in the area.
d.
Bryan Singer
cast
Halle Berry
as Storm after seeing her performance in
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)?
a.
The film covers only the first half of the
L. Ron Hubbard
book.
b.
Before
DeRay Davis
auditioned and blew producers away, actors considered for Brett Spooner included
Wilmer Valderrama
,
Eric Christian Olsen
,
Kenan Thompson
,
John Cho
,
Dominic Monaghan
and
Jon Heder
.
c.
Some of the scenes were shot at Kentucky Country Day School, Pollards high school. A few of
Stu Pollard
s old teachers even made it into the film as extras.
d.
The film cost over $800,000 which was a very high figure for 1936.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)?
a.
The real-life escape preparations involved 600 men working for well over a year. The escape did have the desired effect of diverting German resources, including a doubling of the number of guards after the Gestapo took over the camp from the Luftwaffe.
b.
The soundtrack to the movie sold 700,000 copies in its first two weeks of release.
c.
Originally
Frank Capra
was going to make
Lost Horizon
after
Broadway Bill
but
Ronald Colman
couldnt get out of his other filming commitments. So Capra decided to make this film instead.
d.
Herbert Marshall
, who plays a British army officer in World War I, actually served in that war and lost a leg in combat.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)?
a.
Existing prints bear 1955 re-release titles, with lettering in the center of the screen so that they would not be cropped in wide screen projection; these restyled opening credits also include an erroneous 1933 (MCMXXXIII), instead of 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) copyright date.
b.
Rupert Everett
s own black Labrador Moise appears as the family pet
c.
Columbia head
Harry Cohn
was set against
Jean Arthur
being cast as the female lead.
Frank Capra
was finally able to persuade him by insisting that Cohn listen to her voice not study her face.
d.
Panavision Inc. listed this feature as the second official feature to use the Genesis Digital Camera System after
Superman Returns
.
Dean Semler
would use this system in his subsequent features
Apocalypto
and
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)?
a.
According to a Motion Picture Herald news item, the film was banned in Germany "on the ground that non-Aryan actors had participated" in the production.
b.
Ryan Gosling
replaced
Hugh Jackman
.
c.
Bruce Greenwood
was largely cast on the strength of his performance in
Thirteen Days
.
d.
Alan Alda
only worked 2 days.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)?
a.
Rickie Lee Jones
had originally written and recorded an instrumental demo as a theme, but it was rejected in favor of
Frank Sinatra
s "Summer Wind." The demo, which retained the title "Theme for the Pope" (because of the movie), wound up on her 1984 album The Magazine.
b.
The resort Windemere House in the Muskoka region of Ontario, Canada burned down while filming scenes there. Production company had to rework the scenes in Collingwood, Ontario. Windemere House has since been rebuilt.
c.
Harry Cohn
had a dictum in that he would only allow his directors to print any one of their takes, thereby saving the studio a great deal of money.
Frank Capra
found a loophole in getting round this. At the end of each take, instead of shouting "Cut" he would shout "Do it again", and the actors would launch immediately into an unbroken repetition of the scene.
d.
The name of the song being played and sung when Janet enters Bobbys church is "Jesus, Friend of Sinners", written by Paul Oakley (uncredited).
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)?
a.
The afro and mustache in the photo on Detective Carters badge were added as an afterthought in post-production.
b.
Francis Ford Coppola
screened the film for close friend,
George Lucas
. Lucas suggested that, in adherence to the vampire mythology, Mina should decapitate Dracula as the ultimate release for him to reach heaven. Coppola agreed and shot it three weeks before the films release.
c.
Jean Arthur
never saw the film until she and
Frank Capra
were guests at a 1972 film festival.
d.
Sean Bean
is famous for his death scenes in movies; surprisingly he (as Odysseus) is the only high ranking Greek commander to survive at the movies end.
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