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31 Top-Secret Bits of Trivia About TV and Movie History

July 11, 2024

We learned a very valuable piece of information today: Disney doesn’t have the only vault in the movie business. That’s because we recently found out that behind-the-scenes movie and TV trivia has a vault of its own. A ton of little nuggets about scripts, casting and interpersonal drama was just collecting dust in a vault miles below Santa Fe, New Mexico.

It’s your lucky day, though, as we snatched up this great handful of them while the guard dipped to the bathroom. You’re welcome.

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KELLY MARIE TRAN is the first Southeast Asian actress to lead a Disney animated film...in 2021. Disney RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON Tran did the voice of Raya in Raya and the Last Dragon. GRAGKED COM — Source

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Mr. Deeds

Rigyan Dav Halkon MANDRAKE 1898 FALLS infuss in FIRR DEPARTMENT An The 2002 Adam Sandler movie Mr. Deeds was a remake of a 1936 film called Mr. Deeds Goes to Town which itself was based on a 1935 short story called Opera Hat. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ben-Hur

The epic historical drama Ben-Hur (1959), which won 11 out of 12 Oscar nominations was the third adaptation of the book Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. The first attempt was made in 1907, which presented a fifteen minute silent CRACKED COM short film focusing on the chariot race. The local firefighters played charioteers, with their horses pulling the chariots, instead of the usual fire wagons. — Source

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Lady Gaga's and Bradley Cooper's A Star Is Born is the fourth rendition of the story. The first one was filmed way back in 1937. CRACKED COM — Source

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GRACKED.COM So, you like the original version of Top Gear the best? The one with Clarkson, Hammond, and May? You might be shocked to know that the TRUE original episode aired in 1977 with a completely different cast. — Source

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Lewis Wilson

DID YOU THINK ADAM WEST WAS THE FIRST LIVE-ACTION BATMAN? BA 1943 SERIAL WILSON, VERSION OF N BATMAN. LEWIS THE (PLEASE IGNORE THE EARS) GRAGKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM 1939's The Wizard of Oz wasn't the first big-deal Hollywood version of that story. The first one came out in 1925, and had a weird plot where all the male characters (including the Scarecrow and Tin Man) wanted to marry Dorothy. — Source

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CRACKED.COM The first animated Aladdin movie, The Adventures of Prince Achmed came out in 1926. The German silent film adaptation of One Thousand and One Nights is the oldest surviving animated feature film. It was animated using Silhouette animation technique, with carefully designed cardboard and tin cut-outs. Prince Achmed even made a cameo appearance in the 1992 version of Aladdin. — Source

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12 Monkeys

CRACKED COM Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys was inspired by a bizarre 1962 French film, La Jetée. La Jetée tells the story of a prisoner LA JETÉE forced to travel through time to try - and save the human race after a White CRATELAIN Essay HANILA devastating war, told through a series of still images, narration, music, and sound effects. — Source

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We think of AI Pacino as Scarface, but he was not the first one. Brian De Palma's movie was a remake, dedicated to Ben Hecht, one of the writers of the original from 1932. CRACKED COM — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS There was nothing suburban about MS. SWAN MAD TV CRACKED.COM MADtv found 90s SNL to be vanilla and targeted more diverse audiences with characters like Ms. Swan. She fit everything, says Alex Borstein. People were like, 'Oh my God, that's my Greek grandmother.' 'Oh my God, that's my Mexican aunt.' 'Oh my God, that's my Chinese ... — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS A failed sketch turned into FIRE MARHALL BILL SL 12 9 OI 14 9 EL a X x D 16 SEL IN LIVING COLOR CRACKED.COM Many Jim Carrey sketch ideas were too extreme, like Make a Death Wish Foundation' about a dead kid whose posthumous wish was to go to an amusement park. But I came up with the face of the kid, and it eventually turned into the 'Fire Marshall Bill' face. — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS An editor found comedy in ООН, MAMMA TIM AND ERIC AWESOME SHOW, GREAT JOB! CRACKED.COM A sketch about an indifferent student wasn't working, but a video editor found some funny in looping the line Ooh, Mamma. The sound was paired with new images of Tim and Eric trashing a basement rec room and the result was a very surreal piece of comedy. — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Ya done messed up, A-A-Ron. SUBSTITUTE TEACHER ELETAL ENDOSKELI VRY LOPIAN -SONE/CA VEE CULAR TERUS CONTRACTILE ATTACHED T BLADDAR SONE INTER 43 ARY MATERIAL BODY COVER VETN SCALES a TI TUBE EXTER GILLS LUNGS KEY & PEELE CRACKED.COM SPINAL All it took was teacher mangles Caucasian names to light up the writers' room. It was like sharks in a frenzy after chum had been dumped in the water, says Key. Не improvised in-your-face bits with students, who had to suck my lips into my face to keep from laughing. — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS DICAPRIO OUTBID BRAD PITT FOR THE FILM RIGHTS. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET In 2007, DiCaprio secured the film rights for Jordan Belfort's memoir The Wolf of Wall Street over his Hollywood buddy, Brad Pitt. Belfort decided to sell to DiCaprio because he had Scorsese on board to direct. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Wolf of Wall Street

