What was the first movie featuring both John Barry-more and Lionel Barrymore?
Arsene Lupin (1932), a detective story set in Paris, was the first movie featuring both John Barry-more and Lionel Barrymore.
Alan Hale played Robin Hood’s sidekick Little John, alongside Errol Flynn as Robin. Nicol Williamson played the part in Robin and Marian (1976), alongside Sean Connery. Nick Brimble played Robin Hood’s sidekick Little John, alongside Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991).
Lock Martin played Gort, the giant robot, in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), then the doorman at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Director Robert Wise gave him the job because he was the tallest man he knew.
Alfred Hitchcock did not win any directing Oscars.
“Gimme a whiskey, ginger ale on the side. And don’t be stingy, baby.” were Greta Garbo’s first spoken words on film. She said them in Anna Christie (1930).
Hitchcock used the word MacGuffin to mean a pretext for a suspense plot, an object or secret, such as military plans, of vital importance to the characters but of no real importance to the filmmaker. He thought his best MacGuffin was the set of vague “government secrets” in North by Northwest (1959), because this MacGuffin…
Tom Selleck was first approached to play Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), then known for his commercials for Chaz Cologne. He turned the offer down for the lead in a TV series, “Magnum, PI” (CBS, 1980-88).