Who wrote the screenplay for the original film version of Pygmalion (1938)?
The play’s author, George Bernard Shaw, who won an Oscar for his adaptation wrote the screenplay for the film Pygmalion.
the name of the vampire in Nosferatu, the Vampire was Graf Orlok, played by Max Schreck. The film, directed by F. W. Murnau, was the first film version of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, but the name was changed to avoid copyright problems.
The stagecoach in the 1939 movie Stagecoach was going from Tonto, New Mexico, to Lordsburg, Arizona.
Yes, AlfredHitchcock directed two costume dramas, Jamaica Inn (1939), and Under Capricorn (1949), both set in the nineteenth century. Hitchcock once said he didn’t like to direct historical movies because he couldn’t “imagine anyone in a costume picture ever going to the bathroom.”
Anthony Quinn’s eight minutes on-screen as painter Paul Gauguin in Lust for Life (1956) was the shortest time on-screen ever for an Oscar-winning performance. Quinn won as Best Supporting Actor.
His father punished Alfred Hitchcock for a since-forgotten offense by sending him to the police station with a note. The chief of police read it and locked Hitchcock up for five to ten minutes, saying, “This is what we do to naughty boys.” Hitchcock was four or five years old at the time.
Duck Soup (1933) was Zeppo’s last film with the Marx Brothers.