At what mogul’s funeral is Red Skelton said to have observed, “Give the people what they want, they’ll all show up”?
Red Skelton said, “Give the people what they want, they’ll all show up” at Harry Cohn, head of Columbia’s funeral.
Katharine Hepburn’s film debut was A Bill of Divorcement (1932).
Tillie’ s Punctured Romance (1914), directed by Mack Sennett, was the first feature-length comedy.
Animal Crackers (1930) featured Groucho singing “Hooray for Captain Spaulding”. Groucho’s character was Captain Jeffrey Spaulding, the African explorer.
The first on-screen Don Juan was John Barrymore in the 1926 movie Don Juan, the first movie to synchronize sound effects into a sound track.
Alfred Hitchcock did not win any directing Oscars.
The cornfield in Field of Dreams (1989) was filmed near Dyersville, Iowa.