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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Romance on the High Seas (1948) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Romance on the High Seas (1948) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Romance on the High Seas (1948)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Romance on the High Seas (1948).

About the movie: Socialite Elvira Kent suspects her husband of fooling around with other women. When he announces he can't join her on their scheduled ocean voyage...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Romance on the High Seas (1948)?
a.		Tom Cruise was considered for a role, but in the end, Idris Elba was cast.
b.		A jaunty solo by Doris Day from the Jule Styne-Sammy Cahn film score, "Im in Love," was turned into a duet by Miss Day and her hit-making disc partner, Buddy Clark, on the Columbia Records single. "Put Em in a Box, Tie Em With a Ribbon (And Throw Em in the Deep Blue Sea)," another sprightly movie number, teamed Doris with The Page Cavanaugh Trio. On Columbias 78, Miss Day sang with a full orchestra under the baton of George Siravo.
c.		This movie was made and released about eighteen months after Moving Out, the productions previous and related picture.
d.		While flicking through the Yellow Pages, Shaun finds the number for an Italian restaurant named Fulcis, a reference to Italian horror director Lucio Fulci.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Romance on the High Seas (1948)?
a.		During the motocross scene, four famous riders have a cameo: Ricky Carmichael, Jeremy McGrath, Chris Gosselaar and Carey Hart.
b.		Less than two months after "Witness for the Prosecution" by Agatha Christie had a London premiere, it opened on Broadway at Henry Millers Theater on December 16, 1953 and ran for 645 performances. Una OConnor reprized her role in the movie.
c.		The motel clerk reads an issue of Celebrity Skin magazine with Drew Barrymore on the cover. At the time, Drew Barrymore was engaged to actor Tom Green, who plays Barry Manilow in this movie.
d.		The movie trailer includes a brief duet by Doris Day and Janis Paige, wearing matching up-swept hairdos.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Romance on the High Seas (1948)?
a.		For the moving camera shots, Robert Rodriguez sat in a broken hospital wheelchair and was pushed around.
b.		Doris Day and Jack Carson, who met while making this film, had a brief romance.
c.		This movie was released around the same time as the serious prehistoric drama Quest For Fire (La guerre du feu) as well as Mel Brooks History of the World: Part I, the latter of which had its own comic caveman sequence. These three movies were all first-released in 1981.
d.		Whenever he is shown walking, Max 404 keeps his arms bent at a level that imitates C-3PO in Star Wars.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Romance on the High Seas (1948)?
a.		For the part of Georgia Garrett, Warner Bros. inquired about borrowing Judy Garland from MGM, but Metros policy at the time was not to lend Miss Garland to other studios. Mary Martin also had been in the running to play Georgia. Warners then acquired Betty Hutton in a loan-out deal with Paramount, but before filming started, Miss Hutton had to bow out because of her pregnancy.
b.		Dustin Hoffman planned the moment when he throws his wine glass against the wall during the restaurant scene with Meryl Streep. The only person he warned in advance was the cameraman, to make sure that it got in the shot. Streeps shocked reaction is real, but she stayed in character long enough for the director to yell cut. In the documentary on the DVD, she recalls yelling at Hoffman as soon as the shot was over for scaring her so badly.
c.		Remo Vinzens was in negotiations to play Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca.
d.		"Everyones Coming To New York" is the song being sung at the stage show where Snake first meets Cabbie. The lyrics are as follows: Shoot a cop/With a gun/The Big Apple is plenty of fun/Stab a priest/With a fork/And youll spend your vacation in New York/Rob a bank/Take a truck/You can get here by stealing a buck/This is bliss/Its a lark/Honey, everyones coming to New York!/No more Yankees/Strike the word from your ears/Play the roulette/Theres no more opera at the Met/This is hell/This is fate/But now this is your home and its great/So rejoice/Pop a cork/Honey, everyones coming to New York!

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Romance on the High Seas (1948)?
a.		Film debut of Ray Middleton.
b.		According to John Leguizamo in his autobiography, his frequent improvisation angered Patrick Swayze so much that Swayze tried to punch him in the face.
c.		Despite the iconic nature of the scene in which Pinocchios nose grows, it only happens once in the film.
d.		"Its Magic" was the release title in Great Britain, due to the British popularity of the films Oscar-nominated song (music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Sammy Cahn).

