What movie made Clara Bow the “It” Girl?
It was the 1927 movie It, directed by Clarence Badger and Josef von Sternberg.
Clara Bow’s character was named Betty Lou.
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).
A World for Two was the fictitious movie where Vicki Lester (Judy Garland) win the Best Actress Oscar in A Star Is Born (1954)?.
John Shaft, “the black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks,” was played by Richard Roundtree in the movie Shaft. The Oscar-winning “Theme from Shaft” was by Isaac Hayes.
A Passage to India (1984) was David Lean’s last picture. He was scheduled to start on an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo when he died in 1991.
In 1938, MGM had about 120 stars and featured players under contract.
Fritz Lang directed three Westerns: The Return of Jesse James (1940), Western Union (1941), and Rancho Notorious (1952).