In what movie does the song “White Christmas” first appear?
The song “White Christmas” first appeared in Holiday Inn (1942), in which it is sung by Bing Crosby.
“Mister Senor Love Daddy” (Sam Jackson) is the DJ at WE LOVE radio, 108 FM in Do the Right Thing (1989), “The last on your dial, but the first in ya hearts, and that’s the truth, Ruth!”
Ish Kabibble’s real name was Merwyn A. Bogue. As “Ish,” the man with the Moe Howard haircut, he did comedy with Kay Kyser and appeared in such Kyser vehicles as Carolina Blues (1944).
Four directors worked on Twilight Zone The Movie (1983): John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, and George Miller.
In the 1920s, John Wayne was a University of Southern California student who worked as a laborer and bit player on the Fox lot, where he got to know director John Ford. In 1929, Wayne and fellow USC football player Ward Bond came out to Annapolis with the entire USC football team to appear in…
In 1940, when producer Sam Katzman brought some of the kids to Monogram Pictures. The kids (who eventually included Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Billy Halop, and others) had started out as the “Dead End Kids” in Dead End (1937, Samuel Goldwyn). They had gone on to work for Warner Brothers and Universal. Their…
The Variety headline “Stix Nix Hix Pix” refers to the idea that small-town residents do not like movies about small-town life.