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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The King of Comedy (1982) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The King of Comedy (1982) - 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 King of Comedy (1982).
About the movie:
Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin wants to achieve success in showbiz, by resorting to stalking his idol, a late night talk show host who craves his own privacy.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The King of Comedy (1982)?
a.
Film debut of
Malcolm Atterbury
.
b.
The looming directors strike caused the film to go over budget.
c.
Martin Ritt
s final film. It is also the last screenplay written by Ritts favorite author couple
Harriet Frank Jr.
&
Irving Ravetch
d.
In an online interview with the Planet Origo website, director
Albert Pyun
mentioned his plans to direct "Masters of the Universe Part 2" planned for release in 1988. He mentioned the film had Skeletor go back to Earth after being defeated and falling into a pit in the finale of the first movie. Pyun said that Skeletor disguised himself as an evil industrialist known as Aaron Dark who destroyed most of the world before He-Man can arrive on Earth to stop him, and that "Masters of the Universe Part 2" had ended with the Earth devastated as a post-nuclear world. A sequel never happened due to Cannon Films going out of business.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The King of Comedy (1982)?
a.
Campbell Scott
s character is seen wearing a SubPop t-shirt, a well-known independent record company from Seattle which released many albums which became known as the "Seattle Sound", most notably
Nirvana
,
Soundgarden
, and
Mudhoney
.
b.
One of the assistant editors on this movie was promised the gig after a rough stint playing a Humanoid in "Humanoids from the Deep".
c.
Opening film at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.
d.
Producer/actress Lana Roberts appears in every vignette with the exception of "Frame Tale".
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The King of Comedy (1982)?
a.
Shavuot, mentioned by Masha, is a Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan (usually sometime in late May or early June).
b.
The first scene filmed was the scene in Marias bedroom where Frau Schmidt brings the dress material, and later Liesl sneaks in through the window. One of the last scenes filmed was the "You are Sixteen" number, which appears in the film right before the scene in Marias room. The two scenes were shot about 4 months apart.
c.
In August 1955 writers
George Beck
and Samuel Locke filed a $65,000 infringement lawsuit against Paramount and
Hal B. Wallis
, claiming that Wallis had hired them to write a circus story for
Dean Martin
and
Jerry Lewis
, entitled Big Top, which Wallis later rejected. The disposition of the suit is not known.
d.
French actor
Vincent Perez
was up for the role as a last minute call after
Benjamin Bratt
was turned down but then production closed down because of the actors strike.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The King of Comedy (1982)?
a.
Paul Thomas Anderson
first announced that his follow-up to
Magnolia
would be an
Adam Sandler
comedy at a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival. The news was greeted with laughter by the assembled press. When "Punch-Drunk Love" eventually played at Cannes, Anderson won the Best Director Palm dOr.
b.
The two gravestones visible behind Kristen Parkers and Roland Kincaids are for Donald & Nancy Thompson, characters from
A Nightmare on Elm Street
and
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
.
c.
The film took four years to make.
d.
Frederick De Cordova
, who plays talk-show director Bert Thomas, was Executive Producer of
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
from 1971 to 1992.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The King of Comedy (1982)?
a.
During the finale, live rounds were fired at actors
Victor McLaglen
and
Freddie Bartholomew
. The rounds were fired off screen, by Marine snipers.
b.
Meryl Streep turned down the part played by Sandra Bernhard.
c.
According to the comics, this is Clark Kents (aka Superman) favorite movie.
d.
The original choice for the role of Julie was
Judy Garland
, but she had since ended her contract with MGM, the idea of casting Garland was dropped. Both
Lena Horne
and
Dinah Shore
were next in line until the role finally went to
Ava Gardner
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The King of Comedy (1982)?
a.
American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films 1931-1940 claims that, except for Double Indemnity (1944), this was Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurrays only joint screen appearance. Fact is, they also co-starred in The Moonlighter (1953 and Theres Always Tomorrow (1956).
b.
When Jerry Langford is walking down the street, he is stopped by a woman talking on the telephone. When Jerry refuses to talk to someone on the phone, the lady says I hope you get cancer. This incident actually happened to Jerry Lewis. According to Scorsese, Lewis directed this segment himself.
c.
When shown theatrically audience members were given one pair of red cardboard 3-D glasses with movie taglines printed on it. The inside arms had adhesives for attaching to standard glasses. There was also an advertisement for
House Party 2
printed on the outside of one arm.
d.
Filming was temporarily cut short at the school where certain scenes were shot because of flooding during an especially heavy summer rain.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The King of Comedy (1982)?
a.
One of the posters for the film featured a shot of Rocky and Adrian holding hands. Although this was one of the most popular images associated with the film, the scene this image was taken from was cut from the film.
b.
Liza Minnelli
filmed a scene where she played herself on Jerry Langfords talk show and sang "New York, New York" but it didnt make the final cut. Minnelli only appears in the finished film as a life-size cardboard cutout, a guest on Rupert Pupkins basement talk show.
c.
This film is one of five times
Beulah Bondi
portrayed
James Stewart
s mother, The others are:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
,
Of Human Hearts
and
Vivacious Lady
, and once on his television series,
The Jimmy Stewart Show
.
d.
The opera performed as the movies climax is
Giuseppe Verdi
s Il Trovatore.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The King of Comedy (1982)?
a.
The cover of the Sin City book "Booze, Broads, and Bullets", can be seen periodically throughout the movie. Its most notable appearance is on the cover of the matchbook that Hartigan picks up to locate Nancy; it is also seen in the background of the strip club in the very next scene as Hartigan first enters (to the right as a poster).
b.
The nightclub featured in the film was loosely modeled on the famous Forbidden City, a popular San Francisco night spot from the late 1930s through the 1950s.
c.
Celia Weston
s film debut.
d.
Martin Scorsese
has stated that he "probably should not have made" the film.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The King of Comedy (1982)?
a.
Robert Hardy
who plays the Headmaster later went on to portray Winston Churchill in five separate films; "Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years" (1981), "The Woman He Loved" (1988), "War and Remembrance" (1988), "Bomber Harris" (1989) and "Agatha Christie Marple: The Sittaford Mystery (2006) (TV)".
b.
The Air Force fighters sent to bomb the sub are McDonnell Douglas F-101B Voodoos from the 437th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron at Oxnard AFB, California (now Camarillo Airport).
c.
When Rupert is talking to Rita in a restaurant, a man in the background is imitating Ruperts hand gestures. The man is played by the actor
Chuck Low
, who also appeared in De Niro and Scorseses next collaboration
Goodfellas
as Morrie Kessler.
d.
Director cameo: Aaron Woodley the German porn director of the Betty Bumcakes film shoot.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The King of Comedy (1982)?
a.
Meryl Streep
s mother-in-law helped her practice the Midwestern accent necessary for this role.
b.
On Vickis bedroom wall is a print of the painting "Pinkie" by Thomas Lawrence. In 1949
Jeanne Crain
(Jill Lynn) starred in the movie
Pinky
.
c.
Dolph Lundgren
filmed his parts for the movie in just 5 days, whilst
Jean-Claude Van Damme
filmed for 20 days.
d.
Martin Scorsese
: Man in van - as Jerry Langford is walking across the street and is greeted by a woman at a phone booth where she wants him to talk to her nephew Morris, Scorsese can be seen in the drivers side of a green van.
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