Spring Movie Trivia Questions
_When it comes to spring movie trivia questions, films about teenagers and spring break are no-brainers. Not all movies with spring themes are that obvious, however. Admittedly, we’ve gone for a few easy shots here by including some spring break movies. But there also are a few you might not have thought of that feature spring as their main theme.
So spring into action and see how many answers you can get right on this tricky movie trivia quiz about spring movies:
1. When the famous politically incorrect song Springtime for Hitler was sung in the 1968 rendition of The Producers, the singing voice was dubbed. Whose voice was heard singing the song in the film?
2. Mel Brooks had another name in mind for The Producers but the studio wouldn’t let him use it. What was that name?
3. Name the famous English actress whose character in Enchanted April said, “In my day husbands and beds were very seldom mentioned in the same breath. Husbands were taken seriously, as the only true obstacle to sin.”
4. Elizabeth von Arnim wrote the novel Enchanted April, on which the movie was based. What other famous movie was made from one of her novels? (Hint: It was released in 1944.)
5. In the Secret Garden, which celebrates the renewal brought by spring, main character Mary’s parents passed on. How did they die?
6. What is the name of the Secret Garden character played by Andrew Knott who said, “The animals tell me all their secrets.”
7. The quintessential spring break movie Where the Boys Are marked the movie debut of which female actress who also was in What’s New Pussycat and the 1975 version of The Stepford Wives?
8. In the Elvis spring break movie Girl Happy, some of the Fort Lauderdale beach crowd scenes were borrowed from which other spring break movie that was released in 1960?
9. Elvis’ co-star in Girl Happy is the only woman who was Elvis’ love interest in three different films. What is her name?
10. A famous porn star was featured in Lauderdale. What is his name?
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Answers
1. Mel Brooks sang Springtime for Hitler in the original version of The Producers.
2. Springtime for Hitler was the name Brooks wanted to use. For obvious reasons, MGM frowned on that idea. Even with the watered-down title, The Producers didn’t play in Germany until it was included in a film festival featuring the works of Jewish filmmakers.
3. Joan Plowright (as Mrs. Fisher) spoke the lines, “In my day husbands and beds were very seldom mentioned in the same breath. Husbands were taken seriously, as the only true obstacle to sin.” Joan Plowright became Lady Olivier in 1961, after Sir Laurence Olivier divorced Vivien Leigh and married her. They became Baron and Baroness Olivier in 1970.
4. Elizabeth von Arnim’s novel Mrs. Skeffington was made into a 1944 movie of the same name that starred Bette Davis and Claude Rains. It was Bette Davis’ final Oscar-nominated performance while she was under contract to Warner Bros.
5. Mary’s parents died in an earthquake in India, leaving her to be shipped off to England to live with her reclusive uncle and discover the secret garden where magic was commonplace.
6. The character who said “The animals tell me all their secrets” was Dickon, played by Andrew Knott. The Secret Garden was Knott’s first film. He has since been active in British television.
7. Paula Prentiss is the actress who had her film debut in 1960′s Where the Boys Are. She continues to act in movies and has been married to director Richard Benjamin since 1961.
8. Some of the Fort Lauderdale beach crowd scenes Girl Happy were lifted from Where the Boys Are.
9. Shelley Fabares, whose real name is Michele Marie Fabares, is the only woman who was Elvis’ love interest in three different films.
10. Porn veteran Ron Jeremy was featured in Lauderdale, which is a double-spring movie because it also goes by the names Spring Break USA and Spring Fever USA!
We hope you enjoyed answering these spring trivia questions!
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