What were Spencer Tracy’s last words on film?
Spencer Tracy’s last words on film were “Well, Tillie, when the hell are we going to get some dinner?”.
It was the last line of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967).
The song “White Christmas” first appeared in Holiday Inn (1942), in which it is sung by Bing Crosby.
The Variety headline “Stix Nix Hix Pix” refers to the idea that small-town residents do not like movies about small-town life.
Arsene Lupin (1932), a detective story set in Paris, was the first movie featuring both John Barry-more and Lionel Barrymore.
Piper Laurie’s last film before her role as Carrie’s insane mother in Carrie (1976) was The Hustler (1961). Before that she had mostly played ingenues in films such as Son of Ali Baba (1952). She retired from movies in 1962 to marry film critic Joseph Morgenstern.
Douglas Fairbanks was referring to Adolf Hitler and Charlie Chaplin, who was getting ready to film The Great Dictator (1940), when he said, “This is one of the most fortuitous tricks in the history of civilization, that the greatest living villain in the world and the greatest comedian should look alike”?.
Richard Pryor played The Wizard of Oz in The Wiz (1978). The following played the other leads. Dorothy—Diana Ross Scarecrow—Michael Jackson Tinman—Nipsey Russell Cowardly Lion—Ted Ross