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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Best Man (1964) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Best Man (1964) Quiz
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About the movie:
The two front runners for their party's Presidential nomination, one principled and the other ruthless, vie for the ex-President's endorsement.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Best Man (1964)?
a.
Phillip Alford
told his mother that he did not want to go to the auditions for the part of Jem Finch but when his mother told him he would miss half a day of school, he immediately decided to go to them.
b.
Ronald Reagan
was rejected for a role in this film because a studio executive didnt think he had "that presidential look."
c.
The power cord on the lens adapter shorted out the camera, essentially frying the electronics. This happened on the first take of the first day of shooting.
d.
Nathan Lane
and
Ernie Sabella
were originally cast as the hyenas Banzai and Shenzi (played by
Whoopi Goldberg
and
Cheech Marin
in the film). The crew loved their performance and thought the duo would be even better as Timon and Pumbaa.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Best Man (1964)?
a.
Adapted from a stage production that opened on Mar. 31, 1960 at the Morosco Theatre in New York and ran for 520 performances.
Lee Tracy
repeated the role that he created on Broadway and was nominated for the 1960 Tony Award for Best Actor for his performance.
Melvyn Douglas
originally played William Russell in the play, the
Henry Fonda
role in the film. The play also won the 1960 Tony Award for Best Play, written by
Gore Vidal
who also penned the screenplay for the movie version.
b.
Director of Photography
Gordon Willis
shot the scene where
Bob Woodward
talks on the phone to Ken Dahlberg in one take. He used a split diopter, which allows both the foreground and background to be in focus at the same time. That take is one long zoom shot.
c.
Tom Hanks
is too tall at 61" to be an astronaut. The maximum height for an astronaut is 60".
d.
James Gandolfini
was offered the role of Detective Trupo, but turned it down.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Best Man (1964)?
a.
George Furth
s first movie.
b.
References to the "Old Ones" by Sutter Cane, along with certain representations of monsters printed on his books and latter brought to life, are allusions to The Cthulhu Mythos - a series of stories by
H.P. Lovecraft
and continued by other writers into modern times. In this sense, one could consider "In the Mouth of Madness"
John Carpenter
s own contribution to The Cthulhu Mythos.
c.
Robert Morse
s first film appearance.
d.
The film is loosely based on the experiences of Executive Producer Yuta Silverman, an Orthodox Jew who befriended a Pakistani Muslim woman through the public schools in Brooklyn.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Best Man (1964)?
a.
Project was previously shelved twice over five years. Over that time it had been developed for two different Florida directors by producer Michael Hoffman Jr. The final film, which Hoffman later directed himself in the Los Angeles area, was a complete re-write. It just shares the same title as the previous "attempts".
b.
Brodies shirt is the merged faces of three actors that tried out for the part of Brodie and didnt get it.
c.
One of the filming locations is the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. In 1968, Robert Kennedy was assassinated here during his campaign to win the Democratic Partys nomination for president.
d.
Michael Williams
, who plays Union Cane, was a real-life boxer, just as was
Tommy Morrison
(who plays Tommy Gunn). He and Morrison were to have an actual match about a month after Rocky V was released, but it had to be canceled when Williams was hurt. The match was being hyped as "The Real Cane vs. Gunn Match".
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