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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Some Like It Hot (1959) - Part (4) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Some Like It Hot (1959) - Part (4) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Some Like It Hot (1959).
About the movie:
When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Some Like It Hot (1959)?
a.
Jack Lemmon
wrote that the first sneak preview had a bad reaction with many audience walkouts. Many studio personnel and agents offered advice to
Billy Wilder
on what scenes to reshoot, add and cut. Lemmon asked Wilder what he was going to do. Wilder responded: "Why, nothing. This is a very funny movie and I believe in it just as it is. Maybe this is the wrong neighborhood in which to have shown it. At any rate, I dont panic over one preview. Its a hell of a movie." Wilder held the next preview in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, and the audience stood up and cheered.
b.
The abruptness of
Hugh Griffith
s performance in the finished film is due to his being fired for being drunk. That is why his character disappears for chunks of the film. Indeed, his behavior was considered so bad that he was not allowed back onto the island for the final scenes.
c.
First movie ever filmed/shot inside the Magic Castle on Franklin, California. Magic Castle magicians performed in the movie.
d.
Except for the first two episodes, no surviving copies of this film are known to exist. Please check your attic.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Some Like It Hot (1959)?
a.
Wes Craven
said he would only direct
Scream 3
if he could also direct this movie.
b.
They were plans to do a sequel which never materialized.
c.
In the French post-synchronized version of the film, the actors are dubbed by:
Claire Guibert
(Marilyn Monroe);
Jean-Claude Michel
(Tony Curtis);
Michel Roux
(Jack Lemmon);
Jean Martinelli
(George Raft),
Fred Pasquali
(Joe E. Brown),
Danièle Roy
(Joan Shawlee) and
Raymonde Devarennes
(Barbara Drew).
d.
While he was working on the visual effects for this film,
Brian Johnson
was simultaneously working in the same capacity on
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Some Like It Hot (1959)?
a.
This was
Gene Kelly
s favorite non-musical role.
b.
Marilyn Monroe
recorded a vocal version for the theme to the film. It was to be played over the opening credits, but an instrumental overture took its place in the final version. The title track later appeared on an LP in the mid-70s, with Marilyns three other songs from the film.
c.
The footage of a car crashing into an electrical substation is recycled from the end of
Thunder Road
.
d.
Lynn Red Williams
replaced
Gregory McKinney
as Jax due to McKinneys health problems.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Some Like It Hot (1959)?
a.
About twenty minutes into the movie there is a shot in the Hoth base control room in which we hear Hans voice over radio describing whats left of the probe droid. One of the background sound effects in this shot was taken from the Canadian shortwave time signal station CHU, which can be heard at 3.330 and 7.335 MHz.
b.
The last door Jerry and Joe open in the office building where they are looking for work says "Jules Stein, President" stenciled on the door.
Jules Stein
is a real person who founded the Music Corporation of America, also stenciled on the door.
Billy Wilder
played cards with Stein.
c.
The classroom used in the opening scene where Chris Ostreicher (
Chris Klein
} and Steve Stifler (
Seann William Scott
) are getting ready to take a final exam is the same one used in
Old School
when Frank Ricard (
Will Ferrell
) is getting beaten up by Dean "Cheese" Gordon Pritchard (
Jeremy Piven
).
d.
The role of Johnny Ringo was originally offered to
Mickey Rourke
, who turned it down.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Some Like It Hot (1959)?
a.
Mekas claims that A Letter from Greenpoint is his first official DV Feature film.
b.
Emma Thompson
got the idea for an adaptation of the Nurse Matilda books when she encountered some of them while dusting her bookshelf.
c.
Director
Billy Wilder
had originally planned to cast
Mitzi Gaynor
in the role of "Sugar Kane Kowalczyk", but when
Marilyn Monroe
became available, he used her instead.
d.
After
Jim Henson
s death, Rowlf the Dog was not recast for several years, as he was considered the character closest to Hensons actual personality (even more so than Kermit the Frog). In this film, Rowlf appears, but does not speak, in the first scene set in the Tavern.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Some Like It Hot (1959)?
a.
