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First film produced by Steven Spielberg.
I Wanna Hold Your Hand - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Shot in 1977.
I Wanna Hold Your Hand - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
This was one of two Beatles themed movies released by Universal Pictures in 1978. The other being Robert Stigwood's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978).
I Wanna Hold Your Hand - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
At 1hr34mins.) The stunt featuring a woman falling down the stairs at 1:34:38 was nixed due to the extra cost ($500), so Spielberg said the studio could bill him for it. They never did.
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Wendie Jo Sperber lied about her age to nab the role as she was actually seventeen. Nancy Allen was twenty-seven.
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The script was originally titled "Beatlemania."
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The film takes place from February 8 to February 9, 1964.
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The actor playing the barber never showed for his scene, so Arnold stepped up, pulled a SAG card from his wallet, and said "Every good first A.D. is also a member of SAG." Arnold played the role.
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The scene in which Larry Dubois (Marc McClure) finds inner courage and saves Grace Corrigan (Theresa Saldana) from being attacked by Al (Claude Earl Jones) is highly similar to the scene in Back to the Future (1985) in which the similarly wimpy character George McFly (Crispin Glover) saves his future wife Lorraine Baines (Lea Thompson) from Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson). Larry and George both said, "Get your goddamn hands off her!" before punching the attacker. Both this film and Back to the Future (1985) were directed by Robert Zemeckis and co-written by him and Bob Gale while McClure and Wendie Jo Sperber (Rosie Petrofsky) played George and Lorraine's two eldest children Dave and Linda in the later film. Read Morgan (Peter's Father) and Ivy Bethune (Foreign Woman) also appeared in both films.
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Two of this film's stars -- Wendie Jo Sperber and Marc McClure -- would go on to have supporting roles in the "Back to the Future" trilogy, written by Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis, directed by Zemeckis, and produced by Steven Spielberg.
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The early car interiors were shot in a blacked-out stage with a golf cart behind them simulating a car's weaving headlights.
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Warner Bros. wouldn't let Zemeckis direct as they had a policy in place forbidding them from using a first-time director, it was Brian De Palma's fault after his debut for them, Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972), was a dud and instead had eyes on Jonathan Demme. Instead, Spielberg pulled some strings and helped convince the studio to release the film to Universal where Zemeckis was given the green light.
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Will Jordan, as Ed Sullivan, announces next week's acts after The Beatles finish their segment. He says that a young man will appear who does an impersonation of him (Ed Sullivan), named Will Jordan.
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Four of the film's stars -- Bobby Di Cicco, Wendie Jo Sperber, Nancy Allen, and Eddie Deezen -- would go on to appear in 1941 (1979), which was directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis.
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Although they did not film in The Beatles suite at the Plaza Hotel, while on a promotional tour for the movie in April, 1978, some cast members did stay a few days in that exact suite while in New York City.
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The character of Pam appears to be a reference to the song "Polythene Pam". The character exhibits fetishistic behaviors towards the objects and instruments in the Beatles' room, then hides under the bed to watch them change clothes. "Polythene Pam" was based on an experience John Lennon had with a couple who experimented in kinky fetish sex, including wearing polythene (polyethylene) plastic bags.
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Carrie Fisher was originally cast as Janis, but things didn't work out.
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When the Beatles are passing Pam and going into the limousine, someone says "I'll cripple ya". Paul McCartney says this to Norm in "A Hard Day's Night".
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The film was initially developed at WB, but the studio wouldn't agree to to move forward on the pitch until they locked in the music rights. It took several months, but eventually they were called back from Alabama where they were doing re-writes on Steven Spielberg's 1941 (1979).
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