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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Addams Family (1991) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Addams Family (1991) - Part (3) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Addams Family (1991).
About the movie:
Con artists plan to fleece the eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long lost Uncle Fester.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Addams Family (1991)?
a.
The film was being made under the working title "Cheap" because it was a cheap little movie. The final title was "The Down and Dirty Duck", but
Roger Corman
(whose production company was distributing the film) released it with the short title "Dirty Duck" on all posters and advertisements to cash in on the recent trend of X-rated animated films which started with
Fritz the Cat
. The title on the film itself was never changed.
b.
As
Chris Rock
narrates the movie, he compares the real Gusto to Nino Brown. Nino Brown was the main drug lord in the movie
New Jack City
in which Rock co-starred as a crack addict.
c.
A largely complete copy of this film is held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Although titled in two languages, neither is English.
d.
Originally the "Mamushka" scene was supposed to be longer, with a full song describing brotherly love, and both Gomez and Fester naming other famous brothers. Test screenings revealed that audiences felt this song brought the movie to a stand-still. The film shows an edited version with only Gomez and Fester dancing, and Gomez throwing the knives at Fester. The full song can be found on the motion picture soundtrack.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Addams Family (1991)?
a.
David Freedman
s sketch "A Day at the Brokers" appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, which opened on Broadway on 30 January 1936. It had 115 performances and starred
Fanny Brice
,
Bob Hope
and
Eve Arden
.
b.
By the time this movie was made, all of the adult cast members from the original series had died except
John Astin
, who had played Gomez. Astin ironically also outlived the movie Gomez,
Raul Julia
, who died in 1994.
c.
Robert Duvall
s character, Col. Bill Killgore, was loosely based on author and syndicated columnist Col.
David H. Hackworth
s exploits in Viet Nam. Hackworth, born and raised in Southern California, commanded a helicopter Air Cavalry brigade in which pilots actually wore Civil War campaign hats and flew in helicopters with crossed swords painted on them.
d.
Film debut of
George Chakiris
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Addams Family (1991)?
a.
The play opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 2 October 1929 and closed in March 1930 after 173 performances. The opening night cast included
Arthur Byron
as Brady,
Russell Hardie
as Graham,
Anita Kerry
as Mary Brady,
Burr Caruth
,
Ethel Griffies
and
Walter Kingsford
. Galloway was played by Henry Crossen.
b.
Jami Gertz
s screen debut.
c.
The Broadway musical version of "The Addams Family" opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on April 8, 2010 and starred
Nathan Lane
and
Bebe Neuwirth
.
d.
Jane Seymour
auditioned for the role of Betsy. Both
Glenn Close
and
Susan Sarandon
also auditioned for the role but turned it down.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Addams Family (1991)?
a.
Most of the shots in the movie are very long and Steadicam-based. The shot of the three girls walking through the cafeteria is 5 minutes and 19 seconds long.
b.
Tony Beckley
s last film.
c.
The scene when Morticia trims the blooms off the roses is a direct reference to the television series. Also when the Addams family are evicted from the house Morticia is carrying a plant. Though shorter, the plant is identical to Cleopatra Morticias meat eating, African strangler plant.
d.
The Professors car is a simplified version of the Studebaker Avanti, which was produced in 1962 and 1963.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Addams Family (1991)?
a.
Merchant Ivory Productions faced strong objections from Francoise Gilot and her son, Claude, when making this film. Claude Picasso met once with the Merchant-Ivory team but then strongly objected to the making of the film, petitioning the studio to stop production. Gilot had written her story in the book "Life with Picasso" in 1964, which Picasso had tried to stop from being published; the filmmakers were unable to acquire the rights. Instead they used
Arianna Huffington
s "Picasso: Creator and Destroyer" as the basis for
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
s script.
b.
At the time this was in production, Rome was building an extension of its subway system. Some of the excavated dirt was piled on the back lot at Cinecitta.
Eugène Lourié
made arrangements to use the 70-foot mound of dirt as one of the miniatures of Krakatoa.
c.
