How long was Dorothy Gish’s film career?
Dorothy Gish started making movies with An Unseen Enemy in 1912 and ended with The Cardinal in 1963.
The 1929 Western In Old Arizona, for which Warner Baxter won the Best Actor Oscar, was billed as “the first 100% all-talking drama filmed outdoors”.
Japanese star Toshiro Mifune played Sinbad in The Lost World of Sinbad (1963).
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers starred in ten films together. They are: 1. Flying Down to Rio (1933) 2. The Gay Divorcee (1934) 3. Roberta (1935) 4. Top Hat (1935) 5. Follow the Fleet (1936) 6. Swing Time (1936) 7. Shall We Dance (1937) 8. Carefree (1938) 9. The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle…
The Big Clock (1948) was the basis for No Way Out (1987), set in the world of magazine publishing instead of at the Pentagon. Ray Milland played the role later taken by Kevin Costner and Charles Laughton played the Gene Hackman role.
Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald were known by the nicknames “The Singing Capon” and “The Iron Butterfly”.
Producer Michael Todd, who filled Around the World in 80 Days (1956) with forty-four cameo stars, adopted the word “cameo” as a cinematic term for walk-on parts for well-known people.