What was Gloria Swanson’s last film?
Gloria Swanson’s last film was Airport 1975 (1974).
Laurel Near plays the woman with the deformed cheeks who sings about Heaven in Eraserhead (1978). The music and lyrics of her song are by Peter Ivers. Fans know the character as the “Lady in the Radiator.”
The 1950 remake of To Have and Have Not (1944) was The Breaking Point (1950). More faithful to the Ernest Hemingway novel To Have and Have Not, it starred John Garfield as Harry Morgan and Patricia Neal as Leona Charles.
The submarine injected into the scientist’s body in Fantastic Voyage (1966) was The Proteus.
Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, and Peter Ustinov were the escapees from Devil’s Island in We’re No Angels (1955). Robert DeNiro and Sean Penn were the angels in the 1989 film of the same title.
The 1929 Western In Old Arizona, for which Warner Baxter won the Best Actor Oscar, was billed as “the first 100% all-talking drama filmed outdoors”.
The Variety headline “Stix Nix Hix Pix” refers to the idea that small-town residents do not like movies about small-town life.