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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) - 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: 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.
This is the only installment in the Phantasm movie series that does not include the entire original main cast (
Bill Thornbury
and his character did not appear in this film), and the only one to replace a main character with another actor (
James LeGros
played the part of Mike instead of
A. Michael Baldwin
).
b.
Composer
Don Davis
thought it would be wasteful for the choir to be singing simple "ooohs" and "aaahs" during the climactic battle cue, "Neodämmerung". He asked that the Wachowski Brothers (
Andy Wachowski
and
Lana Wachowski
) bring him some sort of text appropriate to the movie, which the choir would sing. They returned with extracts from the Upanisads which reflect the themes of the trilogy. The full lyrics of Neodämmerung are available on Daviss website.
c.
Bess Flowers
was an extra in this movie. Nicknamed "Queen of the Hollywood Extras" Flowers appeared in over 700 movies of which 21 were Oscar noms for Best Picture of which 5 won. This makes her a record holder for an actor appearing in Best Picture winning films.
d.
Jim Burk
doubled for
Forrest Tucker
in part of the final fight scene.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)?
a.
Actor Trademark: As in many movies starring
Marilyn Chambers
, there is a cameo by an Ivory Snow detergent box from Marilyns brief career as the "Ivory Snow Girl". It can be seen in Morgans kitchen.
b.
Mike Newell
staged a brawl with one of the twins, both to demonstrate what he wanted for a scene between the twins, and also to undermine his own "authority figure" status ("They were calling me sir!") The fight got so intense that he fractured a rib in the process.
c.
Kurt Russell
took a pay cut so the 800-1000 extras used as the fans at the hockey game had a full hot meal instead of a brown-bag lunch.
d.
In the movie, Mr. Deeds couldnt find a word to rhyme with "Budington". This is the writers middle name (Writers:
Clarence Budington Kelland
(story)).
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)?
a.
Lucky McKee
was the original director and had been shooting for weeks when he was fired and replaced by
Trygve Allister Diesen
for unknown reasons.
Angela Bettis
(a frequent McKee collaborator) was also attached to the project, playing the role of Carrie, but was fired and replaced by
Kim Dickens
for, again, unknown reasons.
b.
Singer Loudon Wainwright III and his children, Rufus and Martha Wainwright, each appear as vocalists at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub during different eras. Loudon Wainwright (who plays the lead singer of "Happy Feet") played guitar and sang as "Capt. Spalding" in three episodes of the third season of "M*A*S*H". Songs included "North Korea Blues (Oh, Tokyo)," featured prominently throughout the episode "Rainbow Bridge." Wainwrights appearance in this film is therefore a bit of a reunion with "M*A*S*H" alum Alan Alda, though the two performers do not appear together.
c.
The real Larry Summers called the films portrayal of his meeting with the Winkelvoss twins "fairly accurate". He went on to say "Ive read somewhere, on occasion, that people think I can be arrogant, and I cant imagine why. And if that is so, I probably was on that occasion."
d.
Russell Hicks
is in studio records/casting call lists for the role of Dr. Malcolm, but he did not appear or was not identifiable in this movie
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)?
a.
Alice Parkinson
credited her interest in the film to her being sort of a tomboy as a child.
b.
Producer/performer
Anthony Begonia
is in the Venice beach scene as an angry volleyball player in the background.
c.
One of the few Disney animated features to take place in the present day. Others include
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
,
The Rescuers
,
The Rescuers Down Under
,
Oliver & Company
and
Bolt
.
d.
The tender scene in which Babe (
Jean Arthur
) recites a poem that Longfellow Deeds (
Gary Cooper
) wrote for her was almost deleted because
Frank Capra
thought it was too sappy. Jean Arthur had been working very hard on that scene and convinced Capra to at least film it, which he did. The bit of Deeds tripping over the garbage cans was added to provide comic relief to break the sentimental mood.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)?
a.
This film was mostly funded by Chuck Meres personal credit cards.
b.
Columbia and
Frank Capra
intended to make a sequel to this movie, starring
Gary Cooper
and
Jean Arthur
, entitled "Mr. Deeds Goes to Washington" , based on the story "The Gentleman from Wyoming" (alternately called "The Gentleman from Montana" by both contemporary and modern sources) by
Lewis Foster
. This story was instead turned into the 1939 film
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
, directed by
Frank Capra
and starring Arthur and
James Stewart
.
c.
This film is basically a remake of "Gunga Din" set in the old west. After filming was completed, the producers discovered they needed to secure the rights to the original story. They were forced to pay a large fee to the copyright owners before the film could be released.
d.
Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista were highly enamored with the production given the exponential popularity of the National Football League. The production was given a green-light secondary to the belief that Papales timeless story, like that of Notre Dame walk-on Daniel E.(Rudy) Ruettiger or the New York Jets undrafted walk-on Wayne Chrebet, would transcend a regional demographic and be a success at the box-office in the domestic market.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)?
a.
This movie marks the entry of the verb doodle (in the sense of absent-minded scribbling) into the English language. The word was coined for the movie by screenwriter
Robert Riskin
.
b.
The school which Damien and his cousin Mark go to, Davidson Military Academy, has the same insignia as Northwestern Military and Naval Academy in Lake Geneva, WI where it was filmed. (Merged with St. Johns Military Academy in 1995 to be St. Johns Northwestern Military Academy in Delafield, WI.) The academy was started by Harlan Page Davidson and the academy was sometimes referred to as Davidson Military Academy.
c.
Horton Foote
was initially reluctant to adapt the novel into a screenplay as he felt that he would be unable to do it justice.
d.
There is a quick shot of a TV truck from WAJB, Channel 3 in Boston. This fictional channel is a reference to the author of the novel on which the script is based,
Amanda Brown
.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)?
a.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on February 1, 1937 with
Gary Cooper
,
Jean Arthur
and
Lionel Stander
reprising their film roles.
b.
The Witchs coachman is unnamed in the book. The filmmakers named him Ginaarbrik, deciding that he is an ancestor of Nikabrik from
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
. The two dwarrow wear the same family ring in the films.
c.
The first scene filmed was when Peter returns from his field-trip, feverish after being bitten by the spider.
d.
Peter Jackson
originally wanted either
Robert De Niro
or
George Clooney
to play the role of Carl Denham.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)?
a.
Audrey Hepburn
tried to get this film shot in Europe, but relented when she was told not filming it in the US might have led to the closure of underused studio facilities in Hollywood.
b.
The scene in which Deeds meets several famous writers and columnists at a New York restaurant, and finds them to be witty but also sarcastic and rude, is a reference to the Algonquin Round Table, with the character Bill Morrow being loosely based on
Alexander Woollcott
.
c.
Jerry Van Dyke
,
Bruce Dern
,
Steve McQueen
,
Paul Newman
and
James Caan
auditioned for the role of Tom Hagen.
d.
Stuart Gordon
: The resident who gets yelled at by Rashids girlfriend in the apartment hallway.
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