A secretary named Margaret Herrick, who later became executive director of the Academy gave the Academy Award statuette the name “Oscar”.
According to legend, she looked at the statuette and said, “Why, he reminds me of my Uncle Oscar.”
The uncle’s full name was Oscar Pierce.
In 1970, Lillian Gish received a special Oscar for her cumulative work, then spanning nearly sixty years. She began making films in 1912; in 1987, she appeared in The Whales of August.
Falconetti (Marie Falconetti, 1901-46), a French stage actress, starred in The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) by Carl Dreyer. This was Falconetti’s only film.
The sun sets in the east in the closing moments of the movie The Green Berets (1968).
In 1940, when producer Sam Katzman brought some of the kids to Monogram Pictures. The kids (who eventually included Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Billy Halop, and others) had started out as the “Dead End Kids” in Dead End (1937, Samuel Goldwyn). They had gone on to work for Warner Brothers and Universal. Their…
The tongue-twister that kicks off a song-and dance number in Singin’ in the Rain (1952) was “Moses supposes his toses are roses but Moses supposes erroneously.”
Mae Murray played the title role in The Merry Widow (1925) directed by Erich von Stroheim. Her character, Sally O’Hara, was the widow of Baron Sadoja (Tully Marshall).