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

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[mathew]

The only "Arthur" movie to feature two Butler characters, they being Hobson and Fairchild.

[elmer]

This was the final "Arthur" movie until the Russell Brand 2011 remake.

[manuel]

Screenwriter Andy Breckman was allegedly disappointed by the movie and went to his hometown theater just to hang around and apologize to the people who went to see it.

[albert]

The value of Arthur Bach's (Dudley Moore's) estate was seven hundred fifty million dollars.

[russell]

John Gielgud: As the Ghost of Hobson.

[addison]

Crew members clapped the day that Sir John Gielgud arrived on-set to film his cameo appearance.

[morris]

This movie's subtitle "On the Rocks" is a double entendre reference to both the way spirits can be drunk with ice (Arthur in Arthur (1981) was a heavy drinker/alcoholic) and the ill-state of the marriage between Arthur and Linda.

[beth]

The cast features three Academy Award winners: Sir John Gielgud, Kathy Bates, and Liza Minnelli.

[steve]

Dudley Moore received an "Executive Producer" credit. This is the only theatrical movie where Moore was credited in a producing capacity. Moore did have an "Executive Producer" billing for Derek and Clive Get the Horn (1979). But that production, filmed and intended for theatrical release, went straight to video due to censorship classification problems.

[ella]

Preparing stage plans for the studio sets to be built on the Warner Brothers' Burbank lot, Set Decorator Gene Callahan and Art Director Hub Braden designed preliminary set plans with elevations of all of the proposed stage sets. Viewing Arthur (1981) on video, the original upstairs bedroom set was copied and rebuilt for this movie. Arthur (1981)'s set designs incorporated levels, with entrance doors requiring a door-step landing, to step down onto the set, similar to a theatrical stage set plan. This step element was changed in this set by eliminating the step-up hallway platform. Paper doll miniature sets were mounted and presented for discussion and final approvals by Director Bud Yorkin. Set Designers were then staffed with the commencement of drawing plans and elevations. All of the New York City sets were actual locations with no studio-built scenery. Minor modifications and set dressing were added to all of the interior and exterior location sights in New York City. The yacht interior was a Burbank stage set. The yacht's interior lounge finish was a Phillipine Mahogany wood skin veneer finish. After the skin veneer was applied to the walls, after an overnight stage closure, the veneer wrinkled due to the frigid stage temperature. When the stage was scheduled for filming the set, the stage heaters had to be continuously maintained to prevent the veneer from wrinkling.

[chad]

Dudley Moore's only sequel in a franchise in which he had appeared in any or all of the franchise's earlier movie(s). Moore once appeared in a sequel, Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies (1969), but he had not appeared in that movie's precursor, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes (1965).

[leo]

Arthur and Linda move into an apartment at 140 W. 4th Street in Greenwich Village with a rent of eight hundred fifty dollars a month after being initially "cut off" by his family.

[gerald]

The closing credits dedication states: "The film is dedicated to the memory of Steve Gordon". Gordon wrote and directed Arthur (1981) and sadly passed away soon afterwards in 1982. Arthur (1981) was the only theatrical movie directed by Gordon.

[willard]

Allmovie states that "Dudley Moore's real-life wife Brogan Lane shows up in a minor role." The pair were divorced in 1991.

[sophie]

The scene where Arthur (Dudley Moore) asks Fairchild (Paul Benedict), to put on one of his wife's dressing gowns, when Arthur says, "C'mon Fairchild, I know you want too!", you can hear the camera men laughing when Arthur is being jokingly serious in getting Fairchild into bed (if you have headphones on).

[ella]

Sir John Gielgud appeared as Hobson even though his character died in Arthur (1981). The screenwriters got around this by making Gielgud play the ghost of Hobson. In Lovesick (1983), Dudley Moore's character talked to the ghost of Sigmund Freud (Sir Alec Guinness).

[janice]

Arthur (2011) was shipped to theaters under the codename "On the Rocks", a reference to this movie.

[chris]

This movie released seven years after Arthur (1981).

[javier]

The "Arthur" movies are considered to be a modern re-working of the P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster tales, Arthur is the equivalent of Bertie Wooster, and his servant Hobson, the equivalent of Jeeves.