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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Picnic (1955) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Picnic (1955) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Picnic (1955) - Part (2)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Picnic (1955).

About the movie: Emotions are ignited amongst the complacent townsfolk when a handsome drifter arrives in a small Kansas community on the morning of the Labour Day picnic.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Picnic (1955)?
a.		At some points, Lord Rathbone and Wu Chow speak in iambic pentameter. Most notable is the stable scene: "I was taught to be neither seen nor heard/ Where is the seal? (Im a man of my word.)"
b.		The line said by Nobody, "The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn from the Crow," is also a William Blake quote, from the proverbs of Hell in "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell".
c.		Russia title: "Between the Sky and Earth".
d.		The house where Rosalind Russell lived with Kim Novaks family was located in Nickerson, Kansas, and was actually across the street from Reno Community High, where Russells character taught school. Location shooting wrapped in nearby Sterling, Kansas, where the lake and bathhouse scenes were filmed. The movies Labor Day festivities called for Sterling Lake to be filled with rowboats, which were in short supply since boating wasnt normally allowed. To make up the shortage, anyone who supplied a rowboat stood a good chance of being a movie extra. Sterling was also where William Holden hopped the Missouri Pacific freight train that was then tracked by cinematographer Haskell Wexler in a memorable closing aerial shot.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Picnic (1955)?
a.		The student uprising in Beijing, China, threatened to delay production. Roughly one-third of the finished cel artwork used by the Chinese artists as underlays for drawing the bubbles were in a vault only a few blocks away from the demonstration at Tienanmin Square and the violence that followed.
b.		Romeo (Benny) grew two inches and his voice deepened before shooting completed. In the scene where Benny and Raymond go to class and Honey says that she has to go to a video shoot, Romeo had to stand with his legs far apart in order to appear shorter, because he was as tall as Jessica Alba.
c.		For a scene in Picnic in which she had to cry, Kim Novack asked director Joshua Logan to pinch her black and blue off screen, telling him, "I can only cry when Im hurt."
d.		A scene in which Shirley Temple dances the hula was deleted after shocked test audiences said that the hula was immoral.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Picnic (1955)?
a.		Despite its legend, this was NOT the first movie to feature a helicopter shot. They Live by Night was an early, if not the very first, film to use it.
b.		Paul Verhoeven: wildly gesticulating guy in the dance club immediately after Leon tries to kick RoboCop in the crotch.
c.		The gun smuggled on board the airliner by Mr. Contingency is the same non-metallic weapon used by Booth, the would-be presidential assassin in the Clint Eastwood movie, In the Line of Fire.
d.		Elizabeth Taylor proceeded with filming even though her husband Michael Todd was killed in a plane crash on the same day the film began shooting.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Picnic (1955)?
a.		Filming began in Salina, Kansas, May 16, 1955. Night-time crowds watched along the Smoky Hill River near an old mill dam as William Holden whipped a "borrowed" convertible with Kim Novak in the passenger seat to a stop along the river. Director Logan, a perfectionist, filmed the scene over and over. A number of spectatoring small boys often got in the way of the filming. A production member was designated assistant-in-charge-of-chasing-small-boys-out-of-camera-range. Other scenes filmed were Holden being chased by police around the mill and between railroad box cars. Suddenly, the loud-speaker blared: "Theres a small boy underneath the box car! Get him out of there!" When the big Holden/Novak love scene was filmed, most of the crowd had gone home. "Those who stayed said it was a dilly of a romance." Filming wrapped shortly after five in the morning. By weeks end, filming moved to Hutchinson.
b.		In the scene at the end of the film where Nelson Mandela addresses the classroom of South African, he is quoting a speech of Malcolm Xs directly. However, he refused to repeat the last four words of Malcolms speech "by any means necessary", so Spike Lee instead inserted black and white footage of Malcolm saying it himself. The line originated in Jean-Paul Sartres play Les Mains Sales ("Dirty Hands").
c.		Cinematographer Lee Garmes started the film but was replaced by Leon Shamroy.
d.		Despite the fact that this was filmed in the standard spherical format, "Filmed in Panavision" is listed in the opening credits.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Picnic (1955)?
a.		Rock band Pink Floyd was at one point approached to perform music for the film. However they turned it down due to other commitments. Yet they retain a connection with the film: much like The Wizard of Oz and "Dark Side of the Moon", it is said that Pink Floyds song "Echoes" from the album "Meddle" can be perfectly synchronized with the "Jupiter & Beyond the Infinite" segment of the film. See links section for details.
b.		Charlize Theron turned down the role of Evelyn in Pearl Harbor to star in this movie.
c.		Dedicated to the late Italian director Lucio Fulci.
d.		Having directed William Inges play two years previously on Broadway, Logan brought some radical cast changes to the production. Only Arthur OConnell, Reta Shaw, and Elizabeth Wilson recreated their characterizations. Holden was cast as Hal Carter over Ralph Meeker who had played him onstage. His room-mate on Broadway had been played by Paul Newman; Cliff Robertson got the film part. Kim Stanley lost the part of Millie Owens to the much younger Susan Strasberg and Janice Rule lost out on the part of Madge to young contract player Kim Novak. Rosalind Russell actively campaigned for the role of Rosemary Sydney, the role Eileen Heckart had played onstage.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Picnic (1955)?
a.		Prior to this movie, actor Keith Carradine and director Walter Hill worked on The Long Riders. They would later also both work on Wild Bill and Deadwood.
b.		This serial was reissued under the title "An Evening With Batman and Robin" in late 1965. There was no added footage. The program simply consisted of all of the episodes (complete with titles, credits and cliffhangers - exactly as they were shown in theaters in 1943) presented one after the other in one sitting. Contrary to popular belief, this was not done in response to the success of the 1966 Batman TV show. The TV show began on January 12, 1966 and "An Evening With Batman and Robin" was playing in theaters as early as December 10, 1965.
c.		One of the extras who survived the flood scene was John Wayne.
d.		While selecting locals to play extras in the film, director Logan said, "Theres a girl with a typical Kansas face." The woman, Joan Farwell, was hired for "atmosphere" but confessed, "Im from Brooklyn. Im just here visiting my grandmother."

