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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Victor Victoria (1982) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Victor Victoria (1982) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Victor Victoria (1982).
About the movie:
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Victor Victoria (1982)?
a.
Robert Preston
did the final musical number in one take.
b.
Writer-director Paul Schrader experienced a unique problem while filming was underway in New York City. The film is set during a sanitation worker strike which called for large amounts of uncollected trash to be prominently featured in exterior scenes. But since the real New York City sanitation department was very much on the job they would inadvertently collect trash that was meant to be a part of the films production design.
c.
The "haunting" ballad Mondo Video, heard over the opening and closing credits, is sung to the tune of the surf guitar classic Telstar.
d.
While rehearsing
Kevin McCarthy
s cameo, a naked homeless man recognized him and said "The first one was better".
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Victor Victoria (1982)?
a.
When Lex asks Sebastian how to say "scared shitless" in Italian, he replies "Non vedo lora di uscire da questa piramide con te, perché mi sto cagando addosso." Translated, this literally means "I cant wait to get out of this pyramid with you, because Im shitting myself."
b.
The film in currently unavailable for viewing, but a script survives. It bears the date 23 December, 1930.
c.
Tom Selleck
was approached by
Blake Edwards
to star with
Julie Andrews
in the film, but he was indecisive about accepting the part. By the time he agreed to appear, he was already locked into a tight shooting schedule for
Magnum, P.I.
- the same reason he was unable to star in
Raiders of the Lost Ark
.
d.
References to the "Old Ones" by Sutter Cane, along with certain representations of monsters printed on his books and latter brought to life, are allusions to The Cthulhu Mythos - a series of stories by
H.P. Lovecraft
and continued by other writers into modern times. In this sense, one could consider "In the Mouth of Madness"
John Carpenter
s own contribution to The Cthulhu Mythos.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Victor Victoria (1982)?
a.
Harald Kloser
s score for the film landed him the gig for
AVP: Alien vs. Predator
.
b.
A copy of this film survives at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., but the sound disks are lost.
c.
Actor Mitch Ryan plays a character who gets killed during the film. The day his death scene was scheduled to shoot, Ryan was ill. He brought a doctors note that read Ryan was "too sick to die" that day.
d.
The young man who says Victor is "divine" at rehearsal is
Blake Edwards
son and
Julie Andrews
stepson,
Geoffrey Edwards
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Victor Victoria (1982)?
a.
Tôhô continued its practice of casting actors from the original Godzilla series into roles in films for this latest series. For this film, they brought back
Akira Takarada
,
Kenji Sahara
, and
Kumi Mizuno
.
b.
The computer used to provide the voice of "Mr. Macintosh" is an Apple Macintosh Performa 600.
c.
This film originally started as a 38 page single room stage play which was written by Carolyn Alexander. It was then converted to a 90 page screenplay by her cousin-in-law Tim Alexander.
d.
Both
Julie Andrews
and
Lesley Ann Warren
starred as Cinderella in TV productions of
Richard Rodgers
and
Oscar Hammerstein II
s Cinderella.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Victor Victoria (1982)?
a.
The September Farm, home of the Burroughs, is in real life the Duchossois Estate, in Barrington Hills, IL.
b.
Pleckaitis chose to film parts of the movie at Boonton Falls, Boonton, New Jersey because
The Perils of Pauline
was filmed there.
c.
Contrary to popular belief,
Fred Astaire
wasnt ever considered to play Willy Wonka. According to director
Mel Stuart
s book "Pure Imagination: The Making of Willy Wonka", Fred expressed interest in playing the eccentric chocolatier, but that wasnt brought to either Stuart or producer
David L. Wolper
s attention. Just as well, because, as Stuart says in his book, he didnt conceive of Willy Wonka as a 72-year-old man, which happened to be what Astaire was at the time.
d.
Julie Andrews
really is terrified of cockroaches.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Victor Victoria (1982)?
a.
Julie Andrews
recreated her role in 1995 in the Broadway production of Victor/Victoria.
b.
Filmed and exhibited in Europe in 3-D, the USA version was only shown in 2-D.
c.
M. Night Shyamalan
put the entire cast through a 19th century "boot camp" in order for them to get a good feel for the time period.
d.
First of 18 consecutive films with Dolby-encoded soundtracks to win Academy Awards for Best Achievement in Sound.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Victor Victoria (1982)?
a.
This film was based on a 1933 German film and then became the basis of a successful Broadway musical.
b.
Is notoriously known as being the first and so far only theatrically released followup to a box-office hit that did not even earn $10 million in the U.S. box-office.
c.
According to Hepburn biographer Alvin H. Marill, the actress turned down an offer from
Max Reinhardt
to play Viola in "Twelfth Night" at the Hollywood Bowl in order to meet her obligation for "Mary of Scotland".
d.
In 1960, comic
Dick Shawn
was announced for the role eventually played by
Bobby Darin
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Victor Victoria (1982)?
a.
For the famous "Layla" montage,
Martin Scorsese
actually played the "piano coda" section of the song during the shooting of each scene so that certain bars of the piano piece would match up with certain shots.
b.
Dick Bush
replaced
Ernest Day
as cinematographer.
c.
According to Larry Karaszewski of the website trailersfromhell.com, Flicker said the monologue on the n-word was based on a true story told to him by
Diana Sands
.
d.
The WGON traffic copter makes an appearance. The WGON traffic copter was the main transportation for the survivor in the original
Dawn of the Dead
.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Victor Victoria (1982)?
a.
Selected as the opening film at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.
b.
Clark Gable
turned down the role of Marcus Vinicius, because he thought the costume would make him look ridiculous.
c.
Melman the giraffe wears tissue boxes on his feet. This is a reference to
Howard Hughes
who was also a hypochondriac and suffered OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder). In his later years, Hughes wore tissue boxes on his feet believing this would keep away germs.
d.
Director
Blake Edwards
admitted in an interview that he "chickened out", and added the scene in which King Marchand (
James Garner
) discovers that Victoria (
Julie Andrews
) is indeed a woman. Originally he was to fall in love with Victoria before he was sure about her gender, hence his line "I dont care if you are a man" before he kisses her.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Victor Victoria (1982)?
a.
The cockroaches were in a kind of deep freeze coma. They were placed where necessary for the scene and heated with a hair dryer. The crew could only hope that they went in the right direction and no one knew quite where they went after filming of the scene was completed.
b.
James Stewart has credited Winchester 73 for helping to save and redefine his career, after a series of post-war flops which threatened to damage his career.
c.
Actress
Beverley Mahood
was considered for the role of Dazzler, a mutant with the ability to control any form of light. The role was later dropped when
Bryan Singer
left the production.
d.
Lucille M. Oliver
, who plays Franks hostage on the subway, had never acted before. Walken prepared her for the scene by telling her "Im going to do something awful to you, but I will not hurt you."
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