What part did Chuck Yeager play on-screen in The Right Stuff (1983)?
Chuck Yeager was Fred the bartender in The Right Stuff (1983).
Cecil B. DeMille’s last picture was The Ten Commandments (1956).
Rene Clair directed the first version of And Then There Were None (1945), starring Barry Fitzgerald and Walter Huston. The Agatha Christie story was remade three times, each time as Ten Little Indians: in 1966 (directed by George Pollock), in 1975 (Peter Collinson), and in 1989 (Alan Birkinshaw).
The first movie based on a TV series was Dragnet (1954). It was based on the NBC series of the same name (NBC, 1952-59, 1967-70).
Groucho Marx was suggested to MGM to play Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind, but only in jest.
Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch were credited with the screenplay for Casablanca (1942).
Kevin Costner’s debut in a major film was a one-word part in Frances (1982).