Rhinestone - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Rhinestone or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Rhinestone

[charlie]

Some movie posters for this film featured a long blurb that said: "She's bet everything, and we mean everything, that she can turn this New York cabbie into an overnight sensation. He has other things in mind. But he's never had a trainer like this one!"

[oscar]

In an interview, Sylvester Stallone once said that if there were any films he wished he hadn't done, this film was one of them.

[michele]

Listed among the 100 Worst Movies Ever in John Wilson's "The Official Razzie Movie Guide".

[kylie]

Star Billing: Sylvester Stallone (first), Dolly Parton (second), Richard Farnsworth (third), and Ron Leibman (fourth).

[leo]

Dolly Parton scored two Top Ten country-and-western chart singles from this movie. These were "God Won't Get You" and the chart-topping "Tennessee Homesick Blues".

[javier]

The movie was released nine years after its source, the Larry Weiss written song "Rhinestone Cowboy", had been performed by Glenn Campbell. Campbell did not appear in the film, but the tune, according to Wikipedia, "served as the basis" for this film, and is played in the background during an early scene in the Rhinestone.

[michele]

This is the third time that Dolly Parton utilized the same melody for her song "God Won't Get You". Originally written for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), the Burt Reynolds ballad "Where Stallions Run" was cut from the movie, though it subsequently surfaced in American television prints. Parton slightly altered the lyrics and issued it as "A Cowboy's Ways" on her 1983 album "Burlap and Satin". When that failed to chart, she completely overhauled the words for the Rhinestone cut "God Won't Get You".

[ethel]

According to her autobiography "My Life and Other Unfinished Business", Dolly Parton states that she considers the soundtrack album for this movie as some of the best work that she has done. Parton also declares that the song "What a Heartache" is a personal favorite of hers, Parton having re-recorded the track twice since the movie, on the 1991 "Eagle When She Flies" and 2002 "Halos & Horns" albums.

[beth]

Inspired by "Pygmalion", a play by George Bernard Shaw which previously served as the basis for the musical My Fair Lady (1964), the Three Stooges short Hoi Polloi (1935) and the pornographic film The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976).

[jeffrey]

Sylvester Stallone turned down the male lead in Romancing the Stone (1984) and the lead in Beverly Hills Cop (1984) (before it was re-written as a comedy) to make this film.

[leo]

Original screenwriter Phil Alden Robinson was so upset by Sylvester Stallone's extensive changes to the original screenplay that he briefly considered having his name removed. He was convinced that having his name on a film of this "caliber" would look good on his résumé.

[nina]

The movie was nominated for nine Golden Raspberry Awards (Razzies) including Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, Worst Actor, Worst Music Score, Worst Supporting Actor, Worst Original Song ("Sweet Lovin' Friends" and "Drinkenstein"), and Worst Musical of Our First 25 Years, but winning only two, for Worst Actor (Sylvester Stallone) and Worst Original Song (Drinkenstein).

[bernice]

This film earned Sylvester Stallone his first of many Razzie Award nominations (and later the win) for Worst Actor.

[ivan]

Although he couldn't stand the movie itself, Stallone has stated that Dolly Parton was one of his all-time favorite female costars to work with.

[steve]

Sylvester Stallone sings in this movie. This was not the first movie where Stallone was heard singing, as he had sung the title song for Paradise Alley (1978).