How many parts does Alec Guinness play in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)?
Alec Guinness plays all of the eight members of an aristocratic family killed off in the dark comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets.
David Lean made sixteen movies. David Lean won the Oscar for best director twice, for The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962).
No. W. C. Fields’s gravestone does not read, “On the whole, I’d rather be in Philadelphia” In the first place, he isn’t in a grave: his ashes are housed in a vault. Second, the epitaph doesn’t appear there. Third, it wasn’t his joke. The line first appeared in the magazine Vanity Fair in the 1920s….
Humphrey Bogart—The Harder They Fall (1956) Gary Cooper—The Naked Edge (1961) Buster Keaton—A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1967) Errol Flynn—Cuban Rebel Girls (1969) Maurice Chevalier—Monkeys Go Home (1956)
Cyd Charisse was born in Amarillo, Texas, in 1921. Her real name was Tula Ellice Finklea.
The Variety headline “Stix Nix Hix Pix” refers to the idea that small-town residents do not like movies about small-town life.
The last picture show in The Last Picture Show (1971) was Red River (1948). The name of the theater was The Royal.