When was the Warner Brothers cartoon short Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century released?
Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century was released on July 25, 1953.
Chuck Jones directed; Daffy Duck and Porky Pig starred.
The first movie based on a TV series was Dragnet (1954). It was based on the NBC series of the same name (NBC, 1952-59, 1967-70).
Boris Karloff was working on Graft (1931), in which Karloff played a murderer, when director James Whale asked him to do a screen test for Frankenstein (1931). Whale spotted Karloff in the Universal commissary.
Warner Baxter played Gatsby in the first, silent version of The Great Gatsby (1926). Lois Wilson played Daisy Buchanan.
Humphrey Bogart never said “Tennis, anyone” in any movie or play, though Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations has quoted him as saying it.
Private Parts (1972), a black comedy about a hotel full of sex perverts, was cult movie director Paul Bartel’s first full-length feature. It featured Stanley Livingston, who played Chip on “My Three Sons” (ABC, CBS; 196072).
The cornfield in Field of Dreams (1989) was filmed near Dyersville, Iowa.