Who was older, Dorothy Gish or Lillian Gish?
Lillian Gish was older than Dorothy Gish, by almost two years.
Lillian was born in 1896; Dorothy was born in 1898 and died in 1968.
Jean Harlow was working on the film Saratoga (1937) when she died.
Allison Hayes played the fifty-foot woman in Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman (1958).
The practice of movie stars’ placing their footprints in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre was an accident at first. It started when Sid Grauman put his footprints into unset concrete outside his own theater in 1927.
Hamlet was first put to film in 1907, in a silent film produced by George Melies.
Hugs and Kisses (1966, Sweden) was the first movie to show full frontal female nudity.
Born in Vienna in 1890, the director Fritz Lang came to Hollywood in 1934. Fritz Lang’s first American film was Fury (1936), for MGM. His last was Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956), for RKO. After that, the director quit making films in the United States, fed up with the trials and tribulations of the studio…