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Meme from foolshavepride:
[01] - Look up TEN of your favorite movies on IMDB.
[02] - Click the "trivia" link in the sidebar.
[03] - Post a fun and random bit of trivia from each film.
Adam's Rib: In the scene in which Amanda is driving Adam to work, he tells her: "Oh, you're giving me the Bryn Mawr accent". Bryn Mawr College was Katharine Hepburn's alma mater where she claimed to have gained her distinctive voice. Whaddya know? I just learned something new today thanks to this meme.
An American in Paris: Oscar Levant, more of a pianist than an actor, signed onto the film because he was actually a friend of George Gershwin. It really surprised me the first time I learned this, because he is just so great that it never really occurred to me that he wasn't primarily an actor. He seems so natural in the role, but of course that's because it probably was very natural!
Reputed to be Gene Kelly's favorite of all his films. Yeah, sorry, I couldn't limit myself to just one piece of trivia and pass up this gem. IN YOUR EYE, PEOPLE WHO LIKE SINGIN' IN THE RAIN BETTER!! Really, though, I could have sworn that Gene Kelly's favourite he made was On The Town. Of course IMDb could never possibly be mistaken in its information...
Beauty and the Beast: Linda Woolverton drew her inspiration for the screenplay, not from Jean Cocteau's Belle et la bête, La (1946), but from Little Women (1933), admitting that there's a lot of Katharine Hepburn in the characterization of Belle. I couldn't help but laugh when I read this -- Belle is my favourite Disney heroine, and one of the biggest influences from my childhood, and now Katharine Hepburn is my favourite actress and a huge inspiration in my life. Coincidence? I think not.
Ever After: In actuality, Da Vinci's Mona Lisa was painted on wooden panel, making it quite impossible to roll up into a tube. Ahahaha, I think my mom must have submitted this one! She has to say that every time I watch the movie, and I'm like, "Mom... That's not really the point...!" But, well, if you're watching for historical accuracy -- now you know!
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Rudolph Valentino signed onto the film for $350 a week, less than Wallace Beery earned for his small role as a German officer. Metro provided Valentino only with his Argentine gaucho costume and his French soldier's uniform. For the Parisian sequence, Valentino purchased more than twenty-five custom-fitted suits from a New York tailor, which he spent the next year paying for. Being a movie star just ain't what it used to be...
Gone with the Wind: Margaret Mitchell's first choice to play Rhett Butler was Basil Rathbone. As much as I love Basil Rathbone... uhhh... I don't think so (but I do mean it as a compliment to him!). Rhett succeeds in pissing me off every freaking time I watch that movie, and nobody could play him to the same bastardly perfection as Clark Gable.
Lawrence of Arabia: Almost all movement in the film goes from left to right. David Lean said he did this to emphasize that the film was a journey. Sometimes knowing all of the tiny details that go into making a film cheapens the overall experience, but when it comes to LoA I am just in awe of, well, everything.
Muppet Treasure Island: In the original script, Polly Lobster was replaced by a sultry female parrot who flirted with Silver. When this got "too weird", according to Brian Henson, she was replaced with a male parrot named Stevenson (after Robert Louis Stevenson) who pointed out the changes made from book to movie. Stevenson was replaced by Polly Lobster for the film, but later showed up in the PC game based on the film. Heh, this one cracks me up. What could possibly be weird about an amorous pet Muppet??
The Prisoner of Zenda: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. initially wanted the double role for himself and actually tested for it. He was devastated when it was awarded to Ronald Coleman. His father, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. consoled his son by convincing him that it was a blessing in disguise as it was more challenging and "fun" to play the villain of the piece. He then auditioned for the part of Rupert of Hentzau and, according to David O. Selznick, "Nobody else stood a chance!" Blessing in disguise, indeed! Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. as Rupert is pretty much the ultimate bad boy performance.
The Roaring Twenties: A montage features a shot of gangsters bombing a storefront. This shot is actually an alternate angle of the bombing of a store in The Public Enemy (1931), and the same shot is notably also used in a similar montage for Angels with Dirty Faces (1938). Those gangsters are all the same!
Wow, I actually learned some new stuff from this meme (namely that I waste too much time online -- but wait, I already knew that one!).
