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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : San Francisco (1936) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : San Francisco (1936) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : San Francisco (1936)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: San Francisco (1936).

About the movie: A Barbary Coast saloonkeeper and a Nob Hill impresario are rivals for the affections of a beautiful singer, both personally and professionally in 1906 San Francisco.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: San Francisco (1936)?
a.		Debut of Robert J. Wilke.
b.		Adjusted for inflation, Casino Royale is the 5th most financially successful of the James Bond films, behind Thunderball, _Goldfinger_, You Only Live Twice and The Spy Who Loved Me.
c.		The central plot-gimmick about the mysterious "Mr.Evans" and its final revelation is a lift from the "Mr.Christopher" strand in The House on 92nd Street, also directed by Henry Hathaway in 1945.
d.		Three cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names): Nora Cecil (Passenger), Joseph E. Bernard (Tall Man) and Byron Foulger (Clerk). Arthur Hoyt, who is listed as Meredith, is barely seen and has no lines as a traveling companion of Sarah Edwards. Cecil probably was replaced by Edwards and Foulger by Walter Soderling.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: San Francisco (1936)?
a.		The character of "Rocky", played by Gloria Lynne Henry, stands out as the only main female character in the Phantasm movie series not to die, nor to be a Tall Mans minion either.
b.		The original plan was to shoot this western on 16mm film stock. Financing was then raised so that the film was able to be shot on 35mm stock.
c.		The Native Americans the Vikings encounter historically were the Beothuk people of Newfoundland in Canada. There is a large historical site around the Viking settlements in Newfoundland for tourists to visit.
d.		Erich von Stroheim, who had been unceremoniously fired from MGM many years earlier, contributed additional lines in the script without studio head Louis B. Mayer ever knowing.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: San Francisco (1936)?
a.		Jeanette MacDonalds older sister, Blossom Rock, signed with MGM and was given the name Marie Blake. Jeanettes character in San Francisco was named Mary Blake. Her sister used the name Blossom Rock when she played Grandma Addams on The Addams Family.
b.		Recorded with just a choral background since the American Federation of Musicians wartime strike continued against Victor Records, Dinah Shores blockbuster 78 of the Oscar-nominated, eternal love song, "Ill Walk Alone" (music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Sammy Cahn) held the apex of the "Billboard" singles chart for three weeks, between November 4 and November 18, 1944. A #3 "Billboard" single of another tune from the movie was the jaunty "Is You Is or Is You Aint (Ma Baby)" (music and lyrics and Louis Jordan and Billy Austin (I)). Decca Records (having settled with the musicians union) released the record by Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five.
c.		This was June Havers only full-length film in black and white. Her other 14 releases between 1943 and 1953 were shot in three-strip Technicolor, something of a record for a Hollywood Golden Age actress. In addition, this was the only June Haver feature not to garner a contemporary New York Times review.
d.		A copy of this film is located the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: San Francisco (1936)?
a.		This movie was sponsored in part by the Converse shoe company. Many characters wear Converse shoes, especially the classic Chuck Taylor All-Stars. There is also an extraordinary number of shots of shoes throughout the entire film.
b.		A deleted scene further exaggerated the gambling habits of Sinclair and his associates. The scene featured them playing Monopoly with real money.
c.		Al Shean (born Adolph Schoenberg), who plays the Professor in the film was once half of one of the most popular teams in vaudeville - Gallagher and Shean. He was also the younger brother of Minnie Marx, the matriarch of The Marx Brothers clan, and was instrumental in writing many of the first sketches that his madcap nephews first performed on the vaudeville circuit before their enormous success on Broadway and in Hollywood.
d.		To do research for this film, Charles M. Schulz and the films staff went river rafting in the Rogue Rivers in Oregon.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: San Francisco (1936)?
a.		The comment that Spencer Tracy makes about the "Rooney kid" is an ad-lib (watch Jeanette MacDonalds expression reacting to it). Tracy had worked with Mickey Rooney earlier that year in Riffraff and knew that director W.S. Van Dyke abhorred retakes, priding himself on bringing in productions fast and under budget - hence his nickname, "One-Take Woody".
