According to the opening titles, which episode of a fictitious serial is Star Wars (1977)?
Star Wars (1977) was also known as “Episode IV: A New Hope” according to the opening titles.
Charles Boyer did not say, “Come with me to the Casbah” in any movie. Many people have supposed incorrectly that he said it in Algiers (1938), where he played the French ne’er-do-well Pepe Le Moko living in the Casbah. Boyer said his press agent made it up.
Making their debut in Soup to Nuts (1930), the Three Stooges were Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and a string of actors in the third role: Shemp Howard, Jerry “Curly” Howard, Joe Besser, and Joe De Rita.
Animal Crackers (1930) featured Groucho singing “Hooray for Captain Spaulding”. Groucho’s character was Captain Jeffrey Spaulding, the African explorer.
Alfred Hitchcock wrote the foreword to the first edition of Hall-well’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1965). Leslie Halliwell, pioneer film encyclopedist, died in January, 1989.
Shirley Booth played Dolly Levi in the 1958 film version of the play The Matchmaker which was later played by Barbra Streisand. Booth won an Oscar for her performance in Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) and went on to become TV’s “Hazel” (NBC, CBS, 1961-66).
The last movie Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin made together was Hollywood or Bust (1956). It ended a successful string of seventeen releases, beginning in 1949 with My Friend Irma.