What movie first featured the line, “Do you mind if I slip into something more comfortable?”
Jean Harlow said “Do you mind if I slip into something more comfortable?” in Hell’s Angels (1930).
Al Pacino wanted $7 million for appearing in The Godfather Part III (1990), but settled for $5 million and points when director Francis Ford Coppola threatened to begin the movie with the funeral of Michael Corleone.
Tillie’ s Punctured Romance (1914), directed by Mack Sennett, was the first feature-length comedy.
The coffee slogan was “If you can’t sleep at night, it isn’t the coffee, it’s the bunk.”
The name of director Howard Hawks’s musical remake of his own film Ball of Fire (1941) was A Song Is Born (1948). Who played the leads in each film? Ball of Fire, Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck; A Song Is Born, Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo.
Ted Turner owns three film libraries: those of RKO, MGM/UA, and Warner Brothers.
Director Rouben Mamoulian in City Streets (1931) introduced the use of “subjective sound”, a voice-over showing what a character is thinking. While Sylvia Sidney lay alone in bed, she “remembered” what Gary Cooper had said to her earlier, and Gary Cooper’s voice was heard on the soundtrack.