Of what movie was Bob Hope’s Fancy Pants (1950) a remake?
Bob Hope’s Fancy Pants (1950) was a remake of Ruggles of Red Gap (1935), where Charles Laughton played the role later retailored for Hope.
Marni Nixon’s only film appearance was as a nun in The Sound of Music (1965). Nixon is better known for dubbing other people’s singing, such as Deborah Kerr’s in The King and I (1956), Natalie Wood’s in West Side Story (1961), and Audrey Hepburn’s in My Fair Lady (1964).
One critic called the haircut of Samson (Victor Mature) by Delilah (Hedy Lamarr) in the $3 million 1949 Cecil B. DeMille epic Samson and Delilah, “the most expensive haircut in history”.
For Me and My Gal (1942) was Gene Kelly’s film debut.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association sponsors the Golden Globe awards. Founded in 1940, it is an association of foreign journalists covering the Los Angeles entertainment scene. The awards were first presented in 1944, with the first Best Motion Picture award going to The Song of Bernadette (1943).
The submarine injected into the scientist’s body in Fantastic Voyage (1966) was The Proteus.
Francis Ford (1882-1953), brother of the movie’s director, John Ford, plays the old man with the long white beard in The Quiet Man (1952). The Quiet Man was Francis’s twenty-ninth appearance in a John Ford film.