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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938).
About the movie:
Marco Polo travels from Venice to Peking, where he quickly discovers spaghetti and gunpowder and falls in love with the Emperor's daughter...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)?
a.
The Fishermens Memorial at the end of the film is a replica of the one in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The actual memorial can be seen at the beginning of
The Perfect Storm
, another movie about Gloucester fishermen.
b.
The last film of David Lodge.
c.
In
Sean Penn
and
Tim Robbins
s only previous feature together -
Dead Man Walking
- both were respectively Oscar-nominated as Best Actor and Best Director. On this one, both were victorious as actors.
d.
John Cromwell
began directing on June 15th, 1937 but soon left the project after just five days of shooting, due to "differences of opinion on story treatment," according to a press release. The films producer
Samuel Goldwyn
then attempted to rope in
William Wyler
for the job. Wyler wanted nothing to do with it, so Goldwyn persuaded
John Ford
to take over for a few days until he could find a permanent replacement for Cromwell.
Archie Mayo
was eventually brought in to finish the picture.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)?
a.
Zombie 87s scripted line of "Take us north," was originally recorded as "We go north," due to the actors habit of ad-libbing. It was changed in post to match the original quote from Dawn of the Dead at the writers insistence.
b.
Lana Turner
later recalled in a
Gary Cooper
biography that her "fancy black oriental wig" had been glued around her face with spirit gum, while she felt extremely uncomfortable in her costumes, and worse yet, had her eyebrows shaved off, at the insistence of
Samuel Goldwyn
himself, and replaced them with false slanting black ones.
c.
The role of Sal was initially written for a male actor. During the third round of auditions, however, a stunning and talented actress by the name of Gina Di Tullio walked in and got the producers to thinking about a change in gender for the movies resident "bad guy." After she read from the script with Chris Borden during a callback session, the director ran through the script and modified all of the gender-specific pronouns. Not a single line of Sals was changed.
d.
The song "The Flying Circus" is featured in Epcots Fountain of Nations soundtrack at the
Walt Disney
World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)?
a.
The entire town of Mount Dora, Florida, was painted pink for this picture.
b.
To prepare for her role as a slave,
Oprah Winfrey
went through a 24-hour simulation of the experience of slavery, which included being tied up and blindfolded and left alone in the woods.
c.
This marked the screen debut of
Samuel Goldwyn
s protégé
Sigrid Gurie
, whom he publicly labeled "the Norwegian Garbo--even though she was born in Brooklyn, NY.
d.
In Caseys apartment, there are at least 7 smiley face items, including her nightie, a clock, a button by the window, and several others.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)?
a.
One of the actresses who tried out for the role of Annabel was
Debra Winger
.
b.
Robert Kazinsky
was cast as Fili and had filmed a few scenes, but left the project and returned to England about a month after filming started due to personal reasons. He was replaced by
Dean OGorman
.
c.
The film was received poorly at the box-office, becoming the biggest flop up to that time for both
Gary Cooper
and
Samuel Goldwyn
; it was estimated that the picture lost close to $700,000.
d.
Uncredited second-unit cameraman
Irmin Roberts
invented the famous "zoom out and track in" shot (now sometimes called "contra-zoom" or "trombone shot") to convey the sense of vertigo to the audience. The view down the mission stairwell cost $19,000 for just a couple of seconds of screen time.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)?
a.
Based on a true story, over 28,000 Greek children were forcibly taken from their parents and sent to various Communist countries, before the end of the Greek Civil War in 1949. The Greek Civil War was the first battle of the war against Communism and it was an important victory for the Allied Forces.
b.
Mrs. Ng
as "Chen Tsus Mother" is in studio records/casting call lists, but the character did not appear in the movie. Because of period and location makeup, some of the other actors are difficult to recognize.
c.
Katharine Hepburn
credited
John Ford
with saving her life one day on the set. They were shooting a scene of Hepburn on horseback when the horse she was riding kept going unexpectedly. Ford yelled at Hepburn to duck just before she was about to collide with a low branch.
d.
According to a 2004 biography Andy Warhol approached Doors singer
Jim Morrison
to star opposite Nico in the lead role (the project was at that time titled "Fuck"). Morrison reluctantly agreed but was talked out of it by the Doors management and sent drinking buddy Tom Baker along to the shoot instead.
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