How many stars did MGM have in its heyday?
In 1938, MGM had about 120 stars and featured players under contract.
New York City policeman Eddie Egan was the inspiration for Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in the movie The French Connection.
Mike Altman, son of the film’s director, Robert Altman, wrote the lyrics of “Suicide Is Painless,” theme song of M*A*S*H (1970). Johnny Mandel composed the music.
Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) in Annie Hall (1977), had been killing spiders since he was thirty.
The studio was fined $25,000 if a movie did not meet with the requirements of the Hays Code. It might also be condemned by the Legion of Decency or boycotted. The Motion Picture Production Code (nicknamed the Hays Code for the first director of the Motion Picture Association of America [MPAA], Will H. Hays) was…
Ivan Triesault says to Claude Rains at the end of Notorious (1946), “Alex, will you come in please? I wish to talk to you”.
A Boy’s Life was Steven Spielberg’s working title for E.T. (1982).