An artist named Otto Messmer who worked for silent cartoon animator Pat Sullivan invented Felix the Cat.
Messmer developed Felix for Paramount’s Screen Magazine in 1919.
Paramount producer John King gave Felix his name.
The first Felix cartoon in 1919 was called Feline Follies; the second was called Musical Mews.
His father punished Alfred Hitchcock for a since-forgotten offense by sending him to the police station with a note. The chief of police read it and locked Hitchcock up for five to ten minutes, saying, “This is what we do to naughty boys.” Hitchcock was four or five years old at the time.
Slumber Party Massacre (1982) was the first slasher film to be made by women. It was written by feminist author Rita Mae Brown, produced by Amy Jones and Aaron Lipstadt, and directed by Amy Jones.
Lock Martin played Gort, the giant robot, in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), then the doorman at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Director Robert Wise gave him the job because he was the tallest man he knew.
The silent vamp, Theda Bara’s name was an anagram for “Arab Death.” She was born Theodosia Goodman.
Emily Torchia, an MGM publicist in the Culver City office, came up with the slogan “Gable’s Back and Garson’s Got Him”. The slogan referred to Adventure (1945), Clark Gable’s first movie after his discharge from the army during World War II. The movie also starred Greer Gar-son. Torchia won a bonus of $250 for the…
Suzanne Somers played the woman in the white 1956 Thunderbird in American Graffiti (1973).