Arsene Lupin (1932), a detective story set in Paris, was the first movie featuring both John Barry-more and Lionel Barrymore.
Macauley Connor worked for Spy magazine in The Philadelphia Story.
In the 1920s, John Wayne was a University of Southern California student who worked as a laborer and bit player on the Fox lot, where he got to know director John Ford. In 1929, Wayne and fellow USC football player Ward Bond came out to Annapolis with the entire USC football team to appear in…
The Taming of the Shrew (1929), directed by Sam Taylor featured the credit “Script by William Shakespeare, Additional Dialogue by Sam Taylor”.
Bette Davis says, “I’d love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair” in Cabin in the Cotton (1932).
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.