What was the first sound film about the life of Christ?
The French Golgotha (1937), directed by Julien Duvivier was the first sound film about the life of Christ.
It starred Robert Le Vigan as Jesus, and Jean Gabin as Pontius Pilate.
The practice of movie stars’ placing their footprints in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre was an accident at first. It started when Sid Grauman put his footprints into unset concrete outside his own theater in 1927.
The main model of the spaceship Discovery used in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) was 54 feet long. It was filmed moving along a track 150 feet in length. A smaller, 15-foot model was used for some shots.
Marlon Brando was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1924.
The first all-talking movie was not The Jazz Singer (1927), which only featured sound in parts, but The Lights of New York (1928), a Warner Brothers gangster movie. The New York Times called it “seven reels of speech.”
The General Died at Dawn (1936) was the first movie to feature the line “We could have made beautiful music together”. Gary Cooper says it to Madeleine Carroll.
John Ford shot nine films in Monument Valley, on the Arizona-Utah line.