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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Argyle Case (1929) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Argyle Case (1929) Quiz
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About the movie:
A multimillionaire is murdered, and his will leaves all his money to a beautiful young blonde. The murdered man's son thinks something is fishy, and a homicide cop sets out to find out who was behind the man's death. Complications ensue.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Argyle Case (1929)?
a.
Brooks also met with
Esther Williams
to discuss the role of Mrs. Henderson.
b.
Burt Lancaster
was forced by United Artists to make four films for $150,000 a picture in the 1960s:
The Young Savages
,
Birdman of Alcatraz
,
The Train
and
The Hallelujah Trail
rather than his normal fee of $750,000, because of cost overruns at his production company, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, for which he was personally responsible.
c.
Vitaphone production reels #3241-3249
d.
Ginger Rogers
was first offered the leading role but turned it down.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Argyle Case (1929)?
a.
This film is presumed lost. Please check your attic.
b.
According to
Nicholas Meyer
,
Brock Peters
found Admiral Cartwrights words during the briefing scene to be so offensive he needed several takes to get them all out. In a similar vein,
Nichelle Nichols
refused to speak the line "Guess whos coming to dinner?" - an intentional reference to
Guess Whos Coming to Dinner
- which is heard prior to the Klingons visit to the Enterprise. The line was instead given to
Walter Koenig
(Chekov).
c.
This actually marked the second project Tonjia Atomic worked on with both Forrest Baum and Aiden Karamanyan. The first is titled "Awesome Ouija Board", which received a screening at the North West Film Forum in Seattle, Washington, in November of 2009.
d.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Argyle Case (1929)?
a.
Reports that screenwriter
James Agee
wrote an incoherent screenplay have been proved false by the 2004 discovery of his first draft. That document, although 293 pages in length, and manifestly overwritten (as is common with first drafts), is, scene-for-scene, the film that
Charles Laughton
directed. Likewise false are the reports that Agee was fired, related most infamously in
Robert Mitchum
s autobiography. Laughton, however much he gnashed his teeth at having such a behemoth of a text in his hands with only five weeks to go before the start of principal photography, calmly renewed Agees contract and directed him to cut it in half; after much persuasion, he did. In Laughtons stage work ("Galileo", "Cain Mutiny Court Martial", etc), the great actor demonstrated he was a script editor of genius - he could induce the most stubborn and prideful writer to cut, cut, cut, and so he did in Agees case. Later, apparently at Robert Mitchums request, Agee visited the set to settle a dispute between the star and Laughton. Letters and documents located in the archive of Agees agent Paul Kohner bear this out -- they were brought to light by Laughton biographer Simon Callow, whose excellent BFI book about "Night of the Hunter" diligently sets this part of the record straight. The Agee first draft may eventually be published, but it has been read by scholars -- most notably, Professor Jeffrey Couchman of Columbia University, who published his findings in an essay, "Credit Where Credit Is Due". To assert Agees moral right to his screen credit in no way disputes Laughtons greatness as a director -- clearly, he was as expert with writers as he was with actors -- but Agee has been belittled, and even slandered, over the years (especially in Robert Mitchums autobiography), when his contribution to "Night of the Hunter" was of primary and enduring importance. (Submitted by F. X. Feeney, film critic and author, who has read the original Agee script.)
b.
The "air pills" were stock M&Ms, while the "poi sausages" harvested from the Martian plants were pepperonis.
c.
In a separately filmed trailer, Vitaphone production reel #3059,
Thomas Meighan
discusses his talking ability.
d.
The back lot street set where Bud and Mary Sues house stands is located at Warner Brothers "Ranch" studio complex in Burbank, California. The main house was a new facade built for the movie but directly across the street, clearly seen in a number of scenes, are houses once occupied by other famous 1960s T.V. characters like Gidget, Hazel and Samantha Stevens. It is the Gidget / Hazel house that was also used as Danny Glovers house in the Lethal Weapon movies. Margarets house (where Whitey drives up in his car at night and drops her off) was used as the residence of Mrs. Kravitz in
Bewitched
and
The Partridge Family
.
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