What was the top-rated TV program in 1950?
“Texaco Star Theater” (NBC, 1948-56) was the top-rated TV program in 1950.
Charlie Chaplin shared a cooked boot in The Gold Rush (1925) with Mack Swain, playing Big Jim McKay.
The last picture show in The Last Picture Show (1971) was Red River (1948). The name of the theater was The Royal.
The name of the piano player Hoagy Carmichael portrayed in To Have and Have Not (1944) was Cricket.
Cecil B. DeMille said, “My mind is not one that grasps the immorality of the bathroom”, defending his right to film bathtub scenes.
Rouben Mamoulian was the original director of Cleopatra (1963). After he was fired, Alfred Hitchcock was offered the job, but refused. Joseph L. Mankiewicz eventually took over.
Doris Day first sang, “Que Sera, Sera” in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The song, written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, won an Oscar for Best Song.