Is Sigourney Weaver any relation to old TV and movie comedian Doodles Weaver?
Yes, TV and movie comedian Doodles Weaver was Sigourney Weaver’s uncle.
In the movie Babette’s Feast (1987), the spread included, among other things, fresh terrapin soup, quail in vol-au-vents, blinis, caviar, and baba au rhum.
Dr. Strangelove was based on a novel, Red Alert, by Peter George.
Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek) and Milly Lammoreaux (Shelley Duvall) are fellow Texans who work in an old-age home in Robert Altman’s Three Women (1977). Willie Hart (Janice Rule) is a painter whose husband owns a motorcycle bar. The three interact.
The line about “make him an offer he can’t refuse” appears three times in The Godfather (1972): • “My father made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.” Michael (Al Pacino) tells Kay (Diane Keaton) about Vito’s (Marlon Brando’s) threats against a bandleader. • “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.” Vito tells Johnny…
Chuck Yeager was Fred the bartender in The Right Stuff (1983).
It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) inspired the movie Alien (1979). Both movies were about a spaceship with an alien stowaway.