Which movie received the most Oscar nominations?
All About Eve (1950) received the most Oscar nominations, with fourteen.
Ann Sheridan was “The Oomph Girl”. Veronica Lake was “The Peekaboo Girl”. Lizabeth Scott was “The Threat”.
Sloan Wilson, author of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, wrote A Summer Place.
Nine Barbara Stanwyck films have lady or ladies in the title. They are: Ladies of Leisure (1930), Ladies They Talk About (1933), Gambling Lady (1934), A Lost Lady (1934), The Lady Eve (1941), The Great Man’s Lady (1942), Lady of Burlesque (1943), The Lady Gambles (1949), and To Please a Lady (1950).
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949), starring Betty Grable, was advertised with the line, “She’s got the biggest six-shooters in the West!”.
D. W. Griffith paid $2,500 for the rights to Thomas Dixon, Jr.’s The Klansman, the book on which The Birth of a Nation (1915) was based. Dixon also received a twenty-five percent interest on the picture, which brought him several million dollars. The Birth of a Nation also drew on Dixon’s novel The Leopard’s Spots.
Anne Archer’s mother was Marjorie Lord, who played Kathy, the wife of Danny Williams (Danny Thomas) on “The Danny Thomas Show” (ABC, CBS, 1953-64).