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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968).
About the movie:
A dictatorial film director (Finch) hires an unknown actress (Novak) to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)?
a.
When
Kim Novak
walks along Hollywood Blvd, a theater she passes by is playing
The Dirty Dozen
, a film
Robert Aldrich
made a year earlier, and whose commercial success made it possible for the director to start his own production company and make movies like this.
b.
The shirt that Deege wears in the movie is for a real music store in Rochester, New York: House of Guitars.
c.
Producer
Jon Jacobs
bought, sight unseen, a single roll of 1958 16mm newsreel featuring
Elvis Presley
in an eBay auction. It had been lost for over 45 years and he hoped it might contain something unique to be used in the film. He was rewarded with Elvis making a funny remark, a romantic faux pas, that had otherwise been stricken from public record.
d.
The real plane crashed on Friday the 13 October 1972.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)?
a.
The Shakespeare sonnet Eddie and Paige discuss/analyze over laundry (and Eddie quotes in his goodbye note to Paige) is Sonnet #148, from which they skipped over several lines.
b.
After Focus Features backed out, producer
Marc Turtletaub
bought the rights back from the studio in 2005 and announced that he would cover the budget himself.
c.
Before release, Disney decided that
Lindsay Lohan
was a bit too busty for the image they wanted for the film, and used digital techniques to reduce her bust size.
d.
This was
Kim Novak
s last starring role in an American-made feature film.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)?
a.
The Trumania bit, where
Jim Carrey
draws on the mirror with soap and acts strange, was completely improvised by Carrey. In another take he drew long curly hair and a dress.
b.
Director
Alister Grierson
and cinematographer
Jules OLoughlin
had no experience with 3D prior to working on this film. Thus, they had learn how to light the scenes, use the stereoscopic space and manipulate the cameras from scratch.
c.
This film is listed among the 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John WIlsons book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE® MOVIE GUIDE.
d.
Albert Magnoli
filmed a second love scene that was not included in the final cut of the film. This scene has special meaning because it contains the actual illusion of the purple rain. A snippet of this scene is included in the theatrical trailer for the film as well as the When Doves Cry montage. This scene, as well as the other deleted footage that led up to it, is also outlined in the films screenplay found on various websites. It is rumored that this second love scene almost earned the film an X-rating although its unclear as to whether this scene was actually included in early edits of the film or actually submitted to the MPAA. This legendary piece of footage has never been released commercially in its entirety.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)?
a.
Last screenplay written by
Hugo Butler
, who had been black-listed by Hollywood and exiled himself to Mexico during the 1950s.
b.
In the final game, when trying to "psych-out" a fat Dallas player by commenting on his weight,
Trey Parker
s character Joe Cooper begins to speak in a high pitch, "whiny" voice reminiscent of Eric Cartman, another character from
South Park
.
c.
Mrs. Deagle, the richest lady in town, has named her cats after different kinds of currency (including Kopeck, Drachma and Dollar Bill).
d.
Number of times a character is struck by another character: 31 (nine being applied to Joe Hallenbeck).
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)?
a.
The character of Gov. Dalton - played by a different actress - was originally in the original version of
Kevin Smith
s
Mallrats
, but was cut from that movie.
b.
Several of the actors who played soldiers, including
Wes Chatham
(Corporal Steve Penning),
Jake McLaughlin
(Spc. Gordon Bonner) and
Sean Huze
(Captain Jim Osher) had actually served in the Iraq War themselves.
c.
It was only because President Tito of Yugoslavia was a huge movie fan that he allowed the film to be made in his country. His Russian counterparts were less pleased as the film is openly critical of the pogroms.
d.
Based on an earlier TV production of the same material.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)?
a.
When MGM executives finally screened the film, they decided to market it as being "deliberately campy", but audiences in 1968 were not yet ready to embrace the idea of going to see something trashy on purpose, and the movie proved to be a box office bomb despite this trend-setting marketing ploy.
b.
Brad Dourif
, the actor who plays the stuttering gas station attendant at the beginning of the film, played the role of Billy Bibbit, who also had a speech impediment, in the film
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
.
c.
Howard Koch
was instructed to start the screenplay all over again, paying particular attention to Ricks background and the ending, while the Epsteins were struggling with their version. Writers
Casey Robinson
and
Lenore J. Coffee
were asked to critique the two versions and found much merit in both, though Robinson thought the romantic angle lacking and was subsequently tasked with ramping this up.
d.
Originally,
Laird Cregar
was cast in this film in an undetermined role (possibly that of Doc Murdoch), but was unable to do the film due to an unfinished other project. He was replaced by
George Gabby Hayes
, but Hayes then became ill and was himself replaced.
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