In what year was Errol Flynn charged with statutory rape?
Errol Flynn was charged with statutory rape in 1942.
He was accused of the statutory rape of two teenage girls on his yacht.
He was acquitted.
A Passage to India (1984) was David Lean’s last picture. He was scheduled to start on an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo when he died in 1991.
A Place in the Sun is based on the book An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser.
Schlockthropus was the name of the prehuman species resurrected in Schlock (1973). The Schlockthropus is played by twenty-two-year-old John Landis in his directorial debut. The film is also known as The Banana Monster.
No one knows what day Louis B. Mayer’s birthday was, but he decided to make it July 4. Mayer (1885-1957) claimed he had lost the records of his real birthday during emigration from Russia. He celebrated the nation’s birthday, and his own, with a big MGM picnic every Fourth of July.
Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker directed Airplane! (1980). David and Jerry are brothers.
Fitch Fulton, father of special-effects man John P. Fulton, painted the backgrounds for Gone With the Wind (1939). There were about two hundred backgrounds all together.