In what movies did Charlton Heston play God?
Charlton Heston did a voice-over as God in The Ten Commandments (1956).
He also had an unbilled appearance as God in Almost an Angel (1990), starring Paul Hogan.
The most recent tie in Oscar voting for major awards was in the category of Best Actress in 1968. The award went to Katharine Hepburn for The Lion in Winter and Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl.
The story of three sailors in On the Town (1949) on a twenty-four-hour leave in New York City was based on the ballet Fancy Free by Jerome Robbins. The movie starred Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Jules Munshin.
The Black Maria, built in 1893 by Thomas Alva Edison, near his laboratories in West Orange, New Jersey, was the world’s first film studio. Films were shot there for Edison’s peepshow-style kinetoscope viewer.
Played by Dean Martin, Matt Helm was a secret service agent for ICE (Organization for Intelligence and Counter-Espionage). The four Matt Helm movies were: The Silencers (1966), Murderer’s Row (1966), The Ambassadors (1967), and The Wrecking Crew (1969). The character is taken from a series of novels by Donald Hamilton.
The first all-talking movie was not The Jazz Singer (1927), which only featured sound in parts, but The Lights of New York (1928), a Warner Brothers gangster movie. The New York Times called it “seven reels of speech.”
Freedonia and Sylvania were the mythical countries in Duck Soup. The mythical country in Million Dollar Legs ( 1932 ) was Klopstokia. The mythical country in The Mouse That Roared ( 1959 ) was The Duchy of Grand Fenwick.