When was the movie rating system started?
The Motion Picture Association of America started the Code and Rating Administration Board in 1968.
Ava Gardner appeared with the Bowery Boys in Ghosts on the Loose (1943), which also starred Bela Lugosi, Leo Gorcey, and Huntz Hall. Gardner played Huntz Hall’s sister.
Movie acting in silent movies was well-paying, even then. For example, in 1913, when Mary Pickford was starting out, she made $500 per week. In 1916, after she had become “America’s Sweetheart,” she commanded $10,000 per week, plus bonuses.
The New York Film Critics, established 1935, was established before the National Society of Film Critics. The National Society of Film Critics, considered more avant-garde than the older group, was founded in 1966. Both give annual recognition to the best work in films.
The Disney movie Son of Flubber (1963) was a sequel to The Absent-Minded Professor (1961). Both films starred Fred MacMurray as Professor Ned Brainard. Flubber, or “flying rubber,” was an invention of his.
In the 1920s, John Wayne was a University of Southern California student who worked as a laborer and bit player on the Fox lot, where he got to know director John Ford. In 1929, Wayne and fellow USC football player Ward Bond came out to Annapolis with the entire USC football team to appear in…
There were 1,400 actresses who interviewed for the part of Scarlett O’Hara in Scarlett Letters. Four hundred were asked to do readings.