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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 8, 2020 21:55:58 GMT
Generally Little Known Facts about THE CLASSICS that are Potentially of Interest …. one very small request … No gruesome deaths or lurid Hollywood stories about actor's personal lives.. please ! Charles Ogle was the screen's very first Frankenstein monster in Thomas Alva Edison's silent version Frankenstein (1910). The Ogle Award for science fiction/fantasy audio-dramas is named after him.
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Post by marianne48 on Apr 9, 2020 0:09:10 GMT
The coat worn by actor Frank Morgan for his role as Professor Marvel in The Wizard of Oz was one of several purchased at a local thrift store by the studio costume department. At one point Morgan inspected an inside pocket and found it monogrammed with the name "L. Frank Baum." The studio contacted the former tailor of Baum as well as his widow; both confirmed that the coat had once belonged to the late author of the "Oz" books.
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 9, 2020 0:18:00 GMT
When filming Ben-Hur, Charlton Heston had to re-shoot a scene for a western he had done before (co-starring Gregory Peck I think-never seen it, I'd like to see them in a movie together). He had to fall down and die, so the shot was re-done in the middle of the Roman racing arena set. Sergio Leone was a crew man on the film so his first western film shoot was in which Charlton Heston, dressed as a cowboy, falls down and dies in a Roman coliseum.
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Post by mikef6 on Apr 9, 2020 1:20:10 GMT
A four minute silent film of “King John” from 1899 may be the first movie version of a Shakespeare play. Wait. What? Shakespeare? Silent? Four minutes? One of Will’s least known and performed plays? Shut up. No, it’s true. Movies have often been considered a low form of entertainment through history so in its early days the name of Shakespeare would have given the flickers a touch of high culture. Also, this film was probably made to promote the current hit London theatre production starring the 19th century Shakespearean actor Herbert Beerbohm Tree. Most of the film is lost but a full quarter of it (a whole minute, sixteen seconds) still exists. As you will see, acting styles have changed just a little bit.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 9, 2020 2:00:00 GMT
It Happened One Night
Claudette Colbert complained nearly every day during the making of the film. On the last day of shooting she told a friend, "I just finished making the worst picture I've ever made".
When Clark Gable showed up for work on the first day, he reportedly said, grimly, "Let's get this over with."
Robert Montgomery turned down the male lead, saying the script was the worst thing he had ever read. Fredric March also refused the part.
Myrna Loy turned down the role of Ellie but later said that the story she had been shown was not the story actually filmed .
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Post by teleadm on Apr 9, 2020 17:33:55 GMT
Deborah Kerr made a painting cameo in The League of Gentlemen 1960 playing the wife of Jack Hawkins, to whom he he refers "I regret to say the bitch is still going strong". The painting was originally made for The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943. Not the best pic, the only one I could find:
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 9, 2020 17:54:37 GMT
Deborah Kerr made a painting cameo in The League of Gentlemen 1960 playing the wife of Jack Hawkins, to whom he he refers "I regret to say the bitch is still going strong". The painting was originally made for The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943. 20th Century-Fox's Woman's World (1954) Van Heflin, Cornel Wilde, Fred MacMurray and Clifton Webb. Just above Webb. you'll notice a small recreation of the portrait from 20th's 1944 Laura.
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Post by cschultz2 on Apr 9, 2020 21:30:32 GMT
During the scene in "The Godfather" in which the Corleone family decides Michael needs to kill Sollozzo and McClusky, James Caan as Santino is seen toying with a cane the viewer presumes must belong to the hospitalized Godfather, Vito Corleone. In fact, the cane belonged to actor Al Pacino, who had badly injured his ankle while filming the scene in which Michael escapes from the restaurant after killing Sollozzo and McClusky.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 10, 2020 0:12:58 GMT
Poster Art by Mort Drucker
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 11, 2020 23:05:36 GMT
Unverified American Graffiti trivia from IMDb ... but they sound cool Due to the low budget, George Lucas was unable to pay all of the crew members. He offered to give many of them a screen credit in lieu of payment, and they accepted. Traditionally, only department heads received screen credit. Giving screen credit to so many crew members has now become a tradition, which is why closing credits last so long now.
There is a rumor that while George Lucas and a co-worker were editing the film, the co-worker asked Lucas for "reel two, dialogue two", which abbreviated to R2-D2, a name which surfaced in Lucas' later film, Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 14, 2020 17:48:54 GMT
J.R. Ewing was the son of Peter Pan !
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Post by twothousandonemark on Apr 14, 2020 23:26:53 GMT
Charles Lightoller, the most senior crew member of Titanic to survive, assisted lowering lifeboats nowhere near capacity. As depicted in Titanic.
Living in shame, decades later he would assist the Dunkirk evacuation, as depicted by Christopher Nolan as Mr. Dawson, the lead older man in his rescue boat. Not sure if his Dawson was a nod to Cameron, which likely was considering the same depicted person.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 15, 2020 0:46:29 GMT
Some of my favorites, trotted out on prior occasions, but worth collecting on a specialized thread:
- In 1933, a young English actor began his film career under his birth name, but by the time he began getting screen billing, an American actor of the same name had become world famous. So London-born James Stewart became professionally known as Stewart Granger.
