Claudette Colbert says she’s proven that “The limb is mightier than the thumb” by revealing her leg to hitch a ride in It Happened One Night (1934).
Allison Hayes played the fifty-foot woman in Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman (1958).
Frank Lloyd won the Oscar for Best Director at the 1933 Academy Awards, for Cavalcade. Capra did not win in 1933 for Lady for a Day, but he won the next year for It Happened One Night.
The General Died at Dawn (1936) was the first movie to feature the line “We could have made beautiful music together”. Gary Cooper says it to Madeleine Carroll.
Jean Harlow said “Do you mind if I slip into something more comfortable?” in Hell’s Angels (1930).
Richard Pryor played The Wizard of Oz in The Wiz (1978). The following played the other leads. Dorothy—Diana Ross Scarecrow—Michael Jackson Tinman—Nipsey Russell Cowardly Lion—Ted Ross