Which Marx Brothers movie featured Groucho singing “Hooray for Captain Spaulding”?
Animal Crackers (1930) featured Groucho singing “Hooray for Captain Spaulding”.
Groucho’s character was Captain Jeffrey Spaulding, the African explorer.
“Gimme a whiskey, ginger ale on the side. And don’t be stingy, baby.” were Greta Garbo’s first spoken words on film. She said them in Anna Christie (1930).
The name of the bartender in Rick’s Cafe Americain in Casablanca was Sascha (Leonid Kinskey).
Brad Majors and Janet Weiss were the names of the young couple played by Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).
Cecil B. DeMille said, “My mind is not one that grasps the immorality of the bathroom”, defending his right to film bathtub scenes.
The chimp from Bedtime for Bonzo died in a trailer fire in the early 1950s, along with his four stand-ins, on the day he was scheduled to help present the first Patsy Awards for animal achievement.
Best Foreign Language Film was introduced as a regular category in the Academy Awards in 1956. The first winner was La Strada (Italian, 1954), directed by Federico Fellini.