Why was the 1981 Oscar telecast delayed one day?
The 1981 Oscar telecast was delayed for one day because on March 30, the day of the telecast, President Ronald Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
Errol Flynn was charged with statutory rape in 1942. He was accused of the statutory rape of two teenage girls on his yacht. He was acquitted.
Nicholson and Karloff appeared together in two movies filmed on the same sets, one right after the other: The Raven (1963) and The Terror (1963).
One female director has been nominated for an Academy Award. Lina Wertmuller was nominated for Seven Beauties in 1976. She didn’t win.
Jack Nicholson’s first job in the movies was as an office boy in MGM’s cartoon department.
“Texaco Star Theater” (NBC, 1948-56) was the top-rated TV program in 1950.
In the closing lines of The Grapes of Wrath, Jane Darwell says, “Can’t nobody wipe us out. Can’t nobody lick us. We’ll go on forever, Pa. We’re the people.”