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THE PRODUCTION GOT INTO TROUBLE WITH THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET SBL The film's production company, Red Granite Pictures, was forced to pay around $60 million to the U.S. government after being sued for using money misappropriated from a Malaysian state fund to finance the film. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM In The wizard of OZ, Toto made more money than the Munchkins. Hollywood has never been fair, but it's mind-boggling that the actors portraying the Munchkins were paid $50 per week, while Toto and his trainers got $125 per week. — Source

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The wallet in Pulp Fiction was owned by Quentin Tarantino. Jules' profanity-enhanced wallet wasn't a prop. Tarantino had it as his own personal wallet. Не owned it as a reference to the movie Shaft. BAO OUTH R CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hooper escaped because of some choice B-roll footage. JAWS CRACKED.COM An actual wild shark visciously attacked the cage while no one was inside. So they rewrote the script to let Hooper get away. — Source

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The equations on the background in SO The Big Bang EME S/A Theory are HIL mathematically accurate. TVV [ RAh and 1 عالسه shyhns) M=X Y Y Malack PLURM DAVOS Y:Beic DCDC-TOO Powered = /YI DB.DC:0 = 1973 1 Y/T David Saltzberg, a professor at UCLA studying particle physics, works as the science consultant on the show. CRACKED.COM — Source

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An actress was originally supposed to be cast to play the part of Maris Crane, however, after only 3 episodes they had described her physical appearance as so bizarre that she had practically become uncastable. ? FRASIER GRAGKED.COM — Source

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Horror movies on streaming A Nightmare HBO on Elm Street max Freddy wears a red and green sweater because Wes Craven read on Scientific American that the human eye doesn't like seeing those colors together. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Horror movies on streaming hulu Let the Right One In The kids weren't allowed to read the script, but their parents were, and had to approve everything before scenes were shot. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Illegal filmmaking The Hangover 2 stole an artist S design. When Ed Helms' character gets Mike Tyson's exact face tattoo, they didn't ask artist S. Victor Whitmill for permission to use his original design. Не sued the production, and instead of digitally altering his face in post, they settled out of court. CRACKED — Source

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Dodgeball

Behind-the-scenes Drama NO - - - Gyu Rates B Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story The team was supposed to lose. Keeping with its irreverent tone, the film originally ended with the team losing. When the studio changed that, the credits included Ben Stiller's White Goodman mocking the fact that they won. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Star Wars

Return of the Jedi had an incredibly satisfying ending. It didn't start out that way. In the first draft of the screenplay, Han Solo died while trying to destroy the shield generator and Luke abandoned the rebels. George Lucas decided not to go with this ending - not because it was too bleak, but because he was worried about toy sales. http://herocomplex.latimes. com/movies/star-wars-was-born-a-long-time-ago- CRACKED.COM but-not-all-that-far-far-away-in-1972-filmmakers-george-lucas-and-gary-kurtz-wer/ — Source

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Qui-Gon Jinn's communicator was called a Hush-98 Comlink. In our galaxy, it's called a Gillette Sensor-Excel for Women. Which explains why his beard was so neat. CRACKED.COM http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Hush-98_comlink — Source

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The Meridian Trench was where Luke made his final attack run on the Death Star. It only existed because the model maker was lazy. The material used by Colin Cantwell to craft the Death Star tended to shrink, and the final model had a gap around the middle. Rather than putty it in, Cantwell suggested it be part of the plot. http://www. originalprop. com/blog/2014/11/13/colin- CRACKED.COM cantwell-video-interviews-star-wars-prototype-models-nasa/ — Source

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Alec Guinness hated Obi-Wan Kenobi. Seriously. Не wanted him dead. Guinness called the movies banal and mumbo-jumbo, and would throw out Star Wars-related fan mail unopened. Не claimed that he persuaded George Lucas to kill off the character as a way to limit his involvement in the films. CRACKED.COM http://www.tv.com/people/alec-guinness/trivia/ — Source

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Yoda

Yoda the little green Jedi master puppet might seem bizarre. But he was almost a lot weirder. George Lucas originally intended Yoda to be played by a real monkey wearing a mask and carrying a cane. Appreciate the puppet more, you should. CRACKED.COM J.W. Rinzler, 2007.The Making of Star Wars. — Source

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