Did Walter Matthau ever direct a movie?
Walter Matthau directed only one movie, Gangster Story (1959).
He both directed and starred in it.
Stewart became an Air Force colonel, Gable an Air Force major during World War II.
At the height of their careers as newspaper columnists in Hollywood’s Golden Age, Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons had together about seventy-five million readers.
“There but for the grace of God goes God” was supposedly said by Herman Mankiewicz, screenwriter for Citizen Kane (1940). But the apocryphal remark has also been attributed to Winston Churchill and Orson Welles himself.
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.
George Hamilton played Robert Cole, a character based on Raskolnikov, in this strange version of Feodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment set in Santa Monica, California. It was Hamilton’s screen debut.
Animal Crackers (1930) featured Groucho singing “Hooray for Captain Spaulding”. Groucho’s character was Captain Jeffrey Spaulding, the African explorer.