What Japanese spy film did Woody Allen dub with his own comic dialogue in What’s Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)?
The Japanese spy films were Kagi No Kag (1964), or Key of Keys, directed by Senkichi Taniguchi.
Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper) in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) was portrayed in newspapers as “Cinderella Man”. The newspaper reporter writing about (and falling in love with) him was Babe Bennett (Jean Arthur).
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association sponsors the Golden Globe awards. Founded in 1940, it is an association of foreign journalists covering the Los Angeles entertainment scene. The awards were first presented in 1944, with the first Best Motion Picture award going to The Song of Bernadette (1943).
How Green Was My Valley. The year High Noon was eligible ( 1952 )? The Greatest Show on Earth. The year The Searchers was eligible (1956)? Around the World in 80 Days. The year Casablanca was eligible (1943)? Casablanca.
Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson played Marianne and Johan in the Ingmar Bergman film Scenes from a Marriage (1973).
The Egg and I (1947) gave Ma and Pa Kettle their debut. It is about a city woman (Claudette Colbert) who marries a chicken farmer (Fred MacMurray). Ma and Pa Kettle were supporting characters played by Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride. They went on to star in the same roles in their own movie series.
New York City policeman Eddie Egan was the inspiration for Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in the movie The French Connection.