The six models used in the filming of King Kong (1933) were each eighteen inches tall.
They were made of rubber flesh and rabbit fur on a metal skeleton, and filmed in stop-motion animation.
For close-ups, the filmmakers used a full-scale mechanical hand and a twenty-foot bust of Kong’s head and shoulders, covered with bear hides.
Willis O’Brien created the special effects.
Yes, a Hollywood Canteen was more than the title of a 1944 movie featuring Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. During World War II, it was a gathering place in Hollywood for servicemen and women. It was founded by Bette Davis and John Garfield.
I Am Curious (Blue) (1970) was the sequel to the X-rated Swedish movie I Am Curious (Yellow) (1969).
Walt Disney’s animated cartoons first appeared in Kansas City in 1919. Disney started working for the Kansas City Film Ad Company, which produced short cartoon commercials to be shown in local theaters. By 1922, Disney had developed his own series of theatrical cartoons, “Laugh-O-Grams,” which were parodies of fairy tales.
Charles Foster Kane’s estate in Citizen Kane, Xanadu, was on the Gulf Coast of Florida. The estate of William Randolph Hearst, on whom Kane was based, is located in San Simeon, California.
John Lupton played Jesse James in Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter (1966), but nobody played Frankenstein’s daughter. Narda Onyx played Maria Frankenstein, the baron’s granddaughter.
The name of the Broadway play in The Producers was Springtime for Hitler. Nazi refugee Franz Liebkind, played by Kenneth Mars, was the play’s author.