Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Long Voyage Home (1940) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Long Voyage Home (1940) Quiz

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Long Voyage Home (1940).

About the movie: Aboard the freighter Glencairn, the lives of the crew are lived out in fear, loneliness, suspicion and cameraderie...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Long Voyage Home (1940)?
a.		Initially resistant to the idea of working with a Swedish accent, John Wayne was instructed by Danish actress Osa Massen. John Ford later complimented Wayne on his handling of the accent.
b.		Walt Disney told his animation crew to "throw away" Rudyard Kiplings book, "The Jungle Book" because the original concept storyboards were too dark and dramatic. During pre-production, Disney assigned animator Larry Clemmons to head story development on the project. He gave Clemmons a copy of "The Jungle Book," and told him, "The first thing I want you to do is not read it."
c.		Today over 145 million cars carry the wipers that Kearns invented.
d.		The original script was about ten pages longer than the one used in the final version of the film. Those additional scenes were actually all shot (although almost none were edited). The excised scenes were not interspersed throughout the film; rather, they all appeared after the action that closes the final scene in the final iteration of the film. The director edited the film sequentially and decided an open ending will be more suggestive for the surreal atmosphere he intended than the more conventional resolution he had scripted.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Long Voyage Home (1940)?
a.		The first spoken dialogue occurs nearly five minutes into the film.
b.		The movie that Rosa is watching in the theater is High Plains Drifter.
c.		Renny Harlins first film to direct with his production company Midnight Sun Pictures.
d.		Evelyn Ankers hoped to do her own singing for the film, but because of the tight production schedule producer Ben Pivar used stock recordings of Lillian Cornell for the scenes in which Ankers character sings (and the songs are obviously older recordings since their sound quality is inferior to the rest of the soundtrack).

