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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Seven Year Itch (1955) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Seven Year Itch (1955) - 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 Seven Year Itch (1955).
About the movie:
When his family goes away for the summer, a so far faithful husband is tempted by a beautiful neighbor (Marilyn Monroe).
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Seven Year Itch (1955)?
a.
George Cukor
was the original choice to direct the film. He turned down the project and eventually
Billy Wilder
, whose contract with Paramount ended in 1954 (his last film with that studio was
Sabrina
), took it.
b.
Halloween was shot in 21 days in April of 1978. Made on a budget of $320,000, it became the highest-grossing independent movie ever made at that time.
c.
Robert Forster
was recovering from a case of spinal meningitis when principal filming began.
d.
187 is the police code for homicide.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Seven Year Itch (1955)?
a.
Film debut of
Madeline Kahn
.
b.
Actor
Eugene Levy
appears in both this movie and
Father of the Bride Part II
, but as different characters in each one.
c.
The movies poster was as #22 of "The 25 Best Movie Posters Ever" by Premiere.
d.
Didier Agathe
plays for the "baddie" team Rangers in the film. In real life he played for their rivals Celtic.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Seven Year Itch (1955)?
a.
In the early 1980s, 20th Century Fox (which has the film rights), wanted to remake this movie.
Al Pacino
was rumored to play Richard Sherman and
Melanie Griffith
was rumored to play the Girl. However the project was turned down and as of 2009, it remains in development hell.
b.
Brenda Starr, Reporter (1945) is the one Columbia serial which was thought to perhaps be lost to the ravages of time. Over the years, there have been a number of rumors of the existence of 16mm or 35mm film prints. This serial does indeed exist, though it remains unavailable commercially. A number of recent (May 2005) IMDB updates are based on actual on screen credits.
c.
L.B. Bartholomee
and
Rafael Antonio Ruiz
met in 1997 while working on a dreadful local production of an even more dreadful play Baruch of Amsterdam. Their friendship and partnership survived that and numerous subsequent crises.
d.
Lev Zhurbin composed a musical theme for each of the main characters prior to production. During casting, a sample of the music was sent to each actor along with the script.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Seven Year Itch (1955)?
a.
Nigel Stock (I), who plays Waxfatter, had previously played the role of Dr Watson in a 1960s television version of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
b.
Despite being set in Ireland the film was shot in the Isle of Man.
c.
Director
David Slade
originally spoke against the Twilight series, stating that he wouldnt go near the franchise. Shortly after he was announced as the director of Eclipse, he quickly withdrew his previous remarks, claiming it to be a joke he was doing to promote some comedy shorts.
d.
Final film appearances of
Donald MacBride
and
Victor Moore
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Seven Year Itch (1955)?
a.
The film covers only the first half of the
L. Ron Hubbard
book.
b.
Andrew Mason
, one of the films producers, says they hired some of the worlds greatest cave divers as consultants in order to keep the movie as technically plausible as possible.
c.
Milicent Patrick
created the design of the Creature, although
Bud Westmore
, who was the head of Universals makeup department at the time, would take credit publicly for the Creatures design.
d.
The movie premiere was on June 1st, 1955 which happened to be
Marilyn Monroe
s 29th birthday.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Seven Year Itch (1955)?
a.
In real life, Patchs close friend who was murdered was a man, not a female love interest. Carin is a fictional character.
b.
Director of Photography
Pawel Edelman
, being a fan of Ray Charles, was the very first crew member to join the project by committing to it a year before start of shooting.
Taylor Hackford
wanted to work with him in
Proof of Life
but Edelman was unavailable at that time.
c.
Despite being one of the most iconic images in pop culture history, as well as one of the most recognizable photographs of
Marilyn Monroe
, the famous full-length image of Monroe standing with her dress being blown up never actually appears in the film. The shot used in the film is only of her legs, cut with reaction shots, and never shown full-length.
d.
During the climactic highway crash,
Charlize Theron
releases a woman from the trunk of the over-turned car and then runs up the embankment toward the road, but when she gets there you can see her left leg accidentally slip out from under her due to the wet pavement. According to the directors DVD commentary, though in great pain Charlize forced herself to crawl the rest of the way to finish the scene, but once "Cut" was yelled it was realized how seriously her left knee had been injured and filming was delayed briefly while she was hospitalized.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Seven Year Itch (1955)?
a.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on January 25, 1943 with
Mary Astor
,
Humphrey Bogart
and
Sydney Greenstreet
reprising their film roles.
b.
Alice Faye
was pregnant during the filming of this movie.
c.
When Denise calls her father, there is a Missing Dog Head poster in the phone booth. The exact origin is unknown, but the poster is a very strange "real" item that was spotted in New York City.
d.
The original Broadway production of "The Seven Year Itch" by
George Axelrod
opened at the Fulton Theater on November 20, 1952 and ran for 1141 performances.
Tom Ewell
reprises his role in the movie. The plays author collaborated on the screenplay for the movie version.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Seven Year Itch (1955)?
a.
Besides Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan, this films cast contained three other actors who also played famous crimefighters: Ricardo Cortez (Sam Spade in the 1931 "Maltese Falcon"), Morgan Conway (Dick Tracy in two RKO films in the mid-1940s) and Robert Lowery (Batman in the Columbia serial "The Adventures of Batman and Robin" in 1948).
b.
The concentration camp scenes were filmed at a Swedish military compound.
c.
Was filmed in 24 days.
d.
The caption that goes by the "Textures" picture in U.S. Camera is about the Ruwenzori Mountains (Africa).
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Seven Year Itch (1955)?
a.
The "spaceship" the astronauts were in was actually a model of NASAs first manned space station "Skylab".
b.
The movie was not shot inside of an actual house, the interior of the home was built on a sound stage.
c.
An important promotional campaign was released for this mainstream motion picture, including a 52 feet high cut-out of
Marilyn Monroe
(from the blowing dress scene) erected in front of Loews State Theater, in New York Citys Times Square.
d.
Zander The Great opened at the Empire Theater on April 9, 1923 and ran for 80 performances.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Seven Year Itch (1955)?
a.
Donovans death sequence by rapid aging was the first all-digital composite. In previous films involving computer generated visual effects (i.e.,
Young Sherlock Holmes
and
Willow
) CG elements were output to film and added to final film print using optical printers. For "Last Crusade" ILM scanned several filmed makeup transformations of "Donovans demise" and "morphed" the elements together digitally. By doing this, film (was for first time) scanned, digitally manipulated, and output back to film rather than arranging film elements with an optical printer. It took a week to film this death scene.
b.
The main character Daniel Plainview was modeled loosely after famous oil man Edward Doheny and his characteristics were based on Count Dracula. Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills was used at the end of the film; this house was built by Doheny for his son, Edward L. Doheny, Jr. (Ned).
c.
Tom Ewell
won the 1953 Tony Award for Actor in a Drama for "The Seven Year Itch" in the role of Richard Sherman, which he reprised in this film.
d.
According to film historians,
W.C. Fields
performed in only one film exactly according to script and as directed. That one was MGMs
The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger
in which he co-starred with
Freddie Bartholomew
, who was only ten years old. Fields admired the
Charles Dickens
book and wanted desperately to play Mr. Micawber in the movie, so he agreed to forgo his usual ad-libs and put aside his distaste at working with child actors.
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