Who said of Judy Garland’s death, “She just plain wore out”?
Ray Bolger, her costar (as the Scarecrow) in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
The 1950 remake of To Have and Have Not (1944) was The Breaking Point (1950). More faithful to the Ernest Hemingway novel To Have and Have Not, it starred John Garfield as Harry Morgan and Patricia Neal as Leona Charles.
Steven Spielberg’s Always (1989) was a remake to A Guy Named Joe (1943). Richard Dreyfuss took the Spencer Tracy part and Holly Hunter took the Irene Dunne part, in this fantasy about a pilot who dies and helps another pilot romance his girlfriend.
Todd Haynes filmed the biography of Karen Carpenter entirely with dolls. His Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1989) was pulled from release due to legal action by the Carpenter family.
Douglas Fairbanks was referring to Adolf Hitler and Charlie Chaplin, who was getting ready to film The Great Dictator (1940), when he said, “This is one of the most fortuitous tricks in the history of civilization, that the greatest living villain in the world and the greatest comedian should look alike”?.
Rock group Duran Duran got its name from the science fiction movie Barbarella (1968). Duran Duran (the Concierge) was a character played by Milo O’Shea. The rock group Fine Young Cannibals got their name from the movie soap opera All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960), directed by Michael Anderson and starring Robert Wagner and Natalie…
Geoffrey Unsworth and John Alcott were the cinematographers on 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Alcott was also Kubrick’s cinematographer on A Clockwork Orange (1971), Barry Lyndon (1975), and The Shining (1980).