Perhaps as a result of how badly Ellen Burstyn had been injured during the filming of "The Exorcist" (1973), Lee Remick declined to perform the scene where Katherine Thorn is pushed over the bannister by Damien and his tricycle and subsequently falls to the floor. She was purportedly offered extra money to perform the stunt, but still declined. Ultimately, a stand-in was used, together with a rig with a mattress on top of it for Lee to kneel on whilst clinging to the bannister. The fall was performed "in-camera" with a section of the floor built up against a wall, which she could be "dollyed" into to make it look as though she was falling.
Russian Rhapsody - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Many of the gremlins are caricatures of Warner Brothers cartoon studios staff, including Leon Schlesinger, Mel Blanc, Michael Maltese, Rod Scribner, and Friz Freleng.
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The mock-German newspaper front page around 0:45:00, below the BLITZ HITS FRITZ!! line, has several headlines in coherent German. The one at upper right says, "Allies have reached last Axis defense line in Tunisia." Below that on the left, "Marschall Rommel no superman, said Eisenhower."
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Vitaphone production reel #1222A.
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There are several current "pop culture" references in this cartoon, including: "I'm only three and a half years old" - radio catch phrase of Lou Costello; "How do you do?" - catch phrase of Bert Gordon's radio character, "The Mad Russian"; and "Nazis is the cwaziest people" - a rephrasing of Lew Lehr's Fox Movietone News catchphrase, "Monkeys is the cwaziest people."
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Other people caricatured: Chuck Jones, Raymond Katz, Henry Binder, and even Robert Clampett himself.
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Hitler's promise to "bomben that Irish general Tim O'Shenko" is a reference to Soviet general Semyon Timoshenko.
Russian Rhapsody - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Russian Rhapsody - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Russian Rhapsody - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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