Whom did author Margaret Mitchell suggest to MGM to play Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind (1939)?
Groucho Marx was suggested to MGM to play Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind, but only in jest.
Nine people were in the lifeboat in the movie Lifeboat (1943). The actors playing them were Heather Angel, Mary Anderson, Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Hume Cronyn, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Canada Lee, and Walter Slezak.
James Stewart played Glenn Miller in The Glenn Miller Story (1954). Steve Allen played Benny Goodman in The Benny Goodman Story (1955).
The Secrets of Life and Death was authored by Dr. Frankenstein in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948). In Young Frankenstein (1974), How I Did It was also written by him.
The Dakota, at Central Park West and 72 Street in New York City, was used as the location for Rosemary’s Baby (1968).
George Lucas’s last film as a director was Star Wars (1977).
In Body Heat (1981), Ned Racine (William Hurt) uses the Wheaton High School yearbook to learn that Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner) is guilty of murder.