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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Young Frankenstein (1974) - Part (4) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Young Frankenstein (1974) - Part (4) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Young Frankenstein (1974).
About the movie:
Dr. Frankenstein's grandson, after years of living down the family reputation, inherits granddad's castle and repeats the experiments.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Young Frankenstein (1974)?
a.
Cloris Leachman
, on NPRs Fresh Air on June 3rd 2009, claimed that
Mel Brooks
told her the Blücher (as in Frau Blücher) means glue in German, hence to reason for the horse whinnies. However, this is not true: Blücher bears no resemblance to the German for glue. It is a very common name, so that shouting "Frau Blücher!" is equivalent to shouting "Ms. Jones!" The horses terror of her name is meant to be an inexplicable absurdity.
b.
Susan Sarandon
was among performers that were considered for the main guest lead of Dr.Gillian Taylor.
c.
Sandy Descher
played the character "Suzie," but her scenes were deleted from the released print.
d.
Before
Mallrats
was released,
Kevin Smith
had written this movie as a teen flick in the same vein as
Clueless
, taking place in high school with
Ethan Suplee
as one of the leads. Since "Mallrats" failed at the box office, this films setting and premise changed.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Young Frankenstein (1974)?
a.
Robert Mark Kamen
,
David Newman
, and
David Giler
&
Walter Hill
all contributed to the script.
b.
Mel Brooks
initially thought that the "Walk this way" gag was too corny and wanted it cut from the film. But, when he saw the audiences reaction to it one night at a screening, he decided to leave it in.
c.
Alfred Hitchcock
told Francois Truffaut that his 1934 version was "the work of a talented amateur and the second was made by a professional". Nevertheless, Hitchcock preferred the earlier version, largely because it wasnt so polished.
d.
When Mac was talking with the band about possibly joining them to record some songs, they stopped in front of a shop named "T.M. Harper Hardware".
Tess Harper
played Rosa Lee, Macs new wife.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Young Frankenstein (1974)?
a.
The phrase "See you next Wednesday" is heard for the first time during the scene in which Poole receives birthday greetings from his parents. The phrase would become a trademark of director
John Landis
who would use it in many of his movies.
b.
The original screenplay was 109 pages. It was cut to 92 pages about 3 days before production.
c.
Jeff Maxwell
s film debut.
d.
John Barrymore
, who had made a big comeback in the 1920 silent version, was offered the leading role in this film but turned it down.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Young Frankenstein (1974)?
a.
Three actresses were cast as Anna. The first,
Marlene Dietrich
, was constantly at loggerheads with then-director
Henry Hathaway
- he wanted to deglamorize her. After some rewriting by Grover Jones, she finally quit, and production was frozen.
Margaret Sullavan
was then brought in as Anna and shooting resumed, but while clowning around with
Ray Milland
on the set between takes (she was squirting him with a concealed water pistol), she fell and fractured her arm. She refused to do the rest of the film in a sling as the studio heads demanded, and also quit. At this point Dietrich offered to come back, but Paramount refused and instead brought in Italian sex symbol
Isa Miranda
. However, Miranda knew no English and had to have all her dialogue supplied phonetically.
b.
Though called "Bruce Conrad" in the script,
Robert Alda
is billed as "Conrad Ryler"; Charles Dingle is billed as "Raymond Arlington"; Ray Walker is billed as "Mr. Miller".
c.
When
Mel Brooks
was preparing
Young Frankenstein
, he found that
Ken Strickfaden
, who had made the elaborate electrical machinery for the lab sequences in the Universal Frankenstein films, was still alive in the Los Angeles area. He visited Strickfaden and found that Strickfaden had saved all the equipment and had it stored in his garage. Brooks made a deal to rent the equipment for his film and gave Strickfaden the screen credit hed deserved, but hadnt gotten, for the original films.
d.
The scene where Joe accidentally closes the door of Kathleens shop on the balloons was unscripted.
Tom Hanks
actually did that, and ad libbed the line, "Good thing it wasnt the fish." The director thought it was so funny that she kept it in.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Young Frankenstein (1974)?
a.
The baseball game featured in the film is from 8/4/1976. Pete Rose is seen striking out to end the top of the second inning, with Johnny Bench & Gary Nolan left on base.
b.
