Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Romance of the Limberlost (1938) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Romance of the Limberlost (1938) Quiz

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About the movie: An orphaned girl is being raised in the Limberlost (timbered swamp in the American south)by her aunt...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Romance of the Limberlost (1938)?
a.		Reports that screenwriter James Agee wrote an incoherent screenplay have been proved false by the 2004 discovery of his first draft. That document, although 293 pages in length, and manifestly overwritten (as is common with first drafts), is, scene-for-scene, the film that Charles Laughton directed. Likewise false are the reports that Agee was fired, related most infamously in Robert Mitchums autobiography. Laughton, however much he gnashed his teeth at having such a behemoth of a text in his hands with only five weeks to go before the start of principal photography, calmly renewed Agees contract and directed him to cut it in half; after much persuasion, he did. In Laughtons stage work ("Galileo", "Cain Mutiny Court Martial", etc), the great actor demonstrated he was a script editor of genius - he could induce the most stubborn and prideful writer to cut, cut, cut, and so he did in Agees case. Later, apparently at Robert Mitchums request, Agee visited the set to settle a dispute between the star and Laughton. Letters and documents located in the archive of Agees agent Paul Kohner bear this out -- they were brought to light by Laughton biographer Simon Callow, whose excellent BFI book about "Night of the Hunter" diligently sets this part of the record straight. The Agee first draft may eventually be published, but it has been read by scholars -- most notably, Professor Jeffrey Couchman of Columbia University, who published his findings in an essay, "Credit Where Credit Is Due". To assert Agees moral right to his screen credit in no way disputes Laughtons greatness as a director -- clearly, he was as expert with writers as he was with actors -- but Agee has been belittled, and even slandered, over the years (especially in Robert Mitchums autobiography), when his contribution to "Night of the Hunter" was of primary and enduring importance. (Submitted by F. X. Feeney, film critic and author, who has read the original Agee script.)
b.		Husband and wife Tom Laughlin and Delores Taylor kept the mail-bags brought into the Senate at the finale as souvenirs. They used them for duffel-bags on skiing trips. The bags were confiscated by airport officials when they protested that the bags were property of the U.S. Mail (the bags were created for the sole purpose of the film).
c.		The original Broadway production of "Star Spangled Girl" by Neil Simon opened at the Plymouth Theater on December 21, 1966 and ran for 261 performances. The theater marquee appears on the opening of That Girl (1966).
d.		This film is believed lost. Please check your attic.

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