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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Bad and the Beautiful (1952).
About the movie:
An actress, a director, and a writer are asked to help revive the career of ruthless Hollywood studio bigwig Jonathan Shields. However, all three are reluctant because they have all been used and betrayed by him in the past.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)?
a.
Marsh read Robert Rodriguezs book Rebel Without a Crew, featuring Gallardo, and began working on the screenplay for Hoodlums. Months later, Gallardo himself had read the script through a chance reply to a Screen Actors Guild ad, and signed on to play a starring role.
b.
The defensive battle that takes place during the second half of the movie is very loosely based on the Battle of Nam Dong, during which two Viet Cong battalions attacked a small outpost in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam which was defended by a mixed force of Americans, Australians and South Vietnamese troops on July 6, 1964. After the successful defense of the outpost, the commanding officer, CPT Roger Donlon, was awarded the Medal of Honor.
c.
To help build up
Judy Holliday
s image, particularly in the eyes of Columbia Pictures chief
Harry Cohn
,
Katharine Hepburn
deliberately leaked stories to the gossip columns suggesting that her performance in
Adams Rib
was so good that it had stolen the spotlight from Hepburn and
Spencer Tracy
. This got Cohns attention and Holliday won the part in
Born Yesterday
.
d.
Ned Glass
, who plays the wardrobe man in the cat costume scene, was an active member of the Living Newspaper unit of the Federal Theater project on Broadway during the Depression, an organization accused of being "leftist" and "pro-communist" by many on the political right. When Glass was blacklisted during the McCarthy "Red scare" era, he became a carpenter.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)?
a.
Although much of the dialog is verbatim from the book, director
Ben Affleck
reckoned that if he hadnt severely trimmed the novel, the film would have lasted 7 hours.
b.
"Screen Directors Playhouse" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on March 31, 1950 with
Olivia de Havilland
reprising her film role.
c.
Kirk Douglas
stands no more than 59" and wears super high lifts that almost distort his walking. If you look closely at him in long shots you can spot the lifts (its really apparent in
Seven Days in May
).
d.
The animation style was influenced primarily by
Lady and the Tramp
(for the city scenes) and
Bambi
(for the bayou scenes). Those films were, in the directors opinion, "the peak of animation in the classic Disney animation style."
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)?
a.
Although many of the names are never really seen or said throughout the movie, very careful attention was paid to ensure every member of the company was represented properly in the film. For every person that was a member of the company in real life, there was an actor on screen, most of which resembled the actual soldiers themselves.
b.
Malcolm McDowell
and
James Franco
both leapt at the chance to work on a film with Altman.
c.
The musical scoring (by
Miklós Rózsa
) is extremely scant, occurring only for the main titles, continuing through the opening sequence up to the point where Handley enters the café, and then returns some 107 minutes later when Handley and Doll return to his boyhood farm. Total scoring just under 6 minutes.
d.
The photograph of Kirk Douglas detested studio-head father, which
Barry Sullivan
straightens on the wall in this MGM film, looks exactly like
Jack L. Warner
, the head of Warner Bros. - MGMs competitor.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)?
a.
At one point in the movie, one of the turtles refer to Walker (
Stuart Wilson
) as the "Zorro dude". Wilson later starred in
The Mask of Zorro
as Zorros arch-nemesis, Don Rafael Montero.
b.
Peter Bici
,
Jeff Pang
,
Harold Hunter
, and many others from the movie are professional skateboarders on the Zoo York team.
c.
The film was originally titled "Slammer" until
Madonna
wrote and decided to use Whos That Girl as the films theme song. The song went to #1 on the Billboard chart in August 1987.
d.
The working title, "Tribute to a Bad Man", was later used as the title of an unrelated MGM feature (
Tribute to a Bad Man
). One reason for the title change was to add "beautiful", in consideration of the top-billed
Lana Turner
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)?
a.
December 8th, 1944: the date on which Karl Maurer (Werner) is captured in the film, was in real life the actual date on which Oskar Werner deserted from the Wehrmacht.
b.
The motorcycle ridden by Jet Li is a Hellcat made by Confederate Motor Company.
c.
George Arliss
and
Ivan F. Simpson
played the same roles ten years earlier in the 1922 silent version.
d.
Leo G. Carroll
s brief appearance as a "demanding" director is a thinly veiled reference to
Alfred Hitchcock
. When he first came to Hollywood, Hitchcock was under contract to producer
David O. Selznick
for years. Carroll had roles in many Hitchcock films of this era.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)?
a.
This movie holds the record for most Academy Awards won by a film not nominated for Best Picture, with five.
b.
Joe Bonomo
, who starred as one of the man-beasts, was also
Lon Chaney
s stunt double in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
.
Charles Laughton
also made a version of this classic story in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
.
c.
Perception shot on location in the dead of winter in New York City, enduring as many as 18 solid hours of exterior location shoots in 10-degree cold without so much as a bathroom or hot cup of coffee. Despite this, nowhere in the film can you see an actors breath.
d.
Began shooting late June 1968, first issued in April 1970.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)?
a.
The musician Cirex collaborated on the cover art.
b.
Lana Turner
plays an actor whose career started as a movie extra. Turner started her own career as an extra in
A Star Is Born
.
c.
The camera Dr. Pat Medford is using in the helicopter is a Stereo Realist, which is a 35mm format stereoscopic (3-D) still camera. This is both perfectly natural and ironic since the film itself was originally planned as a 3-D release.
d.
Author
Barry Longyear
said that the Dracs name, Jeriba Shigan, was meant to be a tribute to actor
James Shigeta
, who he would have liked to have seen as the Drac.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)?
a.
At one time, director
Mike Nichols
was attached to the project.
b.
The National Transportation Safety Board investigated the accident. The report was issued April 14, 1972. In the report the NTSB concluded "...the accident was the result of a descent below Minimum Descent Altitude during a non precision approach under adverse operating conditions, without visual contact with the runway environment...". The report goes on to conclude that "...two most likely explanations (for the greater descent) are (a) improper use of cockpit instrumentation data, or (b) and altimetry system error."
c.
The sequence of the nurse assisting Dr. Krankheit put on his latex operating gloves is a clever reverse film of pulling the gloves off.
d.
Scenes in the film were based on the career of producer
David O. Selznick
.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)?
a.
The character played by
Kathleen Freeman
was based on
Alfred Hitchcock
s wife,
Alma Reville
.
b.
In the photo Jim takes inside the casino, the woman standing next to Mr. Hunter appears to be
Bess Flowers
.
c.
Exteriors for this film (particularly the trip to "Adobe Flat") were filmed in and around Lone Pine, California (a location often used by other films). The Japanese farmer central to the plot was (supposedly) sent to an (unnamed) internment camp after Pearl Harbor. Coincidentally, Lone Pine is just five miles from Manzanar, the best known internment camp. Present day visitors may inspect both the Alabama Hills and Manzanar.
d.
The opening scene shows Anna and her current boyfriend getting into a car whose license plates have no state on them. The words "Great Lakes" were removed from the plate so that it would not confuse the audience.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)?
a.
This project was originally going to be directed by
Chuck Russell
, but he dropped out.
b.
Some cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear or were not identifiyable in the movie . These were (with their character names):
M.J. Frankovich
(Golf broadcaster) and
Charles Lacey
(Golf pro).
c.
When science teacher Bob Roberts (
Dennis Hopper
) returns from the 1960s, hes wearing the same costume that Hopper wore when he played Billy in
Easy Rider
.
d.
The scene showing the production of the fictional low budget horror film was based on how
Val Lewton
produced
Cat People
.
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