Twentieth Century-Fox owned the copyright to the wide-screen process known as CinemaScope.
The Robe (1953) was the first film made using CinemaScope.
Paramount developed VistaVision. The first film to use VistaVision was Ben-Hur (1959).
“Oaters” were Westerns, particularly low-budget Westerns.
Ralph Bellamy played the “other man” twice, in The Awful Truth (1937), where Irene Dunne was the woman; and in His Girl Friday (1940), where Rosalind Russell was the woman.
Desreta Jackson, who played Celie as a child in The Color Purple (1985).
Misty Rowe played Marilyn Monroe in the screen biography Goodbye, Norma Jean (1975). The title refers to Monroe’s real name, Norma Jean Baker.
Mothra, Rodan, and Godzilla appear in the Japanese horror film Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster (1965), directed by Inoshiro Honda.
The silent vamp, Theda Bara’s name was an anagram for “Arab Death.” She was born Theodosia Goodman.