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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Return to Peyton Place (1961) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Return to Peyton Place (1961) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Return to Peyton Place (1961).
About the movie:
The residents of Peyton Place, New Hampshire, are not happy when its most famous resident, Alison Mackenzie...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Return to Peyton Place (1961)?
a.
The scene where
Kris Marshall
s character Colin (accidentally) insults the caterers food to her face, was originally written as a scene for
Hugh Grant
s character in
Four Weddings and a Funeral
, but was cut from that film.
b.
The voice of the character "Mark Steele", played by
Bill Bradley
in an uncredited role, is actually that of the films director
José Ferrer
.
c.
The scene of Maj. Strassers arrival was filmed at Metropolitan Airport, now known as Van Nuys Airport, just outside of Los Angeles.
d.
Carlos Bardem
and
Javier Bardem
got badly burnt due to excessive gunpowder and a badly synchronized explosion caused by a special effects technician. Another crew member got second and third degree burns in 80% of his body.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Return to Peyton Place (1961)?
a.
The rooftop pool seen in the movie is actually a ground-level pool, with the Los Angeles skyline matted in digitally.
b.
The name Tommy DeVito is an obvious nod to
Tommy DeVito
, the lead guitarist of
The Four Seasons
, who
Joe Pesci
was friends with.
c.
Postales premiered at the 2010 Edinburgh International Film Festival.
d.
Bette Davis
and
Joan Crawford
were both considered for the role that eventually went to Mary Astor (I).
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Return to Peyton Place (1961)?
a.
According to
Roberto Orci
, the script struggled to maintain "a more evenly-balanced focus between the humans and the robots" and "to modulate the humor more." The Transformers more intense war was balanced by outrageous jokes.
b.
Rosemary Clooney
, who sings the movie theme song "The Wonderful Season of Love" was married to the films director,
José Ferrer
, at the time the movie was made.
c.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on February 10, 1947 with
Joan Fontaine
reprising her film role.
d.
Yellowbacks were gold certificates issued by banks in place of gold coinage, and were so-called due to the yellow-orange colour of their backs. These were replaced by paper money later on - greenbacks.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Return to Peyton Place (1961)?
a.
In the sequence where Jay is imagining a world where super evolved monkeys annihilate the human race, there is a line that says: "In this world gone mad we wont spank the money, the monkey will spank us". This is a reference to the popular "In Soviet Russia" joke, popularized by Jakov Smirnoff, where a statement is reversed. As Jay says this, the movie shows Randal (from
Clerks.
) getting shot by monkeys while wearing a CCCP (Soviet Union) hockey jersey.
b.
Producer Jerry Wald - notorious for announcing any possible casting choice that crossed his mind in order to keep his projects in headlines during pre-production - also mentioned
Jessica Tandy
,
Margaret Leighton
and
Ginger Rogers
as possibilities to play role ultimately played by Mary Astor.
c.
Filmed on location in South Dakota and other parts of the United States where the true events took place. The massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, was (in questionable taste) filmed on the very same ground where the victims of the massacre had been buried.
d.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on April 19, 1951 with
Edmund Gwenn
,
Dorothy McGuire
and
Burt Lancaster
reprising their film roles.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Return to Peyton Place (1961)?
a.
According to
Meryl Streep
, when she was in London filming
Mamma Mia!
in summer 2007, she stayed in an apartment block in central London, and one night she noticed a fox out of her bathroom window. Both Streep and the fox, stone still, stared at each other for twelve minutes. Mesmerized by this experience, she used it as inspiration for her performance.
b.
As in many cases of book-to-screen adaptations, quite a few things were altered between the book "Return to Peyton Place" and the movie. Some of these include: Allison MacKenzie had several men vying for her attention in the book, but in the film she is partnered solely with Lewis Jackman. In the book, he dies in a horrific car crash soon after making love to Allison (she is in the car, too, but survives.) The book includes the continuing story of Betty Anderson and her small son and their relations with Lesley Harrington (her sons grandfather.) This entire story is left out of the film. Selena Cross has two love interests in the book. Neither one shows up in the film, though Nils, the ski instructor, has a few of the traits of one of them. In the novel, Constance and Michael Rossi share an earthy, sometimes randy relationship. They are much more conservative in the film with the character of Mike Rossi heavily altered from a sexually-charged Italian to a somewhat milquetoast gentleman. One huge change is the character of Ted Carters wife. In the book, shes a blue-blooded society girl named Jennifer and is presented as a sadomasochistic nymphomaniac with lots of cunning and deviousness. Needless to say, Roberta Carter (Teds mother) can hardly stand this and plots to murder her, only she winds up being killed herself. In the film, Ted marries a young girl behind his mothers back and she hates her for that and for her other flaw - shes Italian! She is named Rafaella (no doubt to accommodate the actors playing Ted and Raffaella who were married in real life and the wife an Italian with a noticeable accent.) In the finished film, there is never any indication that foul play will occur between the ladies, despite their hatred for one another. However, early print ads for the film refer to Roberta Carters plans to murder her daughter-in-law and the trailer features the Carter house engulfed in flames. So somewhere along the line (after filming was completed) it was decided to abandon the whole murder plot entirely and just end with the Town Hall meeting. Also present in the book, but absent from the film, are the characters of Selenas brother Joey, Allisons friend Stephanie and a famed actress called Rita Moore.
c.
When Marcus (
Colm Feore
) finds Lavinia (
Laura Fraser
, the burnt branches surrounding her are a representation of how much she has been destroyed and mutilated from her original beauty. Taymor based the image of Lavinia on the tree trunk on an Edgar Degas ballerina on a pedestal.
d.
Pal who portrayed Lassie earned a salary of $250 per week while the young
Elizabeth Taylor
was paid a mere $100 per week.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Return to Peyton Place (1961)?
a.
Shot on location in Arizona in only 14 days.
b.
Brett Halsey
and
Luciana Paluzzi
, who played husband and wife in this film, were actually married at the time.
c.
The only scenes involving wire work were when
Jet Li
had to jump up to kick the pool ball and when
Cyril Raffaelli
(Twin 1) performs his one-and-a-quarter backwards somersault-kick.
d.
Fritz Lang
originally wanted a black woman to play the role of Emily Gaunt but the producers refused.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Return to Peyton Place (1961)?
a.
A sequence featuring the climactic fire that burned down Roberta Carters (Mary Astor (I)) house was cut from the final film. A snippet from the scene can be seen in the trailer on the DVD.
b.
Kevin Costner
and
Clint Eastwood
both received Best Director Oscars in the years shortly preceding this film. Both of their respective films (
Dances with Wolves
and
Unforgiven
) were westerns.
c.
One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
d.
According to the commentary track on the 2004 DVD,
George Lucas
and the production team apparently had a series of running battles with the studio cleaning service, which would continually clean and buff the floors on set, even though Lucas had requested that they leave them scuffed and dull - part of his idea that the world the characters inhabit should look "lived in".
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