How wide was the readership for Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons?
At the height of their careers as newspaper columnists in Hollywood’s Golden Age, Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons had together about seventy-five million readers.
The Godfather (1972) had the line, “I don’t like violence, Tom. I’m a businessman. Blood is a big expense”?. Al Lettieri as Sollozzo says it.
David Huddleston played Santa Claus in the movie Santa Claus (1985).
Meaning literally the “playing of a scene,” a mise-en-scene refers in film theory to the content of an individual frame. Orson Welles, F. W. Murnau, and Max Ophuls are all considered masters of the mise-en-scene, masters of composing a shot.
In Body Heat (1981), Ned Racine (William Hurt) uses the Wheaton High School yearbook to learn that Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner) is guilty of murder.
According to Mr. Memory, “The Thirty-Nine Steps is an organization of spies, collecting information on behalf of the foreign office of…” At this point, he was shot.
The first name of Dr. Frankenstein in the 1931 Universal version of Frankenstein was Henry, played by Colin Clive. In the book by Mary Shelley the character’s name was Victor. Victor’s son’s name in Son of Frankenstein (1931) was Wolf, as in Baron Wolf von Frankenstein, played by Basil Rathbone.