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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Great Ziegfeld (1936) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

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About the movie: This biography follows the ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld, famed producer of extravagant stage revues.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Ziegfeld (1936)?
a.		The films costs were proving too much for Universal, so MGM bought the rights for $300,000 from them. Ultimately the film cost MGM about $2 million to make, a huge amount in its day. It did however go on to earn over $40 million.
b.		The character Wai Lin, played by Michelle Yeoh in Tomorrow Never Dies, was originally supposed to make her return, aiding Bond in Hong Kong, but no arrangement could be worked out with the actress and she was replaced by Chinese Intelligence agent (and hotelier) Chang. Wai Lins presence is confirmed by an extra on the DVD release concerning the writing of the script: Barbara Broccoli is shown leafing through an early script, and it clearly contains lines for Wai Lin.
c.		For the "Make Em Laugh" number, Gene Kelly asked Donald OConnor to revive a trick he had done as a young dancer, running up a wall and completing a somersault. The number was so physically taxing that OConnor, who smoked four packs of cigarettes a day at the time, went to bed (or may have been hospitalized, depending on the source) for a week after its completion, suffering from exhaustion and painful carpet burns. Unfortunately, an accident ruined all of the initial footage, so after a brief rest, OConnor, ever the professional, agreed to do the difficult number all over again.
d.		Finn McMissile was actually conceived for an unused scene in the first "Cars" where Lightning McQueen and Sally were seeing a spy movie featuring McMissile while on a date. McMissile was saved for this sequel.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Ziegfeld (1936)?
a.		Director John Sayles bore such a striking resemblance to newspaper writer Ring Lardner that he played the part himself.
b.		The set for "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody" took months to build and cost over $200,000. This was substantially more than it cost the real Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. to produce a whole show, according to former Ziegfeld girl Doris Eaton.
c.		Warner Bros. would only finance the film on the condition that Stanley Kubrick cast a Top 10 Box Office Star (from the annual Quigley Poll of Top Money-Making Stars) in the lead. Ryan ONeal was the #2 Box Office Star of 1973, topped only by Clint Eastwood. Ironically, this was his only time in the top 10, as exhibitors - who voted the list - attributed the success of Love Story (one of the top grossers at the time) to ONeals co-star Ali MacGraw, and named her to the list in 1971. The other top 10 stars were 3. Steve McQueen, 4. Burt Reynolds, 5. Robert Redford, 6. Barbra Streisand, 7. Paul Newman, 8. Charles Bronson, 9. John Wayne, and 10. Marlon Brando. Thus, the only actors Kubrick could cast in the role and receive Warners financial backing for his decidedly noncommercial project were ONeal and Redford. The other Top 10 stars were too old or inappropriate for the role (particularly in the case of #6, who would not assay a "male" role until Yentl in 1983). Both ONeal and Redford were ethnically Irish, both had box office appeal, and both were young enough to play the role, though Redford was five years older than the 32-year old ONeal in 1973. At the time, ONeal was the bigger star, having also garnered a Best Actor Oscar nomination for "Love Story". However, Kubrick apparently offered the part to Redford first, but he turned it down, and thus ONeal was cast. Redfords star would soon eclipse ONeals, as he would zoom to the top of the Box Office charts the next year after the successes of The Sting and The Way We Were, clocking in at #1 in 1974, a position he also would anchor in 1975 and 1976. ONeal dropped off the Top 10 list after 1973. His 73 appearance to this day, represents his sole appearance on that premier barometer of box office success for a thespian.
d.		From November 5, 2010 to November 12, 2010 week-long events were planned to celebrate the 25th anniversary that was for the fans and by the fans. The web page that hosted this was weregoingback.com. Since the ending of the events, the web page will be devoted to the pictures and videos taken during the course of that week.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Ziegfeld (1936)?
a.		Stephen King says that he was genuinely frightened by this adaption of his novel; Frank Darabont described that as the happiest moment of his career.
b.		The sequence "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" was filmed in two lengthy takes after several weeks of rehearsals and filming (a definite cut is made when moving to a close-up on the singer dressed as Pagliacci, presumably to effect a change of camera position, necessary to start the inexorable move up the huge staircase). It features 180 performers and cost $220,000; 4,300 yards of rayon silk were used for the curtains in the scene.
c.		The movie that the gremlins George and Lenny are watching in the systems control center is The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms.
d.		Years before Son of the Mask, there were, at some point, plans for The Mask II, but that sequel was canceled. There was even a contest from Nintendo Power magazine where first prize was a walk-on role in that movie.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Ziegfeld (1936)?
a.		Nia Long declined to reprise her role as "Sherry" from the first two films.
b.		After pitching his perfect game at Yankee Stadium, Kevin Costners character carries John C. Reilly to his hotel room, where Reilly says to him, "youre the cream in my coffee." In Costners movie JFK a woman on the street comes up to him asking if he remembers singing with her at a party to which he responds, "oh right, we sang youre the cream in my coffee" as he walks away.
c.		Hitchcocks film and the original story by Daphne Du Maurier share no characters and in fact have only in common the bay-side town setting, the birds bizarre behavior and their inexplicable tendency to launch frenzied attacks, fall dormant only to attack again later. In Du Mauriers story the main character discovers that this pattern is directly related to the rise and fall of the tides and uses this to their advantage, as opposed to the film which seems to follow the same pattern but never makes a direct connection. Also the original story takes place in Britain and centers around a man protecting his wife and two children at their isolated cottage home, as opposed to the film which centers on the spirited but troubled city dweller Melanie Daniels who travels to the California coast on a whim.
d.		Luise Rainer was the first actress in Academy history to win back-to-back Oscars for Best Actress, for this film in 1936 and The Good Earth in 1937. Katharine Hepburn repeated the trick in 1967/68.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Ziegfeld (1936)?
a.		If you look behind Natalie and Parker in the auditorium, you will see the writer Silvio Horta acting as a college student.
b.		Mark Rosman, the executive producer, was the writer/producer/director of the original The House on Sorority Row.
c.		The scenes of the giant whale attacking the ship were created on a California lake, using a miniature ship and a giant rubber whale puppet operated by short people. During the filming of one scene, the whale puppet sank with the puppeteers inside. Members of the film crew had to dive to the bottom of the lake to rescue the puppeteers.
d.		Billie Burke, the wife of the real Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., paid a visit to the films set one day. While there, she was photographed with Myrna Loy, who was portraying Ms. Burke in the film.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Ziegfeld (1936)?
a.		As was often the case during his career, Holden shaved his chest before appearing, shirtless, in this movies prizefighting sequence.
b.		Billie Burke never really rated the film much despite taking a personal interest in the writing of the script. She went to great lengths to make sure that writer William Anthony McGuire never besmirched the good name of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., hence the playing down of his infidelities.
c.		The Merkhaus character didnt appear in a draft of the script until the final draft.
d.		Courtney asks Constance to take over a role in his show because Lucy Warriner couldnt do it. Lucy Warriner was the name of the Constance character in the original story and movie, The Awful Truth that Lets Do It Again is a musical remake of.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Ziegfeld (1936)?
a.		As this movie could not be filmed in Cuba, it was shot in Spain which portrayed Cuba. Sean Connery stars in this movie and it is well known that he was the original James Bond. The Bond movie Die Another Day also used Spain to double for its scenes that were set in Cuba.
b.		The violinist providing the solo soundtrack near the end of the movie was Lindsay Deutsch, from Los Angeles.
c.		Chosen as one of the Ten Best Films of 1963 by Jean-Luc Godard.
d.		For her famous telephone conversation scene, which is generally credited as being what clinched the Oscar for her, Luise Rainer drew a lot of her material from a play by Jean Cocteau entitled "The Human Voice".

