Where did Nick and Nora Charles live?
The rich bons vivants, Nick and Nora Charles, played by William Powell and Myrna Loy in The Thin Man (1934), lived in San Francisco.
Jack Nicholson ordered a plain omelet, a cup of coffee, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, hold the butter, lettuce, mayonnaise, and chicken (i.e., just bring the toast), at the diner in Five Easy Pieces (1970).
The Variety headline “Stix Nix Hix Pix” refers to the idea that small-town residents do not like movies about small-town life.
Mae Murray played the title role in The Merry Widow (1925) directed by Erich von Stroheim. Her character, Sally O’Hara, was the widow of Baron Sadoja (Tully Marshall).
Richard Gere hired Julia Roberts for three thousand dollars a week, cash in Pretty Woman.
Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch were credited with the screenplay for Casablanca (1942).
The symbol for Paramount originally represented a mountain from the Wasatch Range of Utah. This was the home state of W. W. Hodkinson, the businessman who helped found the company in 1914.