Yul Brynner was born on July 12, 1915, on Sakhalin, an island east of Siberia and north of Japan. In the late 1960s Brynner moved to Switzerland and became a Swiss citizen. His ancestry was part Gypsy. He died in 1985.
The rear window in Rear Window (1954) was located in Greenwich Village in New York City.
Jean Harlow said “Do you mind if I slip into something more comfortable?” in Hell’s Angels (1930).
The Godfather (1972) had the line, “I don’t like violence, Tom. I’m a businessman. Blood is a big expense”?. Al Lettieri as Sollozzo says it.
The shooting in North by Northwest (1959) is supposed to be a surprise to onlookers. But in the background, a boy extra (who has rehearsed once too often) puts his fingers in his ears before the gun goes off.
John Barrymore played Ahab in the original film version of Moby Dick. No one played Ishmael. The character was cut out of the screenplay, which differed heavily from Herman Melville’s novel.