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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Much Ado About Nothing (1993) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Much Ado About Nothing (1993) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Much Ado About Nothing (1993).
About the movie:
Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Much Ado About Nothing (1993)?
a.
John Hora
who had previously worked as
Joe Dante
s cinematographer on all of his movies, was cast as Ozzie after
Steven Spielberg
suggested him to play the absent minded professor. Director Dante and Producer
Michael Finnell
were very skeptical about that idea and Spielberg insisted that they give him a screen test to just to see and was cast after impressing Dante and Finnell.
b.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on March 31, 1947 with
Donald Crisp
again reprising his film role.
c.
Vitaphone production reels #3561-3567.
d.
Set in Messina (Sicily) but filmed in Chianti (Toscana, central Italy).
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Much Ado About Nothing (1993)?
a.
During the Oscar season in early 1994 the
Samuel Goldwyn
company spent $10 million campaigning the film to garner the film Oscar nominations. They sent bulky packets to all members of the academy and played up the film in hopes of getting their film on the final ballot. The effort was all for naught; the film, though highly acclaimed and (unusually for
William Shakespeare
) a box-office hit, received no Oscar nominations whatsoever.
b.
Last film work for
Barbara Luddy
,
Sebastian Cabot
and
Junius Matthews
.
c.
Al Pacino
s first Oscar nomination marks his first of 4 consecutive nominations, a feat he shares with
Jennifer Jones
(1943-46),
Thelma Ritter
(1950-53),
Marlon Brando
(1951-54) and
Elizabeth Taylor
(1957-60).
d.
In Guinness World Records 2001, this film was said to have the most profanity used in an animated film. The book cited a total of 399 swear words, including 146 uses of the word "fuck", along with 199 offensive gestures and 221 acts of violence.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Much Ado About Nothing (1993)?
a.
Matilda, when describing her love of
Charles Dickens
to Miss Honey, accidentally mispronounces his name as "Darles Chickens." This is a nod to another novel by
Roald Dahl
, "The BFG," in which the title character continuously mispronounces Charles Dickens name.
b.
Frankenheimers first film in color.
c.
Filming began on 7 November 1918, but was interrupted less than an hour later when (false) reports that the war was over reached Paramount, and everyone was sent home for the rest of the day.
d.
The only one of
Kenneth Branagh
s Shakespeare films (so far) to have a pre-credits opening sequence. The sequence is actually part of Scene I of the play.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Much Ado About Nothing (1993)?
a.
This was the first film shown on "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies", 23 September 1961, the first television program to exclusively broadcast relatively recent theatrical films on US network television, most of them, like this one, in pan/scan versions (there was no television "letterboxing" back then). The idea proved so successful that NBC soon followed it up with another series with the identical format, "Monday Night at the Movies", and it wasnt long before the format was taken up by both CBS and ABC.
b.
Much of the singing was not re-recorded.
c.
Admiral Ackbars backstory is that he was once the slave of Grand Moff Tarkin, as well as his personal pilot.
d.
Filming began in late Dec 1979 (on location in Massachusetts) two months after
10
was released, when heretofore unknown
Bo Derek
was fast becoming the focus of worldwide attention. Additional love scenes were added to the later studio phase of the shoot, most of which appear in the opening shots of the movie.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Much Ado About Nothing (1993)?
a.
Last feature film of
Anthony Eustrel
and
Reginald Owen
. This was the last film from Disney Studios to receive an Academy Award until
The Little Mermaid
.
b.
Three "Harry Potter" professors have roles in this movie.
Kenneth Branagh
was Gilderoy Lockhart in
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
,
Emma Thompson
was Sybil Trelawney in
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
and
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
, and
Imelda Staunton
was Dolores Umbridge, also in Phoenix.
c.
This was the first film where Industrial Light & Magic used entirely digital ships.
d.
Won "Best Feature" at 2004 New York Latino Film Festival
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Much Ado About Nothing (1993)?
a.
After the movie flopped at the box-office,
Clark Gable
told MGM not to bother casting him in any more "period" pieces, preferring to play only in contemporary movies. This was part of the reason Gable was reluctant to accept the role of Rhett Butler in
Gone with the Wind
.
b.
Judi Dench
was offered the role of Ursula.
c.
On Hellcops chin are the letters "S.J. + L.Q.", which stand for Steve Johnson (makeup artist), and
Linnea Quigley
(his wife).
d.
The golden oldie playing in the Doctors buried station wagon is a song by Bobby Bare, "Drop Kick me Jesus" - partial lyrics: "Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life / End over end neither left nor to right / Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights / Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life."
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Much Ado About Nothing (1993)?
a.
Edith Head
won her 8th and final Best Costume Design Academy Award for this film.
b.
The entire final scene showing the whole cast singing and dancing to "Hey Nonny Nonny" is a single shot.
c.
In the book Black Sunday the attack was set to take place at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans during a Super Bowl between the Washington Redskins and Miami Dolphins.
d.
This is one of a handful of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer productions of the 1950-1951 period whose original copyrights were never renewed and are now apparently in Public Domain; for this reason this title is now offered, often in very inferior copies, at bargain prices, by numerous VHS and DVD distributors who do not normally handle copyrighted or Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer material.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Much Ado About Nothing (1993)?
a.
First cinema film of
Kate Beckinsale
, who shot this film during her summer break from studying Russian and French at New College, Oxford.
b.
The snow storm seen in the film was completely unexpected.
c.
At the football game when
Michael McKean
and
David L. Lander
hack the satellite, just before the camera comes on you can see the two original "penis noses" in a box. These were the original gags for
Gerritt Graham
and
Kurt Russell
, but Columbia executives put the kibosh on those gags, replacing them with bouncing eyeball glasses.
d.
Virginia Vincent
s reaction to being shot was quite genuine as there was a mishap with the squib planted under her robe. The small explosion caused her a deal of pain and she was briefly taken to the hospital.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Much Ado About Nothing (1993)?
a.
Aware that her co-star
Fredric March
was notorious for seducing his leading ladies,
Greta Garbo
reportedly wore garlic under her clothes and purposely had bad breath in order to stave off his advances.
b.
John Garfield
would go on to do another Ernest Hemingway (v) adaptation that year,
The Breaking Point
.
c.
Like
Much Ado About Nothing
, this film casts a real-life married couple in the leads. In the earlier film, it was
Robert Stephens
and
Maggie Smith
. In this film, it is
Kenneth Branagh
and
Emma Thompson
. Both couples later divorced.
d.
55 animators were involved in designing the character of Pocahontas.
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