What was the first Mickey Mouse cartoon?
The first Mickey Mouse cartoon produced was Plane Crazy (1928).
The second was Gallopin’ Gaucho (1928).
The third was Steamboat Willie (1928), the first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon.
Judy Garland was sixteen when she made The Wizard of Oz.
Katharine Hepburn was born on November 9, 1907, in Hartford, Connecticut. She came from a respected New England family. Her father was a surgeon and her mother a suffragette.
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo depicts the first American air raid on Japan, staged in 1942 by Lt. Colonel Jimmy Doolittle (played by Spencer Tracy). The movie was based on the book of the same name by Ted Lawrence, a pilot on the raid (Van Johnson). The air strike was important in lifting American morale early…
Werner Groebli, “Frick,” took his stage name from a border town in his native Switzerland. Hansreudi Mauch, “Frack,” took his name from the German word forfrock. The team of two clowns appeared in such films as Silver Skates (1942) and Lady, Let’s Dance (1943).
The play’s author, George Bernard Shaw, who won an Oscar for his adaptation wrote the screenplay for the film Pygmalion.
No, the films of silent film director John Waters were not anything like those of his present-day namesake. Silent film director John Waters was responsible for formula Westerns like Nevada (1927), starring Gary Cooper and Thelma Todd. Present-day cult movie director John Waters is responsible for offbeat works like Pink Flamingos (1972) and Hairspray (1988).