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Romance on the High Seas (1948)?
a.		Harry Belafonte improvised or wrote most of his own dialog.
b.		There is a running gag about how awful Mrs. Elvira Kents singing voice is, as she is repeatedly begged not to sing. Ironically, Janis Paige was in fact a musical star in the movies. She would play the lead in "The Pajama Game" (1954) on Broadway, a role Doris Day would later play in the film, The Pajama Game.
c.		The film was inspired in part by the real-life murder case of Patrick Mahon. In 1924, in Sussex, England, Mahon murdered his pregnant mistress, Emily Kaye, and dismembered her body. In the modern interview, Alfred Hitchcock claimed that Mahon threw the body parts out of a train window piece by piece and burned the head in his fireplace. Another modern source, however, states that Mahon quartered the body and stored it in a large trunk, then removed internal organs, putting some in biscuit tins and a hatbox and boiling others on the stove.
d.		Geoffrey Rushs real-life wife, Jane Menelaus, plays de Sades wife.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Romance on the High Seas (1948)?
a.		Anthony Mackie, Christopher Egan and Kevin Zegers were considered to play Brandt.
b.		A remake of the short film Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade. Both were written and starred Billy Bob Thornton.
c.		When she saw herself in "dailies" early in this films production, Doris Day claims she was so embarrassed by her own performance she asked director Michael Curtiz to recommend a drama coach. "No, no!" Curtiz replied, "Youre a natural just as you are - if you learn how to act, youll ruin everything."
d.		Contrary to the oft-repeated rumor that "A Shot in the Dark" was filmed prior to The Pink Panther, it did not go before the cameras until September of 1963, the same month "The Pink Panther" was being previewed in Hollywood.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Romance on the High Seas (1948)?
a.		The first day-and-a-half of filming - including Carolyns open house scene - had to be thrown out after the film turned out too dark, making Annette Bening almost impossible to see; director Sam Mendes and cinematographer Conrad L. Hall concluded the problem had been their overly polite relations, and agreed to be more open with one another.
b.		The meaning of the phrase "wing and a prayer", of which the films title is a part, is a shortening of an old saying among aviators, "Were coming in on a wing and a prayer". It means that they are flying or trying to land an aircraft in poor condition. The expression can also be used as a metaphor for trying to achieve something even though one is a bit ill-prepared or ill-equipped for the task.
c.		According to her 1975 autobiography, "Doris Day: Her Own Story" (co-written with A.E. Hotchner), Miss Day attended a show-biz party the night before she planned to leave for New York City. Also at the gathering was lyric writer Sammy Cahn who, taking Doris aside, explained that she would be the right match for the Cahn-Jule Styne score of this upcoming film. When, at Mr. Cahns urging, Doris sang "Embraceable You" (music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin) for the party crowd, she was heard by director Michael Curtiz, who then asked her to test for the role of Georgia Garrett.
d.		The hill at Radiator Springs (with the white letters RS for Radiator Springs) resembles the top of a radiator with a cap.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Romance on the High Seas (1948)?
a.		The original title was apparently "Romance on the High Cs".
b.		Additional information in the Fritz Lang papers indicates that Walter Brennan, who played "Bugs" Meyers, had an extended illness that necessitated a transfer of some of his "courtroom business" to George Chandler, who played Milton Johnson.
c.		Lowly PRC hadnt released a horror picture in nearly 17 months, having spent most of 1943 substantially expanding their once-laughable capabilities by purchasing the bankrupt Chadwick Studio (a poverty row operation that specialized in renting stages and production equipment to low-budget producers along Gower) for $305,000. While critics - what few that would review a PRC release - complained about the films lack of action, production values were noted to be somewhat higher than earlier releases.
d.		According to contemporary news stories, special parental consent was required in order to allow the nude scenes featuring Michelle Johnson as she was not yet 18 at the time they were filmed.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Romance on the High Seas (1948)?
a.		According to Amy Taubins book, the character of Iris was partially inspired by Paul Schraders memory of 1950s Coppertone ads. Jodie Foster, the actress who won the role of Iris, the underage prostitute, had her acting debut in a Coppertone ad when she was 3 years old.
b.		In her autobiography, Doris Day recalled that in her screen-test song, "A Rainy Night in Rio" (music, by Arthur Schwartz, lyrics by Leo Robin), director Michael Curtiz at first instructed her to move around in the frenzied film style of Betty Hutton. Doris then requested to perform the number in her natural, more sedate manner.
c.		Willem Dafoe, David Bowie, John Lithgow, Tim Curry, and James Woods, were considered for The Joker.
d.		At one point, while the characters in the film are examining a store-front display of World War II heroes, a photograph of several men in uniform is shown. This photo is of actual soldiers that fought in World War II, all of whom made their home at the location of the film shoot, Ferndale, California.

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