Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Gone with the Wind (1939) - Part (4) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Gone with the Wind (1939) - 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: Gone with the Wind (1939).

About the movie: American classic in which a manipulative woman and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair in the American south during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Gone with the Wind (1939)?
a.		Apparently this was one of the first movies to have a scene cut under the then new MPAA American ratings system. Apparently, according to the NEA story article "Movie Producers Hope For The Best" by Dick Kleiner in the 1968-11-06 edition of The Coshcocton Tribune, "a bare-from-the-waist-up shot" of Angie Dickinson featured in the original print submitted. Apparently, this topless shot of Dickinson was cut for the movies American release so as to prevent the possibility of the movie receiving the then new R-rating. Director Arnold Laven then submitted a print with a tighter shot of Dickinson showing her from the shoulders up. However, some versions of this movie, such as the Australian VCR release under the title "A Man of All Breeds", still show the topless Dickinson in this scene. Dickinson has done nude scenes in her career. She starred in the Brian de Palma (qav) erotic thriller Dressed to Kill in which she had a very steamy--literally and otherwise--topless shower scene. After she was cast in Howard Hawkss Rio Bravo, the production had her legs insured by Lloyds of London.
b.		Peter Jackson: The bearded and pierced man who Frank bumps into a minute before the ghost of Ray knocks him down. Jackson had to wear the heavy metal outfit (leather jacket, make up and a vast amount of piercings) the entire day of shooting, which was also the day that the studio had invited the media to the set for publicity.
c.		"Screen Directors Playhouse" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on March 31, 1950 with Olivia de Havilland reprising her film role.
d.		The film has never been cut. Recent releases are longer because of the added Overture, intermission, and exit music, not because any deleted scenes have been restored.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Gone with the Wind (1939)?
a.		Tom Hanks named his production company Play-Tone after the fictional record label in the movie.
b.		Margaret Mitchell was dismayed at the scale of the Tara and Twelve Oaks sets, writing to her friend, technical advisor Susan Myrick, "I grieve to hear that Tara has columns. Of course, it didnt and looked nice and ugly like Alex Stephens Liberty Hall in Crawfordville, Georgia." And, "I had feared, of course that Twelve Oaks would end up looking like the Grand Central Station, and your description confirms my worst apprehensions. I did not know whether to laugh or to throw up at the TWO staircases.... God help me when the reporters get me after Ive seen the picture. I will have to tell the truth, and if Tara has columns and Twelve Oaks is such an elegant affair I will have to say that nothing like that was ever seen in Clayton County, or, for that matter, on land or sea.... When I think of the healthy, hardy, country and somewhat crude civilization I depicted and then of the elegance that is to be presented, I cannot help yelping with laughter... "
c.		The first Western photographed in Technicolor.
d.		There are several visual references to Spider-Man in this film: Peter running into a burning building to save a child. Peter running across a rooftop before trying (and failing) to shoot his web. Peter putting out the trash in aunt Mays back yard and speaking to Mary Jane. Spider-Man lying incapacitated on the sofa of his enemy. POV of Peter Parker looking through his glasses and seeing a blurred image.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Gone with the Wind (1939)?
a.		Paul Reubens and Diane Salinger from Pee-wees Big Adventure reunite briefly at the beginning of the film as The Penguins father and mother.
b.		The 222 minute running time excludes the Overture Music (played before the credits), the Entracte Music (played during the intermission) and the Exit Music (played after the film ends). All three were especially recorded for the film soundtrack, and were heard at the films original 1939 world premiere. They were seldom played by exhibitors until the 1997 New Line Cinema edition of the film restored them. They are also included on the DVD.
c.		Dummy was shot, edited, the sound was recorded, edited, and mixed, and the score was composed and recorded entirely at The Paramount Theatre.
d.		Several people are in studio records/casting call lists as cast members, but they did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names, if any): Ernie Adams (Mechanic), Ian Maclaren (Priest), Eddie Laughton (Cab Driver), Richard Cramer, Cyril Ring, Brandon Tynan and Landers Stevens.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Gone with the Wind (1939)?
