His father punished Alfred Hitchcock for a since-forgotten offense by sending him to the police station with a note.
The chief of police read it and locked Hitchcock up for five to ten minutes, saying, “This is what we do to naughty boys.”
Hitchcock was four or five years old at the time.
The 1929 Western In Old Arizona, for which Warner Baxter won the Best Actor Oscar, was billed as “the first 100% all-talking drama filmed outdoors”.
“Beautiful Dreamer,” sung by Terry Moore to the giant gorilla Joe Young, tamed the savage beast in Mighty Joe Young (1949). The song reappears in Batman (1989) as the theme song for the Joker.
The Heiress is based on the book Washington Square, by Henry James.
Between June 1928 and December 1929, the major studios spent about thirty-seven million dollars converting their filming structures to sound stages.
Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner had the lead parts in The King and I (1956). Brynner won an Oscar.
The silent vamp, Theda Bara’s name was an anagram for “Arab Death.” She was born Theodosia Goodman.