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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : What About Bob? (1991) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : What About Bob? (1991) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: What About Bob? (1991).
About the movie:
A successful psychiatrist loses his mind after one of his most dependent patients, a highly manipulative obsessive-compulsive, tracks him down during his family vacation.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: What About Bob? (1991)?
a.
Production was halted for weeks after
Walter Matthau
had a heart attack. He had slimmed from 190 to 160 pounds by the time filming was completed, and had to wear a heavy black coat to conceal the weight loss.
b.
Based on the story, "The Electric Man" which Universal had purchased for $3,300 in 1935 as a potential
Boris Karloff
/
Bela Lugosi
vehicle to be titled "The Man in the Cab." The studio, in the midst of a financial debacle at the time, shelved the project for over five years, assigning the re-write to
George Waggner
(working as "Joseph West") who re-tooled it as "The Human Robot."
c.
John Housemans opening monologue, which is supposed to transpire over a course of five minutes (from 11:55 to 12:00 midnight) is, in fact, only 2 minutes and 25 seconds long from the moment he mentions it is 11:55 to the moment the bells ring in the background, signaling midnight. It has been incorrectly noted in the past that this opening monologue is exactly five minutes long.
d.
Woody Allen
was suggested for the role of Leo Marvin.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: What About Bob? (1991)?
a.
At the end of the credits you can see "The Munch will return in MUNCHIE HANGS TEN". That third part was never made.
b.
According to
Richard Dreyfuss
, he and
Bill Murray
did not get along during filming.
c.
During the hospital scene, when The Joker is dressed as a nurse, his name tag reads Matilda, after
Heath Ledger
s daughter
Matilda Ledger
.
d.
First James Bond movie where a main villain is a woman. Because of this, it is also the first James Bond film in which James Bond intentionally kills a leading Bond Girl who is a major love interest.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: What About Bob? (1991)?
a.
The two buildings shown when Bob arrives at the Lake from New York are in Moneta, Virginia near Smith Mountain Lake. The blue building really was a general store and coffee shop. The red building was used in the movie as the bus station but in real life it was a produce warehouse called Moneta produce.
b.
In the scene where Cpt. Hiller (
Will Smith
) is talking to Gen. Grey (
Robert Loggia
) about retuning to El Toro, the giant screen behind them is displaying some sort of night vision display and the bottom of the screen is endlessly rotating through various numbers and stats. At one point, instead of numbers, the screen reads "And now I see with eye serene the very pulse of the machine - Wordsworth", an excerpt of a
William Wordsworth
poem entitled "She Was a Phantom of Delight."
c.
The opening credits were created by a collaboration between title design company The Picture Mill and special effects company ComputerCafe. It took them one year to complete.
d.
Eartha Kitt
s film debut.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: What About Bob? (1991)?
a.
The vacation house where this was filmed was actually in Virginia on Smith Mountain Lake.
b.
F.W. Murnau
s city sets from
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
were re-used for the New York sequences.
c.
When the Shadow rolls a bomb toward the detectives in the secret passage, Dr. Tart says, "We must be near a bowling alley." Hes right: there is indeed a bowling alley inside the Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina, where this movie was filmed.
d.
Howard Hawks
was distressed by
John Ireland
s unprofessional and lecherous behavior during filming, which were partially due to the actors alcoholism. This contributed to Irelands part, "Cherry Valance", being drastically reduced in the finished film. At one point,
Cary Grant
was in consideration for the part (he turned it down).
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: What About Bob? (1991)?
a.
The kissing couple who begin to float when some fairy dust lands on them are actually
George Lucas
and
Carrie Fisher
in a cameo.
b.
Elizabeth Short got the nickname "The Black Dahlia" from a bartender at a Long Beach bar she frequented.
The Blue Dahlia
was playing at a theatre down the street, and the bartender got the name wrong. Elizabeth picked up on that and kept the nickname, adding a flower to her hair to complete the transformation. She was murdered the next year (1947).
c.
Producer Michael Huens negotiated with SAG and got one of the very first Low Budget Agreements on this film, when it was shot in 1994. Today, many filmmakers benefit from these Low Budget Agreements that SAG offers.
d.
Julie Hagerty
was only 10 years older than
Kathryn Erbe
, who played her daughter, Anna.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: What About Bob? (1991)?
a.
According to
Christopher Mallick
(the man whom the film is based on) both
Oliver Stone
and
Paul Thomas Anderson
were highly impressed after seeing the film at the Santa Barbara festival. Anderson reportedly said it was the best film hed seen in five years.
b.
Summer Glau
trained intensely with the fight choreographers for three months before principal photography began.
c.
Edward D. Wood Jr.
s last film
d.
The asylum where Dr. Marvin tries to have Bob committed is actually the Elks National Home in the City Bedford in Bedford County, Virginia. It is locally known because every Christmas the front lawn is lit with thousands of Christmas lights and draws nearly 100,000 spectators from the surrounding areas.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: What About Bob? (1991)?
a.
Actress
Gerry Yannelli
, who plays Mother Booley, is actress
Carmela Hayslett
s real life grandmother.
b.
"Purple Violets" became the first feature film to premiere exclusively on iTunes.
c.
The movies line "Adrian!" was voted as the #9 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007.
d.
Frank Oz
wanted
Patrick Stewart
to play Leo Marvin.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: What About Bob? (1991)?
a.
The eighth of sixteen Andy Hardy films starring
Mickey Rooney
.
b.
Leo Marvin is a psychiatrist whose kids names are "Anna" and "Sigmund" named after the very well-known psychiatrist
Sigmund Freud
and his daughter, child psychologist Anna Freud.
c.
After firing
Rouben Mamoulian
as director,
Walter Wanger
and
Darryl F. Zanuck
approached
Alfred Hitchcock
to take over the project. Hitchcock refused and chose to make
The Birds
instead.
d.
America Olivo
and
Christian Campbell
are the only cast members that are not from the Philadelphia area.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: What About Bob? (1991)?
a.
The man playing the corpse of Jesus later became a seminarian because of the film.
b.
An estimated 23,000 troops were supplied by the U.S., Britain and France for the filming. (Germans only appeared as officers in speaking roles.) The French contributed 1,000 commandos despite their involvement in the Algerian War at the time.
c.
Roger Bowen
s last film.
d.
The peasants inside the inn are praying The Lords Prayer in Hungarian.
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