Contradicting his reputation of acting in mediocre films just for the money,
Orson Welles
claimed he had declined a role in "Caligula" for "moral reasons" despite a very generous offer.
b.
This movie was in release for only 21 days
c.
Jeff Baier
(Charles Crenshaw) sprained his ankle in the middle of the production and all of his scenes had to be re-blocked. His crutches are just out of frame in most shots.
d.
In the Italian post-synchronized version of the film, the actors are dubbed by:
Rosetta Calavetta
(Marilyn Monroe);
Pino Locchi
(Tony Curtis);
Giuseppe Rinaldi
(Jack Lemmon);
Gualtiero De Angelis
(George Raft);
Giorgio Capecchi
(Pat OBrien);
Carlo Romano
(Joe E. Brown);
Mario Pisu
(Nehemiah Persoff);
Lidia Simoneschi
(Joan Shawlee);
Manlio Busoni
(Billy Gray);
Cesare Polacco
(George E. Stone);
Bruno Persa
(Dave Barry);
Luigi Pavese
(Mike Mazurki) and
Massimo Turci
(Edward G. Robinson Jr.).
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Some Like It Hot (1959)?
a.
Though almost all of
Kelly Jo Minter
s scenes are deleted from the film, and the only true appearance she makes is over Lucys shoulder in the video store, she still received billing the films opening credits. Her scenes can be viewed in the 2004 Lost Boys DVD special features.
b.
Prior to filming,
Tom Hanks
had not seen
The Ladykillers
as he did not want it to prejudice the way he acted in the remake.
c.
Although the AALTO Air E-474 featured in this movie is a fictional aircraft, it does bear a strong resemblance in overall design to the real-life double-decker Airbus A-380, and its cockpit is very similar to the cockpit of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
d.
In 2008, a Californian man who found a little black dress in his closet was stunned when appraisers for U.S. TV series
Antiques Roadshow
determined it once belonged to
Marilyn Monroe
. The frock - which Monroe was sewn into for
Some Like It Hot
- was estimated to be worth $250,000
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Some Like It Hot (1959)?
a.
John Glover
won the 1995 Tony Award (New York City) for Supporting or Features Actor in a Drama for "Love! Valour! Compassion!" and recreated his roles for this filmed production.
b.
The film debut of
Eddie Deezen
, who oddly enough plays a bully!
c.
Billy Bob Thornton
had written the script in long hand, at his familys house in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
d.
George Raft
passes a young hood who is flipping a coin in his hand and he asked him where he learned a "cheap trick" like that. That trick was one of Rafts gimmicks in many of his earlier gangster movies.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Some Like It Hot (1959)?
a.
The rope bridge used during the final fight scene was actually suspended up a couple of hundred feet across a gorge on location in Sri Lanka. Acrophobic
Steven Spielberg
would never walk over it, and had to drive a mile and a half to reach the other side.
Harrison Ford
on the other hand had no such fear, and would run across it at full speed.
b.
According to Jules Faith in "The Bronfmans", the only person who ever dared mock
Lew Wasserman
s "Music Corporation of America" was
Billy Wilder
in this movie. The musicians played by
Tony Curtis
and
Jack Lemmon
, looking for work, charge into an office labeled "Music Corporation of America". The only occupants are two frowzy women drinking gin.
c.
The boxing match that Lomax and Milton attend was not a staged bout, but in fact a legitimate world championship boxing match. The bout occurred on October 4, 1996, at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Roy Jones Jr.
, IBF super-middleweight champion, squared off against top contender
Bryant Brannon
. Jones knocked out Brannon during the second round of the bout.
d.
Was shot digitally instead of on film.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Some Like It Hot (1959)?
a.
One of the few American movies ever given a "Condemned" rating by the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency.
b.
The credits include the line, "This movie filmed entirely on location in a mall in Lombard, Illinois." The mall is Yorktown Center, home of Big Idea Productions.
c.
According to Halliwells Film Video & DVD Guide, this movie " . . . was probably the first film to use an action sequence to arrest attention before the credit titles."
d.
John Carpenter
wrote the score in three days. He made three to five separate pieces of music and edited them in accordingly. It didnt become available to buy until 2003, through the French label Record Makers.
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