What movie was billed as “the first 100% all-talking drama filmed outdoors”?
The 1929 Western In Old Arizona, for which Warner Baxter won the Best Actor Oscar, was billed as “the first 100% all-talking drama filmed outdoors”.
Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather, were the two major all-black musicals released in 1943.
Herman Raucher wrote the book Summer of ’42, which was also a movie.
Originally, the “stone” tablets in The Ten Commandments (1956) were made of stone, but these were too heavy for Charlton Heston (playing Moses) to carry. A new pair made of wood was used in the movie.
Claudette Colbert says she’s proven that “The limb is mightier than the thumb” by revealing her leg to hitch a ride in It Happened One Night (1934).
Director Michael Curtiz said “The next time I send a damn fool for something, I go myself” in disgust at a building prop person.
Two of the four of Bing Crosby’s sons have killed themselves. Lindsay Crosby shot himself in 1989; Dennis Crosby shot himself in 1991.