Born Thelma McQueen in 1911, in Tampa, Florida, she got her nickname Butterfly McQueen when she danced as a young woman in the Butterfly Ballet in a theatrical production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
She is best known for playing the weepy slave Prissy in Gone With the Wind (1939).
Richard Burton, playing British malcontent Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger (1959).
There are no female speaking roles are in Lawrence of Arabia (1962).
The name of the dinosaur bone lost by David Huxley was an intercostal clavicle.
Todd Haynes filmed the biography of Karen Carpenter entirely with dolls. His Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1989) was pulled from release due to legal action by the Carpenter family.
Elvis died in one, his first, Love Me Tender (1956). It was also the only one in which Elvis did not receive top billing. Its original title was The Reno Brothers, but the title was changed when a song from the movie, “Love Me Tender,” became a hit.
Charlie Chaplin shared a cooked boot in The Gold Rush (1925) with Mack Swain, playing Big Jim McKay.