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Quiz about Some Like It Hot Behind the Scenes

"Some Like It Hot" Behind the Scenes Quiz

This quiz has questions based on information not necessarily from the movie itself but from behind the scenes facts.

A multiple-choice quiz by kirkyt1. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
kirkyt1

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
99,804

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Question 1 of 10

1. True or false: Director Billy Wilder originally wanted Frank Sinatra to play Jack Lemmon's role of Jerry/Daphne.

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2. True or false: Director Billy Wilder's choice for the role of Sugar Kane was Marilyn Monroe.

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3. True or false: Danny Kaye and Bob Hope were originally considered for the roles that went to Lemmon and Curtis.

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4. True or false: This movie was named the funniest movie of all time by the American Film Institute.

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5. After many takes of a kissing scene, Curtis complained that kissing Monroe was like kissing Hitler.

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6. True or false: Marilyn Monroe was pregnant during the filming, and as a result she looked considerably heavier.

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7. True or false: For her participation in the film, Marilyn Monroe received $1,000,000 plus an historic ten percent of the gross profits.

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8. True or false: Jack Lemmon called Wilder one of the greatest influences on his career and ended up making more than 5 pictures with him.

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9. True or false: Director Billy Wilder and associate producer I.A.L. Diamond collaborated on one film, "Love in the Afternoon" (1957), before this one. After this movie they made no more movies together.

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Question 10 of 10

10. True or false: Various estimates have put the cost of making this movie at $500,000. And in the first year of release the movie made no more than $2 million.

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. True or false: Director Billy Wilder originally wanted Frank Sinatra to play Jack Lemmon's role of Jerry/Daphne.

Answer: True

After the acting that Jack Lemmon did in this movie it's hard to imagine Frank Sinatra as Jerry/Daphne.

2. True or false: Director Billy Wilder's choice for the role of Sugar Kane was Marilyn Monroe.

Answer: False

Unbelievably, Wilder's choice for the role of Sugar was Mitzi Gaynor, who was in the movies "South Pacific" (1958), "My Blue Heaven" (1950) and "Les Girls" (1957) with Gene Kelly.

3. True or false: Danny Kaye and Bob Hope were originally considered for the roles that went to Lemmon and Curtis.

Answer: True

Can't imagine Danny Kaye or Bob Hope in their roles.

4. True or false: This movie was named the funniest movie of all time by the American Film Institute.

Answer: True

It really was a very funny movie.

5. After many takes of a kissing scene, Curtis complained that kissing Monroe was like kissing Hitler.

Answer: True

Tony Curtis claims to have no recollection of the kissing Hitler comment.

6. True or false: Marilyn Monroe was pregnant during the filming, and as a result she looked considerably heavier.

Answer: True

She had no known children and several miscarriages in her career.

7. True or false: For her participation in the film, Marilyn Monroe received $1,000,000 plus an historic ten percent of the gross profits.

Answer: False

Marilyn Monroe received only $100,000 but did receive the ten percent of the gross profits.

8. True or false: Jack Lemmon called Wilder one of the greatest influences on his career and ended up making more than 5 pictures with him.

Answer: True

The two made a total of seven pictures together including "The Apartment", "Irma La Douce", "The Fortune Cookie", "Avanti", "The Front Page" and "Buddy Buddy".

Answer: False

They made 10 more movies together, including the Best Picture Oscar winner "The Apartment" (1960). In fact, for the remainder of his career, Diamond worked with Wilder on all but one film, "Cactus Flower" (1969).

10. True or false: Various estimates have put the cost of making this movie at $500,000. And in the first year of release the movie made no more than $2 million.

Answer: False

The cost of making this movie was anywhere from $2.8 to 3.5 million. Recent figures say the film has earned about $25 million in domestic rentals alone. In its first year of release, it made between $7 and 8 million (in the U.S.) and was 1959's third-highest-grossing movie.

It was the all-time top-grossing comedy up to that point. Some information for this quiz was gathered from two sources: www.imdb.com's trivia section of this movie and TCM's trivia fun section. The web addresses are: http://us.imdb.com/Trivia?0053291 and http://alt.tcm.turner.com/essentials/essential/trivia_some.html. Hope you enjoyed the quiz and the trip down memory lane. Thank you for taking the quiz!

Source: Author kirkyt1

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