Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Lost Weekend (1945) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Lost Weekend (1945) - 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 Lost Weekend (1945).

About the movie: The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four day drinking bout.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Lost Weekend (1945)?
a.		The watches, which Jamie Foxx (Ricardo Tubbs) wears, are a "Portuguese Chrono-Automatic" and an "Aquatimer Split Minute Chronograph" from the swiss watch manufacturer IWC (International Watch Company).
b.		Although the script conformed to the provisions of the Production Code, a number of potential "problems" had to be addressed. The list of suggested alterations or eliminations included a warning "not to characterize Muley as insane", the rewording of "certain of the lines which have reference to Rosasharns pregnancy" (in the book, Tom teases Rosasharn and Connie with the line, "Well, I see you been busy"; in the film this is changed to, "Well, I see Im gonna be an uncle soon"), the removal of a "toilet gag about Grandma" (early in the familys journey Rosasharn leads her out of a gas-station washroom, explaining, "She went to sleep in there"), the elimination of "specific mention of Tulare County California" and a request not to identify a town as "Pixley" (a town in Tulare County, CA, notorious for its ill treatment of migrant workers). It was also suggested that the film not show "Tom killing the deputy in self-defense".
c.		Don quotes twice from William Shakespeare when he is in Nats bar. The first quote "Purple the sails, and so perfumed ... " is from Antony and Cleopatra: Act II, Scene 2. The second "Yea, all which it shall inherit ..." is from The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1.
d.		The exterior of the cafe where Ruthie works (with the dancing rolls scene and others) is the Milk Bottle Cafe in Spokane, WA. Oddly enough, the interior was shot in an entirely different restaurant, Furgusens. The two restaurants are actually next door to each other. Even weirder, thats not the only building shaped like a milk bottle in Spokane.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Lost Weekend (1945)?
a.		Joe Bessers final film.
b.		The amount of digital footage shot would approximately equal 2 million feet of conventional film.
c.		The Radio Orphan Annie decoder pin that Ralphie receives is the 1940 "Speedomatic" model, indicating that the movie takes place in December, 1940. Different decoder badges were made each year from 1935-1940. By 1941, the decoders were made of paper.
d.		To prepare for the part, Ray Milland spent one night in Bellevue Hospital as a patient. He also stopped eating as much, as most alcoholics forget to do so.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Lost Weekend (1945)?
a.		During Don Birnams flashback to the opera, the piece that is being sung on stage is the "Drinking Song" from La Traviata.
b.		Although this is Janeane Garofalos first starring role, Uma Thurman naturally got top billing because she was a much more famous name. Even though she only gets half the screentime Garofalo does.
c.		Originally, Dustin Hoffman was directing the film. But he changed his mind after a few days of filming and hired Ulu Grosbard.
d.		Gene Kranz: can be seen in the background at Mission Control just before reentry.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Lost Weekend (1945)?
a.		The original novel the film is based on has the character referring to a homosexual affair, but the script was changed so that the main character was suffering from writers block.
b.		Upon seeing the film at a star-studded preview screening at Paramount, MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer screamed at director Billy Wilder that he should be tarred, feathered and horse-whipped for bringing his profession into such disrepute. Wilders response was a terse, "Fuck you" (Mayer would find himself ousted from his position within the year by the new regime at MGM, headed by Dore Schary).
c.		While removing items from the Chest of Holding the music blends into the Star Wars Theme when Brother Silas pulls out the Lightsaber.
d.		Was released on DVD and Blu-ray only 3 months after its theatrical release date. The film opened on September 26 2008 and was released on video on December 26 2008.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Lost Weekend (1945)?
a.		Most of the extras in this film were real locals from the Bowery area, as well as from Hells Kitchen, and had never appeared before in films. Most of the gangster characters were actual gangsters in real life.
b.		One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
c.		In the Broadway show, where Kong is the unwilling star, the "native dancers" are dressed in the same costumes as the Skull Island natives in the original 1933 King Kong. (The men wear furry gorilla costumes, and the women wear grass skirts and coconut brassieres.) The theater orchestra (led by composer Howard Shore (I)) plays sections from Max Steiners score from the original film. During the "native dance" number, the orchestra plays the music from Steiners score that is heard in the original film during the Skull Island natives sacrifice dance. When the fake "Ann Darrow" (played by Julia Walshaw, Naomi Wattss stand-in) appears on stage before Kong, the theater orchestra plays the music from Steiners score that is heard in the original film when Kong first appears before Fay Wray.
