Hollywood art director Cedric Gibbons designed the Academy Award statuette.
It was executed by sculptors George Stanley and Alex Smith.
The statuette, then and now, is 13.5 inches tall and depicts a naked man holding a sword and standing on a reel of film.
New York City policeman Eddie Egan was the inspiration for Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in the movie The French Connection.
Silent film star Francis X. Bushman (1883-1966) was known as “The Handsomest Man in the World”.
Miss Jean Brodie’s (Maggie Smith’s) pupils were the “crime de la creme” in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969).
The renegade androids in Blade Runner (1982) were called Replicants. “Blade runners” were the people assigned to hunt them down.
James Dean was born on February 8, 1931, and died in a car crash on September 30, 1955.
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.