What teacher’s pupils were the “crime de la creme”?
Miss Jean Brodie’s (Maggie Smith’s) pupils were the “crime de la creme” in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969).
Caged Heat (1974), a low-budget epic released by New World, was director Jonathan Demme’s women-in-prison movie. Demme also wrote the screenplay.
The million-dollar legs belong to a racehorse by the same name. Betty Grable’s legs and the rest of the actress appeared in the movie too.
Jessica Tandy is older than Hume Cronyn, by two years. Cronyn was born in 1911, Tandy in 1909.
No, the Atlanta Civil War scenes were not shot on location. Atlanta was built on the MGM studio back lot. Many of the burning buildings were recycled from movies like King Kong (1933), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936), and The Garden of Allah (1936).
The miracle in Miracle of Morgan’s Creek was the birth of sextuplets to Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton). She was a woman who got married and pregnant without remembering it after drinking too much at a World War II servicemen’s dance.
“Texaco Star Theater” (NBC, 1948-56) was the top-rated TV program in 1950.