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.
Walter Brennan asked, “Was you ever bit by a dead bee” nearly everyone he met in To Have and Have Not (1944).
At the height of their careers as newspaper columnists in Hollywood’s Golden Age, Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons had together about seventy-five million readers.
Daphne du Maurier wrote the short story that inspired Hitch-cock’s The Birds.
Special effects man Eiji Tsuburaya designed the title character in Godzilla (1954).
The line about “make him an offer he can’t refuse” appears three times in The Godfather (1972): • “My father made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.” Michael (Al Pacino) tells Kay (Diane Keaton) about Vito’s (Marlon Brando’s) threats against a bandleader. • “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.” Vito tells Johnny…
“News on the March.” was the newsreel that recaps Kane’s life in Citizen Kane.