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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Tovarich (1937) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Tovarich (1937) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Tovarich (1937).
About the movie:
Ousted from their homeland by the Bolshevik revolution, a royal Russian couple find themselves impoverished and living in Paris...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Tovarich (1937)?
a.
The small storage media used throughout the film are clear plastic versions of Iomegas PocketZip disks.
b.
As Joker prepares to kill the sniper, his chest turns as he raises the gun - hiding his peace symbol button from view.
c.
The doll that Junior takes the bow-tie from in the orphanage is a My Buddy doll that is missing its striped shirt and tennis shoes. When sold in stores, the doll never originally come with a bow-tie.
d.
The original play "Tovarich" was written in French by
Jacques Deval
and opened in Paris on 13 October 1933.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Tovarich (1937)?
a.
Sam Fuller
: as a military cameraman documenting the troops. Hes the older man with the cigar asking the troops to wave at the camera.
b.
Jake Lloyd won the role as J.J. over 1400 other kids.
c.
The script called for the Japanese pilot to try to force the F-14 into the water. The pilot who basically did a hammerhead and pulled out real close to the water was Richard "Fox" Farrell (VF-84 XO), now retired. He did kick up quite a bit of seawater and was really pushing the envelope with the Tomcat. WWII ace-in-a-day Archie Donahue was one of the Zero pilots. The Zeroes (converted AT-6 Texans) were flying with the throttle to the stops and the F-14s were flying at stall speed (note wings fully extended in most scenes). That was so they could get both aircraft in the same shot at the same time (remember, no CGI stuff back then!).
d.
The musical production of "Tovarich" opened at the Broadway Theater in New York City on March 18, 1963 and ran for 264 performances. The show starred
Jean-Pierre Aumont
and
Vivien Leigh
who won the 1963 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Tovarich (1937)?
a.
Jennifer Lawrence
,
Juno Temple
and
Gemma Ward
auditioned for a role.
b.
On a night between filming days,
Robert Rodriguez
put on a rock concert at a local nightclub. His own band was the opening act, and the headliner was
Bruce Willis
and his band, The Accelerators. The concert was attended by
Sin City
s cast and crew, as well as the cast and crew of
A Scanner Darkly
, which was filming nearby at the same time. All profits from the show were donated to charity.
c.
One of the words C-3PO uses to communicate with the Ewoks is "naboo" which is the name of Queen Amidalas planet in
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
.
d.
Robert E. Sherwood
s English adaptation opened in London on 24 April 1935.
Melville Cooper
reprised his stage role for the movie.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Tovarich (1937)?
a.
Most of the action of the film takes place on the west side of Park Avenue just to the north of 116th Street.
b.
The premiere at Indie Memphis was a sell-out, the first sell-out in the seven year history of the festival.
c.
Claudette Colbert
fought with director
Anatole Litvak
throughout most of the filming. Her main problem was with Litvaks cinematographer,
Charles Lang
. Colbert, famous for demanding that when she was photographed from the side it be only the right side, didnt feel that Lang was photographing her according to her wishes, and demanded that he be fired. Litvak refused, setting off almost constant battling between the two that lasted the entire length of shooting.
d.
The Cavernous club seen in the UK side of the alternating vignettes at the opening of the film is the New Cavern Club in Liverpool. The original Cavern Club where the where
The Beatles
played in the 60s was closed in 1973 and the site became a ventilation shaft for Liverpools underground railway. The new club opened in 1984 occupying about 50% of the original site and built with bricks from the original club.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Tovarich (1937)?
a.
Last cinema role of
Richard Basehart
.
b.
The name "Homer Simpson" did not inspire the name of the character from
The Simpsons
- its a coincidence.
c.
The Blue Danube Waltz was not the first piece of classical music intended for the space station sequence. Kubrick originally set the sequence to the Scherzo from Felix Mendelssohns "Midsummer Nights Dream." Friend of Kubricks introduced him to the Strauss waltzes during 2001s editing stage, and he re-edited the sequence to The Blue Danube for the final version of the film.
d.
Claudette Colbert
became ill during production, causing the film to fall behind schedule.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Tovarich (1937)?
a.
The cast rehearsed for two weeks before filming started.
Eddie Murphy
told Hudlin that he had not rehearsed since his time on
Saturday Night Live
, and that he was going to rehearse for all of his movies from then on.
b.
This is the first Warner Brothers film to begin with the famous Warners fanfare, which was composed by
Max Steiner
. The fanfare had a bombastic beginning but no real end, as it was meant to transpose into the music of the picture it introduced, which led to new and creative chord modulations in each film in which it was featured.
c.
