What was Elizabeth Taylor’s screen debut?
Elizabeth Taylor’s first film was There’s One Born Every Minute in 1942.
Taylor was nine at the time.
Star Wars (1977) was also known as “Episode IV: A New Hope” according to the opening titles.
William Finley played Winslow, the Phantom, in this rock-musical version of Phantom of the Opera. He was stalking evil record producer Swan (Paul Williams).
D. W. Griffith paid $2,500 for the rights to Thomas Dixon, Jr.’s The Klansman, the book on which The Birth of a Nation (1915) was based. Dixon also received a twenty-five percent interest on the picture, which brought him several million dollars. The Birth of a Nation also drew on Dixon’s novel The Leopard’s Spots.
The name of the piano player Hoagy Carmichael portrayed in To Have and Have Not (1944) was Cricket.
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.
The German director Leni Riefenstahl spent four years in a French detention camp after World War II for her activities as a Nazi filmmaker. Her last film was Tiefland, completed in 1954.