When Joey (Brandon DeWilde) calls out to Shane (Alan Ladd), “Come back!”, where is Shane supposed to come back to?
Shane supposed to come back to a ranch in the Grand Tetons, Wyoming, in the movie Shane (1953).
Hollywood art director Cedric Gibbons designed the Academy Award statuette. It was executed by sculptors George Stanley and Alex Smith. The statuette, then and now, is 13.5 inches tall and depicts a naked man holding a sword and standing on a reel of film.
The Virginian (1929) introduced the line, “If you want to call me that, smile”. Gary Cooper said it. Owen Wister, author of the novel The Virginian, phrased it as “When you call me that, smile!”
Daphne du Maurier wrote the short story that inspired Hitch-cock’s The Birds.
Ismail Merchant was born in 1936 in Bombay, India. James Ivory was born in 1928 in Berkeley, California. The two have collaborated since 1961.
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall appeared in five movies. To Have and Have Not (1944); The Big Sleep (1946); Dark Passage (1947); Key Largo (1948); and Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946), in which they played themselves in an unbilled appearance.
The cornfield in Field of Dreams (1989) was filmed near Dyersville, Iowa.