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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Royal Wedding (1951) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Royal Wedding (1951) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Royal Wedding (1951)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Royal Wedding (1951).

About the movie: Tom and Ellen Bowen are a brother and sister dance act whose show closes in New York. Their agent books them in London for the same period as the Royal Wedding...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Royal Wedding (1951)?
a.		Sven-Ole Thorsen: Arnold Schwarzeneggers friend and frequent collaborator appears as a bodyguard towards the end of the film.
b.		Final film for Isaac Hayes. Also final film for Bernie Mac, although Old Dogs, featuring Bernie Mac, was released later, Macs scenes in that movie were shot before Soul Men.
c.		June Allyson was first cast in the role of Ellen, but became pregnant. Judy Garland was cast next, but MGM terminated her studio contract.
d.		The Time Magazine Men of The Year cover that Haise (Bill Paxton) and Mattingly (Gary Sinise) look at during the Apollo 11 party at the Jim Lovells )house is a real magazine cover, famously celebrating the Apollo 8 missions orbiting of the moon. However, it has been edited, replacing the original caricature of Lovell, with one of Tom Hanks (Borman and Anders remain unchanged given that they dont appear in the film).

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Royal Wedding (1951)?
a.		The book that the Zompyre is reading in the "Fast-Forward" sequence is Harper Lees To Kill a Mockingbird.
b.		According to an interview with Michael McKeans wife Annette OToole, the songs were written by her and McKean during a car journey to Vancouver from their home in LA. Planes were grounded following the terrorist attacks on the USA on 11 September 2001 and OToole had to get to Vancover to film her TV show Smallville.
c.		David Patrick Kelly plays President Harry S Truman. Kelly also played a supporting role on Twin Peaks, where Michael Ontkean plays the town sheriff, whose name is also Harry S Truman.
d.		Final film of James Finlayson, who has an unbilled bit as a cab driver.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Royal Wedding (1951)?
a.		Retitled "Wedding Bells" in England so as not to make it seem as a documentary of the recent Royal Wedding of Princess Elizabeth, later to become Queen Elizabeth II.
b.		This marked the first time that producer George Pal directed a feature film. It was so successful that he directed his next four projects.
c.		Talia Shire makes a cameo as Alberts mom in the film. She is Jason Schwartzmans real-life mother.
d.		One of the more subtle Louisiana references is the name of Rays love, Evangeline. The name refers to the poem Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, about an Acadian girls search for her lost love. The poem is held dear by the Louisiana descendants of the Acadians, or "Cajuns".

