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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) Quiz
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In 1927 Kansas City Pete Kelly and his jazz band play nightly at a speakeasy. A local gangster starts to move in on them and when their drummer is killed Kelly gives in...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)?
a.
According to
John Huston
s autobiography, this is the movie that nearly drove
Tom Tryon
out of the acting business. He had heard rumors of
Otto Preminger
s demanding nature, and was understandably nervous. Preminger saw this, and instead of trying to reassure the agitated Tryon, first chewed him out for his fears in front of other cast members, then walked behind him and screamed "RELAX!" in his ear. Tryon reportedly almost quit that day, but castmates talked him out of it.
b.
The film was originally refused a UK cinema certificate in 1932, and released uncut and PG rated in 2010.
c.
_The Battle of Apache Pass (1952)_ starred
Jeff Chandler
as Cochise and
Jay Silverheels
as Geronimo. It was produced later than "Broken Arrow" but functions as a prequel to it. The events in "Broken Arrow" take place in 1871 and 1872, while those in "Apache Pass" happen in 1861 and 1862.
d.
Jack Webb
actually knew how to play the cornet. He loved jazz music and, as a boy, was given a cornet by a musician who lived near his home. While he never truly mastered the instrument he knew it well enough that his handling and fingering of the cornet in this movie is accurate.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)?
a.
EASTER EGG: From the main menu screen, keep clicking "left" until you light up a triangle with a dot in the center on the right side of the screen. The icon will take you to the full Fruity Oaty Bar commercial. In the DVD commentary,
Joss Whedon
admitted that he wanted the commercial to be as odd as possible. He said it was heavily inspired by the "Mr. Sparkle" advertisement from
In Marge We Trust
The uncredited actor in the commercial and the Easter Egg segment is
Robert Michael Lee
.
b.
Virginia Vale, who was female lead in most of George OBriens RKO westerns, makes her only Tim Holt western appearance here.
c.
When producer Samuel Goldwyn bought the rights to the property in the mid-1940s for his remake, The Kid from Brooklyn (with Danny Kaye in the lead role), he also bought the original negative and almost all existing prints, and destroyed them. Harold Lloyd, however, had preserved his own original nitrate release print, which became the source for the new digital video transfer used by TCM and subsequent DVD releases.
d.
In August 1957, this film was being widely shown on a double bill with
The Last Hunt
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)?
a.
The first feature theatrical film based on a DC comics property not made by Warner Bros.. (
Batman
(from Fox) was a spin-off from a TV series, and
Superman
(from Columbia) was a serial.)
b.
At the beginning of the film, a town official and a woman dedicating the statue can be heard uttering nondescript words by way of a paper reed mouth instrument. The sounds were made by
Charles Chaplin
and this was the first time that his voice was heard on film.
c.
David Carradine
hurt his knee after he leaped against his steel jail cell door.
d.
"Pete Kellys Blues" was originally a radio series created by
Richard L. Breen
and starring
Jack Webb
. It ran on NBC as a summer replacement series from July 4 to September 19, 1951.
Pete Kellys Blues
later became a short-lived TV show, produced by Jack Webb.
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