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 first movie Gene Wilder directed was The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother (1975). He also wrote the screenplay and starred as Sigerson Holmes.
Hoagy Carmichael won in 1951 for “In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening,” which appeared in Here Comes the Groom, starring Bing Crosby.
No, the Atlanta Civil War scenes were not shot on location. Atlanta was built on the MGM studio back lot. Many of the burning buildings were recycled from movies like King Kong (1933), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936), and The Garden of Allah (1936).
Bernard Herrmann’s final movie score was the Oscar-winning score was for Taxi Driver (1976).
Hitchcock used the word MacGuffin to mean a pretext for a suspense plot, an object or secret, such as military plans, of vital importance to the characters but of no real importance to the filmmaker. He thought his best MacGuffin was the set of vague “government secrets” in North by Northwest (1959), because this MacGuffin…
Born Enos Edward Canutt in the state of Washington in 1895, stuntman Yakima Canutt acquired his stage name during his early days as a rodeo star, when a newspaper caption called him “The Cowboy from Yakima.”