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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Whales of August (1987) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Whales of August (1987) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Whales of August (1987)

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About the movie: Summer people in Maine: things are changing. Whales no longer pass close to the shore as they did during...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Whales of August (1987)?
a.		Tisha Sterling, who plays Young Tisha Doughty, is the daughter of Ann Sothern, who plays Tisha Doughty as an older woman.
b.		Charlton Heston personally requested to Cecil B. DeMille to let him be the voice of God, at the scene of the Burning Bush, and DeMille agreed.
c.		All of Linda Shaynes scenes as Miss Salmon were shot by the second unit.
d.		Martin Scorsese and Liv Tyler had been developing a competing project, but then Scorsese was given the green-light for The Aviator, and he backed out. Liv Tyler also subsequently left.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Whales of August (1987)?
a.		Garry Marshall was originally slated to direct the film. He is the brother of actor/director Penny Marshall, who directed Tom Hanks in Big and A League of Their Own. She is the ex-wife of Rob Reiner, who plays Jay in the film.
b.		The film was rejected for a UK video release in 1987 by the BBFC after the distributor refused to make cuts to a double murder scene and shots of topless women being killed.
c.		Lillian Gishs last film.
d.		Fredi Washingtons scenes were reshot using dark pancake makeup because she looked "too white" in the first rushes. It was feared audiences would think Paul Robeson was embracing a white woman.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Whales of August (1987)?
a.		The voice of Scooby in the "Scooby-Doo" scene is voiced by Mark Hamill.
b.		Natalie Woods singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon.
c.		Joe Piper was written as a brush salesman in an earlier draft of the script. Moreover, Dick Miller ad-libbed all his dialogue as Piper and came up with the idea to make Piper a vacuum cleaner salesman.
d.		Ann Sotherns last film.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Whales of August (1987)?
a.		The films budget was exactly $777,777.77, and it was delivered on time - and on budget.
b.		According to author Chuck Palahniuk, much of the specific content of the novel (such as splicing single frames of pornography into family films, attending support groups for the terminally ill, erasing video tapes etc) came from stories told him by friends, and from things his friends actually did. Whilst writing the novel, Palahniuk also interviewed numerous young white males in white-collar jobs, discovering that "the longing for fathers was a theme I heard a lot about. The resentment of lifestyle standards imposed by advertising was another."
c.		According to director Lindsay Anderson, one day he said to Lillian Gish, "Miss Gish, you have just given me a perfect close-up." Bette Davis observed, "She should. The bitch invented em."
d.		Despite previous reports, Reese Witherspoon was not pregnant during filming. The movie filmed from 9 June 1998 - 15 July 1998, and Witherspoon had her daughter Ava on 9 September 1999. A full year after filming the movie. She was, however, pregnant, when they did the press tours for the film.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Whales of August (1987)?
a.		Several cast members in studio records/casting call lists apparently were eliminated during the final editing process. These were (with their character names): Jesse Graves (Servant), Lillian Nicholson (Landlady), Robert Pittard (Charles Johnson) and Sam Rice (Attendee at Funeral). Don Dillaway (Wilbur Minafer) is not mentioned in Welles oral credits, but he appears in three scenes in the opening minutes of the film: As Isabel and Wilbur emerge from a store, Isabel spurns suitor Eugenes attentions; Wilbur reads aloud a letter complaining about son Georges misbehavior as George, Major Amberson, and Isabel listen; and Wilbur has lines in several shots of the ball scene.
b.		Originally Brad Pitt was cast as Colin Sullivan, but later dropped out to work with Alejandro González Iñárritu in Babel. He continued to produce the film under his (and his then wife Jennifer Anistons) production company, Plan B.
c.		Originally Russell Casse (Randy Quaid) flew his crop duster in the final battle, because the military had rejected him as a pilot. He appeared with a missile attached to the crop duster, then flew the crop duster into the alien ship. But when it was screened to test audiences, they felt it was too comedic, so they re-filmed the scene.
d.		In one scene, Lillian Gish and Ann Sothern are seen overlooking the ocean. Sotherns character remarks that whales have scarcely been seen since the war due to submarines. In real life, Ann Sotherns paternal grandfather, Simon Lake, was the inventor of the modern submarine.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Whales of August (1987)?
a.		The buoy that the filmmakers used as a device to transition from scene to scene was not a real buoy, but a prop that was built specifically for the production. The buoy is now on display outside of the Casco Bay Lines Ferry Terminal in Portland, Maine.
b.		The first Indiana Jones movie to receive an MPAA rating higher than PG; the recently created PG-13. This was the certificate that Steven Spielberg himself was partly responsible for (see Trivia for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom).
c.		Audrey Stanzler and Mihran Konanyan were supposed to play Jacks Victim, and Edwins victim - respectfully. When they proved unavailable, Kate Leiva and Matthew Greene were cast.
d.		When Father Tom stands in the rain, watching Mrs. Tredoni check the mail, a poster for the film Psycho can be seen in the background.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Whales of August (1987)?
a.		Screen legend Lillian Gish was 93 when she co-starred in this film making her the oldest actress ever to feature in a leading role.
b.		Burt Lancaster agreed to do this film if he could star in The Rainmaker, also produced by Hal B. Wallis.
c.		Notre Dame University got a court injunction to delay the release of the film, claiming the studio had "knowingly and illegally misappropriated, diluted and commercially exploited for their private profit the names, symbols, football team, prestige, high reputation and goodwill" of the university. After three months of court battles, the studio won out.
d.		The scenes of the hyenas chasing Simba out of the Pridelands and into the desert originally went screen right to screen left. The filmmakers flipped all the shots so that the chase now went screen left to screen right, so as to match the shot of Simba running back home to face Scar (he runs from screen right to screen left).

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