Who played Glenn Miller in The Glenn Miller Story (1954)?
James Stewart played Glenn Miller in The Glenn Miller Story (1954).
Steve Allen played Benny Goodman in The Benny Goodman Story (1955).
The real names of the following Western actors are: Slim Pickens—Louis Bert Lindley, Jr. Roy Rogers—Leonard Slye Gene Autry—Gene Autry Tom Mix—Thomas Mix Hoot Gibson—Edmund Richard Gibson Allan “Rocky” Lane—Harold Albershart Will Rogers—William Penn Adair Rogers
Franz Waxman wrote the music for Universal’s Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials in the 1930s. It is actually the same score he wrote for The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), often recycled in low-budget Universal productions.
The cornfield in Field of Dreams (1989) was filmed near Dyersville, Iowa.
James Dean was born on February 8, 1931, and died in a car crash on September 30, 1955.
The Brass Bottle (1964), starring Tony Randall, was about a genie and featured Barbara Eden. Eden played not the genie but Randall’s girlfriend Sylvia. Burl Ives played Fakrash, the genie.
John Wayne Airport is at Santa Ana, Orange County, California.