What was served at Babette’s feast?
In the movie Babette’s Feast (1987), the spread included, among other things, fresh terrapin soup, quail in vol-au-vents, blinis, caviar, and baba au rhum.
Will Rogers called Guinn “Big Boy” Williams for his large size. Williams supported Rogers in movies like Almost a Husband (1919).
Clint Eastwood said, “Go ahead. Make my day” in the movie Sudden Impact (1983).
Jean-Pierre Leaud played Antoine Doinel in director Francois Truffaut’s autobiographical series. The series consisted of: The 400 Blows (1959), Love at Twenty (1962), Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed and Board (1970), and Love on the Run (1979).
Producer Michael Todd, who filled Around the World in 80 Days (1956) with forty-four cameo stars, adopted the word “cameo” as a cinematic term for walk-on parts for well-known people.
Freedonia and Sylvania were the mythical countries in Duck Soup. The mythical country in Million Dollar Legs ( 1932 ) was Klopstokia. The mythical country in The Mouse That Roared ( 1959 ) was The Duchy of Grand Fenwick.
According to Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) in The Godfather, Part II (1974), the one thing that history has taught us is “That you can kill anybody.”