How many times did Charles Laughton play Captain Kidd?
Charles Laughton played Captain Kidd twice, in Captain Kidd (1945) and in Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952).
Katharine Hepburn was born on November 9, 1907, in Hartford, Connecticut. She came from a respected New England family. Her father was a surgeon and her mother a suffragette.
Doris Day first sang, “Que Sera, Sera” in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The song, written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, won an Oscar for Best Song.
Claudette Colbert says she’s proven that “The limb is mightier than the thumb” by revealing her leg to hitch a ride in It Happened One Night (1934).
One critic called the haircut of Samson (Victor Mature) by Delilah (Hedy Lamarr) in the $3 million 1949 Cecil B. DeMille epic Samson and Delilah, “the most expensive haircut in history”.
No, James Cagney didn’t say “You dirty rat!” in any of his movies.
Gregory Peck was exempt from service during World War II because of a spinal injury. This helped to bring him into high demand as a leading man for films such as Days of Glory (1944), The Keys of the Kingdom (1945), and Spellbound (1945).