Who wrote Shane, the book on which the 1953 movie is based?
Jack Schaefer wrote the book Shane, which was also movie.
During the Depression, dish houses were movie houses that offered dishes as inducement for attending the shows.
Yes, Barbara Hershey changed her name to “Seagull”. In 1972, at age 24, she officially changed her name to Barbara Seagull. She has since gone back to using the name “Hershey.”
Jessie Royce Landis, who played Grace Kelly’s mother in To Catch a Thief (1955), extinguishes a cigarette on a plateful of eggs.
Sabotage (1936, UK; released in the U.S. as A Woman Alone). It was based on Joseph Conrad’s novel The Secret Agent. It is not to be confused with Hitchcock’s The Secret Agent, released earlier that year and based on Somerset Maugham’s novel Ashenden.
Lillian Gish was older than Dorothy Gish, by almost two years. Lillian was born in 1896; Dorothy was born in 1898 and died in 1968.
Animal Crackers (1930) featured Groucho singing “Hooray for Captain Spaulding”. Groucho’s character was Captain Jeffrey Spaulding, the African explorer.