What teacher’s pupils were the “crime de la creme”?
Miss Jean Brodie’s (Maggie Smith’s) pupils were the “crime de la creme” in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969).
Making their debut in Soup to Nuts (1930), the Three Stooges were Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and a string of actors in the third role: Shemp Howard, Jerry “Curly” Howard, Joe Besser, and Joe De Rita.
Boris Karloff made two with Abbott and Costello: Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949), and Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953). Karloff did not appear in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), where Glenn Strange played the Frankenstein monster.
Roger Edens and Leonard Gershe wrote the additional songs for Funny Face (1957). The other songs were by George and Ira Gershwin.
The acrobatic dancers the Nicholas brothers, who appeared in films like Down Argentine Way (1941), Stormy Weather (1943), and The Pirate (1948), were named Fayard and Harold Nicholas.
The name of the woman who appeared on behalf of Marlon Brando at the 1972 Oscar telecast was given as Sacheen Littlefeather, an “Apache,” and “president of the National Native American Affirmative Image Committee.” On behalf of Brando, she refused his Oscar for The Godfather (1972). It later turned out that Littlefeather was actually an…
Princess Leia Organa’s (Carrie Fisher’s) home planet in Star Wars (1977) was Alderaan.