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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939) Quiz
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About the movie:
Larson E. Whipsnade runs a seedy circus which is perpetually in debt. His performers give him nothing but trouble...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)?
a.
W.C. Fields
became a big hit on radio, especially on
Edgar Bergen
s radio program, where he had a long-running "feud" with Charlie McCarthy. This film was an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of that feud by having it carried on in a movie.
b.
Lux Radio Theatre version starring
Marion Davies
and
Joel McCrea
aired 13 July 1936.
c.
None of the actors were given the full script, or much indication of what the whole film was. The actors were given only their scenes. This was done because many different styles and genres play throughout the film and
Thomas Dekker
did not want the style of one scene to interfere with another.
d.
Vitaphone production reels #3155-3160.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)?
a.
The wine that
Richard Dreyfuss
orders, Romanee-Conti, is the same wine that
William Holden
gave
Robert Vaughn
in
The Towering Inferno
.
b.
W.C. Fields
and
Edgar Bergen
were paid $100,000 each. Fields was paid an additional $25,000 for writing the script.
c.
Kevin Bacon
was offered the role of Johnny Rourke but turned it down in favor of
Footloose
.
d.
Many of the characters in the film were directly and/or indirectly based on members of the Karnas family, Director of Photography
Robert D. Yeoman
s brother-in-laws family.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)?
a.
Legend has it that on the set of
You Cant Cheat an Honest Man
, a stagehand was cleaning out
W.C. Fields
dressing room and accidentally bumped into a table on which Fields had placed a bottle of whiskey. He caught the bottle before it hit the floor, but the cork had popped out and he couldnt find it. He placed the bottle back on the table and left. Later Fields came back to the dressing room, and a few minutes after-wards stormed out, roaring "Who took the cork out of my lunch?"
b.
The classic slapstick "Stooge" routines are kept to a minimum in this film, in part because by 1961 when this film was released,
The Three Stooges
Columbia shorts were being shown on television, and
Moe Howard
was said to be very sensitive to parental complaints about the violence in the shorts.
c.
The Happy Holidays team organized a red carpet world premiere at Chapman University. They were the first students ever to utilize the brand new state of the art theater to privately showcase a non-school related student made film.
d.
Former president
Bill Clinton
visited the set while on location in Bangkok. Some news sources erroneously stated that he had filmed a cameo.
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