Jean-Pierre Leaud played Antoine Doinel in director Francois Truffaut’s autobiographical series.
The series consisted of: The 400 Blows (1959), Love at Twenty (1962), Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed and Board (1970), and Love on the Run (1979).
Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, and Peter Ustinov were the escapees from Devil’s Island in We’re No Angels (1955). Robert DeNiro and Sean Penn were the angels in the 1989 film of the same title.
Marlene Dietrich said about the departed Orson Welles at the end of Touch of Evil (1958), “He was some kind of man. What does it matter what you say about someone?”
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.
Anne Archer’s mother was Marjorie Lord, who played Kathy, the wife of Danny Williams (Danny Thomas) on “The Danny Thomas Show” (ABC, CBS, 1953-64).
Marilyn Monroe was thirty-six when she died. She was born on June 1, 1926, and died of a sleeping pill overdose on August 5, 1962.
As noted at the end of the film, John Milner (Paul LeMat) was killed by a drunken driver in December, 1964; Terry Fields (Charlie Martin Smith) was reported missing in action near An Loc in December, 1965; Steve Bolander (Ronny Howard) is an insurance agent in Modesto, California; Curt Henderson (Richard Dreyfuss) is a writer…