Where was Marlon Brando born?
Marlon Brando was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1924.
In Grand Hotel (1932), to John Barrymore, Greta Garbo says, “I want to be alone”.
River Phoenix’s brother is named Leaf; his sisters are Summer, Rainbow, and Liberty. All are actors.
The queen of diamonds is the card that triggers the brainwashed killer’s hypnotic obedience in The Manchurian Candidate (1962). The killer’s name was Raymond Shaw, played by Laurence Harvey.
Director Rouben Mamoulian in City Streets (1931) introduced the use of “subjective sound”, a voice-over showing what a character is thinking. While Sylvia Sidney lay alone in bed, she “remembered” what Gary Cooper had said to her earlier, and Gary Cooper’s voice was heard on the soundtrack.
The actor who played the Mayor of Munchkinland in The Wizard of Oz (1939), Billy Curtis, was four feet, two inches tall. Curtis (1909-1988) was also the star of the first all-little-people Western The Terror of Tiny Town (1938).
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.