The Life of an American Fireman (1903), by Edwin S. Porter (1869-1941), was the first movie to rely heavily on film editing.
Porter was the first person to piece together strips of film containing different scenes in order to tell a story.
Before Porter, most movies were shot in one take from one camera position.
Raymond Chandler thought Dick Powell, in Murder, My Sweet (1945), gave the best performance as Detective Philip Marlowe.
“There but for the grace of God goes God” was supposedly said by Herman Mankiewicz, screenwriter for Citizen Kane (1940). But the apocryphal remark has also been attributed to Winston Churchill and Orson Welles himself.
Moe and Nora di Sesso trained the rats used in the movie Willard (1971). They were assisted by their pet cat.
Fred Waller (1886-1954) of Paramount’s special-effects department developed Cinerama. The wide-screen process used three cameras and three projectors to record and project a single expansive image. The process debuted in 1952 with This Is Cinerama, a travelogue. What was the first story feature filmed in Cinerama? How the West Was Won (1962).
A World for Two was the fictitious movie where Vicki Lester (Judy Garland) win the Best Actress Oscar in A Star Is Born (1954)?.
There were four brothers who started the studio named Warner Brothers: Harry (1881-1958), Albert (1884-1967), Sam (1888-1927), and Jack (1892-1978). They were the children of Jewish immigrants from Poland. They founded the studio in 1923.