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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Show Boat (1929) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Show Boat (1929) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Show Boat (1929)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Show Boat (1929).

About the movie: A mostly silent version of Edna Ferber's original novel, with some songs from the musical as a last-minute addition

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Show Boat (1929)?
a.		There was a pre-release showing at the Harris Theatre in New York City on 5 May 1919, the proceeds of which were donated to the Salvation Army. The Salvation Army was guaranteed $25,000 of the gross receipts for their cooperation on production.
b.		The original production of Showboat opened in the Ziegfeld Theater on December 27, 1927 and ran for 572 performances.
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.		The scene where Chekov and Uhura are asking a woman about "nuclear wessels" was almost completely improvised. Her line about them being in Alameda was ad-libbed by her, and although she wasnt supposed to say very much, Leonard Nimoy enjoyed the spontaneity of the scene so much he left it the way it was.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Show Boat (1929)?
a.		This film seems to borrow its title from the last line of the poem love and life by Jhn Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester: " All my past Life is mine no more, The flying Hours are gone: Like Transitory Dreams givn oer, Whose Images are kept in store By Memory alone. The Time that is to come is not; How can it then be mine The present Moments all my Lot; And that, as fast as it is got, Phillis, is only thine. Then talk not of Inconstancy, False Hearts, and broken Vows; If I, by Miracle, can be This live-long Minute true to thee, Tis all that Heavn allows. "
b.		The silent version (missing reels 1, 2 and 5) is held by the UCLA Film and Television Archives.
c.		Those We Love opened at the John Golden Theater on February 19, 1930 and ran for 77 performances.
d.		The year that the film was set in was significant for a number of things: for being the first and only time that a community-owned boat has ever won the Gold Cup. It also broke the Rolls-Royce powered boat dominance of the APBAs Crown Jewel race as an Allison powered boat had not won a race since 1966. The race marked the end of an era in terms of boat design, as the Miss Madison of 1971 was the last Unlimited hydroplane with the old-style rear cockpit-forward-engine, shovel-nosed bow configuration to ever achieve victory.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Show Boat (1929)?
a.		Some additional scenes extensively including spoofs of The Matrix Reloaded were removed from the final film. They included a scene where Cindy fights a large number of Tabithas similar to the Burly Brawl scene in The Matrix Reloaded, and Orpheus "prophesizing". The removal of those scenes is also the reason of Queen Latifah never appearing in the final movie dressed as Neo from The Matrix Reloaded, although she appears dressed up that way in the movies promotions and poster.
b.		This was the first film to use Foley effects (specially created sound effects) on its soundtrack. The technique was named after Jack Foley, who performed the necessary sound effects while watching the film on playback. The process is still used on all films made today, and the effects artists who create the needed effects (such as footsteps, performed in synch with the image) are known as Foley artists.
c.		Made history by becoming the first "underground" film to be shown in a mainstream cinema. In a limited run at New Yorks Cinema Rendezvous from December 1st 1966.
d.		Alfred Hitchcock: [bathroom] John Kovacs "BM" tattoo.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Show Boat (1929)?
a.		Laura La Plantes singing was dubbed by Eva Olivetti.
b.		Nathan Castenada, who plays El Guapo in the movie, was kind enough to let the crew film at his restaurant, Vera Cruz Cafe, for the anniversary scene.
c.		Originally this was a yet unpublished novel written by novelist John Katzenbach in 1982, when it landed on producer David Foster desk. Foster optioned it as a film and it was published a novel named In The Heat of Summer.
d.		During filming the Chicago Cubs made a deep run into the Major League playoffs, mounting a 3-1 lead in the NLCS. Bill Murray, a native of the Chicago area, had it written in to his contract that he receive a live feed of all the Cubs games. The Cubs eventually lost the series to the Florida Marlins, prolonging its World Series drought to 95 years.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Show Boat (1929)?
a.		Dr. Lamb says, "General, a machine becomes human when you cant tell the difference anymore." This summarizes the famous Turing Test, devised by Alan Turing, a founder of modern computer theory.
b.		Filmed as a silent, with some of the scenes later reshot with dialogue and songs. After the film proper was completed, including the few scenes reshot for sound, an 18-minute prologue was added, featuring members of the original Broadway cast: Helen Morgan (Julie), Jules Bledsoe (Joe) and Tess Gardella (Queenie). The prologues soundtrack exists, but some parts of the film are missing. Please check your attic.
c.		In preparation for his role, Ewen Bremner worked for several months in an institution for the criminally insane in Queens, New York. He had to take courses in first-aid, hygiene ("a half-day course in washing my hands") and crisis management before he was given the job.
d.		Alan Silvestri wrote 24 minutes of score (including over seven minutes for the final credits) for a 143-minute film. Aside from the Russian chorus and the Elvis song from the beginning, there is not one single note of written musical score in the film until Noland leaves the island (1 hour and 43 minutes into the movie). Only then does the musical score come in: an oboe, piano and strings are all that Silvestri uses. Every musical cue is a variation on the same melody, which is heard in full at the end.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Show Boat (1929)?
a.		Briefly ended Star Warss 15-week reign at the #1 spot at the box office in October of 1977, before Star Wars returned to the top spot the following week.
b.		Will Ferrell tells Bruce McCulloch he "smells like cabbage," a reference to one of McCullochs most famous characters on "The Kids In The Hall"
c.		Mina Badie is co-director Jennifer Jason Leighs half-sister.
d.		Due to the unavailability of this film, several film reference books for years erroneously reported several wrong items about it, until the 1977 publication of Miles Kreugers scrupulously researched and very accurate "Show Boat: The Story of a Classic American Musical". Among the erroneous facts perpetrated about the 1929 film: 1) that Charles Winninger , the original Capn Andy in the stage version of the musical, played Capn Andy in this film (Otis Harlan plays the role; Winninger plays it in the 1936 film version), 2) that Helen Morgan, the original Julie in the stage version of "Show Boat", plays Julie in this film (Ms. Morgan appears only in the sound prologue and Alma Rubens plays the role in the actual film; Ms. Morgan does play the role in the 1936 film version) 3) that Billy Rose wrote all the songs heard in the 1929 film (he wrote only one).

