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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Stage Door Canteen (1943) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Stage Door Canteen (1943) - 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: Stage Door Canteen (1943).
About the movie:
"Dakota," a young soldier on a pass in New York City, visits the famed Stage Door Canteen...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stage Door Canteen (1943)?
a.
This movie features the only ever on-screen appearance of the famed actress
Katharine Cornell
.
b.
Since this film was made on a very low budget, the actresses who portray hookers in the picture wore their own costumes for their roles.
c.
The unnamed child who projectile vomited on stage at Lincoln Centers run of "Our Town" was
Shane Culkin
.
d.
This movies opening prologue states: "The American Pacific Fleet was attacked and partially destroyed by Japan on . . . Sunday Morning December 7, 1941. This attack led to the entering of the United States into World War II. All of the events and characters depicted are true to historical fact."
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stage Door Canteen (1943)?
a.
William Lucking
plays Rolly Free. Rolland "Rollie" Free was a racer of Indian Motorcycles in the 20s and 30s. He set an American motorcycle speed record by riding a Vincent HRD to a speed of 150.313 m.p.h. at the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1948.
b.
Actors
Bruce Davison
and
James Brolin
actually crossed the very narrow and wobbly rope footbridge (with safety harnesses) that is suspended across a two hundred foot deep gorge that is seen in one of the movies action sequences. However, stunt doubles took over for when the two fall off the bridge when it collapses.
c.
The sports car that Adam picks up and plays around with (with Nick and Mandy inside) is a 1990 Lotus Elan.
d.
This movie is in the public domain in many regions and as such has been widely available on video-cassette and DVD in copies of varying quality.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stage Door Canteen (1943)?
a.
The melody for the theme song ("Sincerely Yours") is taken from an Etude by
Frédéric Chopin
.
b.
His screenplay, based on his original stories, would be the last work in the film industry for Ted Sherdeman, ending a career in motion pictures that lasted about 20 years.
c.
A similar movie called
Hollywood Canteen
would follow this film a year after it was released.
Hollywood Canteen
was similar in concept but not a sequel to this film.
d.
At 49" and under a hundred pounds,
Daphne Pollard
was almost literally half the size of screen husband
Oliver Hardy
. She more than made up for the size differential in frostiness, and portrayed Mrs. Hardy in several films.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stage Door Canteen (1943)?
a.
Klaus Maria Brandauer
was originally cast as Marko Ramius, but broke his leg prior to filming. It was Brandauer who suggested his friend
Sean Connery
for the role, having known him since they appeared together in
Never Say Never Again
b.
Three of the people involved in this production - studio head
Darryl F. Zanuck
, director
Jean Negulesco
and star
Ida Lupino
- had previously worked for Warner Bros. In fact, despite the commercial success of his last Warners film,
Johnny Belinda
, Negulesco had just been fired from Warners when Zanuck signed him to Fox and offered him Road House.
c.
The photographs used in the beginning and middle of the movie were actual photographs of director
Brooks Benjamin
and
Jason Benjamin
(Roid)s father. Likewise, the video of Peter Davis playing tee-ball and his dad coaching was a home video of director Brooks Benjamins team when his dad coached.
d.
The documentary "Showbiz Goes to War" says of this movie: "In 1943, Hollywood glorified New Yorks Stage Door Canteen in a movie of the same name and the public responded to its wartime sentiments by making it a big box-office attraction because the story was sympathetic to the romantic problems of the hostesses who fell in love with soldiers scheduled to go overseas. Audiences could identify with the theme of wartime separation because they were living it themselves . . . Stage Door Canteen was pure propaganda but it pointed out the loneliness of men and women during the Second World war when Saturday night was the loneliest night of the week."
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stage Door Canteen (1943)?
a.
There are two main versions of this movie. One that runs at about 132 minutes and a shorter TV version which runs around the 93 minute mark, the latter of which is the more omnipresent version available.
b.
Patric Knowles
and
Charles Quigley
were listed in early production charts as actors, but were not seen in the film. Also,
Eddie Gribbon
is in studio records playing a bartender but was likewise not seen in the film.
c.
Producer
Henry Blanke
had originally wanted
John Garfield
in the
Tim Holt
role, but Garfield was unavailable.
Ronald Reagan
was then considered.
d.
The AN Forces Radio DJ is played by
Adrian Cronauer
, whose exploits as an Armed Forces Radio DJ in Vietnam were dramatized in
Good Morning, Vietnam
. He even gives a variation of his signature sign-on phrase: "Good morning, Shadoloo!"
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stage Door Canteen (1943)?
a.
With the song "I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen",
Irving Berlin
paid homage to the Stage Door Canteen in the movie,
This Is the Army
.
b.
James Stewart
was unusually difficult to work with throughout filming. Some wondered if he had realized how miscast he was in the movie.
c.
The first Marvel film to be distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.
d.
The two booksellers Corso encounters in Toledo are actually the same actor,
José López Rodero
. Writer/director/producer
Roman Polanski
used a motion capture rig to use the same actor twice. The same man appears again later, playing two workmen cleaning out the bookstore. Rodero was an assistant director and production manager, not a professional actor. He was hesitant to accept these multiple parts.
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