What did the “D. W.” in director D. W. Griffith’s name stand for?
“D. W.” in director D. W. Griffith’s name stands for David Wark (1874-1948).
Lakota, the language of the Sioux is the Indian language spoken in Dances With Wolves (1990).
Marion Davies, an actress for whom Hearst founded a movie production company, Cosmopolitan Pictures (which was absorbed by MGM in 1925), was William Randolph Hearst’s extramarital love interest and the model for Susan Alexander in Citizen Kane (1941).
Will Rogers called Guinn “Big Boy” Williams for his large size. Williams supported Rogers in movies like Almost a Husband (1919).
Tim McIntire gave his voice to the telepathic dog Blood in the post-apocalyptic science fiction movie A Boy and His Dog. Blood himself was played by Tiger of TV’s “The Brady Bunch” (ABC, 1969-74).
The name of the piano player Hoagy Carmichael portrayed in To Have and Have Not (1944) was Cricket.
Arsene Lupin (1932), a detective story set in Paris, was the first movie featuring both John Barry-more and Lionel Barrymore.