Who was the first actress to play Queen Elizabeth I?
The great Sarah Bernhardt, in Queen Elizabeth (1912, France), was the first actress to play Queen Elizabeth I.
In The Big Easy (1987), the name of the slush fund into which police graft is being funneled is The Widows and Orphans Fund.
Japanese star Toshiro Mifune played Sinbad in The Lost World of Sinbad (1963).
Directors Roger Corman and George A. Romero appear in The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Jonathan Demme directed them.
James Cagney’s sign-off line (as George M. Cohan) in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) was “My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.”
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.
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.