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Royal Wedding (1951)?
a.		The real Bruce Pandolfini is very different from the character Ben Kingsley plays. Pandolfini is actually a Brooklynite with a mustache, glasses, and curly brown hair, and he is reported to have a very friendly, soft-spoken demeanor. In fact, Pandolfini can be seen in a cameo role in the movie; he is a kibitzer when Ben Kingsley goes to see Josh in Washington Square; thus, Pandolfini tells "Pandolfinni" that Josh is a "young Fischer." Josh Waitzkin is quick to point out that the portrayal in the film is fiction, and should not be confused with reality.
b.		John Garfield admitted that he based the way he played his character, Mickey Borden, on Oscar Levant.
c.		Charles Walters was originally signed to direct the film, but he quit when Judy Garland replaced June Allyson, as he refused to work with Garland again after Summer Stock.
d.		A copy of this film is on file at the UCLA Film & Television Archives.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Royal Wedding (1951)?
a.		The "Youre All the World to Me" dance was accomplished by putting a whole room, attached camera and harnessed cameraman inside a 20 ft. diameter rotating "squirrel cage."
b.		Reportedly, Gene Hackman and Lisa Eichhorn did not get along during the first week of filming on this picture and this lead to Eichorn being replaced.
c.		Before Elliot Goldenthal was brought in to compose the score, the film was temp-tracked from James Horners score for Titanic. Cues from the piece A Promise Kept were borrowed for the original opening sequence and can be found on the Special Edition DVD.
d.		A new effects crew was brought onto the scene after the initial tree failed to work mechanically. The new team constructed a tree that held 500 gallons of fake blood and detachable bark.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Royal Wedding (1951)?
a.		After being fired from this film, Judy Garland locked herself in a bathroom and scratched her neck with broken glass. There is much dispute over whether it was a serious suicide attempt or a desperate cry for help.
b.		The brains in the infamous brain sucking scene were made out of oatmeal.
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.		To appease the producers, who wanted to soften the dramatic ending a bit, an alternate version of the ending was storyboarded, with Somerset saying that he "wants out", and killing John Doe, thereby preventing Doe from winning, and Mills from ending up in jail. In the mean time, the crew shot a test ending, which is basically the theatrical ending without some of the dramatic shots. This finale was so well received in screenings that it convinced the producers to go along with it, and not even film the alternate ending.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Royal Wedding (1951)?
a.		Brad Pitt, who was a big fan of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, approached director Guy Ritchie and asked for a role in this film. When Ritchie found Pitt couldnt master a London accent, he gave him the role of Mickey the Gypsy.
b.		The logo of Dwayne LaFontaine, the Verminators pest and vermin control company, featuring a man resembling himself hitting a rabbit with a hammer, is a spoof of a pest control company in California, Nevada, and Arizona, Western Extermination Company, whose logo features a man named Kernel Kleenup with a top hat and suit about to squash a rat with his hammer.
c.		The original titles were to contain a spoken warning in a manner similar to Frankenstein also written by Balderston, but that was abandoned in favor of the more original idea of the titles on a window climaxed by a fist smashing it.
d.		The ships rocking during "Open Your Eyes" was based on the Astaires own dancing experience on a voyage to London in 1923. A boat-rocking device was used to create the film effect.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Royal Wedding (1951)?
a.		When Clark shows his coworker Bill the brochure about the swimming pool he wants to put in his backward, he is seen drinking coffee out of a Tasmanian Devil coffee mug. Miriam Flynn (Cousin Catherine) would later go on to play the voice of Tazs mother in the cartoon Taz-Mania.
b.		Originally Cleopatra was envisioned as a modest $2,000,000 project starring Joan Collins. However, once Elizabeth Taylor was cast, the film was transformed into a giant epic.
c.		The idea of dancing with a clothes tree had been suggested to Astaire earlier by Hermes Pan.
d.		In 1949 Ronald Reagan complained to Warners about some of the films he was assigned to and asked to do a western. The studio agreed if he would bring them a good story. Reagan brought them "Ghost Mountain" by Alan Le May, author of "The Searchers". Despite their promise to him, they cast Errol Flynn in the lead.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Royal Wedding (1951)?
a.		The movies subtitle "Teenage Wasteland" comes from one of the directors favorite songs (The Whos "Baba OReilly").
b.		This marks the final film appearance of actress Hedy Lamarr.
c.		The final screen performance of Helen Hayes.
d.		Moira Shearer was considered for the role of Anne.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Royal Wedding (1951)?
a.		Filmed in 1964, but not released until 1970.
b.		Gene Kelly was originally scheduled to play Don, but he broke his ankle when he stamped his foot in anger after losing a volleyball game. It was at his suggestion that he be replaced by Fred Astaire. Cyd Charisse was up for the role of Nadine, but a torn ligament in either one or both of her knees forced her to drop out. She was replaced by Ann Miller. Although she had been a star for years, Judy Garland had never met Astaire before, and was afraid to speak to him until they were properly introduced.
c.		The line "Elvis has left the building!", which Will Smith yells toward the end of the movie, is translated "Last train to Mikkeli has just left!" on the Finnish DVD. Mikkeli is a town in Finland.
d.		Fred Astaire and Jane Powell sing "How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Love You When You Know Ive Been a Liar All My Life," the longest song title in a Hollywood film

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