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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Great Caruso (1951) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Great Caruso (1951) Quiz
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About the movie:
Loosely traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Caruso (1951)?
a.
Conductor
Richard Hageman
, who played Carlo Santi in the film, actually knew
Enrico Caruso
and led several performances with him at the Metropolitan Opera, including the 1918 War Relief Benefit re-created in the film.
b.
The film is presumed lost.
c.
When Ahchoo first appears, he and Robin fight Prince Johns knights with a style Robin calls "Praying Mantis". Praying Mantis is an actual martial art - a style of Kung Fu emphasizing grabbing your opponent and bringing him to the ground - but it is nothing like the slapstick techniques that Robin and Ahchoo use.
d.
This was the last American screen appearance of
Bebe Daniels
, who, in 1910, began playing child parts at the age of nine. Post Hollywood, she would act in just five English films released from 1936 to 1955. In all of these features but one,
The Return of Carol Deane
, Miss Daniels co-starred with her husband and partner on British records, radio and television, Ben Lyon.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Caruso (1951)?
a.
The writer of this story and script was the little boy featured in the story who later went on to serve in the United States Army during another war.
b.
This was the next-to-last completed MGM film under
Louis B. Mayer
s supervision (the last was
Show Boat
, released in the summer of that year). A proxy fight soon after would see him removed as the head of the studio he helped to found. He was replaced by his former chief of production,
Dore Schary
. Mayer ran MGM for 27 years, Schary for barely 6.
c.
The total budget for the film was $320,000 - $200,000 was put up by United Artists, with the rest raised by producer
James B. Harris
. This was a paltry budget for a feature even by 1950s Hollywood standards.
d.
Sean Connery
was, at one point, offered the role for Gandalf, but he turned it down due to reportedly "not understanding the story".
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Caruso (1951)?
a.
This film was hardly reviewed. Of the major newspapers of that time, Film Daily reviewed it on 10 April 1933, and Variety reviewed it on 4 November 1936 after it opened in New York City.
b.
In October 1951, MGM was distributing this film on the drive-in theater circuit on a double bill with the Lassie movie
The Painted Hills
.
c.
A lantern manufacturer wrote to the studio insisting that the fire must have been started by a lamp, not a lantern. They claimed a lantern would extinguish itself if tipped over, but that claim was found to be false by an actual experiment performed by two assistants at Twentieth Century-Fox. Soon after the fire started, the barn where the fire was supposed to have originated was thoroughly investigated, and no evidence of a lamp or lantern was found.
d.
Paul L. Smith
s voice was dubbed in by another actor during post-production.
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