a.		This films director Don Siegel once said: "I would never make a war picture unless it was strongly antiwar. No side wins a war. How hypocritical warring nations are. Both sides have their priests and ministers pray to the same God for victory. War is senseless and futile. It is true that hell is for heroes. It is equally true that for heroes there is only hell."
b.		In the late 80s the record label Varese Sarabande issued a special limited edition soundtrack CD for this film of about 1500 copies containing the late Basil Poledouris musical score. It received high collectible status soon after wards. In 1997 an anonymous collector purchased this CD for the then record sum for a CD of two thousand five hundred dollars in an auction. The soundtrack has since been reissued through another label in 2004.
c.		Over 1500 wild horses were used for this movie
d.		One month after the book was published, David O. Selznick purchased the movie rights from Margaret Mitchell for an unprecedented $50,000. At the time it was the highest sum that had ever been paid for an authors first novel. Realizing he had underpaid Mitchell, Selznick gave her an additional $50,000 as a bonus when he dissolved Selznick-International Pictures in 1942.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Gone with the Wind (1939)?
a.		According to the audio commentary by star Leo Fong on the Region 1 DVD (released under the title Revenge of the Bushido Blade), the film was shot in 1976, but did not get released stateside until 1980.
b.		Howard Keels character was named "Tony Naylor". During the 1950s and 60s, one of the most popular hang-outs for the stars in to meet after the filming was called "Tiny Naylors". It was located in Hollywood at the corner of Sunset Blvd and Vine Streets. Keels characters name was a nod to that famous coffee shop.
c.		The on-screen snow was made from superglue and baking soda.
d.		The first scene to be shot was the burning of the Atlanta Depot, filmed on 10 December 1938. If there was a major mistake during the filming, the entire film might have been scrapped. They actually burned many old sets that needed to be cleared from the studio backlot, including sets from The Garden of Allah and the "Great Wall" set from King Kong. The fire cost over $25,000, and yielded 113 minutes of footage. It was so intense that Culver City residents jammed the telephones lines, thinking MGM was burning down. Scarlett was stunt doubled by Aline Goodwin and Lila Finn, while Rhett was doubled by veteran stuntmen Yakima Canutt and Jay Wilsey.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Gone with the Wind (1939)?
a.		The elderly owner of Bramasole, grateful for a sign that Frances is the "right" buyer, cries out, "Grazie, Santo Francesco!" when the bird urinates on Francess head. "Santo Francesco" is Saint Francis, the patron saint of animals.
b.		When Aretha Franklin is describing Jake and Elwood to Matt "Guitar" Murphy, she says "They look like theyre from the CIA or something..." The Blues Brothers wardrobe of dark suits and sunglasses originated as Dan Aykroyd and John Belushis costumes on a few Saturday Night Live episodes in which they played Secret Service Agents guarding Chevy Chases President Gerald Ford. In those skits, they wore black suits and sunglasses.
c.		The premiere was held in Atlanta, Georgia on December 15, 1939. It was reportedly the first time that David O. Selznick had been in the South.
d.		This US Marines war movie was apparently studio head Darryl F. Zanuck and 20th Century Foxs response to Warner Brothers earlier US Marines war movie, Sands of Iwo Jima which was made a year prior to this film. Both movies utilized filming at the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, Oceanside, California, USA.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Gone with the Wind (1939)?
a.		Nothing in the internal memos of David O. Selznick indicates or suggests that Clark Gable played any role in the dismissal of director George Cukor. Rather, they show Selznicks mounting dissatisfaction with Cukors slow pace and quality of work. Almost half of Cukors scenes were scrapped or later re-shot by others. From a private letter from journalist Susan Myrick to Margaret Mitchell in February 1939: "George Cukor finally told me all about it. He hated leaving the production very much he said but he could not do otherwise. In effect he said he is an honest craftsman and he cannot do a job unless he knows it is a good job and he feels the present job is not right. For days, he told me he has looked at the rushes and felt he was failing... the things did not click as it should. Gradually he became convinced that the script was the trouble... So George just told David he would not work any longer if the script was not better and he wanted the Sidney Howard script back... he would not let his name go out over a lousy picture... And bull-headed David said OK get out!" Selznick had already been unhappy with Cukor ("a very expensive luxury") for not being more receptive to directing other Selznick assignments, even though Cukor had remained on salary since early 1937; and in a confidential memo written in September 1938, four months before principal photography began, Selznick flirted with the idea of replacing him with Victor Fleming. "I think the biggest black mark against our management to date is the Cukor situation and we can no longer be sentimental about it.... We are a business concern and not patrons of the arts... ."