b.		Renee Estevez is the younger sister of Emilio Estevez. She plays his cousins wife in the film.
c.		This movie was made and released about three years after its Charles McCarry source novel The Better Angels was first published in 1979. This film was loosely based on this book.
d.		Winner of awards from the Indie Fest, the Los Angeles Movie Awards, the Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood, the Accolade Competition, the Los Angeles Film and Script Festival, and the Nevada Film Festival.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: San Francisco (1936)?
a.		The dress Jeanette MacDonald wears while singing "Would You" was re-worn by Judy Garland in For Me and My Gal (1942).
b.		Shot in six days.
c.		Every credited member of the cast received an Academy Award nomination.
d.		This was one of the final films made by production house Allied Artists.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: San Francisco (1936)?
a.		D.W. Griffith directed several scenes without ever being credited.
b.		The baby born at the end is the first male that appears on screen.
c.		This is the first "Star Wars" film in which Yoda (Frank Oz) is entirely computer-generated. After tests to see if a CG Yoda was possible failed during pre-production of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Rob Coleman and his team came back three years later and presented a reel to George Lucas showing him a CG Yoda performing the scene in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back where he explains the nature of the Force to Luke Skywalker. Lucas was impressed and decided the technology was right for a CG Yoda.
d.		Jeremy Renner was originally cast in the lead role but due to his busy schedule, he had to drop out and was replaced by Sam Rockwell.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: San Francisco (1936)?
a.		Last theatrical film of Leif Erickson.
b.		Before Chris ODonnell (I) was ultimately cast, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jude Law, Ewan McGregor, Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Toby Stephens, and Scott Speedman had all been considered for the role of Robin at some point.
c.		Spencer Tracy, playing a priest, makes a note to himself in one scene, "That Rooney kid skipped Mass again..." Two years later, he again plays a priest in Boys Town and is charged with reforming a boy played by Mickey Rooney.
d.		Over the course of the gladiatorial scenes, Russell Crowe broke bones in his foot and his hip, and injured both bicep tendons.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: San Francisco (1936)?
a.		Many cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names): Howard M. Mitchell (Nicholas), Jacqueline Miller (W.U. Girl), Ralph Sanford (Policeman), John Sheehan (Policeman), Cliff Nazarro (Milkman), Phillip Terry (Whitleys Assistant), Lloyd Ford (Ethels Husband), Rex Evans (Photo Insert of Hermann Göring) and Bobby Watson (Photo Insert of Adolf Hitler) (W.U. Girl undoubtedly stands for Western Union Girl, but no telegrams were seen delivered). In a Hollywood Reporter news item, Arno Frey and Dudley Dickerson were listed as cast members, but they were not seen either.
b.		One of Marys opera gowns was later used for "Glinda" in The Wizard of Oz.
c.		Filmed between November 2007 and February 2008.
d.		The opening "Raiders" sequence contains a few (almost inaudible) gag sounds, mixed in with the jungle effects: a kitten, a dog barking, and some sheep.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: San Francisco (1936)?
a.		Susan Blakely did her own stunt falling down on the ground when her character gets shot and killed.
b.		The location used for the machine shop is actually the real Warner Brothers machine shop, which still exists and can be seen today on tours.
c.		In the film, Blackie Norton (Clark Gable) runs for the office of Supervisor in the city of San Francisco, the same job Harvey Milk was to hold many decades later when he was assassinated.
d.		Mickey Reece and Kameron Primm were to make a movie that they had written together called "Rebel Nature". In the film, Primm was to play a rough and tumble Southern Womanizer. They shot about five minutes worth of scenes when Reece decided to scrap it. Needless to say when Reece, along with his brother Justin, pitched the idea of a new story involving Primm playing a drag queen, he was not pleased. "It took a-lot of convincing to get Kameron to leave behind such a masculine role to dress up like a woman. But we did it somehow," Reece explained.

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