- Byron Barr began his film career in 1940 and made a dozen appearances under that name. In 1942's The Gay Sisters, he played a character named Gig Young, and liked the name so much that he adopted it professionally. The following year, Double Indemnity began production with a young actor making his screen debut as the character Nino Zachetti. His name: Byron Barr.
- Something for the tech-heads: the much-beloved Three-Strip Technicolor process (known within the corporation as System 4) captured its images on black-and-white negative stock. With the light entering the lens split into primary colors by a prism, each of the three b&w negatives captured only the light corresponding to its assigned primary color. It was only in the printing process that actual colors were applied, with dyes corresponding to each primary color transferred to the positive print to recreate a full spectrum.
- The famed Cinerama Dome theater in Hollywood never exhibited a first-run film shot in Cinerama. The last feature utilizing the true 3-lens/3-negative Cinerama system was How the West Was Won. Beginning with It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, which premiered at the Dome in Nov. '63 a year after HTWWW's premiere, all films "Presented In Cinerama" were shot on single 65mm negatives with standard single-lens cameras, and projected on 70mm prints specially rectified in the lab for the curved Cinerama screen.
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Post by mikef6 on Apr 15, 2020 1:21:20 GMT
In 1997 the shirt Clyde Barrow was wearing when killed was auctioned for $75,000. Most of the news accounts describe the shirt as “bloodstained” but pictures of the event just show it riddled with bullet holes. The shirt and other objects associated with Bonnie and Clyde fetched $187,809 total. Half that amount went to Clyde’s only surviving sister. The lucky recipient of the shirt was Whiskey Pete's Casino in Primm, Nevada. Well, that was only tangentially related to movies so here’s another to make it for it. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall did not have a big Hollywood wedding. While filming “It All Came True” in 1940, Bogie met Louis Bromfield, novelist, screenwriter, and Pulitzer Prize winning author, who had penned the film. They became close friends. When Bogart and Betty came to get married on May 21, 1945, it wasn’t even in California. They married at Bromfield’s home, Malabar Farm, outside of Mansfield, Ohio. At Malabar Farm, Bromfield experimented with new agricultural techniques. Today, the Farm and house is a State Park. POP QUIZ: Name one novel by Louis Bromfield. Betchu can’t. I know I can’t. But looking him up I find that he won the Pulitzer for Fiction for the 1927 novel, “Early Autumn.” Poor guy. Rich and famous in his day, but now…? Malabar Farm State Park
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Post by kijii on Apr 15, 2020 1:55:23 GMT
After filming Mrs. Miniver, Greer Garson married her son (from the movie). Richard Ney who was 12 years younger than her. Was this a case of screen incest? Inquiring minds want to know.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2020 4:19:13 GMT
In the mid 50's Jo Shishido got cheek implants to give him a disincentive chipmunk look to make him stand out.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2020 7:18:19 GMT
This isn't a rumor and I haven't checked on this but a few months ago I saw this movie and have to believe that this was an inspiration. The Man Who Laughs- 1928
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Post by marianne48 on Apr 15, 2020 11:51:59 GMT
In 1949's Mighty Joe Young, the police officer who can understand the Polish-speaking hobo's hysterical ranting about his encounter with the giant gorilla is named "Obrinski"--this is an in-joke reference to Willis O'Brien, the acclaimed special effects technician who worked on this film, the original King Kong and Son of Kong, and other giant monster movies.
Also, Fay Wray's scream from the original King Kong was borrowed for Mighty Joe Young 16 years later; it's on the soundtrack of the gorilla-goes-wild nightclub scene.
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Post by Isapop on Apr 15, 2020 15:58:33 GMT
In 1949's Mighty Joe Young, the police officer who can understand the Polish-speaking hobo's hysterical ranting about his encounter with the giant gorilla is named "Obrinski"--this is an in-joke reference to Willis O'Brien, the acclaimed special effects technician who worked on this film, the original King Kong and Son of Kong, and other giant monster movies. Also, Fay Wray's scream from the original King Kong was borrowed for Mighty Joe Young16 years later; it's on the soundtrack of the gorilla-goes-wild nightclub scene. And speaking of borrowed screams... In An Affair To Remember you hear a woman scream when Deborah Kerr has her accident. Three years later, 20th Century Fox went to their vaults and pulled out that scream for Journey To The Center Of The Earth, passing it off as Arlene Dahl's reaction to a giant lizard's long descending tongue at the film's climax.
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Post by Firefly on Apr 16, 2020 23:04:18 GMT
I Married a WitchFrederic March loathed Veronica Lake and felt she was a flash in the pan, not much of an actress without much to offer, and the feeling was mutual. While filming this movie, Lake used to strap weights to her legs when March had to pick her up, making her that much heavier, (without him realizing it, of course), and played various other tricks on him just to annoy him.
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