Boris Karloff was working on Graft (1931), in which Karloff played a murderer, when director James Whale asked him to do a screen test for Frankenstein (1931).
Whale spotted Karloff in the Universal commissary.
Dorothy Gish started making movies with An Unseen Enemy in 1912 and ended with The Cardinal in 1963.
The movie Airport (1970) had three sequels: Airport 1975 (1974); Airport ’77 (1977); and The Concorde, Airport ’79 (1979), also known as just plain Airport ’79. All of them featured George Kennedy.
I Am Curious (Blue) (1970) was the sequel to the X-rated Swedish movie I Am Curious (Yellow) (1969).
The play’s author, George Bernard Shaw, who won an Oscar for his adaptation wrote the screenplay for the film Pygmalion.
Sidney Howard is credited with the screenplay for Gone With the Wind (1939).
Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner had the lead parts in The King and I (1956). Brynner won an Oscar.