Rock group Duran Duran got its name from the science fiction movie Barbarella (1968).
Duran Duran (the Concierge) was a character played by Milo O’Shea.
The rock group Fine Young Cannibals got their name from the movie soap opera All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960), directed by Michael Anderson and starring Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood.
No, the films of silent film director John Waters were not anything like those of his present-day namesake. Silent film director John Waters was responsible for formula Westerns like Nevada (1927), starring Gary Cooper and Thelma Todd. Present-day cult movie director John Waters is responsible for offbeat works like Pink Flamingos (1972) and Hairspray (1988).
Will Rogers called Guinn “Big Boy” Williams for his large size. Williams supported Rogers in movies like Almost a Husband (1919).
A Place in the Sun is based on the book An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser.
Carrie (1976) featured John Travolta. Cat’s Eye (1985) featured James Woods? Creepshow (1982) featured Stephen King. Here the author played a farmer who was slowly covered with green fungus.
Wicked Stepmother (1989) was Bette Davis’s last film.
Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck appeared together in three movies: His Brother’s Wife (1936), This Is My Affair (1937), and The Night Walker (1965). The two were married in 1939 and divorced in 1952.