Stack Quiz October

[helga22]

http://www.stack.net.au/comp.php?goto=174



Complete & submit the following for your chance to win!
   
 1.    Which classic film noir, intended as a major release, premiered in 1958 as the lower half of a double feature?*
   
Answer: Touch of Evil
   
 2.    Which actor received an Academy Award nomination for a film in which he was the only cast member?*
   
Answer: James Whitmore:  Give 'em hell, Harry   
   
 3.    Who – and in what 1959 film – rescues a pram following an accident, only to find that it contains a gun instead of a baby?*
   
Answer: Richard Hannay (Kenneth More) - Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps
   
 4.    How were the bad guys able to continuously track the whereabouts of Reese and Charlie Wax all over Paris?*
   
Answer: Reese is exposed to the ugly truth that his own fiancee is a member of this group, and has been using him all along.
   
 5.    Who became a Hollywood star after one short scene, in which he played a crippled soldier who wept whilst being sung to?*

Answer: Robert Wagner - With a Song in My Heart
   
 6.    Who demonstrated how not to run a ship by getting hysterical over a depleted stock of strawberries?*
   
Answer: Lieutenant Commander Philip Francis Queeg in "The Caine Mutiny"   
   
 7.    Who took over a role from a pregnant actress, not realising that a scene in the film called for her to have an elephant’s foot hovering over her face?*
   
Answer: Gloria Grahame  (took over from a pregnant Lucille Ball in 'The Greatest Show On Earth')   
   
 8.    Who did Darryl. F. Zanuck describe as 'my $12-million baby' and why?*
   
Answer: Rintintin because of the profits.   
   
 9.    Which pioneering Hollywood film director claimed that he got his best ideas in the bath; and subsequently had a hot water tub installed in his office?*
   
Answer: Orson Welles   
   
 10.    Which 1930’s actress – an uninhibited screen man-chaser – died of a heart attack whilst tying her shoelace?*

Answer: Lyda Roberti
   

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[boxsey]

Oh, no!  here we go again  :lol:L

[grizzly1]

2. Answer: James Whitmore http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/29060821

7. Answer: Gloria Grahame (took over from a pregnant Lucille Ball in 'The Greatest Show On Earth')

8. Answer: Rintintin because of the profits.

[calpot]

10.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyda_Roberti  Lyda Roberti

2.  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0926235/awards  James Whitmore:  Give 'em hell, Harry - didn't realise it had already been found - oops now for the hard ones - how we going with the whereintheworld boxsey?

[boxsey]

6.Lieutenant Commander Philip Francis Queeg in "The Caine Mutiny" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Queeg

[helga22]

Thanks guys, two more to go (9. + 10.) 

[calpot]

I got 10 - harrumph!

Struggling with 9 though!

[helga22]

Question 9. is driving me crazy. I have been 'googling' for hours with no lack at all.

Please help! 

[destani]

sorry I have too been looking but havn't found anything yet, hopefully someone else had better luck

[deejay]

I'm all googled out on #9 too. 

[spog777]

two hours of searching and not even close to answering #9

[boxsey]

nothing.  naddah. 

[boxsey]

I need a break from 9.  Are we happy with the other answers? Anything that needs extra checking?

[grizzly1]

I think we need to try other search engines for question 9.   Tried Altavista but nothing yet.

[h0pez]

hmmm tricky one!

I've come across this..."All Stanley Kubrick movies have a scene in or just outside a bathroom" - wonder if that's got anything to do with it?? lol

Found this site useful..
http://www.adherents.com/movies/Film100.html

[helga22]

I read something similar about Howard Hawk; but nothing concrete 

By the way I posted the question on http://wiki.answers.com/... but no reply yet.

[boxsey]

I think it might be Charles Bennett
http://www.arabella-and-co.com/16/jwaynenotes.htm
He was a writer then, but it looks like he was a director later.

[helga22]

I think it could be Orson Welles

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/23/movies/film-hollywood-audition-rites-and-wrongs.html

FILM; Hollywood Audition Rites . . . And Wrongs
By NEAL KOCH;
Published: August 23, 1992

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LOS ANGELES— Imagine a job interview in which your prospective boss greets you from the bathtub, offering you the only seat in the room. Imagine handing over your resume, only to be asked to whinny like a horse and romp around. Or to writhe suggestively while your potential employer rates your technique.

The man in the bathtub was a 23-year-old Orson Welles, auditioning would-be Shakespeareans. Women romped like a horse for Forrest Murray, executive producer of the recent thriller "Love Crimes." And Brian De Palma liked Melanie Griffith's technique so much that he gave her her first big film role, in the 1984 thriller "Body Double."

http://www.cinemawithoutborders.com/news/139/ARTICLE/1101/2007-08-18.html

I sat on the edge of a bathtub, the only available free space on the set at the moment,with John Huston for hours talking about moviemaking (he advised me to write if I wanted to direct). And I got to know a young German distributor by the name of Jorgen. He told me there were another dozen or so of Orson’s films in various stages of completion stored away in a vault somewhere. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if someone like Oja Kodar, Orson’s trusted friend and companion could assemble this footage for posterity?

http://www.wellesnet.com/?p=158

What revenue is there in an Orson Welles film about Shakespeare? He couldn't get any money, and he died alone, in this house in Benedict Canyon… and his mistress wasn't there. So… he died alone, in a bathtub… quite alone. It was a terrible, terrible sadness, so yes the death of Falstaff is sad, and yes his life was very much… he was the life force, he was wonderful to be with.

[boxsey]

I think you might have it!

[boxsey]

I'm just imagining being intervied by my boss while he's in a tub....omg.

good work!!!

[boxsey]

adding weight to orson welles....stanley kubricks films all have a pivitol scene tat takes place in a bathroom http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000040/bio  and i read (somewhere, in all the googling in th last couple days) that kubrick paid hommage to orson in his films. 

And orson was certainly a pioneer in filmmaking!

[helga22]

Isn't it funny that we spend hours for competition with a minor prize value (Stack Newsletters or Reader's Digest Dreamhouse); while we only spend seconds or minutes for high value competitions

[boxsey]

now that you've pointed it out...yeah!  sad, but true!  I reckon i spent a good few hours looking for 9.  And would still be looking without the team!

[deejay]

Well done helga - champion effort! 

[calpot]

should have seen the effort we put in looking for the voice of Tractor Tom - and we none of us wanted the prize - a Tractor Tom DVD.

Thanks everyone - looks like we can our entries in now.

[boxsey]

so...did anyone win the tractor tom dvd??? LOL

[helga22]

I did get an answer from wiki.answers.com today - so I/we got question 9 right 

Which pioneering Hollywood film director claimed that he got his best ideas in the bath and subsequently had a hot water tub installed in his office?
In: Film Directors [Edit categories]
   

Orson Welles

[calpot]

Fantastic - well done Helga and everyone else

[h0pez]

Well done on some great team work everyone

In regards to the time dedicated for the prize value - I think half the fun is in the challenge sometimes, otherwise life would become boring 

Good-luck to all entering