Who are the most married Hollywood stars?
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Stan Laurel, Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, and Lana Turner have each been married eight times.
According to Gracchus (Charles Laughton), Batiatus acquires dignity, honesty, and courage (though Gracchus has to bribe him to acquire courage) at the end of Spartacus.
The Black Maria, built in 1893 by Thomas Alva Edison, near his laboratories in West Orange, New Jersey, was the world’s first film studio. Films were shot there for Edison’s peepshow-style kinetoscope viewer.
The exterior set of Fort Knox in the climax of Goldfinger (1964), built at Pinewood Studios in England, was accurate down to the driveway. The interior, however, was completely invented, since the filmmakers were not allowed to explore inside. Production designer Ken Adam dreamed up a set full of tubular chrome and gold piled forty…
D. W. Griffith paid $2,500 for the rights to Thomas Dixon, Jr.’s The Klansman, the book on which The Birth of a Nation (1915) was based. Dixon also received a twenty-five percent interest on the picture, which brought him several million dollars. The Birth of a Nation also drew on Dixon’s novel The Leopard’s Spots.
George Hamilton played Robert Cole, a character based on Raskolnikov, in this strange version of Feodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment set in Santa Monica, California. It was Hamilton’s screen debut.
Moe and Nora di Sesso trained the rats used in the movie Willard (1971). They were assisted by their pet cat.