Where did Paramount get its mountain symbol?
The symbol for Paramount originally represented a mountain from the Wasatch Range of Utah.
This was the home state of W. W. Hodkinson, the businessman who helped found the company in 1914.
In 1970, Lillian Gish received a special Oscar for her cumulative work, then spanning nearly sixty years. She began making films in 1912; in 1987, she appeared in The Whales of August.
Allison Hayes played the fifty-foot woman in Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman (1958).
John Wayne said, “Don’t apologize. It’s a sign of weakness” in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), in the character of Captain Nathan Brittles. He was upbraiding one of his soldiers.
There was never a theatrical movie version of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, but there was a 1980 TV movie starring Keir Dullea, Bud Cort, Julie Cobb, and Ron O’Neal.
The name of the United States president in Dr. Strangelove was Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers). The president’s name in Seven Days in May ( 1964 ) was Jordan Lyman (Fredric March). The president’s name in The Man (1972) was Douglas Dilman (James Earl Jones).
Bud Westmore and Jack Kevan created the monster costume for Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954). Ben Chapman played the Gill-Man above water; swimming champion Ricou Browning played him underwater.