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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Way Down East (1920) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Way Down East (1920) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Way Down East (1920)

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About the movie: A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Way Down East (1920)?
a.		Producer/director/co-writer F.W. Murnau died in a car accident a few days after starting work on the music for this film. The film had its New York premiere a week later.
b.		The dancers in the nightclub scene were actually chorus girls from the world-famous Cotton Club in New York City.
c.		Clarine Seymour, a regular player in D.W. Griffiths films at that time, was originally cast in the role of Kate, Squire Bartletts niece and David Bartletts fiancée. Seymour had actually completed most of her scenes when she fell ill from a strangulated intestine. She died on April 25, 1920, following emergency surgery. Griffith replaced Seymour in the role with dancer Mary Hay, who resembled Seymour in long shots. Although David Bartlett does not marry Kate in "Way Down East", Richard Barthelmess, who played David, later married Mary Hay.
d.		Two of the villains (Basil Wallace and Michael Ralph) have Jamaican ancestry in real life.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Way Down East (1920)?
a.		George Clooney suffered a spinal injury during a stunt. Due to the weight he gained for his role, the injury left him bedridden for a month and caused severe migraines, which prevented him from doing publicity for Oceans Twelve. The injury was eventually corrected with surgery. Clooney has since called his weight gain "pretty stupid".
b.		When Max and Stacy are flipping channels, one of the movies they pass is entitled Sarah; Sarah was the original working title for Clancy, which also starred Christina Fougnie.
c.		The scenes on the ice floes were not only very dangerous to film, but for Lillian Gish, they had lasting ill effects. Until the day she died, her right hand was somewhat impaired due to the extended filming where her hand was in the icy water.
d.		Just under 5% of the film was actually shot in Egypt.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Way Down East (1920)?
a.		This movie is presumed lost. Only parts of the soundtrack on Vitaphone discs have survived. Please check your attic.
b.		Ron Cobb drew the original design for the "Dark Star" on a napkin while eating at the International House of Pancakes.
c.		Connie Nielsens character speaks Spanish in the Italian release of the movie, and Italian in all the others. Nielsen is in fact Danish, and this was her American film debut.
d.		While there is a lot of inter-cutting in the editing, the basic ice floe scenes were filmed in White River Junction (Hartford Village), Vermont during the late winter.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Way Down East (1920)?
a.		A Bollywood film with the title Mann starring Aamir Khan and Manisha Koirala was inspired by this movie.
b.		The waterfall seen in long shot at the climax is Niagara Falls, a site unrelated to, and far from, where the ice floe rescue scenes were shot.
c.		Raymond speaks French in the English-language version and Yoruba in the French-language version.
d.		The credits include the line, "This movie filmed entirely on location in a mall in Lombard, Illinois." The mall is Yorktown Center, home of Big Idea Productions.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Way Down East (1920)?
a.		Norma Shearer has a bit part in one scene. Shearers mother and sister are extras as well, as is another future luminary of the talkies, Una Merkel.
b.		Many theaters across the United States was sent faulty reels of the movie, containing sound problems, which made a few minutes to several scenes of the movie filled with nothing but static. Most movie-watchers dont even realize the sound was a problem, since the dark overtone and loud background music at some areas make the static seem like part of the movie.
c.		Bette Davis was reportedly very keen to land the part of Sister George.
d.		Skridlows poetic recitation at the trunk of his car is mostly an excerpt from Shakespeares "The Life of King Henry The Fifth" (Act IV, Chorus). However, he misquotes the first phrase, saying "From inside the jousters tents...", which is not from any of Shakespeares writings.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Way Down East (1920)?
a.		Including among the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider.
b.		The blocks under the table in Dorians school room have the initials of the people who die.
c.		Mendel says Sonias birthstone is the ruby, this would make her birthdate somewhere in July.
d.		Originally intended to be the first installment in a trilogy of Tales From The Crypt movies.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Way Down East (1920)?
a.		During the filming of the ice floe scenes, a fire had to be built underneath G.W. Bitzers camera in order to keep it warm enough to run.
b.		In a June 2008 interview with The Guardian, Abel Ferrara, who directed and co-wrote the original Bad Lieutenant, said that finding out his movie was being remade was "a horrible feeling", "like when you get robbed", and that those involved in this remake "should all die in hell". He also wondered how Nicolas Cage "can even have the nerve to play Harvey Keitel", and called screenwriter William M. Finkelstein an idiot.
c.		Many teen movie veterans make cameos in this movie.
d.		Scenes deleted from the end of the film would have introduced Steven Culp as Cmdr. Madden, Rikers replacement as the Enterprises first officer. Culp later appeared as Major Hayes in the third season of Enterprise.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Way Down East (1920)?
a.		This was one of the low budget non-John Wayne movies made by Waynes company, Batjac Productions.
b.		All the car crashes were recorded on studio lots and digitally imposed in the film.
c.		The scene with Anna lying unconscious on the ice floe, floating toward the waterfall, was developed solely for the film version of "Way Down East". The scene appears in neither the venerable stage play version credited to Lottie Blair Parker, nor the novel "elaboration" by Joseph R. Grismer, published in 1900. The scene in the film was apparently inspired by the success of the "Perils of Pauline" series of "cliffhanger" film shorts starring Pearl White, and was written and filmed to augment the films box-office appeal.
d.		Rob Cohen: next to Karen Allen in a crowded lecture hall

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Way Down East (1920)?
a.		Patrick Macnee got the role of Sir Godfrey Tibbet because he wanted to be in a Bond movie, and also because he and Roger Moore were the best of friends.
b.		This was the last Columbia feature to use the classic Torch Lady logo in her classic appearance.
c.		Such was the physicality of Saoirse Ronans role, her combat tactics called for 4-hour days of intense training under Dan Inosanto (a Bruce Lee protégé) over a two month period at his L.A. gym.
d.		Robert Harron, a D.W. Griffith regular, shot himself under mysterious circumstances after the world premiere of this film in New York City. Harron, whom Griffith was grooming as a film director, was reportedly despondent over losing the leading man roles in both this film and Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl to Richard Barthelmess, formerly an juvenile lead in Dorothy Gish comedies. Although according to Lillian Gish, Harron on his deathbed denied that he had attempted suicide, it is still unclear whether the shooting was a deliberate suicide attempt or accidental.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Way Down East (1920)?
a.		Originally it was planned to film both Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and Home Alone 3 back to back.
b.		Brees apartment was built on a sound stage at a New York film studio where Jane Fonda could spend the night. The director even had a working toilet installed in the bathroom of the set. Jane contributed to decorating the apartment by deciding Bree would be a romance reader and have a cat. Jane remembered an actress from Lee Strasbergs private class that occasionally serviced John F. Kennedy, so she decided Bree had done this as well. A signed photo of Kennedy appears on the fridge in Brees apartment.
c.		In the film, Damiens surname "Cockburn" is pronounced phonetically (probably for humorous effect), whereas it is properly pronounced "Coh-burn".
d.		The ice floes seen at the climax drifting above and going over the waterfall were actually wood constructions, as the scene was shot out of season. The waterfall itself was only a few feet high, going no further down than what is seen at the bottom of the film frame.

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