How much did the studios spend on converting their filming structures to sound stages?
Between June 1928 and December 1929, the major studios spent about thirty-seven million dollars converting their filming structures to sound stages.
From its founding in 1979 until 1990, the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre and Institute for Theatre Training was located in Jupiter, Florida. Since then, the Burt Reynolds Institute for Theatre Training has moved to Tequesta, Florida, while the dinner theatre (under new ownership) has become the Jupiter Dinner Theatre.
John Huston and Truman Capote wrote the screenplay for Beat the Devil (1954). Huston directed.
The sequel to the silent version of The Mark of Zorro (1925) was Don Q, Son of Zorro (1925). Douglas Fairbanks played Don Diego Vega (Zorro) in both movies, and also Don Cesar de Vega, the son of Zorro.
Don Corleone’s phone number in The Godfather (1972) was Long Beach 4-5620. Don’t bother calling it; a recording will tell you it’s not in service.
Five Dirty Harry movies have been made: Dirty Harry (1971), Magnum Force (1973), The Enforcer (1976), Sudden Impact (1983), and The Dead Pool (1988).
The canine silent movie star Rin Tin Tin is buried in Cimetiere du Chiens in Paris, France. The black onyx tombstone is inscribed “The Greatest Cinema Star”.