Who turned down the lead for The Jazz Singer (1927)?
George Jessel turned down the lead for The Jazz Singer (1927).
Bob Hope and Una Merkel starred in the film Some Like It Hot.
No. “Letters of transit,” authorizing people to travel without question, were a fiction used in the movie Casablanca (1942).
Alone or in collaboration, Ben Hecht (1893-1964) wrote about seventy credited stories and scripts. He worked on many more without credit. The last film he worked on, Casino Royale (1967), was such a film.
No, Lawrence of Arabia (1962) was not Peter O’Toole’s first film. O’Toole played several secondary roles in Ombre Bianche, Les Dents du Diable, The Savage Innocents, The Day They Robbed the Bank of England, and Kidnapped (all 1960). He did not become famous until he appeared as T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia.
Ramon Novarro played Judah Ben-Hur in the 1926 version of Ben-Hur, with Francis X. Bushman as his friend-turned-enemy Messala. Fred Niblo directed. Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd, respectively, took the roles in the 1959 remake. William Wyler directed.
William Finley played Winslow, the Phantom, in this rock-musical version of Phantom of the Opera. He was stalking evil record producer Swan (Paul Williams).