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Picnic (1955)?
a.		During shooting, a rift occurred between Claudette Colbert and Paulette Goddard when Colbert overheard Goddard say that she and Veronica Lake were closer friends because they were the same age. Colbert was miffed because Goddard (38 at the time) was actually closer to Colberts age (40) than Veronica Lakes (24).
b.		Said to have been filmed with an all-gay cast, in honor of the playwright, Oscar Wilde.
c.		French visa # 17940.
d.		The steam shooting from the Tin Mans cap startles Toto, who runs out of the shot.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Picnic (1955)?
a.		After he had delivered a hit in the form of Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles to its studio, David Geffen asked Neil Jordan what he would like to make next. Jordan unearthed a script he had written 12 years earlier - Michael Collins.
b.		The lead character was originally named Kaos.
c.		The song "Ten Feet off the Ground" was one of two songs from the film sung and released by Louis Armstrong in 1968.
d.		Finnish censorship certificate # 044220.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Picnic (1955)?
a.		The French magazine Cahiers du Cinema named this one of the best films of the year (it was released in France in 1962), at #6.
b.		The song "Golden Earrings", written for this film, went on to be hit records by several artists, including Peggy Lee (I) (qv) who co-wrote it.
c.		Three endings were shot regarding the fate of Freddie Harris (Busta Rhymes).
d.		Shirley Knights film debut.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Picnic (1955)?
a.		Insisting on authenticity, director Joshua Logan filmed in several Kansas towns, including Hutchinson, only 75 miles from Udall, a town leveled by a tornado days after filming began. "Its gotta look like Kansas and it will if I have to kill every last one of ya!," the volatile Logan yelled at his cast. William Holden suffered a leg gash on a railroad signal light, Kim Novak was stung on the hip by a bee underneath her $500 Jean Louis gown, and Rosalind Russell was "bruised from earlobe to toenail during a wild gambol across a suspension bridge." A local 70-year-old "spinster" saw her film debut canceled when she broke both legs and several ribs during a fall down an embankment. Filming was interrupted almost daily by hailstorms and "wailing" tornado warnings. The actual picnic was on a muddy fairground at Halstead, Kansas. Cast and crew were "half-consumed" by "carnivorous" bugs. Phone calls had to be made from old-time crank telephones at Halsteads Baker Hotel.
b.		Daphne Du Mauriers story "The Birds" was originally purchased for use on Alfred Hitchcocks television series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
c.		In order to express a sick enjoyment in the scene where Dustin Hoffman beats the man on the floor to death, he requested that there would be coconuts there for him to smash. In one shot you can actually see a bit of coconut flying off, which Sam Peckinpah passed off as brain matter.
d.		Tom Hiddleston found Lokis helmet very uncomfortable, as it was heavy to wear and he couldnt see properly out of it. He channeled this discomfort into Lokis battle scenes.

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