When Bigas Luna was due to direct the film, Madonna, Javier Bardem and Dennis Hopper were his first choices to play Perdita, Romeo and Woody Dumas. Madonna deserted the project and Victoria Abril was supposed to replace her as Perdita, alongside Johnny Depp as Romeo and Ray Liotta as Dumas. Then Bigas Luna abandoned the production and Álex De la Iglesia was set to direct with the definitive cast: Rosie Pérez, Javier Bardem and James Gandolfini.
d.
The song "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" by
Journey
coming on in the arcade, when Sam turned on the breakers, is ironic in more ways than one. While the song fits in some ways the relationship with his father, it is interesting to note that many of the 45rpm singles made in the early 80s for jukeboxes of that song, featured the song "Only Solutions" (from the original Tron movies arcade scene) as the singles B-side. It was common for record companies to put a recent, though out of date, release as the B-side of Jukebox 45s, to maximize band airplay in those machines.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Tovarich (1937)?
a.
Curt Bois
made his American film debut in this movie.
b.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on December 19, 1938 with
Edward G. Robinson
reprising his film role.
c.
Musical adaptation of the play and movie
The Philadelphia Story
.
d.
Throughout the movie Basher speaks in Cockney rhyming slang. The most prominent example is when he uses the term "barney" as a replacement for "trouble".
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Tovarich (1937)?
a.
The original script contained cameo appearances by Dutch (
Arnold Schwarzenegger
) and Michael Harrigan (
Danny Glover
), the protagonists of the previous Predator films. However, these appearances were ultimately cut out.
b.
"Tovarich" is the Russian word for "comrade".
c.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
composed the opening marching song "Fight for the Right" and its lyrical central section "Without Freedom" to a text by
David Ormont
as a favor to
Gladys Swarthout
, and received no screen credit.
d.
The fictitious city featured in this film is "Fringe City." The city in the original Mask film was called "Edge City".
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Tovarich (1937)?
a.
(Original Broadway production) Tovarich (1936). Comedy with music. Written by
Jacques Deval
. English adaptation by
Robert E. Sherwood
. Orchestra and Arrangements by Alexander Haas. Plymouth Theatre: 15 Oct 1936- Aug 1937 (closing date unknown/356 performances). Cast: Marta Abba, Adora Andrews, Margaret Dale, Aristides de Leoni, Amanda Duff, J. Colville Dunn,
Jay Fassett
(as "Charles Dupont"), Irina Feodorova, Barbara Gott, John Halliday,
Cecil Humphreys
(as "Commissar Gorotchenko"), Ernest Lawford, Leni Stengel, James E. Truex, Frederic Worlock. Produced by Gilbert Miller.
b.
The location of Wonkas factory in the movie is ambiguous, and designed to look like a cross between UK and USA (i.e. having London architecture, street layouts and accents, but American clothing styles, and having American mailboxes and fire hydrants as well as American terminology).
c.
In 1996, veteran character actor
Richard Jaeckel
, who played "Eddie", was diagnosed with cancer at the same time his wife had Alzheimers disease. The Jaeckels had lost their Brentwood (CA) home, were over $1 million in debt and Jaeckel was basically homeless. His family tried unsuccessfully to place him into the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, CA. Peck lobbied for Jaeckels admittance, and three days later Jaeckel was placed in the facility. He stayed in the hospital until his death in June 1997.
d.
The reclusive novelist
B. Traven
was asked if he would like to visit the set during location shooting. He demurred, but said he would be sending an associate instead. The associate was actually Traven himself, using a pseudonym.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Tovarich (1937)?
a.
Francis Ford Coppola
showed a screening of this film to Paramount executives in order to convince them that
Al Pacino
was suitable for the role of Michael Corleone in
The Godfather
.
b.
When
Maurice Murphy
replaced
Allan Conrad
in the role of Georges Dupont, six days of retakes were needed, putting the movie further behind schedule.
c.
Shot in 1957, the film was never seen outside of an editing machine until 1993, when it was discovered by Sinister Cinema at the old offices of Headliner Productions. Sinister bought the rights to sell it on video in 1993. It gained the most attention when it was shown on
Mystery Science Theater 3000
.
d.
In a 2008 interview on the
Today
Show,
Peter Graves
said he was initially insulted and offended by the script for
Airplane!
, but was convinced by friends and colleagues to do the movie.
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