What was Lou Gehrig’s only film role?
The baseball legend Lou Gehrig played himself in a western called Rawhide (1938).
In the film, Gehrig quits baseball to retire out West, where he tangles with ranching racketeers.
Geena Davis’s screen debut was in Tootsie (1982), where she played the dressing-room mate of Dustin Hoffman.
The name of the Broadway play in The Producers was Springtime for Hitler. Nazi refugee Franz Liebkind, played by Kenneth Mars, was the play’s author.
John Barrymore played Ahab in the original film version of Moby Dick. No one played Ishmael. The character was cut out of the screenplay, which differed heavily from Herman Melville’s novel.
Before he met Bette Joan Perske (aka Lauren Bacall), he had been married three times: first, to Helen Menken, then to Mary Philips, both actresses. These marriages had ended in divorce. When he met Bacall on the set of To Have and Have Not (1944), he was married to Mayo Methot.
The rich bons vivants, Nick and Nora Charles, played by William Powell and Myrna Loy in The Thin Man (1934), lived in San Francisco.
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall appeared in five movies. To Have and Have Not (1944); The Big Sleep (1946); Dark Passage (1947); Key Largo (1948); and Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946), in which they played themselves in an unbilled appearance.