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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The World According to Garp (1982) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The World According to Garp (1982) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The World According to Garp (1982).
About the movie:
Based on the John Irving novel, this film chronicles the life of T S Garp, and his mother, Jenny. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The World According to Garp (1982)?
a.
This film was not screened for critics.
b.
Noel Marshall
and
Tippi Hedren
acquired a number of big cats from zoos, pet shops, circuses, private homes and animal control officers especially for the making of this movie. These included unwanted animals. The first cat they acquired was a three month old lion cub.
c.
George Roy Hill
: pilot that crashes into the house
d.
Jenkins and his foundation are modeled after
John D. Rockefeller
and his own foundation. The massacre of workers at the beginning of the movie is modeled after the Ludlow massacre of 1914, in which Rockefeller was involved.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The World According to Garp (1982)?
a.
According to Variety magazine, the role of Jenny Fields was offered to
Pat Benatar
, but she turned it down to continue her musical career.
b.
The Halloween: Resurrection trailer was first seen before
Jason X
which was released on the 26th of April 2002.
c.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on August 28, 1944 with
Ray Milland
and
Ruth Hussey
reprising their film roles.
d.
Buffalo Bushido is dedicated to McGennis best friends brother, Brendan, who died at a young age as a result of a real life car accident. The film supports a scholarship fund in Brendans name offered through Fordham University.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The World According to Garp (1982)?
a.
The final scene, tinted in red, has the ongoing narration played backwards and thereby unintelligible; a sloppy mistake presumably made by the distributor preparing the DVD reissue, but assumed by the so-called "film historian" in his booklet notes for the DVD to be part of the original films intention since an original negative was used.
b.
Three members of the original
Keystone Kops
of silent films worked on the picture:
Hank Mann
,
Harold Goodwin
and
Heinie Conklin
. This is the 13th Keystone Kops film.
c.
John Irving
: wrestling match referee
d.
The last of 47 Charlie Chan movies, though the character was revived in a 1957 TV series starring
J. Carrol Naish
(
The New Adventures of Charlie Chan
; a total of 39 episodes), and in a couple of unrelated movies.
George Kuwa
and
Sôjin
, both Japanese, each played the role once in lost silents,
E.L. Park
, a British actor who made no other films, put in a tiny cameo as Chan in
Behind That Curtain
. The Swedish
Warner Oland
started the series proper in 1931 with
Charlie Chan Carries On
, doing a total of 16 entries, Missouri-born
Sidney Toler
replaced him for 22 more, and Massachusetts-born
Roland Winters
ended it with the last six. Polish-born
Ross Martin
completed a 1970 TV movie reviving the character, a failed attempt at a new teleseries, while London-born
Peter Ustinov
starred in a final theatrical release,
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
, scripted as a satire/spoof, which was not a success. In 1976
Peter Sellers
sent up the character (called Sidney Wang) in
Murder by Death
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The World According to Garp (1982)?
a.
James OBarr
: stealing a TV set after Gideons shop was blown up.
b.
Ron Howard
took a break during preproduction on this film to work on
Frost/Nixon
.
c.
The novel "Big Game" by
Francis Wallace
was first published as a serial entitled "Odds Against Honor" in Colliers magazine in 1935. The idea for the riot scene came from an actual riot at a New York University-Fordham University football game. RKO bought 1000 feet of the 1935 Rose Bowl game footage for use in the film.
d.
Glenn Close
landed the role of Jenny after director
George Roy Hill
and casting director
Marion Dougherty
had seen her in a Broadway production of "Barnum" opposite
Jim Dale
(1980).
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The World According to Garp (1982)?
a.
The construction crew for the art department spent almost a year building the 100 sets needed for the film.
b.
The studio wanted
Sophia Loren
for the female lead, and she wanted to do it, but contractual problems resulted in her having to turn it down. The part was eventually given to
Eva Marie Saint
.
c.
The operation of the submarine as shown in this movie was so accurate that the Navy used it as a training film during World War II.
d.
Glenn Close
plays
Robin Williams
s mother, yet she is only four years older than he.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The World According to Garp (1982)?
a.
Rather incongruously, Anna hitches a boat ride from Wales to Dingle which is over on Irelands Atlantic coast. Her actual destination is Dublin which lies adjacent to Wales and is easily accessible from there.
b.
The British Board of Film Censors (now, the British Board of Film Classification) gave the film an A-certificate upon its original release. This resulted in a nationwide controversy as to whether the enchanted forest and the witch were too frightening for younger audiences. Nevertheless, most local authorities simply overrode the censors decision and gave the film a U-certificate.
c.
Shelley Hack
s film debut.
d.
Jeff Daniels
was considered for the lead role but lost out to
Robin Williams
.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The World According to Garp (1982)?
a.
The last "Hellraiser" movie to get an theatrical release.
b.
The house that the plane crashes into was built at one end of the only runway at Lincoln Park Airport, a very small airstrip in Lincoln Park, NJ USA (about 35 miles NW of New York City). The wrecked house was not removed for several weeks. While no planes have hit houses in the vicinity, one did bounce off the roof of a passing car several years earlier.
c.
In the beginning of the movie, Viktor Taransky (
Al Pacino
) is removing all the red candies from a bowl of assorted colored candies. He subsequently has a heated conversation with
Winona Ryder
s character, and its revealed that this demanding actresss contract specifies that in addition to having the largest trailer on the studio set, she must always be provided with these candies with the red ones removed. This is an obvious reference to a famous 1982 contract rider for the rock group
Van Halen
, who required that at each concert they be provided with specific foods and drinks including a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed. The removal of the candies wasnt itself important, but was instead a test to give confidence to the band and the tour crew that the contract had been read and executed to the last detail to ensure the safety of the band, crew and fans at the concert. If any brown M&Ms were present, it would be a red flag to the band and crew that perhaps something more important such as electrics or rigging had been incorrectly supplied by the host.
d.
James Garner
s last film under his Warner Bros. contract. After a writers strike halted all WB productions, even though Garner had a "play or pay" contract, WB refused to pay him. Garner sued the studio for breach of contract and won.
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