b.		Edward Arnold (Inspector Ennis) and Mickey Rooney (Freckles) appear in this film uncredited, though essential characters to the story.
c.		Kader Khan voice dubbed for actor Rex Harrison (Sir John Locksley).
d.		Both Dick Elliott (Auctioneer) and Edward McWade (Lawyer) were in studio records for their roles, but did not appear in the film. Pauline Lord was originally cast as Mrs. Forrest, but afer a week of filming was replaced by Margaret Wycherly.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Gone with the Wind (1939)?
a.		Barnard Hughes film debut.
b.		The maps shown in the opening credits are presented in geographic sequence. The car is apparently driving from Los Alamos, New Mexico (site of an actual U.S. Government weapons research lab), traveling west through the towns of Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Grants, Gallup, Ramah, and through the Zuni Indian Reservation into Arizona, through St. Johns (down US Highway 666), Winslow, Flagstaff, Williams, Ask Fork, Kingman, and then into California, where the car is shown as being outside of the town of Needles, about 240 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
c.		There is historical dispute and ambiguity over exactly when Vivien Leigh was contracted to play Scarlett OHara. One theory holds that David O. Selznick had already secretly signed her for the role as early as February 1938, and that the nationwide "Search For Scarlett OHara", during which thousands of dollars were spent "testing" aspiring actresses for the part, was actually a well orchestrated publicity stunt on the part of David O. Selznick to keep alive interest in a very expensive film for which he did not yet have the money to produce. The other, more dramatic and interesting story is that Selznicks brother Myron Selznick, an agent, introduced Vivien Leigh to David O. Selznick during the filming of the Atlanta fire and said "David, meet your Scarlett OHara". The truth of the matter is unknown, and may never be resolved.
d.		This is the first film/sequel Steven Spielberg produced that has a testicle-related joke. The second was Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen which had the Decepticon/Constructicon Devastator featuring a set of suggestively-placed wrecking balls.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Gone with the Wind (1939)?
a.		First feature film of Margo Martindale.
b.		Producer Carlo Ponti originally bought the rights to the novel so that he could cast his wife, Sophia Loren, in the role of Lara. David Lean, however, did not want to use Loren, claiming that she was too tall for the role.
c.		Judith Ridley worked as a receptionist for Karl Hardman and Marilyn Eastman, which led to her getting the part in the movie.
d.		Judy Garland was the leading contender for the role of Scarletts sister Carreen before her "Andy Hardy" series co-star Ann Rutherford was cast, but she was tied up with commitments to another film directed by Victor Fleming: The Wizard of Oz. Ironically, Fleming would replace George Cukor on both The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Gone with the Wind (1939)?
a.		Production began with Robert Gleckler playing Jonas Wilkerson. After a month of filming, Gleckler died. His scenes were re-shot with replacement cast member Victor Jory.
b.		In the Blockbuster store, there is a cardboard cutout for Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The actor shown instead of Arnold Schwarzenegger is Sylvester Stallone.
c.		In quote shown onscreen between scenes, Chuck Fleming refers to "the road of excess" leading to "the palace of wisdom", an allusion to William Blakes poem "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell".
d.		In the tour of the three rooms, Mark Lamphere recounts the tales of three murders, all of which are fictional. However in the first room, he mentions the St Bartholomews Day massacre and the Guise family in France. The massacre is a real historical event, where French Roman Catholics attacked French Huguenots (Protestants) on 24th of August 1572 resulting in many deaths. The Guise family was a leading family in the Roman Catholic faction and may have been involved in the instigation of the unrest and other actions which led to the massacre.

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