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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Top Hat (1935) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Top Hat (1935) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Top Hat (1935).
About the movie:
Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Top Hat (1935)?
a.
For the sex scene on the stairs,
David Cronenberg
was concerned about the two actors getting hurt on the hard wooden steps. He asked his stunt man whether or not he had any stunt pads to soften up the stairs. The stunt man laughed, saying that in the twenty years he had been working as a stunt man, no director had ever asked him for stunt pads for a sex scene. Pads were not used for most of the scene however, and in the shot when Edie is naked on the bed with bruises visible on her back, make-up was used to hide the amount of bruises that
Maria Bello
received from the scene.
b.
Over 1 million feet of film was shot for completion of the film.
c.
After
Fred Astaire
met
Irving Berlin
while filming
Top Hat
they became lifelong friends.
d.
Sondra Rubin
: Writer
Bruce Joel Rubin
s mother plays the nun who faints over the size of the check that Oda Mae endorses.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Top Hat (1935)?
a.
This movie was filmed in the same Almeria, Spain region as the director
Tom Gries
TV series,
The Rat Patrol
. Both starred
Eric Braeden
.
b.
As Vicky passes Tim in the beginning of the movie, he says to her, "Well, if it isnt
Ethel Barrymore
!"
Gene Kelly
said the same thing to
Debbie Reynolds
in
Singin in the Rain
, in which
Donald OConnor
also starred.
c.
Erik Rhodes
Italian characterization so offended the Italian government - and dictator
Benito Mussolini
in particular - that the film was banned in Italy. The same fate befell
The Gay Divorcee
the year before.
d.
President Skroobs name is an anagram of
Mel Brooks
, the man who plays him.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Top Hat (1935)?
a.
Annie Loeffler
: Female Cave Zombie (shot by John).
b.
In one scene at the Lido, Madge orders a drink called a "horses neck". It is traditionally served with a spiral of lemon (or orange) peel hanging over the edge of the glass, suggesting the curve of a horses neck. It calls for 2 oz of bourbon or brandy, 4 oz of ginger ale, and a dash of bitters, over ice.
c.
The DVD includes two Easter eggs: a deleted scene and an interview shot during production.
d.
Bill Plympton
turned down a seven-figure offer to work on this film, because any ideas and concepts he developed for his other projects while under contract with Disney would become their intellectual property.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Top Hat (1935)?
a.
The face of
Steven Seagal
was added on German cinema posters/VHS covers to attract more viewers, as he is quite popular there.
b.
While preparing for his role in the film,
Scott Glenn
met the captain of the U.S.S. Salt Lake City. Glenn then composited the captain into Bart Mancuso.
c.
When Chunk is hiding from the Fratellis in the refrigerator with the dead body, he sneezes loudly. As Mama Fratelli exits the room she unwittingly says "Gesundheit!", the German word for "Health" used as a response to a sneeze.
d.
The Venice canal set was so large it required two adjoining sound stages at RKOs Gower studio. The entire length was over 300 feet. Up to that time it was the largest set ever built on the RKO lot.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Top Hat (1935)?
a.
Mark Sandrich
, who directed five of the
Fred Astaire
-
Ginger Rogers
musicals, was a physicist before he got into filmmaking, and would devise blueprints for every scene, so he would know exactly where to put the cameras and the actors.
b.
Fearing pressure from church groups, MGM had the script refer to Richelieu as Prime Minister rather than Cardinal and almost all traces of him being a cardinal or a man of the church at all have been removed, even though other versions of this story kept Richelieu explicitly a cardinal without any repercussions.
c.
Among the items in Ida Sessions pocketbook, which Jake Gittes rummages through, are a $2 bill and a Screen Actors Guild membership card.
d.
Although implied by the film, the novelization confirms that Paul and Maggie slept together while Hoak is their prisoner.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Top Hat (1935)?
a.
The first time
Fred Astaire
and
Ginger Rogers
had a screenplay written specifically for them.
b.
Actress DeAnna Visalles temporary tattoo stayed on her for months due to the many days of shooting in sunny, 80 degree weather. after the black ink used faded, she was left with the tattoo markings (which were now her white skin color), while the rest of her skin was tan from the week of 10-day shoot.
c.
Charles King
in the role of "Cookie",
Nora Cecil
and
Lillian Harmer
are in studio records/casting call lists as cast members, but they did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. Others listed in contemporary news items as being in the cast, but who were not seen, were
Pat West
,
E. Alyn Warren
,
Arthur Aylesworth
and
Edgar Kennedy
.
d.
The picture of Richard Kimble on the composite from medical school is actually
Harrison Ford
s yearbook picture from Ripon College. He (almost) graduated in 1964, nine years before the picture was said to have been from.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Top Hat (1935)?
a.
The script page visible in the scene where Ann slaps Joes finger, is an actual script from this film itself, revealing dialogue from the scene where the mayor invites Marty to the dinner party.
b.
Roger Moore
had some cosmetic surgery before filming began.
c.
Sequel to "Lucy Has A Ball" from 1986, also a parody of TVs "I Love Lucy." Both that and this release feature canned laughter.
d.
Fred Astaire
didnt care for the big finale production number "The Piccolino" so he handed singing duties on it over to
Ginger Rogers
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Top Hat (1935)?
a.
It was actor
Samuel L. Jackson
s choice for his character to wear a purple hat. Jacksons characters often feature the color purple: Mr. Glass wears purple clothing in
Unbreakable
and Mace Windu has a purple light saber in
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
.
b.
The fourth (of ten) dancing partnership of
Fred Astaire
and
Ginger Rogers
.
c.
Although the planet visited through the Stargate is never referred to by name throughout the length of the movie, its spin-off TV series
Stargate SG-1
would later reveal the planets name to be Abydos.
d.
Listed among the "100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made" in John Wilsons book "The Official Razzie® Movie Guide."
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