[01] - Look up TEN of your favorite movies on IMDB.
[02] - Click the "trivia" link in the sidebar.
[03] - Post a fun and random bit of trivia from each film.
Adam's Rib: In the scene in which Amanda is driving Adam to work, he tells her: "Oh, you're giving me the Bryn Mawr accent". Bryn Mawr College was Katharine Hepburn's alma mater where she claimed to have gained her distinctive voice. Whaddya know? I just learned something new today thanks to this meme.
An American in Paris: Oscar Levant, more of a pianist than an actor, signed onto the film because he was actually a friend of George Gershwin. It really surprised me the first time I learned this, because he is just so great that it never really occurred to me that he wasn't primarily an actor. He seems so natural in the role, but of course that's because it probably was very natural!
Reputed to be Gene Kelly's favorite of all his films. Yeah, sorry, I couldn't limit myself to just one piece of trivia and pass up this gem. IN YOUR EYE, PEOPLE WHO LIKE SINGIN' IN THE RAIN BETTER!! Really, though, I could have sworn that Gene Kelly's favourite he made was On The Town. Of course IMDb could never possibly be mistaken in its information...
Beauty and the Beast: Linda Woolverton drew her inspiration for the screenplay, not from Jean Cocteau's Belle et la bête, La (1946), but from Little Women (1933), admitting that there's a lot of Katharine Hepburn in the characterization of Belle. I couldn't help but laugh when I read this -- Belle is my favourite Disney heroine, and one of the biggest influences from my childhood, and now Katharine Hepburn is my favourite actress and a huge inspiration in my life. Coincidence? I think not.
Ever After: In actuality, Da Vinci's Mona Lisa was painted on wooden panel, making it quite impossible to roll up into a tube. Ahahaha, I think my mom must have submitted this one! She has to say that every time I watch the movie, and I'm like, "Mom... That's not really the point...!" But, well, if you're watching for historical accuracy -- now you know!
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Rudolph Valentino signed onto the film for $350 a week, less than Wallace Beery earned for his small role as a German officer. Metro provided Valentino only with his Argentine gaucho costume and his French soldier's uniform. For the Parisian sequence, Valentino purchased more than twenty-five custom-fitted suits from a New York tailor, which he spent the next year paying for. Being a movie star just ain't what it used to be...
Gone with the Wind: Margaret Mitchell's first choice to play Rhett Butler was Basil Rathbone. As much as I love Basil Rathbone... uhhh... I don't think so (but I do mean it as a compliment to him!). Rhett succeeds in pissing me off every freaking time I watch that movie, and nobody could play him to the same bastardly perfection as Clark Gable.
Lawrence of Arabia: Almost all movement in the film goes from left to right. David Lean said he did this to emphasize that the film was a journey. Sometimes knowing all of the tiny details that go into making a film cheapens the overall experience, but when it comes to LoA I am just in awe of, well, everything.
Muppet Treasure Island: In the original script, Polly Lobster was replaced by a sultry female parrot who flirted with Silver. When this got "too weird", according to Brian Henson, she was replaced with a male parrot named Stevenson (after Robert Louis Stevenson) who pointed out the changes made from book to movie. Stevenson was replaced by Polly Lobster for the film, but later showed up in the PC game based on the film. Heh, this one cracks me up. What could possibly be weird about an amorous pet Muppet??
The Prisoner of Zenda: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. initially wanted the double role for himself and actually tested for it. He was devastated when it was awarded to Ronald Coleman. His father, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. consoled his son by convincing him that it was a blessing in disguise as it was more challenging and "fun" to play the villain of the piece. He then auditioned for the part of Rupert of Hentzau and, according to David O. Selznick, "Nobody else stood a chance!" Blessing in disguise, indeed! Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. as Rupert is pretty much the ultimate bad boy performance.
The Roaring Twenties: A montage features a shot of gangsters bombing a storefront. This shot is actually an alternate angle of the bombing of a store in The Public Enemy (1931), and the same shot is notably also used in a similar montage for Angels with Dirty Faces (1938). Those gangsters are all the same!
Wow, I actually learned some new stuff from this meme (namely that I waste too much time online -- but wait, I already knew that one!).