How did “Mildred Pierce” build her fortune in the 1945 movie of that name?
Mildred Pierce was a waitress who bought an eatery that she built into a chain of restaurants.
Fatty Arbuckle was accused of killing Virginia Rappe. Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was accused of killing her in a drunken stupor after a Labor Day party in San Francisco in 1921, but he was acquitted of criminal charges.
Geena Davis’s screen debut was in Tootsie (1982), where she played the dressing-room mate of Dustin Hoffman.
Hamlet was first put to film in 1907, in a silent film produced by George Melies.
The Time Machine (1960) opened on December 31, 1899.
Three of Bob Hope’s movies have the word favorite in the title: My Favorite Blonde (1942), My Favorite Brunette (1947), and My Favorite Spy (1951).
George Burns and Gracie Allen were married in 1926. Their marriage lasted until Gracie’s death in 1965.