What movie featured the credit “Script by William Shakespeare, Additional Dialogue by Sam Taylor”?
The Taming of the Shrew (1929), directed by Sam Taylor featured the credit “Script by William Shakespeare, Additional Dialogue by Sam Taylor”.
Don Corleone’s phone number in The Godfather (1972) was Long Beach 4-5620. Don’t bother calling it; a recording will tell you it’s not in service.
In 1940, when producer Sam Katzman brought some of the kids to Monogram Pictures. The kids (who eventually included Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Billy Halop, and others) had started out as the “Dead End Kids” in Dead End (1937, Samuel Goldwyn). They had gone on to work for Warner Brothers and Universal. Their…
Universal Studios mogul Carl Laemmle was the manager of the Oshkosh, Wisconsin, branch of Continental Clothing, a clothing retailer. In 1906, after losing his job in an argument with his boss, he opened a movie theater in Chicago. He soon became a film distributor and, in 1912, founded Universal. According to one account, he got…
No one knows what day Louis B. Mayer’s birthday was, but he decided to make it July 4. Mayer (1885-1957) claimed he had lost the records of his real birthday during emigration from Russia. He celebrated the nation’s birthday, and his own, with a big MGM picnic every Fourth of July.
The last line of Little Caesar (1930) was “Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Rico?”
Director Ken Russell played the spy master Walter in The Russia House (1990).