In Annie Hall, what does Woody Allen claim is the only cultural advantage offered by Los Angeles?
Woody Allen claimed is the only cultural advantage offered by Los Angeles is that you can make a right turn on a red light.
Beach Party (1963) was Annette Funicello’s and Frankie Avalon’s first movie together. Their arch-nemesis in that film was Eric Von Zipper, the would-be tough biker, played by Harvey Lembeck.
The last movie Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin made together was Hollywood or Bust (1956). It ended a successful string of seventeen releases, beginning in 1949 with My Friend Irma.
There were four brothers who started the studio named Warner Brothers: Harry (1881-1958), Albert (1884-1967), Sam (1888-1927), and Jack (1892-1978). They were the children of Jewish immigrants from Poland. They founded the studio in 1923.
Woody Allen said, “This year I’m a star, but what will I be next year, a black hole.”
No. W. C. Fields’s gravestone does not read, “On the whole, I’d rather be in Philadelphia” In the first place, he isn’t in a grave: his ashes are housed in a vault. Second, the epitaph doesn’t appear there. Third, it wasn’t his joke. The line first appeared in the magazine Vanity Fair in the 1920s….
One female director has been nominated for an Academy Award. Lina Wertmuller was nominated for Seven Beauties in 1976. She didn’t win.