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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Speedway (1968) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Speedway (1968) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Speedway (1968).
About the movie:
Poor bookkeeping saddles stock car driver Steve Grayson with a huge bill for back taxes which hampers his ability to continue racing competitively.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Speedway (1968)?
a.
Instead of loaning out
Ethel Merman
to RCA Victor for the original-cast album of "Call Me Madam" (
Dinah Shore
replaced her), Decca made their own album with Merman, Dick Haymes and Eileen Wilson. On it, Merman sings the song "Washington Square Dance," which is heard in the movie only as background music in the opening party scene in Washington, D.C.
b.
Gloria Stuart
and
Grace Bradley
were considered for the part of Gay Merrick before model-turned-actress Mari Coleman--aka
Judith Allen
--was cast.
c.
Nancy Sinatra sings the song "Your Groovy Self" in this movie. The song was also included in the soundtrack LP, making it the first and only song by another artist to be released on an official
Elvis Presley
record.
d.
The scene in which the wicked witch tries to take off Dorothys ruby slippers by using a magic force through her hands is the same scene depicted on the
Electric Light Orchestra
s album "Eldorado", but this album cover version is reversed from the one seen in the film.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Speedway (1968)?
a.
Bob Clark
: One of the Klansmen.
b.
Biograph production number 702.
c.
Petula Clark
was the first choice for the female lead but she turned it down.
Annette Funicello
was also briefly considered.
d.
As well as the alcohol industry badgering Paramount Pictures into not releasing the film, the studio was also besieged by temperance groups lobbying that the film shouldnt be released, as it would only encourage drinking. It was released on a limited engagement at
Billy Wilder
s behest. Reviewers fell all over themselves in their praise of it, thus prompting Paramount to take the plunge and give it a wide release.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Speedway (1968)?
a.
Jane Russell
considered herself semi retired at this time and agreed to do a cameo for her friend
Aaron Rosenberg
.
b.
One of the beleaguered director
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
s most passionate allies was
Rex Harrison
who, at one point, offered up his own salary to see if it would help the production. Mankiewicz refused to let him do that.
c.
Racing sequences was filmed with 10 cameras.
d.
In several scenes in the movie the main character can be seen wearing a shirt that has Chinese writing on it. The text is from the Qing dynasty and means "All things are impermanent, this is the rule of creation and destruction, once created already extinguished, silently ending is the path to happiness." (Pin yin: zhu xing wu chang, shi sheng mie fa, sheng mie mie yi, ji mie wei yue)
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Speedway (1968)?
a.
The film is believed to be lost. Please check your attic.
b.
Orson Welles
assigned some of the lines spoken by characters in the play to different characters in the film. He invented the character "A Holy Father" for the film to emphasize what he believed was the struggle between religion and witchcraft in the play, and many of Ross lines in the play are spoken by the Holy Father. The very minor character of the Old Man was omitted from the film, and his lines were also given to the Holy Father. Welles also gave Lady Macduff an extra speech which
William Shakespeare
had assigned to another character.
c.
Script originally offered to
Sonny Bono
and
Cher
.
d.
The episode in Batman, Trial, was supposed to be the plot of this film. Producers thought it worked better as a standard half-hour episode. Some fans disagree, feeling that Trial is begging to be a two-parter.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Speedway (1968)?
a.
Additional patrons of Musso & Frank restaurant were:
Rudolph Valentino
,
Edward G. Robinson
,
Jean Harlow
,
Claudette Colbert
,
F. Scott Fitzgerald
,
Lana Turner
,
Joan Fontaine
,
Greta Garbo
,
John Huston
,and the Rolling Stones. Known for having the best martini.
b.
Director
Norman Taurog
had his granddaughter in the film as an extra.
c.
Every shirt and fleece that Mark wears in the film is something that the real Mark Zuckerberg has worn.
d.
Betty Grable
s stepson, Tim James, natural son of big band leader
Harry James
, was an attorney working with the then Attorney General of Texas and became responsible for enticing TV personality
Marvin Zindler
of Houston to investigate the famous Chicken Ranch brothel in La Grange, Texas - eventually closing it down.
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