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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : No Time for Sergeants (1958) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : No Time for Sergeants (1958) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: No Time for Sergeants (1958).
About the movie:
Will Stockdale is a country bumpkin drafted into the Air Force and too dumb to realize he's driving everyone around him crazy -- no one more than Sgt. King.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: No Time for Sergeants (1958)?
a.
Clark Gable
joined the Army Air Forces after his wife
Carole Lombard
died in a plane crash on a war bonds selling trip assisting the war effort. Gable entered as a lieutenant, but was promoted to major. He was a bomber pilot and was awarded both the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal for five aerial bombing missions over Germany from England.
Adolf Hitler
personally offered a reward to the pilot or gun crew who shot down Gables plane.
b.
Stacy Suttons villa mansion, Whitewood House, was played by Oakland Californias Dunsmuir House.
c.
Andy Griffith
was nominated for the 1956 Tony Award for Best-Supporting or Features Actor in a Comedy and Drama for "No Time for Sergeants" as Private, Will Stockdale and played the role in the stage, television and movie productions.
d.
In Americanizing the story, characters have been reworked for this movie. The character of Miss Bannister (
Eileen Brennan
) is a variation on Miss Prysselius from the
Pippi Långstrump
TV series. The character of Mr. Blackhart (
George DiCenzo
) is a crooked version of the nameless "Fine Gentleman" from the beginning of the third and final Pippi book, "Pippi in the South Seas." His henchmen, Rype (
J.D. Dickinson
) and Rancid (
Chub Bailly
), are based on the thieves Thunder-Karlsson and Bloom (who both originated in the first Pippi book, and also appeared in the TV series). The character of Miss Messerschmidt (
Carole Kean
) is based upon Miss Rosenblom (who also appeared in the book "Pippi in the South Seas"). And Gregory the Glue Man (
Dick Van Patten
) is based upon Konrad the Peddlar from the film
På rymmen med Pippi Långstrump
(the denouement of the original Pippi TV/film series).
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: No Time for Sergeants (1958)?
a.
When Djorjavic and a few teammates are sitting around in the auditorium watching Lisa and the choir practice, one guys asks Stef if he heard from Syracuse yet. Although the school was never mentioned when the recruiter was in Stefs house prior to the Walnut Heights game, at this point we can infer that he was from Syracuse because the man said theyd "always have a place for him" if Stef changed his mind. Presumably, Stef is attempting to take him up on the alleged promise.
b.
The name Norma Desmond was chosen from a combination of silent-film star
Norma Talmadge
and silent movie director
William Desmond Taylor
, whose still-unsolved murder is one of the great scandals of Hollywood history. (On the morning of Febriary 1, 1922, Taylor was shot and killed in his Hollywood bungalow. His killer was never identified.)
c.
The film was
Francis Ford Coppola
s $800,000 masters thesis at U.C.L.A film school in 1966.
d.
A live TV production starring
Andy Griffith
had previously been telecast on
The United States Steel Hour
on Tuesday, March 15th, 1955 -
No Time for Sergeants
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: No Time for Sergeants (1958)?
a.
Mac Hyman
based his all-time best-selling novel on his experiences growing up in Cordele, GA, and as a navigator in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
b.
Several camera angles were chosen to simulate the comic book device of a frame around each scene.
c.
The animatronic puppet of Treebeard was 14 feet high.
d.
Tyra Banks
: Tyra appears in the beginning of the movie as herself when she fights with Hannah over a pair of shoes.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: No Time for Sergeants (1958)?
a.
Sammy Jackson (no relation to Samuel L. Jackson), who would six years later star in short-lived mid-Sixties sitcom version of movie in the Andy Griffith part, appears as an uncredited inductee in a number of scenes.
b.
James Brolin
said he didnt get a job for two years after doing this movie because of the cruelty of his character.
c.
When Evies three friends are driving to the hotel near the end of the movie, the book that one of them is reading aloud from is "Rubyfruit Jungle", a lesbian novel by
Rita Mae Brown
.
d.
American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films 1931-1940 credits
C.E. Anderson
in the role of "blacksmith"; actually he plays the butcher who trades John a scrawny chicken for his ukulele.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: No Time for Sergeants (1958)?
a.
Laurence Fishburne
narrated the teaser trailer.
b.
The stage production of "No Time for Sergeants" by
Ira Levin
opened at the Alvin Theater in New York on Thursday, October 20th, 1955 and ran for 796 performances.
Andy Griffith
received a 1956 Tony Award nomination for Best Actor.
c.
To research his role as reporter Gray Grantham,
Denzel Washington
spent time with Washington Post editors and reporters.
d.
The young girl sewing in the first scene at the convent is
Marlene Dietrich
s daughter,
Maria Riva
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: No Time for Sergeants (1958)?
a.
First cinema film of
Michael Sheen
b.
The groundhog that pops up after Simbas pouncing lesson (the song "Morning Report" in the special edition) was originally going to be a naked mole rat, but the animators couldnt get him to look right. One of the directors said, "We wouldve lost our G rating!"
c.
This was
Don Knotts
film debut. He met
Andy Griffith
when Knotts had a small part in Broadways "No Time For Sergeants". Griffith remembered Knotts when he was looking for someone to play bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on
The Andy Griffith Show
. The two formed a lifelong friendship. After Knotts left Andy Griffith Show, he later made guest appearances on it and another Andy Griffith TV series,
Matlock
. In 2006, Griffith even broke the news of Knotts passing to the media.
d.
Jessica Alba
was rumored to play the lead role.
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