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Long Voyage Home (1940)?
a.		Riggs manages to tame a Rottweiler. This is not the first time director Richard Donner has used them in his films. The Omen had several, but they were decidedly untamable.
b.		On the movies local premiere at Bergen Cinema, Norway, it had 666 visitors.
c.		Al Pacino began shooting exteriors for the film in 1984 while was in London doing a stage production of "American Buffalo".
d.		This film is based on four one-act plays by Eugene ONeill. Writer Dudley Nichols had to distill all four of Eugene ONeills one-act plays into one cohesive screenplay.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Long Voyage Home (1940)?
a.		In 1925, after the serum run, the real Balto and his team starred in a movie called "Baltos Race to Nome".
b.		A Super Jewel Production. Universal, not owning a proprietary theater chain, devised a 3-tiered branding system in order to market its feature product to independent theater owners: Red Feather (low budget programmers), Bluebird (mainstream releases) and Jewel (prestige pictures produced to draw higher roadshow ticket prices). At $1.104 million, this production was so costly that the studio wanted to differentiate it from even its Jewel releases, branding this a "Super" Jewel, ensuring it special promotion and premium admission prices. Although the film made a nice profit, Erich von Stroheim (acting as producer as well as director) was rapidly becoming unemployable due to his flagrant excesses which enraged Carl Laemmle.
c.		Eugene ONeills favorite film. John Ford gave him a print of it, which ONeill wore out from repeated playing of the reel.
d.		Director Sally Potter told Joan Allen to think of the dialog, which is in verse, more in the line of Eminem than William Shakespeare. She even took the actress to Def Poetry Jam, a night of spoken word that ran on Broadway courtesy of hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons to experience it.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Long Voyage Home (1940)?
a.		When Wally uses a croquet mallet to knock a hole in the kitchen door and says "Heres Johnny!", it is a clear reference to The Shining, when Jack Nicholsons character does a similar thing using an ax. However, in Stephen Kings novel "The Shining", the character Jack Torrance uses a roque mallet (roque is an early 20th century American sport very similar to croquet).
b.		Paul Thomas Anderson stated that he watched The Treasure of the Sierra Madre every night before filming this movie.
c.		John Wayne was asked by director John Ford to play the part of Ole Olson, who was Swedish. Wayne wasnt sure he could pull off the Swedish accent and was worried that the audience would laugh. Ford persuaded him to take the role.
d.		Writer David Koepp said that when he was writing the script to this movie, he taped a fan letter next to his computer screen. The letter was from a viewer of the original Jurassic Park film who complained he "waited too long" to show the dinosaurs in that film.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Long Voyage Home (1940)?
a.		Nickelodeons first feature film.
b.		Queen Gueneveres wedding dress was made of natural materials. The dress was made from fishing nets, the bodice had little seashells sewn on and on the train were hundreds of hand-sewn pumpkin seeds.
c.		The name of Arthur Shields character, "Donkeyman", is a nickname for the job he performed, the sole caretaker of the ships single-piston "Donkey" engine.
d.		Cinematographer Haskell Wexler, who got an "additional photography" credit in the film, complained to Roger Ebert that more than half of the footage was shot by him.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Long Voyage Home (1940)?
a.		As well as shaving two inches off her hairline at the forehead, Bette Davis also had her eyebrows removed. She later complained that they never grew back properly and that ever after she had to draw them in with an eyebrow pencil.
b.		In the rough cut of the film, there was a sequence near the end, retained from the original Broadway show, in which a little old lady appeared reminiscing about Magnolia and Ravenals romance. The two were supposed to listen to her monologue and then embrace. The old lady was subsequently edited out of the film entirely, because it was felt that her monologue slowed down the picture.
c.		Producer Walter Wanger contracted with Reeves Lewenthal, director of the American Associated Artists Gallery in Manhattan, to have nine of its artists go out to Hollywood during the filming and paint scenes from the movie and portraits of the actors in character as a publicity stunt for the film. "High Brow Publicity" as Time magazine dubbed it in a story from August 26, 1940. The artists (and their paintings) included Thomas Hart Benton (Shore Leave), Grant Wood (Sentimental Ballad), Ernest Fiene (portrait of John Wayne as Ole Olson), George Schreiber (scene from the film with Mitchell, Qualen and two others), Luis Quintanilla (The Bumboat Girls), George Biddle (portrait of Qualen as Squarehead Swanson), Robert Philipp (portrait of Thomas Mitchell as Drisk Driscoll), Raphael Soyer and James Chapin-all well known in art circles at the time. Wanger paid $50,000 and ended up with 12 canvases-including a portrait of Wanger by Ernest Fiene. The paintings were featured in Life magazine and, after an exhibition that opened in New York City in August 1940, went on to tour 23 museums across America.
d.		The shot of the Ecto-1 on the verge of breaking down at the start of the film is fitting in that while filming the bridge scene thats seen in the montage, the car finally did break down.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Long Voyage Home (1940)?
a.		The Broadway opening dates of the four Eugene ONeill plays this film is based on are as follows: "Bound East for Cardiff" opened in Provincetown, Massachusetts on 28 July 1916; "In the Zone" opened in New York on 31 October 1917; "The Long Voyage Home" opened in New York on 2 November 1917; and "The Moon of the Caribees" opened in New York on 20 December 1918. The four plays were presented together in "One Act Plays of the Sea" and opened at the Lafayette Theater on Octobe 29, 1937 and ran for 68 performances.
b.		This Italian-language drama was shot in northern New Jersey with members of a Sicilian-American theater company. It was made for the large Italian-speaking population of the northeastern US.
c.		Unusually for a Hollywood production, this film does not feature a musical score.
d.		Steven Spielberg cast Matt Damon as Ryan because he wanted an unknown actor with an All-American look. He didnt know Damon would win an Oscar for Good Will Hunting and become an overnight star before the film was released.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Long Voyage Home (1940)?
a.		This films opening prologue states: "With their hates and desires men are changing the face of the earth - but they cannot change the Sea. Men who live on the Sea never change - for they live in a lonely world apart as they drift from one rusty tramp steamer to the next, forging the life of Nations."
b.		Hal Wallis Productions bought the film rights to play in 1952, shortly before its Off-Broadway revival, for $100,000.
c.		Release prints were delivered to theaters with the fake title Playground Bully.
d.		Fox starlet Barbara Lawrences presence is felt even though her actual screen time is brief. Besides her fleeting cameo appearance, she is referred to at least five other times as the young nemesis to Bette Davis aging star. She is mentioned as an up-and-coming prospect by an agent, a drunken Davis drives by her house in a mock tour of stars homes, her image appears in a drugstore ad that confronts Davis, Davis stops to stare at a huge portrait of Lawrence before entering her prospective producers office, and she spitefully uses Lawrences vacant dressing room to change alter her make-up before her screen test. For added Hollywood verisimilitude, references are made to other contemporaneous Fox stars including Victor Mature, Debra Paget, Mitzi Gaynor, and Jeanne Crain. Curiously there is a reference to an actor named Ralph Bellows, whos playing the rich, stuffy second lead. This is an obvious reference to the screen persona of Ralph Bellamy, who was not under contract to Fox at the time.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Long Voyage Home (1940)?
a.		Last film of John Alderson.
b.		This film was the most effects-animation heavy Disney animated feature since Fantasia. The two minute storm sequence alone took 10 special effects animators over a year to finish. Effects animation supervisor Mark Dindal estimated that over a million bubbles were drawn for this film, in addition to the use of other processes such as airbrushing, back lighting, superimposition, and some flat-shaded computer animation.
c.		Often believed to be the inspiration for the TV show WKRP in Cincinnati, but in fact the pilot for that show was filmed before this films release.
d.		Barry Fitzgerald, who plays the character of Cocky, and Arthur Shields, who played Donkeyman, were brothers in real life. They also appeared together in director John Fords The Quiet Man.

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