Three movies featured the premise of body-switching between a young person and an older person: 18 Again, Vice Versa, and Like Father, Like Son. A fourth, Big, dealt with a young person magically matured into an older one. The premise dates back to the 1947 Vice Versa, where a child (Anthony Newley) switched bodies with…
Todd Haynes filmed the biography of Karen Carpenter entirely with dolls. His Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1989) was pulled from release due to legal action by the Carpenter family.
Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck appeared together in three movies: His Brother’s Wife (1936), This Is My Affair (1937), and The Night Walker (1965). The two were married in 1939 and divorced in 1952.
Brigitte Bardot played the woman in Roger Vadim’s first version of And God Created Woman (1957). Rebecca De Mornay played the woman in Vadim’s 1987 And God Created Woman?
The practice of movie stars’ placing their footprints in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre was an accident at first. It started when Sid Grauman put his footprints into unset concrete outside his own theater in 1927.
Producer Michael Todd, who filled Around the World in 80 Days (1956) with forty-four cameo stars, adopted the word “cameo” as a cinematic term for walk-on parts for well-known people.