Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Ocean's Eleven (1960) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Ocean's Eleven (1960) Quiz

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Ocean's Eleven (1960).

About the movie: Eleven friends who know each other from World War II service plan to rob five of the biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ocean's Eleven (1960)?
a.		On the DVD commentary for the movie, director Wolfgang Petersen noted that he likely would not have made the film after the 9/11 attacks. The film features hijackers who seize the plane carrying the President of the United States and his family, but he (an ex-soldier) works from hiding to defeat them.
b.		Most filming was accomplished early in the morning, before sunrise, since most of the actors also had shows in Las Vegas that they performed nightly during the shooting. The actors would wake up in the afternoon, do one or two shows in the evening, then go through make-up and arrive at the shooting locations for principal photography. Each shooting location was fully set up in advance so that minimal time would be wasted once the actors arrived.
c.		The drugstore that Joe Norson calls from is the set of another MGM Film Noir, _Tension (1950)_, which was shooting at approximately the same time.
d.		According to Robert Evans the final 5 names considered for the role of Daisy Buchanan were Mia Farrow, Faye Dunaway, Candice Bergen, Katharine Ross and Lois Chiles. Farrow eventually beat off Bergen for the role and Chiles was given the smaller role of Jordan Baker.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ocean's Eleven (1960)?
a.		Elephants were used as inspiration for the All Terrain Armored Transporters (AT-AT) characteristic walk.
b.		Features only non-professional actors.
c.		Actor Richard Boone supplied the voice of the minister giving the eulogy at the end of the film although he is not seen on screen.
d.		Originally opened and closed the story at the Los Angeles County Morgue. In a scene described by director Billy Wilder as one of the best hed ever shot, the body of Joe Gillis is rolled into the Morgue to join three dozen other corpses, some of whom - in voice-over - tell Gillis how they died. Eventually Gillis tells his story, which takes us to a flashback of his affair with Norma Desmond. The movie was previewed with this opening, in Illinois, Long Island, New York, and Poughkeepsie, New York. Because all three audiences inappropriately found the morgue scene hilarious, the films release was delayed six months so that a new beginning could be shot in which police find Gillis corpse floating in Normas pool while Gillis voice narrates the events leading to his death. Distortion caused by water meant that this scene had to be filmed via a mirror placed on the bottom of the pool.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ocean's Eleven (1960)?
a.		For a grittier look, director Michael Thomas Dunn did not permit actors to wear makeup while portraying homeless people.
b.		Bumblebees alternate mode in this film is a 2010 Concept Chevrolet Camaro. This was a redesign of his previous 2009 Chevrolet Camaro mode, carried out to emphasize Bumblebee becoming stronger and sturdier after his injury in the first film. The Chevrolet logo on Bumblebees grill in the first film is yellow, but in this film it is black with a red outline.
c.		Because of actor Akim Tamiroffs thick Russian accent, the sound editor often had to adjust segments of his dialog in order for him to be understood.
d.		"How Green Was My Valley" famously beat Orson Welles Citizen Kane to an Oscar.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ocean's Eleven (1960)?
a.		Jeff Bridges characters surname is Garrett. Bridges had an older brother named Garrett, born June 14, 1948 but died from SIDS on August 3, 1948.
b.		Longtime Sinatra bodyguard and fight trainer-to-the-stars, Al Silvani, makes an uncredited cameo as the manager of the Burlesque nightclub where Buddy Lester works.
c.		Movie was based on authors dream about meeting renowned stage actress Maude Adams. He never met her in real life, only saw her portrait in Pipers Opera House and fantasized what it would be like to go back in time and meet her; hence the character Richard has the same first name as the author.
d.		Pat Nye was on the shortlist for the woman (Judith Furse)

