What part did future director John Ford play in The Birth of a Nation (1915)?
John Ford played a Ku Klux Klan member in The Birth of a Nation.
Animal Crackers (1930) featured Groucho singing “Hooray for Captain Spaulding”. Groucho’s character was Captain Jeffrey Spaulding, the African explorer.
John Ford shot nine films in Monument Valley, on the Arizona-Utah line.
“He’s the kind of guy that, when he dies, he’s going up to Heaven and give God a bad time for making him bald” referred to Frank Sinatra. The quote is from Marlon Brando.
Catherine Scorsese, appeared in four movies directed by Martin Scorsese: Who’s That Knocking at My Door? (1968), Mean Streets (1973), The King of Comedy (1983), and Goodfellas (1990).
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.
Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles were credited with the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1940).