The decision to cast
Marlon Brando
was hotly contested, largely by
Frank Sinatra
, who wanted the part of Sky Masterson himself. Later in his career, he made Skys big number "Luck Be A Lady" part of his stage act.
c.
The Broadway musical version of Young Frankenstein starring
Roger Bart
as "Dr. Frederick Frankenstein" and
Shuler Hensley
as "The Creature" opened at the Hilton Theater, New York City on November 8, 2007. It closed on January 4, 2009 after 29 previews and 485 performances.
d.
Stan Lee
claims hed always wanted to play Odin, but was happy with
Anthony Hopkins
s casting and performance in the role.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Young Frankenstein (1974)?
a.
The perfume Holly is spraying in the apartment hallway during her drunken scenes is Makila by Jean Patou.
b.
First production of
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
c.
The painting behind Inspector Kemp in the village meeting hall is "The Children of Charles I" by Anthony van Dyck.
d.
Cheryl Holdridge
s final performance.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Young Frankenstein (1974)?
a.
At the airport, the Narrator says "Could you wake up as a different person?" and the camera briefly follows Tyler.
b.
According to the the films promotional material, many of the Indians in the climactic Battle of the Litte Big Horn were the grandsons of Indian warriors who participated in the actual battle in 1876, and some were wearing the same costumes their grandfathers wore during the fight.
c.
According to fellow veterans major Werner Pluskat was not at his command bunker in Omaha Beach when the first wave of the invasion forces landed, instead he was in a bordello in Caen.
d.
Richard Haydn
s last film.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Young Frankenstein (1974)?
a.
At the 1975 Golden Globe Awards,
Cloris Leachman
was nominated for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy/Musical, while
Madeline Kahn
was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for their work in this movie. However, Madeline Kahn has more screen time than Cloris Leachman.
b.
Paul Shaffer
was an original member of the Blues Brothers Band and was supposed to be in the film. But because he was also working on
Gilda Live
, according to Shaffers memoir, Belushi fired him for being disloyal to the band.
c.
Composer David Helpling and Director Eller have never met. Helpling lives in San Diego and Eller lives in Charlotte. They communicated by email and phone.
d.
Although this film was originally filmed by poverty-row studio Producers Releasing Corp. (PRC), the word got out in Hollywood that the picture was far and away the best thing PRC had ever done; eventually MGM executives got a look at it, were suitably impressed, bought it from PRC and it was released as an MGM picture.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Young Frankenstein (1974)?
a.
Rock band
Aerosmith
took a break from a long night of recording to see "Young Frankenstein" in 1974.
Steven Tyler
wrote the bands hit "Walk This Way" the morning after seeing the movie, inspired by
Marty Feldman
s first scene, the "walk this way... this way" scene.
b.
In the first scene at the hotel, the telephone rings to the tune of "Pennsylvania 6-5000", with Fejos (Michael Richards) answering the line as "Transylvania 6-5-0-0-0" to the beat of the tune.
c.
In 1975, United Artists theatrically distributed this film on a double bill with
Brannigan
starring
John Wayne
.
d.
Mel Brooks
had problems with Yugoslavian extras who did not speak English. Some extras playing museum guards were to walk through the museum ringing a bell and shouting, "Closing time! Closing time!" The extras misunderstood and walked through the scene shouting "Cloakie Bye! Cloakie Bye!" Brooks decided "Cloakie Bye" was funnier, so he left it in the movie.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Young Frankenstein (1974)?
a.
Alan Silvestri
was attached as the films composer, but he left the project in late March 2006 due to "creative differences".
b.
The Blind Man scene includes parts where we see the monster having hot soup poured on him and getting his thumb lit on fire. To keep himself protected,
Peter Boyle
had a hot pad on his lap, and he held a fake thumb with alcohol on it to keep the fire burning.
c.
The film was shipped in two parts in the UK, first part were odd numbered reels and even reels came the following day. It was shipped under the codename "Hairy Beast 2".
d.
During Docs demo of the time machine, just before he is about to leave for the future, he tells Marty "Ill get to see who wins the next twenty-five World Series." At the time the scene was written and shot, no one was thinking there would be a sequel, let alone one where the hook of Part II would be Marty wanting to get a hold of a "sports almanac" so he could bet on games.
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