The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a nonprofit organization for the advancement of the film art and industry that gives out the Academy Awards. It was founded in 1927. Membership is by invitation only.
An artist named Otto Messmer who worked for silent cartoon animator Pat Sullivan invented Felix the Cat. Messmer developed Felix for Paramount’s Screen Magazine in 1919. Paramount producer John King gave Felix his name. The first Felix cartoon in 1919 was called Feline Follies; the second was called Musical Mews.
The real names of the following Western actors are: Slim Pickens—Louis Bert Lindley, Jr. Roy Rogers—Leonard Slye Gene Autry—Gene Autry Tom Mix—Thomas Mix Hoot Gibson—Edmund Richard Gibson Allan “Rocky” Lane—Harold Albershart Will Rogers—William Penn Adair Rogers
Steven Spielberg’s Always (1989) was a remake to A Guy Named Joe (1943). Richard Dreyfuss took the Spencer Tracy part and Holly Hunter took the Irene Dunne part, in this fantasy about a pilot who dies and helps another pilot romance his girlfriend.
Caesar Enrico Bandello, played by Edward G. Robinson in the 1930 film Little Caesar.
Dorothy Gish started making movies with An Unseen Enemy in 1912 and ended with The Cardinal in 1963.