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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Pollyanna (1960) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Pollyanna (1960) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Pollyanna (1960).
About the movie:
A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pollyanna (1960)?
a.
Exteriors of Klans Lair were shot at a Japanese restaurant in Hollywood.
b.
The first "Saw" film to use digital timers on body-worn traps.
c.
Roy Edward Disney
, studio business head and brother to
Walt Disney
, issued thousands of "Pollyanna Photo Locket Necklaces" as a promotional item containing the famous quote attributed to
Abraham Lincoln
in the movie. Discovering the necklace in a gift shop while on vacation with his family, director / screenwriter
David Swift
called the studio to have the item recalled immediately. Lincoln never said, "When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will." Swift had simply made it up.
d.
Brigitte Nielsen
was briefly considered for the role of Fran.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pollyanna (1960)?
a.
The Orphanage house is still on the Warner Bros back-lot and sits next to the house used in
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
.
b.
Jeffrey Hunter
s TV debut.
c.
One of the rare times we see
John Wayne
dancing. He performs the "Jitterbug" with a blonde girl in the night club scene.
d.
First of three movies that paired
Cary Grant
and
Irene Dunne
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pollyanna (1960)?
a.
Hayley Mills
first filmed scene was with
Karl Malden
: Reverend Ford is practicing his sermon in an open field. Distracted and losing her concentration, Mills hadnt got anything "in the can" by the time cast and crew broke for lunch. Her father,
John Mills
, took her aside to ask what was wrong. "Do you know what you are like?" he said. "You are like a great big white cabbage! Yes, really boring. Go on, pull your finger out." The afternoons shooting went fine, but it was a long hot day "and Karl, I remember, got awfully sunburned. I always felt rather responsible."
b.
Mothra and Gigan begin their battle in front of a fallen Tokyo Tower. In
Mosura
, Mothra (in her Larva form) destroys this famous landmark to turn herself into her adult form.
c.
The film is presumed lost.
d.
The Hartford, CT Summit mentioned in the film had two visiting Communist nations (Peoples Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) - the USSR/Soviet Union ceased to exist in late 1991.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pollyanna (1960)?
a.
The main character Barry is based on real-life conman Andrew Robertson Stoney.
b.
Final film of
Adolphe Menjou
.
c.
Second and final teaming of actor
Charles Bronson
and director
Peter R. Hunt
. The two previously had made
Death Hunt
about six years earlier.
d.
Geordi tells Zefram Cochrane that by the 24th Century, the Phoenix Missile Complex will become a museum, and will feature a 20-meter-tall statue of Cochrane himself, with his arm reaching out towards the sky "towards the future". Although the statue itself is never shown through the length of this movie, a smaller scale model of that very statue can be seen on a shelf in Capt. Archers quarters in
Enterprise
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pollyanna (1960)?
a.
Marks the first of six films
Hayley Mills
made during her 5-year contract with
Walt Disney
studios.
b.
Christopher Walken
was originally supposed to receive $17,000 for his role as Nick, but his salary was raised to $25,000 because filming took longer than was originally planned.
c.
Vera Miles
final acting role.
d.
Destro is the head of M.A.R.S. Industries. In the G.I. Joe universe, "M.A.R.S." stands for "Military Armaments Research Syndicate;" it is also a reference to Mars, the Roman god of war.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pollyanna (1960)?
a.
The first
Tim Burton
film not to have opening credits.
b.
The film opens with a close-up of a naked backside of young blond boy, who swings from a rope swing away from the camera jumping into a river. The boy is played by William Betz, who was 7 at the time of filming, who recalled in 2009 that at the time of filming, people werent really allowed to swim in that river, White Sulfur Springs. He said his mother also had a very brief background extra role as one of the ladies at the train station where Pollyanna is picked up. Neither of them were actors but just locals where the movie was filmed. He is amused that the small Vermont town depicted in the movie was actually a mix of various locales miles apart in Napa Valley and Sonoma County, California.
c.
DeForest Kelley
s last non-"Star Trek" film.
d.
Is the only film that stars both
Jack Lemmon
and
Walter Matthau
without the two of them sharing a scene.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pollyanna (1960)?
a.
Patty Duke
auditioned for the plum part of Pollyanna.
b.
(June 2006) When issued for domestic use, it was the worlds first MPEG-4-AVC encoded Blu-ray release developed by Panasonic Hollywood Labs (PHL).
c.
Filmed in 1943, not released until 1944.
d.
In an effort to drum up the necessary funds from the backers,
Leonardo DiCaprio
flew to Australia on his own dime and performed an on-spec audition video with
Baz Luhrmann
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pollyanna (1960)?
a.
According to director
David Swift
, after looking at 362 girls for the part of Pollyanna, they still did not have anyone to play the part. One day,
Walt Disney
s wife Lilly went shopping with Disney studio head
Bill Anderson
s wife while they were in London on business. The two ladies saw
Hayley Mills
in
Tiger Bay
and thought she was perfect for the role of Pollyanna. The two men didnt listen to them, but they were so persistent that the men finally agreed to watch the movie and immediately decided to cast Hayley.
b.
When filming the search scene at 7 AM, it was only 7 degrees out and windy.
c.
One of the characters is "Kirbuk", a backwards representation of "Kubrick".
Stanley Kubrick
directed
2001: A Space Odyssey
.
d.
Jon Voight
and
Gene Hackman
were both offered the role of Sam Gerard.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pollyanna (1960)?
a.
Scotties drunken email to Mieke (when he still thought she was a man) originally reads: "Listen Mike, I dont want to arrange any meetings with yu, you sik German fraek. IM NOT into guys like you so pleas keep yor hands off of my Genitals and never right to me again and donT come to AMErica. goodbye, fucface"
b.
Sean Connery
, who made his debut as James Bond also in 1962, acted in the movie along with
Gert Fröbe
and
Curd Jürgens
- two future Bond villains.
c.
Apart from playing Jimmy Bean,
Kevin Corcoran
also did the narration for the Storybook Recording - a record that came packed inside the back cover of a softcover storybook you could read while listening to the record. Two of the songs that were dropped from the movie - "Pollyanna" and "The Glad Game" - were also included on the Storybook Recording.
d.
Susan Backlinie
played the young swimmer who was the first victim to die at the beginning of
Jaws
. In this film she plays the first victim to die.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pollyanna (1960)?
a.
For the scene where
Jennifer Jason Leigh
seduces
Bridget Fonda
s boyfriend, without him realizing at first that she isnt who he thinks she is, Leigh was still having her make-up applied so the scene was shot with Bridget Fonda playing her own double. It was only the first part of the scene where the woman gets into bed (shot from the back) which Fonda did, as Leighs character, as Fondas character. The rest is done by Leigh.
b.
Director / screenwriter
David Swift
had wanted to trim the overlong film by about 20 minutes and rearrange some scenes (most notably the acquisition of the doll in the town bazaar sequence) but
Walt Disney
, who fell in love with the film by watching the dailies, would not allow it and Swift did not have final-cut privileges.
c.
Shot in 30 days.
d.
Neither of this films big names,
David Strathairn
and
John Sayles
were in acting parts that were members of the Secaucus Seven group.
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