Piper Laurie’s last film before her role as Carrie’s insane mother in Carrie (1976) was The Hustler (1961).
Before that she had mostly played ingenues in films such as Son of Ali Baba (1952).
She retired from movies in 1962 to marry film critic Joseph Morgenstern.
The Motion Picture Association of America started the Code and Rating Administration Board in 1968.
Woody Allen claimed is the only cultural advantage offered by Los Angeles is that you can make a right turn on a red light.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) was not the man given credit for it, Senator Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart). It was Tom Doniphon (John Wayne), a relic of an older, less civilized West.
The name of the dinosaur bone lost by David Huxley was an intercostal clavicle.
Beach Party (1963) was Annette Funicello’s and Frankie Avalon’s first movie together. Their arch-nemesis in that film was Eric Von Zipper, the would-be tough biker, played by Harvey Lembeck.
Katharine Hepburn was born on November 9, 1907, in Hartford, Connecticut. She came from a respected New England family. Her father was a surgeon and her mother a suffragette.