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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Blue Dahlia (1946) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Blue Dahlia (1946) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Blue Dahlia (1946).
About the movie:
An ex-bomber pilot is suspected of murdering his unfaithful wife.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Blue Dahlia (1946)?
a.
One of
James Whale
s criteria for taking up the directors reins on the film was that he would have complete artistic freedom. This was easily achieved, as Universals studio head
Carl Laemmle Jr.
was vacationing in Europe at the time.
b.
Originally Raymond Chandler intended Buzz, the character played by William Bendix, to be the murderer of Helen Morrison. But the U.S. Navy reacted so strongly against the depiction of a service member becoming homicidal due to brain injuries suffered in combat that they threatened never again to cooperate with ANY Paramount production if that ending was left in the film, so Chandler reluctantly rewrote his script to make another character the killer.
c.
According to a printout read by a policeman, Kersey lives at 8200 Wiltshire Boulevard in western Los Angeles.
d.
This Italian-language drama was shot in northern New Jersey with members of a Sicilian-American theater company. It was made for the large Italian-speaking population of the northeastern US.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Blue Dahlia (1946)?
a.
Just after the fight scene between Alan Ladd and the two thugs that kidnapped him, one of the thugs is seen soaking his broken leg in a round tub. That wasnt in the script; the actor had actually broken his leg filming the fight and, without consulting screenwriter Raymond Chandler, director George Marshall rewrote the script to have the character break his leg as well.
b.
Graffiti on the bridge the Blues Brothers hide their car under during the show reads, "John *heart* Deborah." This is a reference to director
John Landis
and his wife, costume designer
Deborah Nadoolman
.
c.
The 27 September 1993 draft of the screenplay lists
Matt Greenberg
as a writer. He received no credit for the final film.
d.
Twentieth Century Fox registered the internet domain SIMPSONSMOVIE.COM on 22 April 1997, nine years before the movie finally was green lighted.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Blue Dahlia (1946)?
a.
Murray Hamilton
was the only star who was
Steven Spielberg
s first choice and was the only actor considered for the role of Mayor of Amity.
b.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on April 21, 1949 with
Veronica Lake
and
Alan Ladd
reprising their film roles.
c.
According to actress Lee Purcells interview, she was chosen for the main role (to be teamed with Michael Douglas) among dozen of other young girl, by
Steve McQueen
himself whose company produced this movie.
d.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
and
Ethan Hawke
are both in real-life old friends of
Marisa Tomei
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Blue Dahlia (1946)?
a.
The tool shed sequence was filmed after principal shooting on the movie had wrapped. After a rough cut was shown to a test audience, several people thought that the picture needed more action so this particular sequence was added to the movie.
b.
Mike Figgis
: The gangster staring down Ben at the gas station outside of Las Vegas.
c.
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.
d.
On the DVD, 10 minutes of silent makeup tests of
Jack Benny
and
Walter Matthau
are included. Clapboard says the date was 9/18/74 and the cameraman was
Joseph F. Biroc
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Blue Dahlia (1946)?
a.
Commercials director
Noam Murro
was set to direct, but dropped out of the project citing creative differences with Dreamworks Studio.
b.
Another resident of the Lido Apartments was
Percy Kilbride
, star of the "Ma and Pa Kettle" movies (1949-55).
c.
Elizabeth Short got the nickname "The Black Dahlia" from a bartender at a Long Beach bar she frequented.
The Blue Dahlia
was playing at a theatre down the street, and the bartender got the name wrong. Elizabeth picked up on that and kept the nickname, adding a flower to her hair to complete the transformation. She was murdered the next year (1947).
d.
Since the last two days of the shoot were the scenes set in the coffee shop, they were a nice change of pace for the actors and the crew. All the scenes set in Jeffs house were grueling for everyone.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Blue Dahlia (1946)?
a.
The teaser poster for Wrecked, which shows Adrien Brodys face behind broken glass was inspired by the poster for Straw Dogs. The writer and director created the poster themselves using Adobe Photoshop. The films distributors liked the poster so much, they used it as is.
b.
