Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Wing and a Prayer (1944) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Wing and a Prayer (1944) Quiz

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About the movie: An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of Midway...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wing and a Prayer (1944)?
a.		Lloyd Nolan was once set to star in this movie according to 20th Century-Fox studio publicity and the Hollywood Reporter of late 1943. He would be appearing in the re-conceptualized fictionalized version of the film. A December edition of the Hollywood Reporter reported Nolan to be going to be playing a squadron leader. Records of the Legal Department of the UCLA Arts Special Collections Library state that Nolan was set to play the character of Benjamin K. Benny ONeill, a role finally played by Murray Alper. Nolan did not end up appearing in this movie.
b.		The prisoners are drinking Strohs beer on the roof.
c.		Paula Prentiss film debut
d.		While doing press for Desperate Hours in the fall of 1990, Michael Cimino, in a TV interview, claimed full responsibility for what had happened during the making of this film.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wing and a Prayer (1944)?
a.		In the novel, instead of seeking fictional author Terrance Mann, Ray Kinsella seeks real-life 60s author J.D. Salinger. In 1947, Salinger wrote a story called "A Young Girl In 1941 With No Waist At All" featuring a character named Ray Kinsella. And in his most famous work, the novel The Catcher in the Rye, one of Holden Caulfields classmates is Richard Kinsella. (In the original novel, Ray has a twin brother named Richard.)
b.		Film debut of chef Mario Batali, who voices Rabbit. Rabbit wears an orange neckerchief, which echoes Batalis penchant for wearing orange shorts and Crocs. On the Fox Searchlight website for the film, there was even a recipe made available, courtesy of Batali, for Mrs. Beans Famous Nutmeg Ginger Apple Snaps.
c.		Reggie Bannister did all his own stunt work for the film except the scene where he has to jump over a chainsaw, which they wouldnt let him do.
d.		When Gus Chisholm is strafed in the water, the various Japanese aircraft shown are American F4F Grumman "Wildcats" and American Douglas SBD "Dauntless" Divebombers