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Ziegfeld (1936)?
a.		Universal Pictures bought the film rights to Ziefelds life story from his widow Billie Burke in late 1933. William Powell was to play Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., Billie Burke was to play herself, and it would feature specialties by Fanny Brice, Judy Garland (and her sisters), Eddie Cantor and Ray Bolger. When Universal decided to make a faithful film version of the Kern-Hammerstein musical "Show Boat", which Ziegfeld himself had originally produced onstage, the studio heads sold "The Great Ziegfeld" to MGM in March 1935 while still in pre-production. Only Powell, Brice and Bolger survived to the final picture. Ironically, MGM would buy the rights to "Show Boat" from Universal in 1942, and remake the musical, in Technicolor, in 1951.
b.		A couple who are talking on the train near the beginning of the film are having the same conversation in English, then in German.
c.		The engine crashing into the station was filmed in a Lockheed hangar in Burbank, California using a full-sized mock-up of the FP-7A locomotive.
d.		Shot in 44 days. Shooting started August 6, 2007, exactly eight years after the start of production of The Sixth Sense.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Ziegfeld (1936)?
a.		The single biggest challenge facing Matthew F. Leonetti and his crew, was discreetly lighting a seven-block stretch of Sunset Boulevard, so that both sides of the street could be filmed simultaneously with several different incidents going on.
b.		The final cinema film of Barry Sullivan.
c.		Luise Rainer had never heard of Anna Held when she got the part.
d.		Before this film went into production Geena Davis and Michelle Pfeiffer were in talks to star in a film called Mistress of the Seas. Paul Verhoeven was in talks to direct.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Ziegfeld (1936)?
a.		The train station built for production was used again late in 1988 for Back to the Future Part III.
b.		William Powell was loaned by MGM to Universal for the film, but Universal sold the film to MGM when costs mounted. Powell made My Man Godfrey for Universal instead.
c.		Don Johnsons son, Jesse Wayne Johnson, appears in the movie with his step-mom, Melanie Griffith. He is the blonde headed boy, sitting in the class, when she comes through the window (for the anatomy lesson). You see him laughing and he even makes a comment.
d.		In a print interview released around the same time as the film, Shelley Duvall admitted that kids used to call her Olive Oyl when she was in grade school.

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