John Ford shot nine films in Monument Valley, on the Arizona-Utah line.
Allison Hayes played the fifty-foot woman in Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman (1958).
Yes, the characters in A Man and a Woman (1966) did have names. The man’s name was Jean-Louis Duroc (Jean-Louis Trintignant). The woman’s name was Anne Gauthier (Anouk Aimee).
Meaning literally the “playing of a scene,” a mise-en-scene refers in film theory to the content of an individual frame. Orson Welles, F. W. Murnau, and Max Ophuls are all considered masters of the mise-en-scene, masters of composing a shot.
W. K. L. Dickson (1860-1935), Thomas Edison’s assistant, was the first film director. He directed Edison’s first films in 1889.
Herman Raucher wrote the book Summer of ’42, which was also a movie.