What's Up Doc? Trivia

1. The film is set in which major U.S. city?

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Answer: San Francisco

The setting for the film is San Francisco. This location was chosen mainly to provide a spoof replica of the car chase sequence in the 1968 film 'Bullitt' which was also filmed in the city.

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Answer: Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand is one of the most accomplished women in show business. She is one of the few performers with an Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Tony Award. Streisand is one of the most successful singers of all time, selling over 70 million records during her career. "What's Up Doc?" was done fairly early in her career, but after her Oscar Winning debut in "Funny Girl" (1968). Sally Field won Academy Awards in 1980 and 1985, while Susan Sarandon won in 1996 and Diane Keaton won in 1978. All three have played goofball characters during their careers, Judy Maxwell is one of several goofball characters that Streisand played in the early 1970s. Judy has attended (but never graduated from) educational institutions all across the country. Disaster generally follows in Judy's wake.

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Answer: San Francisco

The movie was directed by Peter Bogdanovich who also directed "The Last Picture Show", "Texasville", and "Paper Moon".

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Answer: plaid

There are in fact four plaid overnight cases. The first bag belongs to Howard Bannister and his case contains various igneous rocks. The second case is owned by Judy Maxwell and she has in it just her clothes and a dictionary. Mrs Van Hoskins, a wealthy older lady, owns the third case in which she stores her expensive jewelry. The fourth case has in it top-secret government papers and the bag belongs to the mysterious Mr Smith.

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Answer: Madeline Kahn

Madeline Kahn would go on to become a regular in the films of Mel Brooks, including "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles." She was nominated for an Academy Award for "Blazing Saddles". Kahn has won both an Emmy and Tony Award. Kahn plays Eunice Burns, the fiancé of Howard Bannister. She is extremely uptight and Howard (Ryan O'Neal) winds up dumping her. She lands on her feet with millionaire Frederick Larrabee (Austin Pendleton). Kane got her start in "Carnal Knowledge" (1971). Rivers debuted in "Once Upon A Coffeehouse" (1965). Meara's first film was "The Out of Towners" (1970).

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Answer: Radio

The screenplay was by Buck Henry, David Newman, and Robert Benton. They won the Writer Guild of America's award for Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen.

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Answer: You're The Top

"You're The Top" is used on both the opening and closing credits, with Streisand singing solo at the start and singing with Ryan O'Neal at the end. Both "Anything Goes" and "I Get A Kick Out of You" are heard in the film as Muzak, but neither is used during the credits. Streisand does sing "As Time Goes By" - but near the middle of the film; plus it was written by Herman Hupfeld.

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Answer: Steve

Ryan O'Neal can also be seen in "Love Story", "Paper Moon", and "Barry Lyndon". He is also the father to Tatum O'Neal.

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Answer: Rudy, your head waiter

Howard is attending the banquet for the Congress of American Musicologists as he is one of two candidates nominated to receive a funding award from the Frederick Larabee Foundation. Mr Larabee is also attending the banquet in order to meet the candidates. Howard, who has not seen or met Mr Larabee before, introduces himself to the person he mistakenly takes to be Mr Larabee but who in fact is Rudy the head waiter. The background music played during the American Musicologists banquet was taken from Thoinot Arbeau's "Orchesographie", which was a study of the late sixteenth century French renaissance social dance. The pieces were unusually played in this instance on a Hammond organ and a sitar.

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Answer: San Francisco

The film makes great use of the hills of San Francisco with a spectacular car chase at the end, with most of the cast winding up in San Francisco Bay. Sorrell Brooke (later famous as Boss Hogg on "The Dukes of Hazzard") nearly drowned filming the scene. The final chase scene, which was a spoof of "Bullitt", cost $1 million and took 19 days and 32 stuntmen. The San Francisco Hilton was the fictional "Bristol Hotel". The plate glass window scene was shot at 23rd and Balboa. For a goofball Streisand film set in New York, watch "For Pete's Sake" (1974).

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Answer: Madeline Kahn

Madeline Kahn was re-teamed with Peter Bogdonivich and Ryan O'Neal in "Paper Moon". Madeline Kahn passed away on December 3, 1999 of ovarian cancer.

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Answer: Music History

Howard Bannister teaches music history at the Iowa Conservatory of Music, located in Ames. His life has been rather dull until he meets Judy Maxwell. Bannister is at the conference in San Francisco to deliver a paper on his theory regarding the musical properties of ancient rocks, and applying for a $20,000 grant to continue his research.

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Answer: Rocks

The items in the other bags were top secret documents, jewelry, and Judy's clothing.

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Answer: $20,000

Frederick Larrabee was played by Austin Pendleton who can be heard in the 2003 movie "Finding Nemo" as the voice of Gurgle.

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Answer: Dockyards

The address turns out to be a rather seedy looking building on the docks, where Eunice finds a group of thugs beating Sorrell Brooke to within an inch of his life. She proceeds to take the thugs to Larrabee's home at 888 Russian Hill, where all sorts of craziness ensues. The Dirella Street scene was shot at Pier 70.

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Answer: Bicycle

When Howard and Judy meet on the plane, Judy says, "Love means never having to say you're sorry" and Howard responds "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard". Judy lines pays homage to a line from Ryan O'Neal's movie "Love Story".

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Answer: "Hello, Daddy."

The scene in the court follows the frantic car chase through the streets of San Francisco which had ended up by he Sausilito Ferry dock. Howard and Judy had attempted to reach the departing ferry before the doors close but miss and they and a couple of the cars following in the chase end up floating in the bay. All parties involved in the chase and the arresting police officers end up at the court house where the judge asks for an explanation as to what has been going on. After several aborted attempts to obtain the information the judge asks the the 'quiet one under the blanket' to give an account of events. as Judy removes the blanket from her head she looks up at the judge and says "Hello, Daddy." The chase scene took 19 days to shoot, using 32 stunt men and cost one million dollars. The scene lasts for a total of 11 minutes of the film's duration.

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Answer: Judy

"Hello, Daddy" are Judy's words right before the bench collapses. Judge Maxwell was played by Liam Dunn, a veteran character actor. Mel Brooks liked his performance in "What's Up Doc?" and gave Dunn roles in "Blazing Saddles" and "Young Frankenstein". Sadly, Dunn died in April of 1976; he was only 59.

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Answer: Father

Other familar faces you will see in "What's Up Doc?" are Sorrell Booke, who played Boss Hogg on "The Dukes of Hazard, Randy Quaid, and John Hillerman.

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Answer: The "What's Up Doc?" cartoon

The entertainment playing at the end of the film is a seven minute 1950 Warner Bros cartoon titled 'Whats Up Doc?' and it was from this cartoon that the film got its title. The lady sitting next to Judy on the plane at the end of the film was played by Patricia O'Neal, Ryan O'Neal's mother.

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Answer: "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."

The line is from "Love Story" of course, which O'Neal had starred in with Ali McGraw two years earlier. It is the second time that O'Neal delivered it as the last line of a film. "Love means never having to say you're sorry" was ranked as number 13 among the AFI "100 Greatest Quotes".

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Answer: Bugs Bunny

The cartoon shows Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd signing what else but "What's Up Doc?".

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