What did the O in David O. Selznick (1902-1965) stand for?
The O in David O. Selznick (1902-1965) stood for Oliver.
Edith Bunker died after “All in the Family” (CBS, 1971-79) had become “Archie Bunker’s Place” (CBS, 1979-83). The 1980-81 season opened with Archie grieving over her death, which was not portrayed directly.
Laurel Near plays the woman with the deformed cheeks who sings about Heaven in Eraserhead (1978). The music and lyrics of her song are by Peter Ivers. Fans know the character as the “Lady in the Radiator.”
Michael Anderson directed Around the World in 80 Days. Mike Todd produced the movie. Victor Young wrote the score. The score won an Oscar. S. J. Perelman wrote the screenplay. John Farrow and James Poe were uncredited contributors.
Boris Karloff was working on Graft (1931), in which Karloff played a murderer, when director James Whale asked him to do a screen test for Frankenstein (1931). Whale spotted Karloff in the Universal commissary.
Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, and Peter Ustinov were the escapees from Devil’s Island in We’re No Angels (1955). Robert DeNiro and Sean Penn were the angels in the 1989 film of the same title.
Rudolph Valentino’s real name was Rodolfo Alfonzo Raffaele Pierre Philibert Guglielmi d’Antonguolla, born on May 6, 1895, in Castellaneta, Italy.