Fitch Fulton, father of special-effects man John P. Fulton, painted the backgrounds for Gone With the Wind (1939). There were about two hundred backgrounds all together.
Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century was released on July 25, 1953. Chuck Jones directed; Daffy Duck and Porky Pig starred.
Yes, Barbara Hershey changed her name to “Seagull”. In 1972, at age 24, she officially changed her name to Barbara Seagull. She has since gone back to using the name “Hershey.”
Director Michael Curtiz said “The next time I send a damn fool for something, I go myself” in disgust at a building prop person.
The name of the dinosaur bone lost by David Huxley was an intercostal clavicle.
Francis Ford (1882-1953), brother of the movie’s director, John Ford, plays the old man with the long white beard in The Quiet Man (1952). The Quiet Man was Francis’s twenty-ninth appearance in a John Ford film.