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wing and a Prayer (1944)?
a.		Director Henry Hathaway and his camera crew spent several weeks shooting approximately 50,000 feet of film aboard an American aircraft carrier. This included atmospheric shots, background footage and actual combat scenes. The "Hollywood Reporter" of 12 January 1944 reported that this footage was "the first ever approved by the Navy Department or War Department of any action on one of the new post-Pearl Harbor fleet plane carriers." Whilst on the flat top, Hathaway and crew also studied US Navy procedures and technical manual elements.
b.		In the scene change right after Logan tells the zombie that it needs to sit in the dark and think about what it did, and punishes it by turning off the light, a little bit of the "The Gonk" music from Dawn of the Dead can be heard in the scene change.
c.		This version uses almost no dialogue from the original play and was originally intended to be a musical.
d.		Although original director Kyle Newman was brought back to the editing room after re-shoots were done by Steven Brill and the final cut included the cancer storyline, which The Weistein Company actually wanted to be erased from the movie, the movie that was screened in theaters is still not Kyle Newmans original version of the movie.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wing and a Prayer (1944)?
a.		Stars Alan Ormsby and Anya Ormsby were married at the time of the filming.
b.		Actor William Boyd, who had become enormously popular playing the character Hopalong Cassidy in a series of films and on television, contributed his cameo in this film - as himself - as a favor to director Cecil B. DeMille in repayment for DeMilles having cast him in the showcase role of Simon of Cyrene during DeMilles production of The King of Kings nearly a quarter of a century earlier. The Simon of Cyrene role in the earlier DeMille production had contributed enormously to Boyds film career.
c.		This movies opening prologue states: "For the purposes of military security the names of men and some of the ships in this motion picture are fictitious, but the important incidents and the heroism are history."
d.		A key plot point of "Body Heat" hinges on the resemblance of Kim Zimmer to Kathleen Turner. Zimmer replaced Turner when she left the soap opera The Doctors.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wing and a Prayer (1944)?
a.		The music video for the boy band "Teen Spirit" (filmed on the North Carolina coast while a massive storm approached) contains several references to a famous sequence in "Top Gun" and the opening sequence to "The Monkees".
b.		Rex Linn agreed to act in the movie under the condition that he got to play the monster in one scene.
c.		James Stewart only agreed to play a cameo role in the film because John Wayne had specifically requested him. His short time on the film proved to be trying. The bad acoustics of the huge, hollow sound stages worsened his hearing difficulties, and he stayed by himself most of the time. He and Wayne muffed their lines so often in the main scene between them that director Don Siegel accused them of not trying hard enough. Waynes reply was a variation on an old John Ford line, advising the director, "If youd like the scene done better, youd better get a couple of better actors." Later on, the star told friends that Stewart had known his lines, but hadnt been able to hear his cues, and that in turn had caused his own fumbling. Because Stewarts movie career had ended several years before, he was only paid $50,000 for his part.
d.		This movie was originally conceived to be a historically factual account of the Battle of Midway as well as being a biographical treatment of Torpedo Squadron 8 and Ensign George Gay.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wing and a Prayer (1944)?
a.		Erskine Caldwell and Norman Reilly Raine were the screenwriters of the early period when it was known as "Torpedo Squadron 8" and was going to be an historically factual and biographical account of Torpedo Squadron 8 and Ensign George Gay. However, the studio changed the pictures direction to a more fictionalized account. As such, it is not known to what extent their work on this movie remained in the final shooting script.
b.		The movie featured two thousand extras and background artists playing illegal immigrants.
c.		Every time President Evans calls a meeting (formal or informal) he is either eating or orders food to be eaten.
d.		MGM inherited the production when the company was founded in 1924; with the film over budget and getting out of control, the studio halted production and relocated the shoot from Italy to California, under the supervision of Irving Thalberg. William Wyler, one of sixty assistant directors for the chariot race, went on to direct the remake Ben-Hur.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wing and a Prayer (1944)?
a.		According to the Hollywood Reporter, Randolph Scott, Preston Foster and John Sutton were looked at for major parts in this movie when it was known under the working title of Torpedo Squadron 8.
b.		McCauleys 30 second rule in action: When McCauley comes out of the hotel to drive off with Eady, it takes 42 seconds from the time he first sees Lt. Hanna to when he turns and runs. It takes McCauley 12 seconds to assess the situation (sees Lt. Hanna to when he starts to back away from Eady) and then 30 seconds to actually leave Eady behind.
c.		The Vger prop was so large and involved so much work that one end of it was being used in scenes while the other end was still being built.
d.		There is a running gag that Paul Newmans character is a starving painter. In every scene he is eating something.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wing and a Prayer (1944)?
a.		Many video shops would not stock a release with "orgasm" in the title, so the title of the home video and DVD release is "Amys O".
b.		Much concern surrounded the portrayal of Laura Brown in the 2001 segment. Fearing that suitable makeup couldnt make Julianne Moore look elderly, and due to scheduling conflicts, Betsy Blair was cast to play the role of Old Laura. Scenes were filmed with Meryl Streep. However, director Stephen Daldry was so dissatisfied with the outcome that Moore was brought in much later in "old" make-up, to re-shoot scenes with Streep. It took 6 hours to apply Moores make-up for the scene.
c.		The barn used in the film was also used in the Alfred Hitchcock film Marnie.
d.		The films title is an abbreviation of the famous aviator slogan, "Coming in on a wing and a prayer" but in turn is not intentionally related to the 1943 song of the same title, music and lyrics by Harold Adamson and Jimmy McHugh.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wing and a Prayer (1944)?
a.		During the Battle of Midway, all the flyboys of Torpedo Squadron 8 were killed except for Ensign George Gay. This films original intention was to depict their lives, especially Gays. The Twentieth Century-Fox studio bought the rights to a Life magazine story by Sidney L. James on the Battle of Midway as well as obtaining permission from both Ensign Gay and the United States Navy to film the story. The 23 September 1942 edition of the Hollywood Reporter stated that "The Navy has relented in its stand against the use of the names of war heroes in film dramatizing their deeds and will not stand in the way provided the permission of the hero is obtained and the story content is satisfactory." However, the studio decided to produce a fictionalized telling of the Battle of Midway. The New York Times of 6 February 1944 reported that the film script about Ensign Gay and Torpedo Squadron 8 was "entirely discarded" after "the protest of a certain high Government official that the proposed picture would carry a defeatist implication."
b.		This film survives in Czechoslovakian Film Archive with Czech titles.
c.		When Coraline suggests to the Other Mother that they play hide and seek during her first visit, the lightning outside of the window briefly takes the shape of the Other Mothers hand, as do the tree branches on the down logged when Coraline first apologizes to the cat for calling him a "wuss puss."
d.		The screenplay for this movie was written by Don Jakoby under the pseudonym Michael Edmonds.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wing and a Prayer (1944)?
a.		According to the DVD sleeve notes, this film about the Battle of Midway utilized actual combat footage. Years later another film also about "The Battle of Midway, Midway, would also utilize real combat footage, but in color.
b.		Although surnames are omitted for the character names in the cast list of the end credits for Anne Bancroft, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne, Antoinette Sibley and Scott Douglas, their full character names are printed in the soundtrack information within the film, and are used in the cast list.
c.		To help promote the movie, a fully functional website was created for Lacuna (http://www.lacunainc.com) purporting to provide memory erasure. The only giveaway is the link to watch Joel Barish "experience the procedure", which links to the movies official site.
d.		Estrellados is essentially the Spanish version of Free and Easy with Hispanic/Spanish speaking actors. In the early talkie days, films were made in several languages for wider audiences. It is believed that The Film Institute of Spain has a copy of the original film but will not release it for restoration. The movie is available in the English version with Spanish subtitles. The musical numbers were also translated to "La Reina de Mi Corazon" (Oh Queen/Oh King) and "Estrellados" (Free and Easy).

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