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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Oscar (1966) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Oscar (1966) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Oscar (1966).
About the movie:
Snotty Hollywood actor becomes even more full of himself after he's nominated for Best actor at the Academy Awards.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Oscar (1966)?
a.
Director
George Marshall
took over the role of the intimidating Army chef when the assigned actor didnt show up.
b.
The film stars four sets of actual brothers: the Carradines, the Keachs, the Quaids and the Guests.
c.
Listed among the Top 10 Best Bad Movies of All Time in "The Official Razzie Movie Guide."
d.
Tommy Jarvis, a character that appeared in
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
,
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
, and
Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI
was at one point confirmed by producers
Bradley Fuller
and
Andrew Form
of Platinum Dunes to be returning as Jasons nemesis.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Oscar (1966)?
a.
Jodie Foster
, the actress who got the part of Sarah Tobias, was actually the fourth choice.
b.
Rosemary takes a job at a girls private school called "The Webster Smalley School for Girls". Webster Smalley is well known for teaching playwriting at the University of Texas at Austin, which
Wes Anderson
and Owen Wilson both attended.
c.
It took nearly five hours to apply the most extensive makeup stages to actor
Jeff Goldblum
.
d.
Edith Head
: an Oscar nominee for her costume designs for this film, appears in a scene set at a Hollywood party, when Kay calls Frank to congratulate him on his Oscar nomination, and one other scene.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Oscar (1966)?
a.
In the scene where Fletch is singing "Zippedie Doo Dah", the Underhills from the first Fletch Movie (tennis club) are dancing right behind Fletch, rackets and all!
b.
Took over four years to complete because Zombie was also working on
Halloween
and
Halloween II
.
c.
All cars used in the movie for the races had to pass inspection and qualify.
Bobby Hamilton
qualified one of the movie cars in the top ten; they removed the cameras and he was allowed to enter the race.
d.
Merle Oberon
presents the Best Actor in the Academy Awards sequence. According to Oscar tradition, the Best Actor and Best Actress are presented by the previous years winner in the category honoring the opposite sex. Oberon was nominated as Best Actress of 1935, but she has never won an Oscar.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Oscar (1966)?
a.
Tony Bennett
s only movie. In his autobiography, The Good Life, he states that it was a terrible experience and he never sought future roles.
b.
The playboy magazine that Carmen gets is the February 1977 issue.
c.
Susan Slept Here
was condemned by the Catholic Legion of Decency primarily for its suggestive title. In a male dominated society
George Washington Slept Here
sounded no similar moral alarms. The ban hurt the movies receipts but did greater harm to the Legion who were taken less seriously after
The Moon Is Blue
ban a year earlier in shocked response to the word virgin used outside the church!
d.
The central tagline, "Gobble, Gobble, Motherf***er!" came before their was even a plot for ThanksKilling.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Oscar (1966)?
a.
The island of Cuba was once considered as the setting for the film.
b.
The graves in Père Lachaise that are shown before Jims are, in order, Frédéric Chopin, Georges Bizet, Oscar Wilde, Sarah Bernhardt, Honoré de Balzac, Marcel Proust, Gioacchino Rossini, and Molière. All had careers that were representative Jims career and interests: Chopin, Bizet and Rossini were musicians. Balzac, Wilde and Proust were writers and philosophers. Berhardt and Molière were live stage performers.
c.
The Academy Award sequences for this film were shot at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, scene of several actual 1960s Oscar ceremonies.
d.
Prior to the scene where Elias half of the platoon is smoking dope, the actors actually did smoke marijuana. Unfortunately for them,
Willem Dafoe
reported, by the time the stage was set and they actually filmed, everyone had come off their high and felt awful.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Oscar (1966)?
a.
Although the film was released in sepia tone, the print on the Fox Movie channel was in black-and-white.
b.
According to the
Harlan Ellison
documentary "Dreams With Sharp Teeth", he wrote the screenplay with
Steve McQueen
and Peter Falk in mind to play the leads.
c.
The sound of the "force field" in the lightsaber duel with Darth Maul began as a recording of the audio supervisors neighbors ceiling fan.
d.
Reel 1 of this five-reel film survives in the Library of Congress, the rest of the film is presumed to be lost.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Oscar (1966)?
a.
Mark Stevens
was originally announced in the male lead.
b.
The
Richard Sale
novel on which this film is based followed Frank Fane as he systematically ruined the chances of his four fictitious Oscar rivals. In the movie, the other four Best Actor nominees are actual Hollywood stars, "nominated" as Best Actor for fictitious film titles.
c.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on October 23, 1950 with
Rosalind Russell
reprising her film role.
d.
There are many who might legitimately claim to have invented the time-freezing photographic technique used in the movie. It might have been French director
Michel Gondry
who used it for the first time in a commercial (for an insurance company) and then in a video clip for
Björk
. It might have been architectural graphics artist Matthew Bannister who, in his academic work, suggested that motion and time in video could be separated, and proposed an apparatus for doing it much like that used for the film (but who was unable to make it work with then-available technology). Or even artist
Tim MacMillan
who demonstrated the technique on British television in 1993. It may be that each of them, and others, invented it independently.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Oscar (1966)?
a.
Syriana is a term used by Washington think-tanks to describe a hypothetical re-shaping of the Middle East.
b.
A colleague of Brandons named Matthew Doyle briefly consulted him on the Many Worlds theory. Matthew himself had written a script years before entitled "MANY WORLDS". 15 Till Midnight has a few varied references to this older work.
c.
James Dunn
s final film.
d.
Most of the solo shots of
Rod Steiger
during the famous taxicab scene were done after
Marlon Brando
had left for the day. Steiger was deeply hurt and annoyed at Brandos apparent rudeness, but used these emotions to add to his performance.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Oscar (1966)?
a.
After
James Dean
s death late in production,
Nick Adams
provided Rinks voice for a few lines.
b.
Dedicated to
Helmut Dantine
.
c.
This film opens with footage of stars arrivals shot outside an actual mid-1960s Academy Awards ceremony, with the year of the event carefully obscured in all wide angles. One transfer of the film reveals that it is the 37th Academy Awards, held in 1964.
d.
The movie was cast with 138 non-professional actors.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Oscar (1966)?
a.
Part of the soundtrack was composed by
Robert Millsap
who played Mr. Parrish.
b.
The national anthem heard at Madison Square Garden is performed by Lauren Hart, who began singing the anthem on a regular basis at Philadelphia Flyers home games in 1997. Hart is also the daughter of late NHL Hall of Fame announcer
Gene Hart
, who broadcast for the Flyers from 1967-1995.
c.
Bob Hope
, who plays the Master of Ceremonies in this films Oscar sequences, hosted more Academy Awards shows than anyone else in Hollywood history.
d.
The crew originally intending on shooting the movie backwards due to a heavy snow storm that hit the New York City area in February 2010. However, those plans were scrapped after two days of mid-70s weather melted all the snow two days before filming began.
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