Was the John Davidson who appears in old movie credits any relation to TV’s John Davidson?

An artist named Otto Messmer who worked for silent cartoon animator Pat Sullivan invented Felix the Cat. Messmer developed Felix for Paramount’s Screen Magazine in 1919. Paramount producer John King gave Felix his name. The first Felix cartoon in 1919 was called Feline Follies; the second was called Musical Mews.

Champion, the Wonder Horse was the name of Gene Autry’s horse.

The actors wearing the ape costumes in Planet of the Apes (1967) breathed through a specially designed passage in the ape mask’s upper lip. The mask’s nostrils, raised higher than those of a human nose, were non-operating. The ape makeup was designed by John Chambers.

No one won the Cannes Film Festival prize for Best Film in 1968. Political demonstrations led by directors like Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Claude Lelouch forced the festival to close in mid-proceedings that year.

Edmond O’Brien is an accountant dying of radiation poisoning (caused by iridium) in the original D.O.A. (1950). In the 1988 remake, Dennis Quaid is a college professor also dying of radiation poisoning.

The last movie Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin made together was Hollywood or Bust (1956). It ended a successful string of seventeen releases, beginning in 1949 with My Friend Irma.