What were James Dean’s birth and death dates?
James Dean was born on February 8, 1931, and died in a car crash on September 30, 1955.
Sidney Poitier for Lilies of the Field (1963), was the first black man to win an Oscar for Best Actor.
The first all-talking movie was not The Jazz Singer (1927), which only featured sound in parts, but The Lights of New York (1928), a Warner Brothers gangster movie. The New York Times called it “seven reels of speech.”
Special effects man Eiji Tsuburaya designed the title character in Godzilla (1954).
The movie Airport (1970) had three sequels: Airport 1975 (1974); Airport ’77 (1977); and The Concorde, Airport ’79 (1979), also known as just plain Airport ’79. All of them featured George Kennedy.
The following actors played Indians: Linda Darnell—Buffalo Bill (1944) Burt Lancaster—Apache (1954) Audrey Hepburn—The Unforgiven (1960) Paul Newman—Hombre (1967)
The Last House on the Left (1972), was advertised with the line, “To avoid fainting, keep repeating: “It’s only a movie, It’s only a movie”.