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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Pin Up Girl (1944) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Pin Up Girl (1944)

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About the movie: Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, has become "engaged" to almost every serviceman she's signed her pin-up photo for...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pin Up Girl (1944)?
a.		The actors were not allowed to see Joseph Shaw in his werewolf makeup until the actual scene where he attacks for the first time.
b.		After King Kong has been successfully gassed on the beach, and just before the break to New York, Denham yells that theyve captured "Kong! The Eighth Wonder of the World!" He says "Kong" rather than "King Kong" because at that point in the script development, the pictures title was simply "Kong".
c.		Having worked with her in London, Charles Laughton insisted that Maureen OHara would be the perfect Esmeralda for the film.
d.		Linda Darnell and Don Ameche were originally set to star team this movie in October 1942 but when the movie was announced as a musical, Darnell was replaced with Grable.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pin Up Girl (1944)?
a.		Dudley Moores final live-action film.
b.		"This Is It" (music by James V. Monaco, lyrics by Mack Gordon), sung by Betty Grable, was deleted from this movie. The song as filmed has been restored on the DVD from Fox Home Entertainment.
c.		Filmed at the new Cincecitta Studio in Rome, a long delayed production complex originally conceived by Benito Mussolini and Hal Roach under their proposed R.A.M. ("Roach and Mussolini") Corporation, which was ultimately aborted. This fascist business alliance horrified 1930s studio moguls and ultimately led to Roach defecting from his MGM distribution deal to United Artists in 1937. This new studio complex offered massive sets and cheap Italian labor. It would be later utilized by many producers, including Federico Fellini.
d.		The producers first sought rocker Alice Cooper and actor Clu Gulager for key roles.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pin Up Girl (1944)?
a.		Robert Sklar in his book Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies states that Betty Grables pinup picture was of value to GI morale during the Second World War.
b.		The Mexican flower woman at the airport who cries "Flores! Flores para los muertos!" is a tribute to A Streetcar Named Desire in which a Mexican flower woman cries the same phrase outside Stanley Kowalskis apartment. It also could be a reference to Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, another film about a bickering couple.
c.		Is the first mainstream American movie to be filmed in Montreal and take place in Montreal.
d.		On a promotional talk show appearance by Christopher Meloni, he explained that when writers Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg approached him with the script, they said of the part "You were the first person we thought of." After reading the introduction of his character, which simply describes him as "the ugliest man on Earth," he got the joke.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pin Up Girl (1944)?
a.		One day on set, the winds were very high, and blew a piece of lighting equipment onto a ferris wheel full of extras, injuring several of them. Miley Cyrus had just finished shooting a scene next to the ferris wheel when the accident occurred.
b.		Artie Lange auditioned for the role of Bob Zmuda. According to Lange, Milos Forman performed Andy Kaufmans stand-up act and told Lange to heckle him.
c.		Angela Blue and Virginia Maple assisted Hermes Pan in working-out the choreography routines for this movie according to the Hollywood Reporter of 10 June 1943. Betty Grable was then taught these "dance patterns".
d.		In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #4 Greatest Movie of All Time.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pin Up Girl (1944)?
a.		As part of the finale Betty Grable leads a WAC (Womens Army Corps) drill team in some intricate maneuvers. It was decided to use a real WAC drill team, rather than actresses, for this sequence since they were already familiar with the routines.
b.		This film is reportedly no longer available in Japan due to the negative manner in which the Ainu are portrayed.
c.		After Warren Beatty dropped out of title role, Stuart Whitman, George Peppard and Terence Stamp were considered for part before James Franciscus was finally cast.
d.		One of the most highest grossing movies in Japan, due to Britney Spears popularity in Japan.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pin Up Girl (1944)?
a.		Filming for the Little League scenes took place at the Little League fields at the park district in Westmont, Illinois, which is a suburb of Chicago. Some locals were used as extras in the stands on the field.
b.		Although William L. Whites book is listed on-screen as the source of the movie, accounts of his adoption had previously been published in Readers Digest and Life Magazine.
c.		Sorrell Bookes final film performance.
d.		This movies closing credits feature an advertisement for the World War II USA war effort at the end of the credits roll. It states: "For Victory - U.S. War Bonds and Stamps - Buy yours in this theatre."

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pin Up Girl (1944)?
a.		Around the time Tony Bill was considering directing the movie, the Paul Schrader script was sent to Al Pacino, but he declined the role. Julia Phillips never knew whether Pacino declined the role because he didnt like the script or because he didnt want to work with Bill.
b.		Filming during production was so cold, that crew members complained of the water of their eyes freezing. These weather conditions forced them to wear face masks.
c.		According to the Hollywood Reporter, the "midget comedy weight-lifters" Hercules and Dolly were listed as being as part of this movies cast but they do not feature in the final film as it is.
d.		In this film Jessie Royce Landis plays Cary Grants potential mother-in-law. In North by Northwest, she would play his actual mother.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pin Up Girl (1944)?
a.		The man imprisoned with Frank/Majczek, Tommy, whose name in real life was Theodore Marcin, was released from prison in 1950, five years after Majczek. Marcin was awarded $35,000 from the State of Illinois for his 17 years of imprisonment.
b.		Debut of Fred Clark.
c.		Steve Jablonsky was assisted by his mentor Hans Zimmer in composing the musical score.
d.		The Hollywood Reporter once reported that actor James Engler tested for the leading male role opposite Betty Grable.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pin Up Girl (1944)?
a.		Betty Grable was seven months pregnant when this musical was completed.
b.		Curtis Hanson asked Eminem to dye his hair back to his natural colour so that the audience would relate him to as Jimmy Rabbit, instead of his Eminem persona.
c.		Big Daddys line, "Now go to Robins revenge!" is a reference to a Robin comic where Robin was fighting a blind master martial artist. Even though he was blind, his skill was such that Robin could not lay a finger on him. Robin was able to set up a whistle to blow automatically. This overloaded the blind mans primary sense and allowed Robin to sneak up behind him.
d.		WILHELM SCREAM: Several times during the prison riot scene in the beginning as the guards are shooting the prisoners.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pin Up Girl (1944)?
a.		According to an October 1942 edition of the Hollywood Reporter, Libbie Block, the author of the source story of which this film was based, was going to be doing the adaptation, but she did not actually work on this movies screenplay according to this movies credits and studio records.
b.		Episode titles: 1. On the Stroke of Nine 2. The Million Dollar Reward 3. The Triple Peril 4. Blades of Terror 5. Heights of Horror 6. The Altar of Sacrifice 7. Flames of Destruction 8. At Deaths Door 9. The Haunted Hotel 10. The Fatal Card 11. The Phantom Sword 12. The Danger Signal 13. On the Count of Three 14. The Blazing Train 15. The Sacred Necklace 16. The Phantom Shadow 17. The Price of Fang Wu 18. Double-Crossed 19. The Hawks Prey 20. The Hell Ship
c.		During the Castle Brunwald rescue, Dr. Jones Sr. expresses dismay at Indy inadvertently bringing the diary into enemy hands saying that he "should have mailed it to The Marx Brothers". Harpo Marx revealed in his autobiography that he once really had to smuggle a journal of important documents out of Russia to keep them from falling into enemy hands.
d.		The book was partially based on dolphin researcher John Lilly, who invented the isolation tank, and first started taking drugs while "tanking".