Irene Dunne played Anna in Anna and the King of Siam and Rex Harrison played the king.
It was Harrison’s Hollywood debut.
In real life, Anna’s last name was Leonowens. In the movie, her name was Anna L. Owens.
George Lucas’s last film as a director was Star Wars (1977).
James Cagney’s last movie was Ragtime (1981).
Tim McIntire gave his voice to the telepathic dog Blood in the post-apocalyptic science fiction movie A Boy and His Dog. Blood himself was played by Tiger of TV’s “The Brady Bunch” (ABC, 1969-74).
Charles Foster Kane’s estate in Citizen Kane, Xanadu, was on the Gulf Coast of Florida. The estate of William Randolph Hearst, on whom Kane was based, is located in San Simeon, California.
Steven and Cyril Marcus were the real-life gynecologists. The twins were found dead in their Upper East Side apartment in 1975, having killed themselves with barbiturates. In the movie, the twins were named Beverly Mantle and Elliot Mantle, both played by Jeremy Irons. Elliot was the confident, arrogant one; Beverly the shy, sensitive one.
Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper) in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) was portrayed in newspapers as “Cinderella Man”. The newspaper reporter writing about (and falling in love with) him was Babe Bennett (Jean Arthur).