What was the last sequel to Planet of the Apes (1968)?
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) was the last sequel to Planet of the Apes (1968).
Barbra Streisand said, “I’m a bagel on a plate of onion rolls”, as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl (1968), comparing herself to perfect chorus-line hoofers.
Special-effects man Ken Strickfaden designed the electrical machinery used to create life in Frankenstein (1931).
The 1963 Burton-Taylor flop Cleopatra cost $37 million, a then unheard-of sum.
John Wayne got the nickname “Duke” because he had a dog named “Duke” as a child. To distinguish them, the dog was known as “Big Duke” and Wayne as “Little Duke.”
Most famous for his role as Victor Laszlo in Casablanca (1942), Paul Henreid was born in Trieste, Italy, in 1908, but grew up in Vienna.
D. W. Griffith paid $2,500 for the rights to Thomas Dixon, Jr.’s The Klansman, the book on which The Birth of a Nation (1915) was based. Dixon also received a twenty-five percent interest on the picture, which brought him several million dollars. The Birth of a Nation also drew on Dixon’s novel The Leopard’s Spots.