One of the original villain groups being considered was a pack of jackals.
d.
Mercedes McNab
, who plays the Girl Scout selling her cookies, went on to play Amanda Buckman in
Addams Family Values
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Addams Family (1991)?
a.
Throughout the film both
Tommy Lee Jones
and
Benicio Del Toro
wear custom made buffalo leather moccasins by Catskill Mountain Moccasins of Woodstock, New York.
b.
Vitaphone production reels #2841-2847
c.
Dedicated to
Joe DAmato
.
d.
The splash of tar from the opening gag is visible on the front of the Addams house through the rest of the movie.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Addams Family (1991)?
a.
Brian De Palma
took the idea of the train station scene from the 1925 Russian movie
Bronenosets Potyomkin
(better known as The Battleship Potemkin). The sailors who get caught in the crossfire in
The Untouchables
are a tribute to Potemkin.
b.
Originally planned as a direct-to-video release under the working title, "The First Doug Movie...EVER!", however, based on the box office success of
The Rugrats Movie
, Disney decided it was best to give the film a theatrical release.
c.
Never officially released.
d.
Barry Sonnenfeld
s directorial debut.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Addams Family (1991)?
a.
James Rebhorn
and
Thomas McCarthy
both appeared in two espionage thrillers of 2009 that starred
Clive Owen
. Rebhorn in
The International
. McCarthy in
Duplicity
.
b.
The huge figure of a naked man wielding a club which is created by the Indian sorcerer is an accurate representation of the ancient Celtic chalk carving known as the Cerne Abbas Giant, which is 60 metres in height and is located on a hillside overlooking the village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, England.
c.
Anthony Hopkins
turned down the role of Uncle Fester.
d.
There were no changing trailers. On weekdays, the cast arrived from work and pulled the costumes on over their street clothes. On the weekends, they often endured shoots that last up to 48 hours.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Addams Family (1991)?
a.
To make
Anjelica Huston
s eyes look slanted like the original Morticia, the make-up artists had to attach stings with spirit gum to the outside corners of her eyes and anchor the stings on her head.
b.
The filmmakers casted
Katy Brand
without knowing it was her: "They had done a blind test where they took certain voices from previous interviews and matched them with the character. They liked my voice without even knowing who it was, and when they found out it was me, they thought that would work out. My personality was just a plus!"
c.
Various historians have tried to find proof that the awning in the Coliseum really was used as a cooling system.
d.
The first "Original Series" film to be rated PG-13 in the US and 12 in the UK. All of the other films starring the Original Series characters were rated PG, in the US and 12 in the UK, respectively, except for
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
, which was rated G in the US and a U in the UK, and
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
which originally received a 15 certificate (it has since been reclassified by the BBFC as a 12).
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Addams Family (1991)?
a.
Inside the newly updated photo-book, one of the pictures of the couple is of them in a car, looking over their shoulders (Carl in the drivers). The pose they are in, as well as the car is a recreation of a famous ghost photo. In the picture, the man was posing for his brand new car, and in the passenger seat was the ghostly image of his mother.
b.
David Levy
, who executive produced
The Addams Family
, filed a lawsuit against Paramount after the film was released. He claimed that many Addams Family character "trademarks" used in the film, including Gomez fascination with blowing up model trains, the characters of Thing and Cousin Itt, Lurchs fondness for playing the harpsichord, and the passionate tangos danced by Morticia and Gomez, were original ideas created by him exclusively for the TV series and not part of the original
Charles Addams
cartoons, for which Paramount had purchased the movie rights. The lawsuit was later settled out of court.
c.
Pre-release advertisements for the film credited the title as "Lil Darlins", the logo designed in cowboy rope tied together in a heart shape.
d.
The photos of the 1984 attack were still shots of a re-shoot.
James Cameron
had a hallway set built, dressed
Arnold Schwarzenegger
in his original Terminator outfit and had him recreate one take, from which they took the pictures. (Check out Arnolds hair and facial structure to spot the telltale signs.)
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