What was Lou Gehrig’s only film role?
The baseball legend Lou Gehrig played himself in a western called Rawhide (1938).
In the film, Gehrig quits baseball to retire out West, where he tangles with ranching racketeers.
Jack Nicholson’s first job in the movies was as an office boy in MGM’s cartoon department.
The name of the piano player Hoagy Carmichael portrayed in To Have and Have Not (1944) was Cricket.
George Lucas’s last film as a director was Star Wars (1977).
Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather, were the two major all-black musicals released in 1943.
It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) inspired the movie Alien (1979). Both movies were about a spaceship with an alien stowaway.
Warren Beatty (Clyde Barrow) said, when describing his profession, “We rob banks” in Bonnie and Clyde (1967).