Who was the original director of Cleopatra (1963)?
Rouben Mamoulian was the original director of Cleopatra (1963).
After he was fired, Alfred Hitchcock was offered the job, but refused.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz eventually took over.
Universal Studios mogul Carl Laemmle was the manager of the Oshkosh, Wisconsin, branch of Continental Clothing, a clothing retailer. In 1906, after losing his job in an argument with his boss, he opened a movie theater in Chicago. He soon became a film distributor and, in 1912, founded Universal. According to one account, he got…
Champion, the Wonder Horse was the name of Gene Autry’s horse.
Two Vietnamese extras, six-year-old Renee Chen and seven-year-old Myca Dinh Lee, died with actor Vic Morrow during the filming of Twilight Zone The Movie (1983). All were killed while a helicopter scene was being shot for the segment by John Landis.
Woody Allen claimed is the only cultural advantage offered by Los Angeles is that you can make a right turn on a red light.
Marni Nixon’s only film appearance was as a nun in The Sound of Music (1965). Nixon is better known for dubbing other people’s singing, such as Deborah Kerr’s in The King and I (1956), Natalie Wood’s in West Side Story (1961), and Audrey Hepburn’s in My Fair Lady (1964).
It was a stand-in who stabbed Janet Leigh in Psycho (1960), a young woman wearing a wig, not Anthony Perkins.