Did Barbara Hershey ever change her name to “Seagull”?
Yes, Barbara Hershey changed her name to “Seagull”.
In 1972, at age 24, she officially changed her name to Barbara Seagull.
She has since gone back to using the name “Hershey.”
The cornfield in Field of Dreams (1989) was filmed near Dyersville, Iowa.
Director Ken Russell played the spy master Walter in The Russia House (1990).
No. W. C. Fields’s gravestone does not read, “On the whole, I’d rather be in Philadelphia” In the first place, he isn’t in a grave: his ashes are housed in a vault. Second, the epitaph doesn’t appear there. Third, it wasn’t his joke. The line first appeared in the magazine Vanity Fair in the 1920s….
Harold Lloyd, whose best-known movie is Safety Last (1923), was the “King of Daredevil Comedy”.
Steven and Cyril Marcus were the real-life gynecologists. The twins were found dead in their Upper East Side apartment in 1975, having killed themselves with barbiturates. In the movie, the twins were named Beverly Mantle and Elliot Mantle, both played by Jeremy Irons. Elliot was the confident, arrogant one; Beverly the shy, sensitive one.
Cecil B. DeMille said, “My mind is not one that grasps the immorality of the bathroom”, defending his right to film bathtub scenes.