Where was Marlon Brando born?
Marlon Brando was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1924.
Katharine Hepburn’s film debut was A Bill of Divorcement (1932).
One female director has been nominated for an Academy Award. Lina Wertmuller was nominated for Seven Beauties in 1976. She didn’t win.
Jean Harlow was working on the film Saratoga (1937) when she died.
No, Samuel Goldwyn, famous for his malapropisms, never said, “It rolls off my back like a duck”. Critic George Oppenheimer remembers coming up with this line when he was a Hollywood screenwriter. He won the commissary pool that the writers had going for the best Goldwynism of the day.
In 1970, Lillian Gish received a special Oscar for her cumulative work, then spanning nearly sixty years. She began making films in 1912; in 1987, she appeared in The Whales of August.
Mae Murray played the title role in The Merry Widow (1925) directed by Erich von Stroheim. Her character, Sally O’Hara, was the widow of Baron Sadoja (Tully Marshall).