What part did future director John Ford play in The Birth of a Nation (1915)?
John Ford played a Ku Klux Klan member in The Birth of a Nation.
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929), starring Warner Oland, was the first Fu Manchu movie made as a sound feature.
Katharine Hepburn’s film debut was A Bill of Divorcement (1932).
Humphrey Bogart never said “Tennis, anyone” in any movie or play, though Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations has quoted him as saying it.
Director Michael Curtiz said “The next time I send a damn fool for something, I go myself” in disgust at a building prop person.
Singer Lupe Valez was the “Mexican Spitfire”.
“Arthur’s Theme (The Best That You Can Do)” for the movie Arthur required no fewer than four composers: Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, Peter Allen, and Christopher Cross (who sang it). The song won an Oscar.