Who wrote the book on which Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) is based?
James Bond creator Ian Fleming wrote the book on which Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is based on.
“Think God.” was the slogan was used to promote God in the movie Oh, God, Book II.
The New York Daily Inquirer was Kane’s first newspaper in Citizen Kane.
Producer Michael Todd, who filled Around the World in 80 Days (1956) with forty-four cameo stars, adopted the word “cameo” as a cinematic term for walk-on parts for well-known people.
The first movie pie fight was in 1913, for a Keystone Studio comedy. Mabel Normand tossed a workman’s lemon meringue pie at Ben Turpin to get him to laugh. He did; Mack Sennett saw it and the pie scene became a favorite bit in Keystone Kop comedies, and in many other comedies as well.
Fred Waller (1886-1954) of Paramount’s special-effects department developed Cinerama. The wide-screen process used three cameras and three projectors to record and project a single expansive image. The process debuted in 1952 with This Is Cinerama, a travelogue. What was the first story feature filmed in Cinerama? How the West Was Won (1962).
Mary Philbin was Christine Daae, protegee of Erik, the Phantom (Chaney) in The Phantom of the Opera (1925).