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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Matinee Idol (1928) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Matinee Idol (1928) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Matinee Idol (1928).
About the movie:
A Broadway matinee idol famous for his black-face portrayals anonymously joins an amateur acting troupe and falls in love with the leading lady.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Matinee Idol (1928)?
a.
The third of the seven
Bob Hope
,
Bing Crosby
and
Dorothy Lamour
"Road" films.
b.
This restored version runs 57 minutes but is still missing about 5 minutes. The restoration was a joint venture of the Cinematheque Francais, the Motion Picture Academy, and Sony Entertainment.
c.
The first song Ella sings, "Somebody to Love" was not the original song choice.
Tommy OHaver
had discovered that
Anne Hathaway
didnt have very good chemistry with their first choice, a more classical "fairy-tale" song. OHaver and Hathaway were relaxing when she starting singing along and dancing to the song that was currently playing:
Queen
s "Somebody to Love". They both decided that "this was it".
d.
Jodie Foster
turned down the chance to play Violet in
Pretty Baby
in order to play Casey.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Matinee Idol (1928)?
a.
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.
b.
The film was long thought lost until a nitrate print was rediscovered in the vaults of the Cinemateque Francais in the 1990s.
c.
The team meets two members of the Minnesota North Stars hockey team. In 1993, a year after the movie, the Minnesota North Stars moved to Texas and became the Dallas Stars. The team also watches a North Stars game at the Met Center in Bloomington, Minnesota. The Met Center was demolished two years after the movie, in 1994. The site is now home to the Mall of America and an Ikea store.
d.
John Wayne
gave the female lead to
Gail Russell
, his co-star from
Angel and the Badman
and
Wake of the Red Witch
. He did so despite being warned that she looked twenty years too old to play a 26-year-old.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Matinee Idol (1928)?
a.
There is no cast list in the film;
Bessie Love
and
Johnnie Walker
are on the title page and are listed first. All the credited cast are then introduced by intertitle frames which also provide their character names, just before they are shown onscreen.
b.
The bike Ben used in Austria, the one he got from the kid, was actually traded (by Ben) with the bunch of
The Six Million Dollar Man
stickers that McGruff gave him. (Shown in the additional scenes in the DVD)
c.
Much has been written about the crew having to contend with rainy weather in Paris during production. For a comparison of how the film might have looked if the sun hadnt appeared from time to time, compare the "Bonjour, Paris!" number from the film - mostly shot in brilliant sunshine - with alternate footage shot on a rainy day that is featured in the trailer.
d.
First cinema film of
Roger Rees
.
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