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Show Boat (1929)?
a.		John Landis: [SYNW] on a movie poster in the subway station (the movie claims to star Jamie Lee Curtis, who appeared in Landis Trading Places). Another poster is visible in Ophelias apartment.
b.		This film was shot in 21 days.
c.		Update: some of the "lost" footage of the prologue has been found, both sound and picture, and this includes footage apparently not included in the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) edition of the film. Some of this once-lost footage is included in A&Es Great Ziegfeld and a few scenes from this footage are now included in the three-part PBS documentary Broadway: The American Musical. The discovered footage includes Jules Bledsoe singing "Ol Man River" with the Dixie Jubilee Singers in full costume. Also featured on this "Biography" episode were scenes of Tess Gardella singing "Cmon Folks" and Helen Morgan singing "Bill." All of these scenes survive in only faintly tolerable sound and picture quality, but at least they survive.
d.		The Connecticut home is the same set used in Bringing Up Baby,

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Show Boat (1929)?
a.		Mt. Olympus, location of Joe Gavilans "monstrosity" that he desperately wants to sell, is a real street in the Los Angeles area.
b.		Set twenty years in the future, Hive Mind has a scene in which Doug Trench discusses President Barack Obamas Nobel Peace Prize. But "Hive Mind" was written and shot six months before Obama won it.
c.		The "miscegenation" sequence, so important to the novel, the stage musical, the two later film versions and the 1989 taped TV version, was considered too controversial to retain in this film version.
d.		Cindy Ingraham who is listed in the credits as "Additional Props" also has the byline on the newspaper article announcing that Judge Pendergast has resigned in the sex scandal.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Show Boat (1929)?
a.		In the original script, Gazzo has his bodyguard bet $3,000 on Rocky in the Apollo Creed fight.
b.		Brad Pitt returns to voice acting since Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, another DreamWorks film.
c.		One of the sleeper vampires is called Sclavi. Tiziano Sclavi is the author of Dylan Dog comic book.
d.		More of the sound footage has reportedly been discovered on a Vitaphone sound disc.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Show Boat (1929)?
a.		In a 1984 newspaper interview with Pia Zadora by Frank Sanello, its mentioned that neither this film nor Voyage of the Rock Aliens had yet been released theatrically. Pia first swooned over Rock Aliens and then quipped, "I threatened to commit suicide if Fake Out was released."
b.		The song "Innamorata", written for this film, went on to be a major record hit for Dean Martin and several other singers.
c.		The prologue gives modern audiences a rare chance to see white actress Tess Gardella play Queenie, the African-American cook, in blackface. Although frowned upon by todays standards, it is nevertheless a fascinating curio from a different era.
d.		According to Paul Marco, Edward D. Wood Jr. thought that Bela Lugosis memory might not be very good so for Lugosis huge speech in Bride of the Monster, Wood had the prop man make cue cards. Lugosi, upset, insisted he didnt need cue cards and he would "memorize it." Wood still insisted on the cue cards telling Lugosi, "We have to be safe." Bela Lugosi went to Paul Marco for help. He had Marco promise not to show him the cue cards during the scene. Paul Marco held the cards at his side the whole time and Lugosi never looked over once. Bela Lugosi gave a sensational performance and the whole crew got up and applauded.

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