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ocean's Eleven (1960)?
a.		Martial artist/stuntman Ray Park had little knowledge of the G.I. Joe saga, but as a child he had played with a Snake-Eyes action figure. He was thus delighted to play a childhood hero of his. To prepare for the role, he practiced wushu training and studied Snake-Eyess appearances in the G.I. Joe comic/television series. Afterwards he approached writer Kevin VanHook and artist S. L. Gallant with the idea of a G.I. Joe comic further exploring his incarnation of the character.
b.		Final film of Henry Armetta.
c.		The production team had originally wanted to shoot the film on location in Saudi Arabia, but political and logistical issues made this far too difficult. Instead, Tom Duffield and the production design team re-constructed exterior urban scenes for the chase and shootout on an empty lot near Mesa, Arizona, using photographs from the internet and some that director Peter Berg had taken on a visit to the country prior to filming. Some additional on location photography was shot in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. This includes the Princes palace and larger exteriors with skyscrapers, major city streets and highways.
d.		In a scene between Danny (Frank Sinatra) and Adele (Patrice Wymore), Adele throws a dish of candy at Danny. The throwing of the dish was ad-libbed, which accounts for the genuine look of surprise on Sinatras face and the faces of his co-stars.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ocean's Eleven (1960)?
a.		Nisha Ganatra: sitting next to Heather Graham in the waiting room when she is visiting Lulu at her workplace.
b.		In the final shot of the film, the eleven walk past the famous sign in front of the Sands hotel. The five members of the Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford) are billed on the sign. They were performing alternately in the hotels Copa Room during production, at the "Summit at the Sands".
c.		The Worthington Labs building in San Francisco Bay (where Angel breaks free and flies off) is actually the Sheraton Hotel Wall Centre in Vancouver, Canada. In a remarkable coincidence, it is just across the street from St. Andrews Wesley Church, the same church where Jean and Storm find Nightcrawler in X2.
d.		The song "Love Is Only Love", which Barbra Streisand as Dolly sings in her bedroom before the Harmonia Gardens scene, was not in the stage production of "Hello, Dolly". "Love Is Only Love" was written by Jerry Herman for the Broadway musical "Mame" but cut before that shows opening. The song occurred in the story as Mame Dennis tries to explain falling in love to her pre-teen nephew Patrick.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ocean's Eleven (1960)?
a.		Due to safety regulations, the prosthetics people cant entomb a person when taking a body cast. So, in order to create the frozen body of Danica, they made two separate casts of actress Debra McCabe, one of the front half of her body and one of the back half. The result was two separate pieces of the frozen body (one for shooting the front view of the body and one for the back).
b.		Scott Hicks points out a digital effects slowdown on Bobby (commentary at 36:28) as he comes out of Teds room after finding Ted in a trance and hugging him, thinking something was wrong. During the editing process they decided that a slower motion segment was needed to hint that, by touching Ted, some of Teds psychic perception had transferred to Bobby. Since it was too late to reshoot the scene with a high speed camera (which preserves the image quality), a digital slowdown was done. He also points out an in-camera slowdown of the Monte mans hands (40:56) combined with a digital slowdown of the Monte mans face (41:05) and an in-camera slowdown of Bobbys face (41:20) in the carnival scene.
c.		In the dubbed German version of the film, Frank Sinatras characters name was changed to Frankie Ocean, probably in order to hook more viewers, who knew Sinatra only as a singer.
d.		Sophia Loren was 23 years old during filming, only 10 years older than the actor playing her juvenile son.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ocean's Eleven (1960)?
a.		The film is largely based on gangster Harry Greys semi-autobiographic novel The Hoods, but draws its inspiration from two other literary sources: Jack Londons novel Martin Eden, about a man who becomes disillusioned with his world (the book actually appears in the film); and F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel The Great Gatsby, about a man who becomes wealthy and powerful to become worthy of the woman he loves.
b.		Significant portions of the movie interactions between major characters were ad-libbed. The actors playing the leading roles all knew each other well and improvised dialogue as well as or better than the script.
c.		Bruce Willis has a cameo as William Rose Bailey. The name is a reference to Guns N Roses singer W. Axl Rose, whose real name was William Bruce Bailey until he was 17.
d.		Jay Leno was up the role of Phil Blumburtt.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ocean's Eleven (1960)?
a.		Filmed in 1967 but not released until 1970 after Jack Nicholson gained fame for his role in Easy Rider.
b.		When Jeremy first pitches to John the idea of crashing Cleary wedding, he hands him a section of a newspaper that carries the wedding announcement. It bears a photo of the bride and groom and a photo of Secretary Cleary accompanied by multi-column article. Though the announcement begins conventionally enough, by the point in the article that appears to the left of Christopher Walkens photo, the text reads: "The Clearys are the center of the political scene these days with the potential candidacy of William for the president of the United States.
c.		In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #5 Greatest Movie of All Time.
d.		Sammy Davis Jr., required wooden blocks attached to the pedals on the garbage truck he drove in the film so that he could reach them.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ocean's Eleven (1960)?
a.		Anthony Michael Hall read for the part of Ponyboy Curtis.
b.		The pipe that Goldstein and Rosenberg smoke marijuana out of is made of a shofar. A shofar is a musical horn made from a kosher animals horn (usually a ram) that is used on the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
c.		One of the most difficult tasks facing the films production team, was actually convincing Nevadas Clark County officials to let them use one of their garbage trucks.
d.		In an interview with Leonard Stern, one of this movies writers, he spoke of this movie and its non-inclusion of Barbara Feldon: "She Feldon wasnt desirous of doing the movie. For her, the show was over. The Nude Bomb is something that disadvantaged all of us that were connected with Get Smart. Originally, Arne Sultan, Bill Dana, and I had an idea that we found delicious. A couturier, a foppish man with an insane fiendish desire to control the world, but not for the power and money, but for the idea that he could dress every single individual and become an international name. The Earth would be designed by him. It seemed marvelous if we could get the right flamboyant actor. It was never called The Nude Bomb, it was called The Return of Maxwell Smart. Then it got into the hands of people who simply did not want, and I cant explain why, to duplicate the television show. They wanted to do it differently. I kept saying to them, well why did you buy it? Just leave it alone to rest in its present glory. It then became a battle of trying to maintain the integrity of Smart but not being welcome on the set. The director (Clive Donner), who was a good director, but he was used to doing intimate films was a strange choice. As was Vittorio Gassman as the flamboyant, possibly homosexual designer."

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