What did the X in Francis X. Bushman’s name stand for?
The X in Francis X. Bushman’s name stood for Xavier.
Alfred Hitchcock passes by a phone booth being used by George Sanders in Rebecca. Hitchcock can be seen in a weight-reduction ad in a newspaper in Lifeboat ( 1944 ). His outline appears on a neon sign in Rope (1948).
Hugs and Kisses (1966, Sweden) was the first movie to show full frontal female nudity.
Dracula (1930) was advertised as “the strangest love story of our time”.
Walt Disney’s animated cartoons first appeared in Kansas City in 1919. Disney started working for the Kansas City Film Ad Company, which produced short cartoon commercials to be shown in local theaters. By 1922, Disney had developed his own series of theatrical cartoons, “Laugh-O-Grams,” which were parodies of fairy tales.
The Scarlett Letters were letters written to David O. Selznick by hopeful unknown actresses desiring to play Scarlett O’Hara.
The rich bons vivants, Nick and Nora Charles, played by William Powell and Myrna Loy in The Thin Man (1934), lived in San Francisco.