Marilyn Monroe says to Charles Coburn in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), “I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever”.
Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century was released on July 25, 1953. Chuck Jones directed; Daffy Duck and Porky Pig starred.
Marlon Brando was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1924.
Monty Norman and John Barry have both been credited with writing the James Bond theme song.
Barbra Streisand said, “I’m a bagel on a plate of onion rolls”, as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl (1968), comparing herself to perfect chorus-line hoofers.
The practice of movie stars’ placing their footprints in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre was an accident at first. It started when Sid Grauman put his footprints into unset concrete outside his own theater in 1927.