Of what movie was Bob Hope’s Fancy Pants (1950) a remake?
Bob Hope’s Fancy Pants (1950) was a remake of Ruggles of Red Gap (1935), where Charles Laughton played the role later retailored for Hope.
The play’s author, George Bernard Shaw, who won an Oscar for his adaptation wrote the screenplay for the film Pygmalion.
His former partner Harry Regan’s (Howard Duff) death leads Ira Wells (Art Carney) to team with Margo Sperling (Lily Tomlin) in The Late Show (1977). Regan had been hired by Sperling to locate her missing cat.
Bud Westmore and Jack Kevan created the monster costume for Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954). Ben Chapman played the Gill-Man above water; swimming champion Ricou Browning played him underwater.
The Secrets of Life and Death was authored by Dr. Frankenstein in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948). In Young Frankenstein (1974), How I Did It was also written by him.
The Invisible Man (1933) was Claude Rains’s American film debut. As the title character, Jack Griffin, Rains was never visible until the last shot, but his voice was heard throughout.
All About Eve (1950) received the most Oscar nominations, with fourteen.