What was the name of the pajama company in The Pajama Game (1957)?
Sleeptite Pajamas in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was the name of the pajama company in The Pajama Game (1957).
“The Brazilian Bombshell”, Carmen Miranda, was born in Marco de Canavezes, Portugal, in 1909. She died in 1955.
Falconetti (Marie Falconetti, 1901-46), a French stage actress, starred in The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) by Carl Dreyer. This was Falconetti’s only film.
The line about “make him an offer he can’t refuse” appears three times in The Godfather (1972): • “My father made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.” Michael (Al Pacino) tells Kay (Diane Keaton) about Vito’s (Marlon Brando’s) threats against a bandleader. • “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.” Vito tells Johnny…
Rene Clair directed the first version of And Then There Were None (1945), starring Barry Fitzgerald and Walter Huston. The Agatha Christie story was remade three times, each time as Ten Little Indians: in 1966 (directed by George Pollock), in 1975 (Peter Collinson), and in 1989 (Alan Birkinshaw).
In 1970, Lillian Gish received a special Oscar for her cumulative work, then spanning nearly sixty years. She began making films in 1912; in 1987, she appeared in The Whales of August.
Jack Hawkins played Pharaoh in Land of the Pharaohs (1955).