The real names of the following Western actors are:
Slim Pickens—Louis Bert Lindley, Jr. Roy Rogers—Leonard Slye
Gene Autry—Gene Autry
Tom Mix—Thomas Mix
Hoot Gibson—Edmund Richard Gibson
Allan “Rocky” Lane—Harold Albershart
Will Rogers—William Penn Adair Rogers
She was born Audrey Hepburn-Ruston near Brussels, Belgium, on May 4, 1929. Her father was an English banker and her mother a Dutch baroness.
The Life of an American Fireman (1903), by Edwin S. Porter (1869-1941), was the first movie to rely heavily on film editing. Porter was the first person to piece together strips of film containing different scenes in order to tell a story. Before Porter, most movies were shot in one take from one camera position.
Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner were married from 1984 until her death from cancer in 1989.
Sidney Poitier for Lilies of the Field (1963), was the first black man to win an Oscar for Best Actor.
No, Samuel Goldwyn, famous for his malapropisms, never said, “It rolls off my back like a duck”. Critic George Oppenheimer remembers coming up with this line when he was a Hollywood screenwriter. He won the commissary pool that the writers had going for the best Goldwynism of the day.
Marion Crane, played by Janet Leigh the female character murdered by Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) in Psycho (1960). Her boyfriend is Sam Loomis (John Gavin) and her sister is Lila Crane (Vera Miles).