Fun Facts About Some Very Familiar Movie Quotes Quiz

Answer: A movie studio executive

In a memorable scene from "The Godfather", studio executive Jack Woltz awakens with the severed head of one his racehorses in his bed. This was done to persuade him to give Johnny Fontaine a part in a movie. "Obviously Johnny Fontane was inspired by a kind of Frank Sinatra character," "The Godfather" director Francis Ford Coppola said in a commentary on a "The Godfather" Blu Ray disc. Frank Sinatra expressed displeasure with the movie alluding to him.

According to the website "phrases.org.uk", the similar phrase, "I'll make her an offer she can't refuse," is spoken by Jason Roberts in the 1934 film "Burn Em Up Barnes". However, in this case, the offer is money. Could "The Godfather" author Mario Puzo have seen "Burn Em Up Barnes"?

Answer: Toto

According to "Thevintagenews.com", the character playing the Wicked Witch of the West, Margaret Hamilton, suffered second and third degree burns during the filming of the movie. During a long acting career, she had roles in "My Little Chickadee" and "Brewster McCloud" as well as roles on the stage.

Her final role was that of Thea Taft on the television show "Lou Grant" from 1979 to 1982.

Answer: William Shakespeare

According to "ronaldbrichardson.com", this was not a line from the book, "The Maltese Falcon" written by Dashiell Hammett. Rather, it is a line that Humphrey Bogart suggested. "We are such stuff as dreams are made on," opines Shakespeare's character Prospero in his play, "The Tempest".

Answer: Illinois

"In the Heat of the Night" won five Academy Awards including Best Actor (Rod Steiger) and Best Picture. In the film, a black detective from Philadelphia, played by Sidney Poitier becomes involved in an investigation in a Southern town. He is forced to work with a less-than-enlightened Southern sheriff played by Rod Steiger. According to the American Film Institute, when Sparta, Illinois was chosen as the principal filming site, the name of the town written in the screen play was changed to Sparta, "allowing the art department to use existing signage and storefronts."

Answer: What's My Line

Brandon de Wilde had his New York Broadway debut at age 7. He appeared with Paul Newman in "Hud" and with John Wayne in "In Harm's Way". He continued to have roles in movies and in television until he died in an auto accident at age 30.

Answer: How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.

At the time of this quiz's writing (2/8/2018), you can purchase officially licensed Groucho Marx glasses that come with attached mustache and eyebrows! At the beginning of Groucho's career, he sported a grease-paint mustache at performances.

Answer: Sayonara, baby!

Without the hint, this is a candidate question for the obscurity quiz. Or, I could base a question on the Japanese version the Terminator in which the Terminator is purported to say, "Cheerio then, love".

Answer: Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner

In his book entitled, "Howard Hawks: Interviews", Hawks takes credit for writing Bacall's line. He credits Faulkner with penning "the stuff that led up to it." At the beginning of the filming, Bogart was 44 years of age and Bacall 19. Bogart divorced his wife and married Bacall, a marriage that lasted until Bogart's death.

Answer: Sarcastic

"Cool Hand Luke" was released in 1966 and earned Paul Newman an Oscar nomination. George Kennedy received best supporting actor for his role in the film. According to IMDB, the parking meter heads that the criminal Luke cut off during a scene filmed in Lodi were not replaced for "many years." Had the number of years been specified, the temptation to use this factoid as the quiz question might have been overwhelming.

Answer: Tell his fortune

"Why don't you come up and see me sometime?" is described as "widely misquoted" by the "Wikiquote" website. However, Mae West created a song entitled "Come Up and See Me Sometime" that used the phrase repeatedly and may account for the frequent "misquotations".

In the film, she is inviting Captain Cummings (Cary Grant) up to see her. The film was risqué for its time. The League of Decency that came to have a major impact on film content begin in the same year this movie was released.