Joel McCrea first played Dr. Kildare, in Interns Can’t Take Money (1937).
The last line of Little Caesar (1930) was “Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Rico?”
Groucho Marx was suggested to MGM to play Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind, but only in jest.
As noted at the end of the film, John Milner (Paul LeMat) was killed by a drunken driver in December, 1964; Terry Fields (Charlie Martin Smith) was reported missing in action near An Loc in December, 1965; Steve Bolander (Ronny Howard) is an insurance agent in Modesto, California; Curt Henderson (Richard Dreyfuss) is a writer…
The first movie pie fight was in 1913, for a Keystone Studio comedy. Mabel Normand tossed a workman’s lemon meringue pie at Ben Turpin to get him to laugh. He did; Mack Sennett saw it and the pie scene became a favorite bit in Keystone Kop comedies, and in many other comedies as well.
Special-effects man Ken Strickfaden designed the electrical machinery used to create life in Frankenstein (1931).