Arthur 2: On the Rocks - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[harry]

This movie runs sixteen minutes longer than Arthur (1981).

[camila]

Star Billing: Dudley Moore (first), Liza Minnelli (second), and Sir John Gielgud (third), the same as with Arthur (1981).

[maureen]

This movie, which featured Kathy Bates in a supporting role, debuted before Bates' Best Actress Oscar role in Misery (1990). This movie was one of Bates' last few parts prior to her breakthrough role in that movie.

[albert]

Apparently, when Arthur (1981) was first touted, Dudley Moore thought (perhaps jokingly) that the movie was about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

[eli]

Sir John Gielgud's actual first name is, in fact, Arthur.

[jesus]

The opening scene is a takeoff on the Grey Poupon mustard commercials of the 1980s, in which two Rolls-Royces pull up next to each other and the passenger in one car taps on the window of the other car and asks, "Pardon me, would you have any Grey Poupon?"

[sara]

Final "Arthur" movie in the original "Arthur" franchise.

[bessie]

The underlying story is actually a very dark plot about a power-crazed controlling father seeking revenge on Arthur for not marrying his daughter, via an extremely nasty Corporate Merger condition.

[lena]

The basement New York City clinic set was one of the first completed stage sets; except that this set's revisions had repeated major modifications. Compared to a television budgeted set, the clinic set should have cost sixteen thousand dollars. Every time Director Bud Yorkin and Production Designer would fly into Los Angeles from their New York City filming schedule to survey the progress of their stage sets under construction, Yorkin would order character wall treatments added to the clinic set. The lower bottom vertical set walls were extended forward, with bulging wood ribs skinned with chicken wire, stuffed with newspapers, then finished in a plaster skim coat. With each of their round trip-visits, the walls were repeatedly added with more bulging layers. Their theory, such a New York City building would have had the upper floors weight, forcing the sinking of the lower basement walls, causing the sag. The final cost of this small typical movie office stage set, instead, skyrocketed to a final cost of two hundred fifty thousand dollars. A money power struggle had developed between the studio and the production company with this as an example of "I'll show you how much we can spend!"

[wallace]

Dudley Moore is seen playing the piano in this movie. In real-life, Moore was a pianist. On movie sets, Moore would often entertain the crew by playing the piano between breaks in filming.

[edgar]

The character of Susan Johnson was not played by Jill Eikenberry who had portrayed the character in Arthur (1981). This was because Eikenberry was at the time unavailable due to being contracted to L.A. Law (1986), playing Ann Kelsey. The part of Susan Johnson in this movie was played by Cynthia Sikes.