No, Lawrence of Arabia (1962) was not Peter O’Toole’s first film.
O’Toole played several secondary roles in Ombre Bianche, Les Dents du Diable, The Savage Innocents, The Day They Robbed the Bank of England, and Kidnapped (all 1960).
He did not become famous until he appeared as T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia.
Two of the four of Bing Crosby’s sons have killed themselves. Lindsay Crosby shot himself in 1989; Dennis Crosby shot himself in 1991.
John Shaft, “the black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks,” was played by Richard Roundtree in the movie Shaft. The Oscar-winning “Theme from Shaft” was by Isaac Hayes.
The six models used in the filming of King Kong (1933) were each eighteen inches tall. They were made of rubber flesh and rabbit fur on a metal skeleton, and filmed in stop-motion animation. For close-ups, the filmmakers used a full-scale mechanical hand and a twenty-foot bust of Kong’s head and shoulders, covered with bear…
No, the Atlanta Civil War scenes were not shot on location. Atlanta was built on the MGM studio back lot. Many of the burning buildings were recycled from movies like King Kong (1933), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936), and The Garden of Allah (1936).
Daphne du Maurier wrote the short story that inspired Hitch-cock’s The Birds.
Richard Gere hired Julia Roberts for three thousand dollars a week, cash in Pretty Woman.