The 1950 remake of To Have and Have Not (1944) was The Breaking Point (1950).
More faithful to the Ernest Hemingway novel To Have and Have Not, it starred John Garfield as Harry Morgan and Patricia Neal as Leona Charles.
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) was set in 1936. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) was set in 1935. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) opens in 1912, then shifts to 1938.
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.
Drago (Dolph Lundgren) was the name of the Russian boxer in Rocky IV.
Jessica Walter, playing Evelyn Draper requested that DJ Dave Garland (Clint Eastwood) Play Misty for Me (1971).
Groucho Marx was suggested to MGM to play Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind, but only in jest.
Chuck Courtney was Billy the Kid in Billy the Kid vs Dracula (1966). John Carradine was Dracula. William Beaudine directed.