The first movie pie fight was in 1913, for a Keystone Studio comedy.
Mabel Normand tossed a workman’s lemon meringue pie at Ben Turpin to get him to laugh.
He did; Mack Sennett saw it and the pie scene became a favorite bit in Keystone Kop comedies, and in many other comedies as well.
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).
Yes, TV and movie comedian Doodles Weaver was Sigourney Weaver’s uncle.
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.
Serge, played by Bronson Pinchot was the art gallery worker with the funny accent in Beverly Hills Cop.
In the opening lines of Sunset Boulevard (1950), William Holden says, “Yes, this is Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. It’s about five o’clock in the morning. That’s the homicide squad, complete with detectives and newspapermen. A murder has been reported from one of those great big houses in the ten-thousand block.”
William Finley played Winslow, the Phantom, in this rock-musical version of Phantom of the Opera. He was stalking evil record producer Swan (Paul Williams).