When was Hamlet first put to film?
Hamlet was first put to film in 1907, in a silent film produced by George Melies.
Alec Guinness plays all of the eight members of an aristocratic family killed off in the dark comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets.
Charlton Heston’s number as a galley slave in Ben-Hur was forty-one.
Best Foreign Language Film was introduced as a regular category in the Academy Awards in 1956. The first winner was La Strada (Italian, 1954), directed by Federico Fellini.
Simon Oakland played Dr. Richmond, the psychiatrist who tries to explain Norman Bates’s actions at the end of Psycho (1960).
Barbra Streisand said, “I’m a bagel on a plate of onion rolls”, as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl (1968), comparing herself to perfect chorus-line hoofers.
Montgomery Clift’s first movie was Red River (1948), in which he played Matthew Garth, the child informally adopted by John Wayne’s character, Tom Dunson.