What was the first feature-length comedy?
Tillie’ s Punctured Romance (1914), directed by Mack Sennett, was the first feature-length comedy.
Charlie Chaplin shared a cooked boot in The Gold Rush (1925) with Mack Swain, playing Big Jim McKay.
Ryan O’Neal’s character had the number IV after his name, as in “Oliver Barrett IV.”, in Love Story (1970). His father was Oliver Barrett III, played by Ray Milland.
No, Bonfire of the Vanities wasn’t the biggest box-office flop of 1990. It lost only $15 million. Havana was the worst, it lost $35 million.
Between June 1928 and December 1929, the major studios spent about thirty-seven million dollars converting their filming structures to sound stages.
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).
Alfred Hitchcock wrote the foreword to the first edition of Hall-well’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1965). Leslie Halliwell, pioneer film encyclopedist, died in January, 1989.