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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Right Stuff (1983) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Right Stuff (1983) - 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 Right Stuff (1983).
About the movie:
The original US Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Right Stuff (1983)?
a.
Alfred Hitchcock
and
David O. Selznick
wanted either
Ronald Colman
or Sir
Laurence Olivier
for the role "Malcolm Keane." But both were unavailable: Colman was making "A Double Life" and Olivier was making his version of "Hamlet". So the role went to
Gregory Peck
. And the name "Malcolm Keane" was changed to "Anthony Keane."
b.
Coleman Francis
: [location] Yucca Flats airstrip
c.
It was producer
Roger Corman
s idea to kill the mutant with cancer.
d.
The role of
Annie Glenn
was the first film role for
Mary Jo Deschanel
, the wife of director of photography
Caleb Deschanel
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Right Stuff (1983)?
a.
To create the space uniforms for the Mercury astronauts, the costume designers used silver fabrics and other materials left over from costumes for singer/actress
Cher
.
b.
Mike Mazurki and Ed Strangler Lewis started their careers as professional wrestlers.
c.
John Meadows
wrote the script between June 1997 and September 1998.
d.
Harrison Ford
had never seen a single episode of the TV series
The Fugitive
, upon which the film was based.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Right Stuff (1983)?
a.
The pistol that Vernita Green fires at The Bride is hidden in an emptied box of "KaBoom" cereal.
b.
Ida Lupino
was considered for the role of Alice.
c.
When Fiona is talking to her dad after Shrek and Donkey meet Puss, her necklace is in the shape of a claddagh, an ancient Celtic symbol for luck and harmony.
d.
During the newsreel segment when President
John F. Kennedy
gives
Alan Shepard
(
Scott Glenn
) a medal for his flight, in the background we can see
Charles Frank
as
Scott Carpenter
. When the angle reverses to actual archival footage of President Kennedy dropping the medal, he bends to pick it up, and the real
Scott Carpenter
and
Gus Grissom
are in the background.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Right Stuff (1983)?
a.
The telephone number President Shepherd gives Sydney to call him back (456-1414) is in fact the number to the White House (area code 202).
b.
Act Three, Scene Five of "Macbeth" is an interpolation, an addition to the Shakespeare play from another script. Generally it is not used in theatrical and movie adaptations for this reason.
c.
The production was beset by 15 mile per hour, dust-laden winds when they were filming at Edwards Air Force Base.
d.
Tony Alva
: The real
Tony Alva
is at the party in Jay Adamss house, telling his mother about Oregon.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Right Stuff (1983)?
a.
Ed Harris
father
Bob L. Harris
plays the Judge.
b.
Bill Conti
was appointed so late in the production, he was actually scoring to the fine cut of the film instead of a first cut which composers are usually given to work to.
c.
During the scene at Springwood High School, several newspaper clippings and other references to Freddy victims appear. Also, written on the chalkboard is "1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki attempts fail".
d.
In the League of Scientists conference room, several artifacts from the previous Hank Danger films are visible, including the map to the Fountain of Death, the idol of Molotar, and the Space Mummys burial mask.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Right Stuff (1983)?
a.
Mick Gould
was hired to train
Tom Cruise
for the action sequences - including showing him how to fire live rounds.
Michael Mann
himself trained with various weapons so he knew how to direct the action sequences to full effect.
b.
All of the sons of Red Flannels owners appear in the office scenes as workers.
c.
Miklós Rózsa
wrote the musical score in eight weeks.
d.
Ken Wahl
, who previously starred in director
Philip Kaufman
s
The Wanderers
, was initially cast as
Gordon Cooper
.
Dennis Quaid
replaced Wahl, giving up an undisclosed role in
The Outsiders
, which was being produced simultaneously.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Right Stuff (1983)?
a.
An early press release announced that
Ellen Barkin
was cast in the film. Her part was eventually recast.
b.
The one-armed man tells Jack Burns in the bar that he lost his arm at Okinawa during World War II.
Bill Raisch
, the actor who played the one-armed man, actually did lose his right arm in a fire on board a ship during the war. Raisch was
Burt Lancaster
s stand-in and later landed a recurring role in the TV series
The Fugitive
.
c.
In the movie,
Calista Flockhart
s character Barbara is "not even 18". Flockhart was actually 31 at the time of the filming.
Dan Futterman
s character Val is supposed to be 20, but in reality, he was actually 27 when the film was being shot.
d.
Many of paintings on the walls of the castle are undetailed versions of famous paintings by such artists as Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Goya.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Right Stuff (1983)?
a.
When
James Woods
heard that
Martin Scorsese
was interested in working with him, Woods called Scorseses office and left the following message: "Any time, any place, any part, any fee."
b.
The top grossing film of 1961.
c.
Parachute stuntman
Joseph Leonard Svec
was killed in an accident while filming the scene where
Chuck Yeager
loses control of an experimental aircraft and bails out. Svecs helmet filled with smoke and he lost consciousness. He never pulled his ripcord and died on impact. During the real-life bailout this scene represented, Yeager collided with his ejection seat, breaking open the face-shield of his helmet. Molten explosive materials struck Yeager in the face, burning him severely and likewise filling his helmet with smoke.
d.
Helen Hayes
was reportedly so appalled by her performance that she tried to buy the movie from the studio so that she could destroy it.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Right Stuff (1983)?
a.
This film was such a success that there were plans to do a sound remake. In possible preparation for this, Aileen Rothacker reached an agreement with First National to withdraw the film from distribution. First National was to destroy all release prints and the foreign negative but the domestic negative was to be retained. It is not known if the original negatives decomposed or if they were mistakenly disposed of.
b.
The car Arthur is working on is a Series 1 Jaguar E-Type, manufactured between 1961 and 1968.
c.
Though it wasnt shown fully in the film, Cleon was killed.
d.
The scene where
Alan Shepard
is about to board the rocket to be the first American in space is archival footage. The scene immediately after he points up to the rocket after exiting the transport trailer shows a man in a suit and tie coming down the stairs of the trailer then following Shepard to the tower elevator. The man is the real
Gus Grissom
- one of the astronauts that perished in the Apollo 1 fire.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Right Stuff (1983)?
a.
The closing narration states that
Gordon Cooper
was "the last American ever to go into space alone". While true when the film was made,
Mike Melvill
in June and September 2004 and
Brian Binnie
in October 2004 went into space alone in Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne (Not a NASA spaceship or spaceflight). Binnies flight was the day
Gordon Cooper
died.
b.
Anthony Quinn
had played Stanley Kowalski in the road-tour of
Tennessee Williams
play "A Streetcar Named Desire", and some critics thought he was better than
Marlon Brando
, who had originated the part. None of this was lost on
Elia Kazan
, who liked to foster competition between his actors if it was appropriate. On set, the competitive Quinn and Brando, who both liked and respected each other, bonded like the brothers they played.
c.
Herbert Ross
, who directed this movie, also directed the play of it on the stage on Broadway.
d.
In 1950, 20th Century Fox reissued this film on a bill with
Guadalcanal Diary
and
The Purple Heart
.
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