$250 jb hi fi card august stack quiz

[brymad99]

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1. Why did Cecil B DeMille always wear puttees and riding boots?*
 
 
 
 
 2. Which US First Lady was an extra in the very first three strip technicolour film?*
 
 
 
 
 3. Who - and in what movie - donned lipstick and full SS drag, saluting 'Heil Gunther'?*
 
 
 
 
 4. What was the name of the infamous apartment complex sited on Sunset Boulevard between Crescent Heights & Havenhurst? And which actress was the original owner?*
 
 
 
 
 5. What particularly nasty 1972 directorial debut was based on an Ingmar Bergman movie?*
 
 
 
 
 6. Which movie actress' 'suicide' is thought by some to have been a 'hit' ordered by Lucky Luciano?*
 
 
 
 
 7. Which film director played Charlie the meter reader in a very famous sci-fi movie?*
 
 
 
 
 8. A young woman takes a position as a reader for an old lady, only to stumble on a plot to smuggle ex-Nazi scientists into the US. Name this 1988 period piece movie:*
 
 
 
 
 9. In Collateral (2004), what jazz question must Daniel answer correctly to stop Vincent from killing him?*
 
 
 
 
 10. In what film does a young man, accompanied by his telepathic dog, wander across a post-apocalyptic Arizona wasteland following WWIV?*
 
 
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[crystal tipps]

At home with a rotten cold, so have had plenty of time to check out some of the answers.

2) Pat Nixon

3) Klaus Kinski in Crawlspace

4) Garden of Allah and Alla Nazimora

5) the last house on the left

6) Thelma Todd

7) Sam Peckinpah

9) 'where did Miles Davis learn music'
Hope that helps everyone.

[kumback]

8. The House on Carroll Street

[Wolfmother]

Boy u have been busy crystal tipps 

GOOD WORK 

[helga22]

10. A Boy & His Dog - ???

[helga22]

1. Wearing riding boots and breeches, he controlled his sets like a dictator and became widely associated with images of the stereotypical tyrannical director.

http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue03/reviews/demille.htm

I can't make sense out of this. Does this answer the question?

OR

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CecilBDeMille

The cartoon image of a movie director (guy in a beret, sunglasses and riding boots, carrying a cigar or riding crop in one hand and a megaphone in the other) was originally a reference to DeMille's odd taste in work clothes.

DeMille had a particular taste for costume design, and was called upon to design the U.S. Air Force Academy's cadet uniforms. They are so cool that the design is used unchanged to this day.

Today his name is invoked whenever anyone refers to a motion picture whose production values go way over the top.


I found another one here:

http://www.answers.com/topic/cecil-b-demille

Writing in World Film Directors, Philip Kemp speaks about De-Mille's making of the image of the Hollywood Filmmaker: "To direct his first movie, DeMille adopted a distinctive costume which he retained largely unaltered  throughout his working career and which came to represent the publicly accepted image of an old-style movie director: open-necked shirt, riding breeches, boots and puttees along with a riding-crop, a large megaphone, and a whistle on a neck-chord. Charges of theatricality were met with pained denial from DeMille who always insisted that his garb  was strictly functional … but his costume also undoubtedly reflected his favorite self-image - the movie director as bold and masterful adventurer, intrepid pioneer and empire-builder."

[insanemum66]

10. A Boy & His Dog - ???

i agree with this one

[insanemum66]

maybe this may help for the first question

Why did cowboys wear boots?
 
First things first, most cowboys did and still do wear cowboy boots.
The main reasons for wearing boots is because they aid in horse back riding. They are thick and tough, so they are perfect for walking around in rugged country or doing work. They were also a symbol of the American cowboy. They made a cowboy who he was. His boots told his story, not to mention they look cool!

[hotpinkdee]

2). Jane Wyman ? ............oops sorry forgot Ronald Reagan married Nancy

[Ceramics]

2). Jane Wyman ?

No, it's Pat Nixon - http://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Nixon,_Pat

Jane Wyman has never been a US First Lady.

[Ginger25]

Thanks crystal tipps. Get well soon!!!

[shelzybelzy]

    


I gave it a go and said from below that he saw himself as the dictator of the entourage and this is the costume he chose to represent it.

THE DIRECTOR AS SUPERSTAR
DeMille’s celebrity created the prototype of the director as superstar. The actor he had been in his youth never left him and he played to the crowds on his sets. Surrounded by a potentate’s entourage, he had dressed in puttees and open throat shirts with a flair that became the ubiquitous popular image of a director. He often narrated his motion pictures, appeared in their trailers and portrayed himself in other directors’ films – most notably in Billy Wilder’s SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950).

[spog777]

 STACK Quiz - August
 
Use your knowledge to answer Bob J's Film Buff Bafflers in this month's Stack Quiz for your chance to win a cool $250 JB Hi-Fi voucher prize!
 
 A $250 voucher from JB Hi-Fi 
 
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Entries Close: 31 Aug 2010
Winner Announced: 07 Sep 2010   
 
Answer Questions:

 1. Why did Cecil B DeMille always wear puttees and riding boots?*
 
 
 
 
 2. Which US First Lady was an extra in the very first three strip technicolour film?*
 
 
 
 
 3. Who - and in what movie - donned lipstick and full SS drag, saluting 'Heil Gunther'?*
 
 
 
 
 4. What was the name of the infamous apartment complex sited on Sunset Boulevard between Crescent Heights & Havenhurst? And which actress was the original owner?*
 
 
 
 
 5. What particularly nasty 1972 directorial debut was based on an Ingmar Bergman movie?*
 
 
 
 
 6. Which movie actress' 'suicide' is thought by some to have been a 'hit' ordered by Lucky Luciano?*
 
 
 
 
 7. Which film director played Charlie the meter reader in a very famous sci-fi movie?*
 
 
 
 
 8. A young woman takes a position as a reader for an old lady, only to stumble on a plot to smuggle ex-Nazi scientists into the US. Name this 1988 period piece movie:*
 
 
 
 
 9. In Collateral (2004), what jazz question must Daniel answer correctly to stop Vincent from killing him?*
 
 
 
 
 10. In what film does a young man, accompanied by his telepathic dog, wander across a post-apocalyptic Arizona wasteland following WWIV?*
 

 

[Major Tom]

9: What was Louis' first instrument?


10: A Boy And His Dog

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072730/