What was Ron Howard’s directorial debut?
Ron Howard’s directorial debut was Grand Theft Auto (1977).
The movie featured Marion Ross, Howard’s TV mom on “Happy Days” (ABC, 1974-84).
A secretary named Margaret Herrick, who later became executive director of the Academy gave the Academy Award statuette the name “Oscar”. According to legend, she looked at the statuette and said, “Why, he reminds me of my Uncle Oscar.” The uncle’s full name was Oscar Pierce.
According to Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) in The Godfather, Part II (1974), the one thing that history has taught us is “That you can kill anybody.”
During the Depression, dish houses were movie houses that offered dishes as inducement for attending the shows.
The Time Machine (1960) opened on December 31, 1899.
Ted Turner owns three film libraries: those of RKO, MGM/UA, and Warner Brothers.
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.