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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951).

About the movie: An alien lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)?
a.		Al Pacino was helped by a school for the blind in his preparation for this role. He said that he made himself appear blind by not allowing his eyes to focus on anything.
b.		The sight of the planes flying in low formation over the Strip during filming caused a number of Las Vegans to call the police.
c.		Patricia Neal has admitted in interviews that she was completely unaware during the filming that the film would turn out so well and become one of the great science-fiction classics of all time. She assumed it would be just another one of the then-current and rather trashy flying saucer films that were popular at the time, and she found it difficult to keep a straight face while saying her lines.
d.		When Jimmy says to Brooks, "You know what we get to do today? We get to play baseball," it is a reference to a deleted scene, where Brooks tells Jimmy how his father said the same thing before every game he would play as a boy.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)?
a.		All of the scenes of Helen Benson and Klaatu in the taxi also feature footage from the second unit of Washington, DC as we see background vehicles in the rear and side windows of the taxi.
b.		Signed to Twentieth Century-Fox since October 35, 1939, Betty Grable informed the studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck during production that she would not commit to the remaining three years of her latest contract. On June 3, 1953, a studio press release announced the official split. Returning only once to Fox, Betty would star in How to Be Very, Very Popular, a vehicle in which Marilyn refused to appear and was replaced by Sheree North. Two unfulfilled proposals to have Miss Grable film again at Fox were the mother role (subsequently played by Ginger Rogers) in Teenage Rebel and then in 1964, another mom part in a project ultimately canceled named "High Heels."
c.		The original title of this film was "Cloak and Diaper".
d.		Both of Director Lee Fannings grandfathers worked in some capacity in the Civilian Conservation Corps in Alabama.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)?
a.		The film is titled after the anthology comic book series, published in the 1950s by the legendary William M. Gaines and his company EC Comics, which also published Tales from the Crypt and Mad Magazine. The plot of the film is loosely based on the story "Made of the Future" by Al Feldstein, from the fifth issue. Producer Joel Silver had acquired all EC film rights in the early 1980s.
b.		Piper Laurie revealed in 1997 that she never even bothered to see the finished film because she heard it was terrible, and that she and Frederic Forrest would constantly sit through the entire shooting laughing.
c.		David Letterman jumped on board as a producer because he said that Amy Sedaris is one of the few people in this world that can actually make him laugh.
d.		One of the reasons that Michael Rennie was cast as Klaatu was because he was generally unknown to American audiences, and would be more readily accepted as an "alien" than a more recognizable actor.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)?
a.		This was billed as Sharon Tates film debut by producer Martin Ransohoff, who had Sharon under contract. Tate had already appeared in films, including an unbilled bit in Ransohoffs own The Americanization of Emily and in the 1966 British horror film Eye of the Devil.
b.		The indelible guitar "wah-wah" riff on Isaac Hayes Oscar-winning song - "Theme from Shaft" - was played by Charles Skip Pitts.
c.		American Film Institute Catalog erroneously reverses the role names of the characters played by Olsen and Johnson.
d.		The role of Gort was played by Lock Martin, the doorman from Graumans Chinese Theater, because he was extremely tall. However, he was unable to pick up Helen because he was so weak and had to be aided by wires (in shots from the back where hes carrying her, its actually a lightweight dummy in his arms). He also had difficulty with the heavy Gort suit and could only stay in it for about a half-hour at a time.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)?
a.		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.
b.		The "bullet-proof cup" scene was shot just outside an actual prison, and while Steve Lemme was standing there, wearing just a cup, prisoners were pressed against the fence yelling at him.
c.		In the original story, "Farewell to the Master", the robots name was Gnut, not Gort.
d.		Billy Franey was listed as a cast member in a Hollywood Reporter production chart, but he was not seen in the film.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)?
a.		In the original story, the robot, Gort, was the master - Klaatu was merely one of a series of doubles, or maybe clones, that died after a short time.
b.		Daniel Craig was a fan of the books before he was involved with the movie, as was Dakota Blue Richards who has read the books and saw the National Theatre stage play.
c.		After considering Seena Owen, Gloria Swanson, Gertrude Lawrence, Vilma Bánky and Raquel Meller for the role of Mary Magdelene, Cecil B. DeMille chose Jacqueline Logan after she told him, "I don;t want to play her as a bad woman, but as a woman who doesnt know the difference between right and wrong."
d.		The interior shots of the main hall were filmed in the "Great Hall" at the Appearel Mart in Dallas Texas.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)?
a.		At the Spike TV 2009 Scream Awards, Star Trek won for best movie. William Shatner accepted the award, despite having absolutely nothing to do with the movie. In the acceptance speech, he jokingly accepted it as director of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (widely regarded as the worst Star Trek movie).
b.		The second Vitaphone feature, with music and sound effects, after Don Juan.
c.		To give the appearance of seamlessness to the space ship, the crack around the door was filled with putty, then painted over. When the door opened the putty was torn apart, making the door seem to simply appear.
d.		Director/writer David Worth says that he was hired, shipped to Italy, and told to begin work on the film.... before he ever had a script. He was reportedly shown a poster for the film and told to make a film that would go with it.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)?
a.		Malia Scotch Marmo did some rewrites on the final script but remains uncredited.
b.		They had to shoot Professor Xs pristine Cerebro set first before distressing it to show Strykers cut-price version.
c.		Donowitz talks about "Teddy Ballgame" in Chapter 2. This is one of the many nicknames for Ted Williams, who in addition (arguably) to being the greatest hitter who ever lived, was also a war hero who interrupted his baseball career twice to serve in WWII and the Korean War.
d.		Doubles were used for Klaatu and Bobby in long shots of them walking around Washington, DC. In reality, none of the principal cast ever went to Washington, and the scenes with Klaatu and Bobby at the Lincoln Memorial and at Arlington Cemetery were shot in front of background screens using footage shot by the second unit crew in Washington, DC.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)?
a.		In the mid-80s, Dino De Laurentiis considered a sequel to King Kong that would have had him going head-to-head with an Orca.
b.		The contacts on The Creeper made Jonathan Breck blind whenever he had to wear them.
c.		There were two Gort suits: one that laced up down the back for when he had his front to the camera, another that laced up in the front for the shots of his back.
d.		Cliff Robertson was originally cast as Arthur Bishop, with Jeff Bridges as Steve McKenna.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)?
a.		This film is presumed lost. Please check your attic.
b.		The role of Klaatu was originally intended for Claude Rains.
c.		Jean-Luc and Sabrina, the two six-foot steel sculptures adorning the Verses stage, were created by production designer and Los Angeles sculptor Cynthia Minet.
d.		There are multiple scenarios in the script which were inspired by actual events and stories that co-writer Wolfgang Meyer grew up with in the New York City area.

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