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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Star (1952) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Star (1952)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Star (1952).

About the movie: A washed-up movie queen finds romance, but still desires a come-back.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Star (1952)?
a.		Alfred Hitchcock: getting off a train at the Cumberland station carrying a cello (see also his cameo in Strangers on a Train).
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.		Fox starlet Barbara Lawrences presence is felt even though her actual screen time is brief. Besides her fleeting cameo appearance, she is referred to at least five other times as the young nemesis to Bette Davis aging star. She is mentioned as an up-and-coming prospect by an agent, a drunken Davis drives by her house in a mock tour of stars homes, her image appears in a drugstore ad that confronts Davis, Davis stops to stare at a huge portrait of Lawrence before entering her prospective producers office, and she spitefully uses Lawrences vacant dressing room to change alter her make-up before her screen test. For added Hollywood verisimilitude, references are made to other contemporaneous Fox stars including Victor Mature, Debra Paget, Mitzi Gaynor, and Jeanne Crain. Curiously there is a reference to an actor named Ralph Bellows, whos playing the rich, stuffy second lead. This is an obvious reference to the screen persona of Ralph Bellamy, who was not under contract to Fox at the time.
d.		Early in the movie, Cody remarks about the lack of waves in Shiverpool, "You should have been here yesterday...", a common surfing aphorism lamenting poor surfing conditions.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Star (1952)?
a.		In the scene where a drunken Margaret Elliot takes her Oscar for a ride in her car, Bette Davis used one of her own Oscars.
b.		Warwick Davis, who played Professor Flitwick and the first Gringotts Goblin, also provided the voice for Griphook who was physically played by Verne Troyer.
c.		When the police are searching Naomis apartment, Edward James Olmos was talking on the phone to his son while laughing for the shot of the interior
d.		The impending war in Iraq forced the production to move from Morocco to Baja California Sur, Mexico in February 2003.