Who was the first film director?
W. K. L. Dickson (1860-1935), Thomas Edison’s assistant, was the first film director.
He directed Edison’s first films in 1889.
Geena Davis’s screen debut was in Tootsie (1982), where she played the dressing-room mate of Dustin Hoffman.
The twelve jurors in the 12 Angry Men were played by: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, E. G. Marshall, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Jack Klugman, Edward Binns, Joseph Sweeney, George Voskovec, and Robert Webber.
Yes, novelist Joseph Heller worked in Hollywood With David R. Schwartz, he cowrote the screenplay of Sex and the Single Girl (1964), the sex farce based on Helen Gurley Brown’s book of the same title. It starred Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis, Lauren Bacall, and Henry Fonda.
No, Samuel Goldwyn, famous for his malapropisms, never said, “It rolls off my back like a duck”. Critic George Oppenheimer remembers coming up with this line when he was a Hollywood screenwriter. He won the commissary pool that the writers had going for the best Goldwynism of the day.
The first movie Gene Wilder directed was The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother (1975). He also wrote the screenplay and starred as Sigerson Holmes.