Divine’s real name was Harris Glenn Milstead.
He was born in Baltimore in 1946 and was a high school friend of John Waters, with whom he made several films.
Divine died in 1989.
His last film with Waters was Hairspray (1988), in which Divine played a housewife and mother.
Catherine Scorsese, appeared in four movies directed by Martin Scorsese: Who’s That Knocking at My Door? (1968), Mean Streets (1973), The King of Comedy (1983), and Goodfellas (1990).
One critic called the haircut of Samson (Victor Mature) by Delilah (Hedy Lamarr) in the $3 million 1949 Cecil B. DeMille epic Samson and Delilah, “the most expensive haircut in history”.
The name of director Howard Hawks’s musical remake of his own film Ball of Fire (1941) was A Song Is Born (1948). Who played the leads in each film? Ball of Fire, Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck; A Song Is Born, Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo.
Duane Jones played the black hero Ben in Night of the Living Dead (1968).
Franz Waxman wrote the music for Universal’s Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials in the 1930s. It is actually the same score he wrote for The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), often recycled in low-budget Universal productions.
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall appeared in five movies. To Have and Have Not (1944); The Big Sleep (1946); Dark Passage (1947); Key Largo (1948); and Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946), in which they played themselves in an unbilled appearance.