What was the first movie version of Frankenstein?
A 1910 version of Frankenstein by the Edison Company featuring Charles Ogle as the monster was the first movie version.
D. W. Griffith paid $2,500 for the rights to Thomas Dixon, Jr.’s The Klansman, the book on which The Birth of a Nation (1915) was based. Dixon also received a twenty-five percent interest on the picture, which brought him several million dollars. The Birth of a Nation also drew on Dixon’s novel The Leopard’s Spots.
John Shaft, “the black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks,” was played by Richard Roundtree in the movie Shaft. The Oscar-winning “Theme from Shaft” was by Isaac Hayes.
Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck appeared together in three movies: His Brother’s Wife (1936), This Is My Affair (1937), and The Night Walker (1965). The two were married in 1939 and divorced in 1952.
Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles were credited with the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1940).
Tony Curtis said, “With all the unrest in the world, I don’t think anybody should have a yacht that sleeps more than twelve” to hoped-for conquest Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot (1959).
Will Rogers said, “Pictures are the only business where you can sit out front and applaud yourself”.