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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Stranger (1946) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Stranger (1946) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Stranger (1946).
About the movie:
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Stranger (1946)?
a.
The original play opened in New York on 19 December 1909.
b.
The movie was based on
Heather Robinson
s life as a teenager in Tucson, AZ.
c.
A "Carthaginian peace", as mentioned by the characters, is used to refer to any peace treaty demanding total subjugation of the defeated side. It is based on the defeat of Carthage by Rome and the total destruction of Carthage thereafter. In modern times, it is often used to describe a peace settlement in which the terms imposed by the victor are overly harsh and designed to keep the loser subjugated for a long time, if not forever..
d.
Robert Redford
originally agreed to play Blue and backed out at the last minute. He was sued by Paramount and afterward refused
Roman Polanski
s offer to play Guy Woodhouse in Paramounts
Rosemarys Baby
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Stranger (1946)?
a.
The short film
La Cucaracha
played before this film in some theaters during its original release.
b.
The graduation scene was an actual graduation ceremony of the R.C.A.F. with
W.A. Bishop
in attendance. He also attended the New York opening along with 200 R.C.A.F. cadets and other officials.
c.
Sigourney Weaver
s stuntwoman had her nose broken in the fight scene with
William McNamara
.
d.
In one of the final scenes, when
Orson Welles
lifts
Loretta Young
one-handed into the clock tower from a ladder, this is not a special effect.
Loretta Young
stated that this was actually filmed in the church with her dangling dangerously many feet above the church floor.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Stranger (1946)?
a.
Michael Jai White
was scheduled to play as Jax, but eventually he got the lead part in
Spawn
instead.
b.
The only other National Lampoon movie to feature
Stephen Furst
beyond
Animal House
.
c.
"The Hedda Hopper Show - This Is Hollywood" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on December 7, 1946 with
Edward G. Robinson
reprising his film role.
d.
The song "Love Is Only Love", which
Barbra Streisand
as Dolly sings in her bedroom before the Harmonia Gardens scene, was not in the stage production of "Hello, Dolly". "Love Is Only Love" was written by
Jerry Herman
for the Broadway musical "Mame" but cut before that shows opening. The song occurred in the story as Mame Dennis tries to explain falling in love to her pre-teen nephew Patrick.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Stranger (1946)?
a.
Filmed in two weeks.
b.
Unlike most musical films the films musical segments are only partly filmed on playback.
John Cameron Mitchell
didnt want to have to lip-sync the lines in the music so the band playing was recorded in studio, played back on set and sang live. His vocals were recorded and then mixed later on with the recording of the band, making it sound like they too were performing live. However, on the soundtrack, the vocals were mixed to sound as if they were recorded in a studio as opposed to on set.
c.
This was singer
Carl Perkins
s only film.
d.
Orson Welles
originally wanted
Agnes Moorehead
to play the FBI part. The studio said no and instead gave him
Edward G. Robinson
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Stranger (1946)?
a.
Gary Cooper
was originally offered the role of Breck Coleman and wanted it, but he was under contract to Paramount Pictures, which refused to loan him out. The role was eventually given to
John Wayne
.
b.
Both Diane Venora and Liev Schreiber have previously acted in productions of Hamlet on the New York stage. In fact, Venora had actually played the title character in a famous and iconoclastic production of the play.
c.
Debut of
Leslie Banks
.
d.
Though not as well remembered as some of
Orson Welles
s more original projects, this was the only film directed by Welles to show a profit in its original release.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Stranger (1946)?
a.
A lengthy scene of Meineke trying to find Kindler was filmed but cut by the studio. The footage (between 20-30 minutes) is believed lost as even the original negatives have gone missing. (see alternate versions)
b.
"Man-Made Monster" launched Lon Chaney Jr.s career as a star in horror films and the films success directly led to his casting in the big budget role of his career, "The Wolfman."
c.
"Battle of Angels", the original version of Tennesse Williams play "Orpheus Descending" that the movie is based on, flopped in Boston in 1940 and did not make it to Broadway. The 1957 Broadway production of the reworked play, starring Cliff Robertson and Maureen Stapleton as Val and Lady Torrance, also was a flop. It wasnt until the 1989 revival starring Vanessa Redgrave as Lady Torrance that the play was a success on Broadway.
d.
The opening montage of time-lapse shots and other scenes of the world where we see ads for Kable and/or graffiti of Ken Castle overlaid on buildings or walls are mostly taken from
Ron Fricke
s wordless film
Baraka
, for example, the shots of the Giza Pyramids, India, homeless man sleeping under a bridge among others.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Stranger (1946)?
a.
River Phoenix
, who had grown up in communes in South America, was somewhat unfamiliar with popular culture and slang words. During rehearsals it became a running joke when he would attempt scripted well-known words and phrases and usually pronounce them incorrectly.
b.
As
Oskar Schindler
is given a tour of the camp, he passes a boy in prisoners clothing with his hands raised over his head and a sign hanging over him. It reads "jestem zlodziejem ziemniaków", "I am a potato thief."
c.
Phantom was a box office flop the year it came out. The only place in North America where the film had lasting power was in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada where it stayed on the screens for months.
d.
Orson Welles
least favourite film of his own.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Stranger (1946)?
a.
Radio presenter
Art Gilmore
provides the voice of US President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
at the end of this picture.
b.
Christopher Walken
turned down the role of Rico.
c.
According to
Richard Dreyfuss
, he and
Bill Murray
did not get along during filming.
d.
The first film released after WWII that showed footage of the concentration camps.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Stranger (1946)?
a.
During the dinner conversation, a correspondent, Standish of the London Times in Berlin, is mentioned. This could be a reference to Henry Standish, a war correspondent for the News Chronicle, a UK daily paper (1930-1960). (Standish is quoted in What Buchenwald Really Means by Victor Gollancz (1945)). Whether this reference is meant to be the same Standish and whether Standish really wrote an article similar to the one discussed in the film is not able to be determined.
b.
The name of the burger shop that Julie works at is called "Fat Boy". This is a nod to the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Fat Man and Little Boy.
c.
Steven Spielberg
: [music]
d.
This was Magnanis first English-speaking role in a Hollywood film. She was very nervous about her English, and her heavy accent during filming, and in fact had turned down the role in the stage version earlier for the same reason. Magnanis performance was widely applauded and she walked home with the Oscar for Best Actress as a result.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Stranger (1946)?
a.
The first of three appearances for Tim Ryan (Irenes husband) as Lt. Mike Ruark.
b.
With 4,366 locations, this film also holds the record for opening in the most venues on its release date. (
Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End
opened in 4,362 movie houses the previous summer.)
c.
The vast New England town exterior sets including the church with its 124 clock tower were constructed in Hollywood on the back lot of the United Artists Studio located on Santa Monica Blvd. In some production shots taken by LIFE Magazine, the circular metal scaffolding of a huge collapsible natural gas storage tank can be seen behind some of the sets. The only such tank nearby a Hollywood studio was a block away from UA.
d.
In the boardroom scene where
Heather Graham
is delivering the Powerpoint presentation to the Japanese business executives, the extras playing the executives are, in reality, all Chinese-American.
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