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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).
About the movie:
Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)?
a.
Premiered at the famed Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
b.
Theres a deleted scene that appears only in the theatrical trailer on the DVD. Roy looks to Caine before fighting Hammmerhead Hagen and says, "He seems awful mad... did you tell him he was black?"
c.
Writer
Robert E. Sherwood
had been the head of the Office of War Information during the Second World War, one of the reasons why
Samuel Goldwyn
approached him to write the script.
d.
None of the stage musicals original songs were used in the film version.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)?
a.
The hotel sets for "Weekend at the Waldorf" were also used for
Her Highness and the Bellboy
, another 1945 MGM movie.
b.
Myrna Loy
receives top billing as she was the most successful female star at the time.
c.
Director Jim Mallon makes a brief cameo as a local speaking to the sheriff.
d.
The "head in a vise" scene is taken from an anecdote in the book "Casino" unrelated to the main story, describing mob enforcer
Tony Spilotro
s interrogation of a low-level gangster named Billy McCarthy, who had committed the unauthorized murder on the Scalvo Brothers, a pair of high-ranking mobsters within Spilotros crime organization. Trying to get McCarthy to give up the identity of the man who helped him kill the Scalvos, Spilotro first beat McCarthy, then stabbed him in the testicles with an icepick, before finally shoving his head in a vise and crunching it to five inches wide; McCarthy didnt give up the name of his partner, Jimmy Miraglia, until Spilotro tightened the vise in such a way that one of Billys eyes popped out. Amazingly, McCarthy survived the head-crushing long enough for Spilotro to kill him by dousing him in lighter fluid and setting him ablaze. Spilotro would remark later in life, "Billy McCarthy was the toughest guy I ever met." (Jimmy Miraglia was subsequently shot dead and put in the trunk of his own car along with Billys corpse).
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)?
a.
William Wyler
pattered the fictional Boone City after Cincinnati, Ohio.
b.
All the footage of the principal actors was shot on sound stages at General Service Studios (now Hollywood Center Studios). Only the second unit filming dinosaurs and sloth in Palmdale, Corriganville, and the beach, were on location. All shots of the principals and monsters in the same shot were achieved with rear projection effects.
c.
The reason for
Jack Black
s version of the
Ghost Busters
theme song was simply because the legal department didnt have the rights to
Ray Parker Jr.
s song yet.
d.
Several cast and crew members all got a tattoo as a memento of making this movie.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)?
a.
Trey Moore actually received a black eye and a gash in his forehead while shooting the action scene in the barn.
b.
The role of Lt. Dan Kaffee was originally played on Broadway by
Tom Hulce
. He was later replaced by
Timothy Busfield
. The role of Col. Nathan Jessup was played by
Stephen Lang
, and also by
Michael OHare
. The only actor from the Broadway cast to reprise his role in the film was
Joshua Malina
, a close friend of
Aaron Sorkin
s, who plays
Jack Nicholson
s assistant in one scene.
c.
Harold Russell
s character was originally written as a war veteran suffering from combat trauma. This was changed to a physical disability when Russell joined the cast.
d.
An earlier version of the script was called "Old Friends". It was listed as one of the best unproduced screenplays by Movieline magazine and had
Kevin Kline
and
Mike Newell
attached at one point to star in and direct it, respectively.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)?
a.
Due to the various delays with shooting in the jungle (including a hurricane that wiped out a set) the original 15 million dollar budget rose to 21 million.
b.
Eli Roth
hired real street kids to play the Bubble Gum Gang.
c.
Touring back-up singer and session-vocalist Jerry Whitman, who provided the singing voice for Peter Finch, was under obligation not to reveal his vocal participation. "They didnt want me capitalizing on it or putting out a press release," Whitman now says. "But the movie turned out to be such a bomb, I dont think anyone would care if I talk about it now."
d.
For his performance as Homer Parrish,
Harold Russell
became the only actor to win two Academy Awards for the same role.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)?
a.
The novel "Glory for Me" by
MacKinlay Kantor
, upon which
Robert E. Sherwood
based his screenplay, is written in blank verse.
b.
The entire crew was comprised of students enrolled in the Lifton Institute For Media Skills. Most alternated into key positions during the shoot.
c.
The films release date was originally the day that an adaptation of another emerald hero was to be released,
Green Lantern
.
d.
The château that Charlie Brown, Linus, and Snoopy stay in is based on the château that
Charles M. Schulz
was billeted at for six weeks in World War II. This is the Manoir de Malvoisine, near Le Héron. In the film, the estate is called Mal Voisin.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)?
a.
Ed Harris
had to gain about 30 lbs. to do the later scenes in the movie when
Jackson Pollock
is an alcoholic.
b.
It took Tawd six months to draw all the animations by hand.
c.
One of the very first films to be selected by the Library of Congress to go into their newly created National Film Registry in 1989.
d.
Dennis Haysbert
was shuttling back and forth from the east coast to Los Angeles during the production of this movie, because of his commitment to TV show
24
, that was filming at the same time.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)?
a.
To add to the hidden puns throughout this film, there is a book placed near a phone during one scene:
Allen Ginsberg
s "Howl".
b.
Last live action cinema film of
Suzanne Pleshette
.
c.
To avoid awkwardness when he first met his fellow cast members,
Harold Russell
made a point of reaching out with his hooks and taking their hands, thus putting them at ease with his disability.
d.
Tyler Mane is the tallest actor to portray Michael Myers at a height of 69.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)?
a.
The real Tsutomu Shimomura has a small cameo in the movie as an anonymous hacker. In the scene when Wong (Shimomura) holds the conference to announce that his software has been stolen, Logue (Lowe) heckles him about it. Sitting to Logues right (to the left if you are viewing it), is the real Tsutomu Shimomura.
b.
Mia Farrow
and
Bob Balaban
were originally set to play the roles of
Dianne Wiest
and
Tom Wilkinson
s.
c.
In a scene at Butchs bar, Homer asks Butch if he would play a song for him. "How about Lazy River?" Homer asks. "Remember that?"
Hoagy Carmichael
, who plays Butch, composed "Lazy River."
d.
Ward Bond
s death scene was filmed from a distance because it was actually a double. Bond had already left the set to be back on location for
Wagon Train
.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)?
a.
Beau Bridges flogging, which occurs during the opening credits, ranks 57th in the book: Lash! The Hundred Great Scenes of Men Being Whipped in the Movies.
b.
The first feature film role of
James Caviezel
.
c.
Came sixth in the UKs Ultimate Film, in which films were placed in order of how many seats they sold at cinemas
d.
Debra Winger
actually left the powerful CAA agency over this film. She felt that since all the major cast and crew members were with CAA at the time, they did not hire the best people, they hired only clients who could get the film made.
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