Q 01/05

Easter Parade missed Easter 1948 and finally opened in which season?

A) Spring

B) Summer

C) Autumn

D) Winter

Answer · why

B) Summer

Summer. Recasting and other delays meant the Easter musical was not ready for the holiday, and it reached cinemas more than three months late.

Q 02/05

Which director, then married to Judy Garland, was removed from Easter Parade days into rehearsals?

A) George Cukor

B) Vincente Minnelli

C) Victor Fleming

D) Mervyn LeRoy

Answer · why

B) Vincente Minnelli

Vincente Minnelli was replaced on the advice of Garland's psychiatrist, who felt the couple should not work together again so soon after their last fi...

Q 03/05

Who directed Easter Parade?

A) Stanley Donen

B) Busby Berkeley

C) Charles Walters

D) George Sidney

Answer · why

C) Charles Walters

Charles Walters, a former dancer, thought the script made its hero a heel, and a new writer was brought in to lighten it.

Q 04/05

Who produced Easter Parade for MGM?

A) Joe Pasternak

B) Louis B. Mayer

C) Jack Cummings

D) Arthur Freed

Answer · why

D) Arthur Freed

Arthur Freed began as a lyricist: he wrote the words to 'Singin' in the Rain', sung in a 1929 film revue, more than twenty years before he produced th...

Q 05/05

Who wrote the songs in Easter Parade?

A) Jerome Kern

B) Irving Berlin

C) George Gershwin

D) Cole Porter

Answer · why

B) Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin first offered the idea to 20th Century-Fox, which balked at his price; MGM paid him $600,000 for his songs, his name and his story advic...