Who wrote A Summer Place, the book on which the 1959 movie is based?
Sloan Wilson, author of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, wrote A Summer Place.
The million-dollar legs belong to a racehorse by the same name. Betty Grable’s legs and the rest of the actress appeared in the movie too.
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? was the film in planning that set director John L. Sullivan on the road. He had become famous doing popular movies like Hey Hey in the Hayloft and So Long, Sarong.
The last picture show in The Last Picture Show (1971) was Red River (1948). The name of the theater was The Royal.
Jack Nicholson’s first job in the movies was as an office boy in MGM’s cartoon department.
The name of the piano player Hoagy Carmichael portrayed in To Have and Have Not (1944) was Cricket.
Sylvester Stallone appeared in eight movies before Rocky (1976): A Party at Kitty and Stud’s (The Italian Stallion) (1970); Bananas (1971); The Lords of Flatbush (1973); Capone (1973); The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975); Death Race 2000 (1975); Farewell My Lovely (1975); Carquake (1975).