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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Three Little Words (1950) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Three Little Words (1950) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Three Little Words (1950).
About the movie:
The story of the successful Tin Pan Alley songwriting team of Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby is told loosely and lightheartedly.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Three Little Words (1950)?
a.
Some exteriors were shot at the Bel Air, California mansion also used in
The Beverly Hillbillies
.
b.
Introduced here by
Marion Hutton
, the song "My Dreams are Getting Better All the Time" became one of the top hits of 1944 when recorded by
Doris Day
with
Les Brown and His Band of Renown
.
c.
During development, Cera started out as a male triceratops called Bambo.
d.
A billboard for the Marx Brothers in
Animal Crackers
is seen in the film.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Three Little Words (1950)?
a.
Yonica Babyyeah specifically demands pickles, which are
Hilary Duff
s favorite food.
b.
The fight poster in Drop Johnsons apartment (mentioned above) has as the under card a fight featuring "Bunky Knudsen." Semon "Bunkie" Knudsen was the President of Ford Motor Company in 1969, and before that a top executive at General Motors.
c.
Laurie remarks that she would rather go out with unseen character "Ben Tramer". The name came from
Bennett Tramer
, an old college friend of director
John Carpenter
.
d.
Vocals for
Vera-Ellen
were dubbed by
Anita Ellis
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Three Little Words (1950)?
a.
Compiled from 15 minutes of found footage and outtakes from the "Gunsmoke" television series and set against a soundtrack built out of several cold war era "numbers stations" and an archival Edison cylinder recording of a sea shanty being played on a concertina.
b.
Gloria DeHaven
plays the part of her own mother, Mrs. Carter DeHaven.
c.
After watching
La ardilla roja
,
Stanley Kubrick
advised
Steven Spielberg
to hire
Julio Medem
to direct this movie. Spielberg contacted Medem but the Spanish filmmaker rejected the job and preferred to keep working in more personal projects.
d.
Despite the film taking place in New York City, only one real life New York landmark was shown, the Brooklyn Bridge. Most of the cityscape in the film is fictional.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Three Little Words (1950)?
a.
This was originally released as part of a pre-packaged double feature with
Attack of the Puppet People
, another film by
Bert I. Gordon
.
b.
Vocals for
Debbie Reynolds
were dubbed by
Helen Kane
.
c.
The maroon Volkswagen Kharman Ghia convertible driven by
Mike Myers
is the same vehicle driven by
Robert Redford
in
Sneakers
, parts of which were also filmed in San Francisco the previous year.
d.
Liza Minnelli
admitted in an interview that this film went "nowhere".
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Three Little Words (1950)?
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.
The real
Harry Ruby
appears in a bit part as one of the baseball players. He is the one who catches the ball thrown by
Red Skelton
(as Harry Ruby) and tells "Ruby" to take it easy.
c.
As with the other two films in the trilogy, author
Dan Brown
named main character Robert Langdon after
John Langdon
, a close friend and typography master who worked with Brown on ambigram designs for his book "Angels and Demons", as well as the films.
John Langdon
also designed an ambigram that was used in the movie
Monkeyshine
.
d.
When
Jonathan Demme
filmed the scene where Lecter and Starling first meet,
Anthony Hopkins
said he should look directly at the camera as it panned into his line of sight. He felt Lecter should be portrayed as "knowing everything."
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Three Little Words (1950)?
a.
The dress worn by Gale Robbins in the "All Alone Monday" number is the same dress worn by Ann Miller in the "Girl on the Magazine Cover" in
Easter Parade
.
b.
Taaffe OConnell
used a body double for some of the nudity featured in the notorious worm rape scene.
c.
Anthony Waller
met
Alec Guinness
quite by chance in Hamburg in 1985 where he asked him if he was interested in doing a one-scene cameo. To his surprise, Guinness said hed be delighted and that he would do it for free. The problem was that Guinness was fully booked for the next 18 months so Waller suggested they shoot the scene the following morning in an underground car park. Guinness readily agreed and - true to his word - took no payment.
d.
The elderly man in the waiting room who talks on and on about the Pony Express is
Byron P. Cavnar
, an 89-year-old local who was in the waiting room when the crew arrived to film there. He got to talking on his favorite subject, the Pony Express, and director
Barry Levinson
got such a kick out of it that he let Caunar keep on talking as the cameras rolled; all his dialog was spontaneous and not scripted.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Three Little Words (1950)?
a.
A Hollywood Reporter production chart listed
Doris Lloyd
,
Charlotte Granville
and
Henry Armetta
as cast members, but they did not appear in the movie.
b.
During the car sex scene, Charles Busch had a double play the naked Monica Stark.
c.
Chick Gandil, the gambler in the film, was also the name of one of the Black Sox players who conspired with gambler
Arnold Rothstein
to fix the 1919 World Series.
d.
Bert Kalmar
and
Harry Ruby
were friends of
Fred Astaire
from their early days together in vaudeville. Astaire said the film was one of his all-time favorites.
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