What were the names of the dual characters played by Jerry Lewis in The Nutty Professor (1963)?
Professor Julius Ferris Kelp was the nutty professor.
Buddy Love was his suave, lounge-singing alter ego in the movie.
The actor who played the Mayor of Munchkinland in The Wizard of Oz (1939), Billy Curtis, was four feet, two inches tall. Curtis (1909-1988) was also the star of the first all-little-people Western The Terror of Tiny Town (1938).
Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, and Peter Ustinov were the escapees from Devil’s Island in We’re No Angels (1955). Robert DeNiro and Sean Penn were the angels in the 1989 film of the same title.
The Black Maria, built in 1893 by Thomas Alva Edison, near his laboratories in West Orange, New Jersey, was the world’s first film studio. Films were shot there for Edison’s peepshow-style kinetoscope viewer.
“Texaco Star Theater” (NBC, 1948-56) was the top-rated TV program in 1950.
Every Which Way But Loose (1978) and Any Which Way You Can (1980) featured an orangutan. The orangutan’s name was Clyde.
As built by special-effects supervisor John Evans from a design by production designer Anton Furst, the Batmobile in Batman (1989) was about twenty feet long by eight feet wide. Its body was made of black fiberglass.