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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Long Gray Line (1955) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Long Gray Line (1955) Quiz
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About the movie:
The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military Academy at West Point...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Long Gray Line (1955)?
a.
Bette Davis was originally offered the role of Louise, but turned it down to go on maternity leave.
b.
The "pool on the roof" prank is actually based on an old Stuyvesant H.S. prank of the "Sixth Floor Pool". The original Stuy building on East 15th Street in Manhattan had only five floors, and freshman were sent to look for a pool upstairs. The building had no pool. There was a literary publication at Stuyvesant referencing the prank called "Sixth Floor Pool". The school moved into the new building (featured in the movie) shortly before filming began. Coincidentally, this building is across the street from Ground Zero, the former site of the World Trade Center. It was, amazingly, almost completely unharmed by the blasts. The school was used as the base of operations for the rescue efforts, and classes were moved for one term to Brooklyn Technical High School. The three "Specialized Math and Science High Schools" in NYC, requiring an examination for admittance, are Stuyvesant, Bronx High School of Science, and Brooklyn Tech (in order of difficulty of admittance).
c.
John Ford
originally wanted to cast
John Wayne
as Marty Maher.
d.
Barbaras long monologue, which lasts 3:02 in a single, unbroken shot, took six takes to get right.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Long Gray Line (1955)?
a.
Location filming at West Point was done during the summer when most cadets were gone with the exception of new "Plebes" so as not to disrupt normal activities.
b.
During the Bonnie Situation, Vincent says that if Jimmie had Lava in the bathroom, he (Vincent) could have gotten his hands cleaner.
John Travolta
started in show business singing in ads for Lava soap.
c.
The
Lee Remick
part was turned down by
Jayne Mansfield
.
d.
Michael Cimino
was offered the chance to direct this project but he turned it down.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Long Gray Line (1955)?
a.
Considered to be lost until 2010. A print was found in Gosfilmofond, the Russian state film archive and a digital copy was presented to the Library of Congress on 22 Oct 2010.
b.
Walter Ehlers (Mike Shannon) received the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism on July 9/10, 1944 at Normandy France. He was a Staff Sergeant in the 18th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Division.
c.
The ship seen in the opening aerial view of the city is the SS United States of the United States Lines. It first sailed in 1952 and was laid up in the late 1960s and has been idle ever since. It was recently bought by NCL to be refurbished as a cruise ship. The SS United States currently sits rusting away at a pier on the Delaware River in Philadelphia. PA.
d.
"Tomorrow Belongs to Me" was written by
John Kander
and
Fred Ebb
in the style of a traditional German song, sung by the Nazi youth in the movie, to stir up patriotism for the "fatherland". It has often been mistaken for a genuine "Nazi anthem" and has led to the songwriters being accused of anti-Semitism. This would be most surprising, as they are, in fact, Jewish (This fact has not stopped openly racist and anti-Semitic rock groups, like Skrewdriver, from recording the song and performing it at White Power rallies). It is also the only song sung outside of the cabaret setting to survive the transition from stage to film.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Long Gray Line (1955)?
a.
The candle lit kitchen table scene was shot in the middle of the afternoon with black trash bags put over the outsides of all the windows. They had scheduled to be at the cabin only from Friday January 2nd to Sunday January 4th, but ran out of time the Saturday night to shoot all of the indoor nighttime scenes. So the next morning the director and producers woke up early to tape trash bags to the outsides of the windows and the scene inside was quickly shot. The idea to put up trash bags was production designer
Blake Bratcher
s idea.
b.
On
Stanislaw Lem
s personal website, shortly before he passed away, he posted that he felt this adaptation had overemphasized the human relationship dilemma in his novel, when he had been trying to propound what an Encounter with something truly Alien might be like. The planet Solaris is about as far from any preconceptions of Alien life as you can get, so identifying with Rheas Phi-Creature misses the point that all the Phi-Creatures are Solaris.
c.
Average Shot Length (ASL) = 13 seconds
d.
As revealed in an interview with Mix Magazine Online the hit song Ghostbusters was created 4:30 in the morning when after almost 2 long days of trying to create a song
Ray Parker Jr.
saw a commercial for a drain company that reminded him of a scene from the film. That commercial helped him coin the popular line "Who you gonna call?"
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