Who first played Dr. Kildare in Interns Can’t Take Money?
Joel McCrea first played Dr. Kildare, in Interns Can’t Take Money (1937).
The name of the United States president in Dr. Strangelove was Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers). The president’s name in Seven Days in May ( 1964 ) was Jordan Lyman (Fredric March). The president’s name in The Man (1972) was Douglas Dilman (James Earl Jones).
The warring tribes in the original One Million B.C. were the Rock People, represented by Tumak (Victor Mature), and the Shell People, represented by Loana (Carole Landis). The roles were taken by John Richardson and Raquel Welch in the remake, One Million Years B.C. (1967).
One critic called the haircut of Samson (Victor Mature) by Delilah (Hedy Lamarr) in the $3 million 1949 Cecil B. DeMille epic Samson and Delilah, “the most expensive haircut in history”.
Lauren Bacall sang for Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not (1944). Andy Williams was hired to dub her voice, but Bacall’s voice was used after all.
Divine’s real name was Harris Glenn Milstead. He was born in Baltimore in 1946 and was a high school friend of John Waters, with whom he made several films. Divine died in 1989. His last film with Waters was Hairspray (1988), in which Divine played a housewife and mother.
Ramon Novarro played Judah Ben-Hur in the 1926 version of Ben-Hur, with Francis X. Bushman as his friend-turned-enemy Messala. Fred Niblo directed. Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd, respectively, took the roles in the 1959 remake. William Wyler directed.