For how much a week did Richard Gere hire Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman (1990)?
Richard Gere hired Julia Roberts for three thousand dollars a week, cash in Pretty Woman.
There were 1,400 actresses who interviewed for the part of Scarlett O’Hara in Scarlett Letters. Four hundred were asked to do readings.
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949), starring Betty Grable, was advertised with the line, “She’s got the biggest six-shooters in the West!”.
Ann Sheridan was “The Oomph Girl”. Veronica Lake was “The Peekaboo Girl”. Lizabeth Scott was “The Threat”.
John Wayne says good-bye to Kim Darby in the last line of True Grit (1969) by saying, “Well, come see a fat old man sometime!”
Steve McQueen in the 1965 movie of the same name was the Cincinnati Kid. John Wayne in Stagecoach (1939) was The Ringo Kid. Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles (1974) was The Waco Kid.
No. W. C. Fields’s gravestone does not read, “On the whole, I’d rather be in Philadelphia” In the first place, he isn’t in a grave: his ashes are housed in a vault. Second, the epitaph doesn’t appear there. Third, it wasn’t his joke. The line first appeared in the magazine Vanity Fair in the 1920s….