How wide was the readership for Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons?
At the height of their careers as newspaper columnists in Hollywood’s Golden Age, Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons had together about seventy-five million readers.
Humphrey Bogart won one Oscar, as Best Actor for his role as Charlie Allnut in The African Queen (1951).
Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch were credited with the screenplay for Casablanca (1942).
“Beautiful Dreamer,” sung by Terry Moore to the giant gorilla Joe Young, tamed the savage beast in Mighty Joe Young (1949). The song reappears in Batman (1989) as the theme song for the Joker.
Martin Scorsese played an irate passenger in Travis Bickle’s (Robert De-Niro’s) cab in Taxi Driver (1976). He was irate because his wife is having an affair.
Fred Waller (1886-1954) of Paramount’s special-effects department developed Cinerama. The wide-screen process used three cameras and three projectors to record and project a single expansive image. The process debuted in 1952 with This Is Cinerama, a travelogue. What was the first story feature filmed in Cinerama? How the West Was Won (1962).
It took about two weeks to make an average “B” movie in the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1930s-1940s. Or more precisely, between twelve to eighteen days.