For a brief period from 1967 to 1969, Warner Brothers was known as Warner Brothers-Seven Arts.
It got that name when it was acquired by the Canadian-based Seven Arts Productions.
In 1969, Warner Brothers became part of Kinney National Service, which later became Warner Communications.
The X in Francis X. Bushman’s name stood for Xavier.
The million-dollar legs belong to a racehorse by the same name. Betty Grable’s legs and the rest of the actress appeared in the movie too.
Little Sheba was the name of Lola Delaney’s (Shirley Booth’s) dog in Come Back, Little Sheba (1952).
Born in Vienna in 1890, the director Fritz Lang came to Hollywood in 1934. Fritz Lang’s first American film was Fury (1936), for MGM. His last was Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956), for RKO. After that, the director quit making films in the United States, fed up with the trials and tribulations of the studio…
Walter Brooke tells Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate (1967) the one word: “Plastics”.
Andy Garcia’s real name is Andres Arturo Garci-Menendez. He was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1956.