How many times did Charles Laughton play Captain Kidd?
Charles Laughton played Captain Kidd twice, in Captain Kidd (1945) and in Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952).
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.
Martin Scorsese played an irate passenger in Travis Bickle’s (Robert De-Niro’s) cab in Taxi Driver (1976). He was irate because his wife is having an affair.
A Passage to India (1984) was David Lean’s last picture. He was scheduled to start on an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo when he died in 1991.
“Beautiful Dreamer,” sung by Terry Moore to the giant gorilla Joe Young, tamed the savage beast in Mighty Joe Young (1949). The song reappears in Batman (1989) as the theme song for the Joker.
David Lean made sixteen movies. David Lean won the Oscar for best director twice, for The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962).
Groucho Marx was suggested to MGM to play Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind, but only in jest.