d.		This film is essentially Gene Autrys screen test. And after Ken Maynards quarrelsomeness got him fired by studio head Nat Levine, Autry won his first starring role in The Phantom Empire, originally intended to star Maynard. Autry later helped quietly support Maynard when he was old and alcoholic.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Lost Weekend (1945)?
a.		McCalls plane is a demilitarized Douglas A-26 Invader, a type used in WWII.
b.		Earle Hyman began his fifty-plus year career as a 17-year-old extra in this film.
c.		According to "Cecil B. DeMilles Hollywood" by Robert S. Birchard, the 96-minute version of the film was only screened once, at a test screening in Huntington Park, California, on December 15, 1933. The test audience, apparently mostly composed of kids (who were there waiting to see the war aviation movie Ace of Aces), felt that the movie was too long by ten minutes, and that further character-set up was necessary. To accommodate this DeMille added in the opening blurb that the movie was filmed on real locations and he included brief bios for each of the four frightened people. DeMille then screened the movie and deemed the test audience was correct, and cut a "thousand feet" from the film, resulting in the 17 minutes cut from the test version. So then, the 96-minute "longer" cut was never actually shown to a mass audience; the only certain thing about it was that it included sequences with Ethel Griffies, who played the mother of Arnold Ainger (Herbert Marshall).
d.		Max von Sydow was favored to play Sybok.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Lost Weekend (1945)?
a.		Hector Elizondo played basketball several hours solo in the rain for the few seconds shown in the movie.
b.		"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on October 6, 1947 with Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman again reprising their film roles.
c.		As well as the alcohol industry badgering Paramount Pictures into not releasing the film, the studio was also besieged by temperance groups lobbying that the film shouldnt be released, as it would only encourage drinking. It was released on a limited engagement at Billy Wilders behest. Reviewers fell all over themselves in their praise of it, thus prompting Paramount to take the plunge and give it a wide release.
d.		The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in the film is actually the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. It is a separate building at Dulles International Airport, administered by the Smithsonian, and home of most of the aircraft exhibited. The exterior of the Museum, an aircraft boneyard in the film, was actually the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group in Tuscon, Arizona.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Lost Weekend (1945)?
a.		Portions of André Previns music score were recycled as title theme for same studios Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
b.		Playmates Toy Company produced a tie-in model of the new Sovereign-class starship USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E which was first seen in "Star Trek: First Contact". But the films producers at Paramount made changes to the ships design after Playmates had already begun production, so the toy version retains the ships earlier engine designs and placement not seen in the film (although they were corrected for Playmates later "Star Trek: Insurrection" tie-in).
c.		When Don Birnam searches for a pawn shop to hock his typewriter, the Third Ave Elevated is in the background. The last train on the "el" ran May 12,1955 and the structure was torn down later that year.
d.		The original Toxic Avenger II edit was over 4 hours long, so the Troma team split it into 2 movies.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Lost Weekend (1945)?
a.		The railroad trestle bridge utilized in the firefight near the end of the film (located in Kanchanaburi, Thailand) is part of the Japanese transportation system as portrayed in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai. This particular bridge was constructed by prisoners of war held captive by the Japanese when Thailand was under Japanese occupation during World War II.
b.		Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 25 Most Dangerous Movies".
c.		During the ping-pong matches, there was no ball; it was entirely CGI, animated to meet the actors paddles.
d.		Writer/Director Daniel Minahans childhood friend, Dawn Lagarto, is given a "Special Thanks" credit. He originally wrote the story using her name for the main character. When it came time to start filming the producers had legal concerns regarding the use of a real persons name, but actress Brooke Smith felt an affinity for the name and wanted to retain it for her character. Minahan called the real Dawn Lagarto and got her blessing to use the name. The real Dawn Lagarto is not an unwed mother, has never participated in a reality TV series, and has never killed anyone.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Lost Weekend (1945)?
a.		The only film to win both an Academy Award for Best Picture and the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix du Festival International Film. (NOTE: Marty won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Cannes Film Festival Palme DOr (Golden Palm). In 1955, the Palme DOr replaced the Grand Prix du Festival International Film as the highest award given to films at Cannes.)
b.		Filmed at The 20th Century Fox Film studios on 10th Ave. in NYC.
c.		Nandita Das read the script and was very interested to play Hawa but because of clash of dates, could not do it. So Girja Shanker suggested Pooja Kumar.
d.		"Professional Sweetheart" was Ginger Rogers first film for RKO and - ironically, since so much of the plot revolves around getting Rogers character to sign a radio contract - she had not yet signed a long-term contract with RKO when she made this film.

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