On what work was Dr. Strangelove (1964) based?
Dr. Strangelove was based on a novel, Red Alert, by Peter George.
The first on-screen Don Juan was John Barrymore in the 1926 movie Don Juan, the first movie to synchronize sound effects into a sound track.
Anthony Hopkins supplied the voice of Laurence Olivier in the restored bath scene in Spartacus (1960, restored 1991).
Nicholson and Karloff appeared together in two movies filmed on the same sets, one right after the other: The Raven (1963) and The Terror (1963).
Metro Pictures Corporation (founded 1915), Goldwyn Pictures Corporation (1917), and Louis B. Mayer Pictures (1918) merged to form MetroGoldwyn-Mayer. The three companies merged in 1924 under the control of Loew’s, Inc., the theater exhibition company.
The Black Maria, built in 1893 by Thomas Alva Edison, near his laboratories in West Orange, New Jersey, was the world’s first film studio. Films were shot there for Edison’s peepshow-style kinetoscope viewer.
Three of Bob Hope’s movies have the word favorite in the title: My Favorite Blonde (1942), My Favorite Brunette (1947), and My Favorite Spy (1951).