When
Alan Ladd
was called up for military service, production on the movie (then still in the screenplay stage) had to be rapidly stepped up. According to a near-legendary story, screenwriter
Raymond Chandler
offered to finish the screenplay by working drunk: in exchange for sacrificing his health to produce the requisite pages on time, Chandler was permitted to work at home (a privilege rarely granted to screenwriters) and was provided two chauffeured cars, one to convey the completed pages to the studio and the other for his wife. Chandler turned the script in on time. Many now believe the "drunkenness" was simply a ruse by Chandler to wrangle extraordinary privileges from the desperate studio.
c.
The UK DVD release has been re-edited to remove all instances of horses being trip-wired. According to the British Board of Film Classification, such a tactic contravenes the 1937 Cinematograph Act which forbids the ill-treatment of any animal in the making of a film (although some stuntmen claim that the method can be performed without harming any horses).
d.
The Port Chester crest seen on the gate in the opening sequence and on banners in town has the Latin phrase "sic mentem proba di rectamus". Roughly translated it means: "So with the mind becomes a good woman charged with the gods".a
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Blue Dahlia (1946)?
a.
Many of the cars in the film have a "B" sticker on the windshields. This is a reflection of the wartime rationing of gasoline. Gas was rationed primarily to save rubber, because Japan had occupied Indochina, Malaysia, and Indonesia. (There was a shortage of gas on the East Coast until a pipeline from Texas was constructed to replace the transport of crude oil by sea.) The B sticker was the second lowest category, entitling the holder to only 8 gallons of gas a week.
b.
The original lyrics to "Lets Begin" include the lines "We have necked / Till were wrecked", but the censors demanded that this be changed.
c.
Casanovas long fingernails were
Claire Forlani
s idea.
d.
Jerry Goldsmith
wrote the soundtrack for
Capricorn One
as well as
Star Trek: Insurrection
. If you listen to the Insurrection soundtrack at about 3:30-3:45 minutes, you will hear the distinct theme of Capricorn One.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Blue Dahlia (1946)?
a.
Executive Producer
Steven Spielberg
arranged for
Shia LaBeouf
to be on the casting shortlist for this film because he was impressed by LaBeoufs work on
Holes
. Disturbia, in turn, convinced Spielberg that LaBeouf could handle the action starring roles in
Transformers
and
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
.
b.
Trevor Goddard
passed out during filming at the sight of fake blood gushing out of a womans arm that he was to cut. The story made it into TV Guides Hollywood Grapevine Showbiz Buzz and Celebrity Scoop October 21-27, 2000
c.
In
Kaijû sôshingeki
(a.k.a. Destroy All Monsters), Mothra appears only in her larvae stage, never shown as a fully-grown moth. In this film the opposite is true, with Mothra only appearing as a fully-grown moth, never seen in her larvae stage.
d.
Raymond Chandler
, who wrote the screenplay, claimed that producer
John Houseman
was in "the doghouse" and director
George Marshall
"was a stale old hack who had been directing for thirty years without once having achieved any real distinction", so Chandler went on to the Paramount set to direct some of the scenes himself.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Blue Dahlia (1946)?
a.
Shortly after this film released, a young woman named
Elizabeth Short
was murdered in Los Angeles. The local newspapers dubbed the case the "Black Dahlia" as a morbid twist on this films title. Unlike the movie, the Short murder case is still unsolved.
b.
Famed cinematographer
Roger Deakins
was brought on to consult on the films highly sophisticated lighting schemes. Much of the films first half bears an atmospheric, sepia-hued look that characterizes much of Deakins film work.
c.
A nitrate print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television archives, and is not listed for preservation.
d.
Alfred Gough
and
Miles Millar
s initial script draft had Spider-Man doing battle with Doctor Octopus, the Lizard and Black Cat.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Blue Dahlia (1946)?
a.
The drive-in theater was constructed specifically for this film. It was built in Monument Valley, and demolished immediately after filming. No films were ever screened there.
b.
Press previews for the film in April, 1936 ran 85 minutes, but 15 minutes were cut for the released film in August, 1936.
Billy Gilbert
s role as "Fur Trader" did not survive the cut. It is not known if the preview print was shown anywhere to paying customers.
c.
Some sources erroneously include
Harold J. Stone
in an undetermined, uncredited minor role; Stone does not appear in this film in any capacity. At the time it was filmed (in Hollywood), he was in New York City appearing on the stage in a prominent role in "A Bell for Adano" (1944-1945).
d.
The Russian spaceship
Aleksei Leonov
was named for the cosmonaut who was the first man to perform an extravehicular activity (spacewalk).
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