What was Claude Rains’s American film debut?
The Invisible Man (1933) was Claude Rains’s American film debut.
As the title character, Jack Griffin, Rains was never visible until the last shot, but his voice was heard throughout.
Paul Newman is older than Joanne Woodward. Newman was born in 1925, Woodward in 1930.
Walter Brooke tells Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate (1967) the one word: “Plastics”.
No. W. C. Fields’s gravestone does not read, “On the whole, I’d rather be in Philadelphia” In the first place, he isn’t in a grave: his ashes are housed in a vault. Second, the epitaph doesn’t appear there. Third, it wasn’t his joke. The line first appeared in the magazine Vanity Fair in the 1920s….
Judy Garland was sixteen when she made The Wizard of Oz.
Lisa Kirk sang for Rosalind Russell in Gypsy (1962).
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929), starring Warner Oland, was the first Fu Manchu movie made as a sound feature.