What movie did Universal advertise as “the strangest love story of our time”?
Dracula (1930) was advertised as “the strangest love story of our time”.
Fitch Fulton, father of special-effects man John P. Fulton, painted the backgrounds for Gone With the Wind (1939). There were about two hundred backgrounds all together.
Rebecca Welles’s father was Orson Welles; Princess Yasmin Aga Khan’s father was Prince Aly Khan.
Gloria Swanson’s last film was Airport 1975 (1974).
Divine’s real name was Harris Glenn Milstead. He was born in Baltimore in 1946 and was a high school friend of John Waters, with whom he made several films. Divine died in 1989. His last film with Waters was Hairspray (1988), in which Divine played a housewife and mother.
Michael Anderson directed Around the World in 80 Days. Mike Todd produced the movie. Victor Young wrote the score. The score won an Oscar. S. J. Perelman wrote the screenplay. John Farrow and James Poe were uncredited contributors.