Where was suave, vaguely foreign Paul Henreid born?
Most famous for his role as Victor Laszlo in Casablanca (1942), Paul Henreid was born in Trieste, Italy, in 1908, but grew up in Vienna.
Jessie Royce Landis, who played Grace Kelly’s mother in To Catch a Thief (1955), extinguishes a cigarette on a plateful of eggs.
Born in 1946 in Davenport, Iowa, Sue Lyon appeared from time to time in films such as The Night of the Iguana (1964), The Flim-Flam Man (1967), Tony Rome (1967), Evel Knievel (1971), and Alligator (1980). She was fifteen when she played Lolita, who is twelve in the book.
The Kobayashi Maru was the name of the “no-win” test that Lieutenant Saavik (Kirstie Alley) fails at the beginning of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982).
Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone starred in two movies, Captain Blood (1935) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). The two also acted together in The Dawn Patrol (1938).
Humphrey Bogart won one Oscar, as Best Actor for his role as Charlie Allnut in The African Queen (1951).
Tom Hanks sang “The Way We Were” to his mother (Mercedes Ruehl) as proof her son was alive in Big (1988).