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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : My Favorite Year (1982) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : My Favorite Year (1982) - 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: My Favorite Year (1982).
About the movie:
A dissolute matinee idol is slated to appear on a live TV variety show.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: My Favorite Year (1982)?
a.
This was Bela Lugosis only stint in the role made famous by Boris Karloff, and was shot October 12-November 11, 1942, released March 5, 1943 (copyright 1942) .
b.
The first full-length Technicolor feature produced in the USA.
c.
The Hollywood Reporter once reported that actor James Engler tested for the leading male role opposite
Betty Grable
.
d.
In later years, writer
Dennis Palumbo
quit the film business to become a psychotherapist, specializing in dealing with difficult actors, directors and other creative types.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: My Favorite Year (1982)?
a.
Of her films, this was
Vivien Leigh
s personal favorite.
b.
George Fitzmaurice
started the film, was fired and replaced by
Alexander Korda
.
c.
Director
Richard Benjamin
offered
Peter OToole
the role of Alan Swann the day that OToole was nominated for an Academy Award for
The Stunt Man
. When executive producer
Mel Brooks
found out about the timing of the offer, he yelled at Benjamin "Well that was brilliant. Do you have any idea how much money that cost us?"
d.
William Wyler
was an assistant director on the original
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
and 34 years later directed its remake,
Ben-Hur
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: My Favorite Year (1982)?
a.
Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 50 Greatest Comedies Of All Time" in 2006.
b.
The phrase "Romancing the Stone" is a piece of jewelers jargon, referring to a step in preparing a gem for use in jewelrey.
c.
Vincent Gardenia
won the 1972 Tony Award (New York City) for Supporting or Features Actor in a Drama for "The Prisoner of Second Avenue" for the role of Harry Edison.
d.
MAXIM magazine had named this films sex scenes as the best sex scenes in film history.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: My Favorite Year (1982)?
a.
Columbia chief
Harry Cohn
had serious misgivings about this adaptation of
Harry Segall
s minor stage play. He preferred to reserve his more lavish budgets for surefire successes (i.e., anything featuring the studios biggest star,
Rita Hayworth
). However,
Sidney Buchman
was eventually able to talk Cohn into forking out for costly celestial sets and Farnsworths elaborate mansion and also into hiring
Robert Montgomery
on loan-out from MGM. Buchman was also able to convince Cohn that he had a better appreciation of what the public would pay to see than the Wall Street bankers who Cohn answered to.
b.
Early on, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone were lined up to write the prequel for $1.5 million. They later decided to not work on the project and returned all of the money to New Line.
c.
Benjy Stone is described as: Benjamin Steinberg; Ben Stoneberg; Ben Stoneberger.
d.
Because of the huge importance of this film, it is suspected that some actors may have exaggerated claims to have worked on the film in order to bolster their resume. Among the unconfirmed cast members are
John Ford
, who claimed to have played a Klansman riding with one hand holding up his hood over one eye so he could see better. Such a Klansman is visible in the film and may indeed have been Ford. Despite frequently being credited as a "Piedmont Girl", actress
Bessie Love
denied claims that she ever appeared in this film.
Erich von Stroheim
for years claimed to be the stunt man who falls from a roof (breaking two ribs in the process), but assistant director
Joseph Henabery
strongly denied that von Stroheim was ever on a
D.W. Griffith
set until after
Intolerance: Loves Struggle Throughout the Ages
. Some have claimed to spot what appears to be a blackfaced von Stroheim as a voter in the election poll scene. error, who was on the set of the film in 1915, claimed that the actor who did the roof-fall stunt was in fact Indian actor
Charles Eagle Eye
.
George Beranger
was credited as "John French" in the original program notes for some reason.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: My Favorite Year (1982)?
a.
Film debut of
Herbie Faye
.
b.
Foreseeing damage to box office, its release in Mexico had to be moved one week earlier (from March 25 to March 19) because pirate copies were already available a few days after it premiered in the USA.
c.
Jayne Mansfields 23-month-old son, Miklos, makes a cameo at the beginning of the film as the little boy who throws food across the table.
d.
Almost twenty years after this movie was released, its director,
Richard Benjamin
, directed another movie about 1950s live television,
Neil Simon
s
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
. Both films feature a young comedy writer on a 1950s TV show that is based on
Your Show of Shows
and stars a
Sid Caesar
-like comedian.
Mark Linn-Baker
, who plays one of the writers in
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
, plays the young writer in this film, which was produced (uncredited) by
Mel Brooks
, a fellow writer with
Neil Simon
on Caesars 1950s TV show.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: My Favorite Year (1982)?
a.
The reason San Francisco was chosen as the place the audience watches the "documentary" was because the filmmakers wanted the irony of portraying a traditionally ultra-liberal city in the ultra-conservative Confederacy.
b.
Warren Hymer
(Jessies Taxi Driver),
Matt Moore
(Desk Sergeant) and
Ralph Sanford
(Theater Policeman) are in studio records/casting call lists for their parts, but were not seen in the movie. Pre-production news items added
Harold Lloyd
(as a Recuit) and
Ginny Simms
in the cast, but they did not appear in the movie either.
c.
Co-star
Walter Slezak
, who played a French restaurateur in the film, was a gourmet cook and often treated the cast and crew to French cuisine.
d.
When he was younger,
Richard Benjamin
worked as a page in the NBC building at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, where many scenes take place.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: My Favorite Year (1982)?
a.
According to
Cameron Mitchell
his Boss character was based on
Jimmy Hoffa
, while the character of Herb was modeled after
Neil Simon
.
b.
Principal photography took only four days.
c.
According to Hollywood Reporter(4/27/2008 issue), Warner Bros distribution president Dan Fellman said this movie was originally produced as a straight-to-video movie until a decision was made to release it theatrically.
d.
According to director
Gary David Goldberg
, he gave the script to
John Cusack
and encouraged him to change any of his characters dialogue to better suit him. Goldberg was surprised by Cusacks response, who later sent the director about 35 pages of new dialogue for his character.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: My Favorite Year (1982)?
a.
Tim Curry
was nominated for the 1993 Tony Award (New York City) for Supporting or Features Actor in a Musical for "My Favorite Year" as the larger than life actor Alan Swann.
b.
While filming the scene in which
James Dunn
and
Shirley Temple
bail out of an airplane during a storm, someone entered the sound stage through an air-tight door. The wind and rain machines vacuumed toward this opening, sucking Dunn and Temples parachute with it. The two were dragged across the floor and crashed into collapsed chairs.
c.
Based upon a narrative poem published in 1928 by
Joseph Moncure March
, who gave up his job as the first managing editor of "The New Yorker" to devote himself to writing. On the strength of it, he went to Hollywood as a screenwriter, remaining there for a dozen years. In 1948 he volunteered to work on this film, but was turned down. He was incensed that his black boxer Pansy Jones was changed into the white Stoker Thompson.
d.
Alyssa Milano
auditioned for the role of Avery Bishop.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: My Favorite Year (1982)?
a.
One of the last films to be released by American International Pictures (AIP).
b.
The words "alien" and "Martian" are never spoken in the movie.
c.
The Broadway musical version opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre on December 10, 1992, ran for 36 performances.
Lainie Kazan
recreated her role from the movie and was nominated for the 1993 Tony Award (New York City) for Supporting or Features Actress in a Musical.
d.
In the opening, Jimmy (
David Caruso
) walks down the same street to his home as in the original film,
Kiss of Death
.
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