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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Secretariat (2010) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Secretariat (2010) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Secretariat (2010).
About the movie:
Penny Chenery Tweedy and colleagues guide her long-shot but precocious stallion to set, in 1973, the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Secretariat (2010)?
a.
In the Belmont Stakes, both Secretariats winning margin (31 lengths) and his winning time (2:24) still stand after 37 years.
b.
Milton Berle
said in an interview that in the scene where
Ethel Merman
hit him with her purse, it left him with a bump that lasted six months.
c.
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):
Alphonse Martell
(Waiter),
Barbara Bedford
(Churchills secretary),
Sarah Edwards
(Governors secretary),
Harry C. Bradley
(Governors crony),
Spec ODonnell
(Fiddle player),
Sidney Miller
(Ed), and all the Committee women,
Blanche Rose
,
Helen Dickson
,
Melissa Ten Eyck
,
Vangie Beilby
,
Julia Griffith
,
Lillian West
,
Sandra Morgan
,
Peggy Leon
and
Bess Flowers
.
d.
To familiarize himself with Baubys sheltered existence, director
Julian Schnabel
made the movie in the same hospital where Bauby was treated, meeting many of the orderlies who had treated him. He also shot scenes on the same balcony where Bauby relaxed, and on the same nearby beach his family took him to.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Secretariat (2010)?
a.
The Iraqi battle scenes were filmed at the Indian Cliffs Ranch, located just outside El Paso, Texas. Many of the props were left there and became a tourist attraction.
b.
Cut from the release print was a ballad called "Blue Shadows and White Gardenias" (music and lyrics by
Mack Gordon
and
Harry Owens
), sung by
Betty Grable
and
Victor Mature
(dubbed by
Ben Gage
). The melody remains in the background score.
Bing Crosby
, for Decca Records, waxed a version issued originally on a 78.
c.
Penny Chenery was on set for much of the filming. She was absent when she took an afternoon nap, but otherwise was there each morning and later in the day.
d.
Olivia Newton-John
and
Matt Lattanzi
met whilst shooting this movie, Lattanzi only having a minor role in the picture. The two formed a relationship and Lattanzi accompanied Newton-John to Australia on a promotional visit for
Xanadu
where he met her parents. The two were married in 1984 and had one child,
Chloe Lattanzi
. They were divorced in 1995.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Secretariat (2010)?
a.
The three songs performed by CB4 are loose remakes of real rap songs. Straight Out of Locash was Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A, Sweat of my Balls was Talk Like Sex by Kool G. Rap & D.J. Polo and Rappers Delight was originally by the Sugar Hill Gang.
b.
The scene where Penny cant make it to Kates play, listens on the phone, and collapses in sobs on the hotel bed was done in one take. The director said he was so emotionally involved in the scene he couldnt have shot another one.
c.
The producers tested dozens of actors for the role of Garfield, the cop who berates MacLeod in the police station. The actors were Americans living in England, and the producers decided not to cast any of them because they had developed English accents after living in England for several years.
d.
The original concept for the flying sequence with Superman and Lois was for them to fly around the world, but it was decided to keep the couple in the city.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Secretariat (2010)?
a.
Josiah Kibira
: in the scene with the Secretary General.
b.
The role of Cale Crane was originally written for a boy. The role was changed specifically so that Dakota Fanning could play it. (The first script that was sent to Fanning actually had the word "boy" in the character description.)
c.
Richard Donner
and
Harvey Bernhard
asked
Alan Ladd Jr.
then the head of Twentieth Century Fox for extra money during the films post-production period to hire composer
Jerry Goldsmith
, whose music they strongly felt was right for the movie after seeing him perform a live concert at the Hollywood Bowl earlier that year. Ladd was finally talked into giving Donner and Bernhard around $25,000 to hire Goldsmith, who would deliver his first and only Academy Award win for his score in 1977. Donner credits the success of the film to Goldsmiths score which made the film scarier than it would have been without him.
d.
Penny Chenery
, the real owner of Secretariat, can be seen as he wins the Belmont and the Triple Crown.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Secretariat (2010)?
a.
Otto Torwarth, Secretariats jockey, is a real jockey who was born in Arkansas, but spent his early life in Canada and picked up the accent. He had to work to lose it for the film. (The other jockeys are also real jockeys, there was much riding to be done and everyone knew actors couldnt get the horses to perform as required, gauging the distances needed for the various wins, places, and shows. The director says the distances are accurate to within 1/2 length in each recreation.
b.
What drew
John C. Reilly
to play Larten Crepsley was "the fact that it was a real person, that he wasnt some supernatural mystical being that can turn into a vampire bat. The powers werent so extreme that it was just another thing altogether, that this guy was a person who was alive in the 1800s who was essentially about my age. If you account the slow aging, he is forty something years old" he said.
c.
First film directed by
Mel Ferrer
.
d.
First big lead role in a theatrical movie for
Ed Harris
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Secretariat (2010)?
a.
The last film, and only talkie, of
Juanita Hansen
.
b.
Joaquin Phoenix
and
Macaulay Culkin
both turned down the role of Willard.
c.
The golfer next to
John Malkovich
at the driving range is actually the head of the make-up department for the film, Michael Mills.
d.
Although the lighting and sweat indicate the sweltering heat inside the pod, it was actually just a spray bottle of water and a yellow gel over the light. In fact, it was quite cold on the set, and in between takes, the actors would huddle by the heaters.
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