Cecil B. DeMille’s last picture was The Ten Commandments (1956).
Bad Sister (1931) was Bette Davis’s film debut.
Jean Harlow was working on the film Saratoga (1937) when she died.
The Heiress is based on the book Washington Square, by Henry James.
House of Usher (1960; aka The Fall of the House of Usher). Like most of the films in the series, which also included The Masque of the Red Death (1964) and The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), it starred Vincent Price.
Rock group Duran Duran got its name from the science fiction movie Barbarella (1968). Duran Duran (the Concierge) was a character played by Milo O’Shea. The rock group Fine Young Cannibals got their name from the movie soap opera All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960), directed by Michael Anderson and starring Robert Wagner and Natalie…