The Variety headline “Stix Nix Hix Pix” refers to the idea that small-town residents do not like movies about small-town life.
Stay-Put Lipstick brought adman Rock Hunter to sudden fame, which was endorsed by sex symbol Rita Marlowe (Jayne Mansfield).
Bernard Herrmann’s final movie score was the Oscar-winning score was for Taxi Driver (1976).
For Me and My Gal (1942) was Gene Kelly’s film debut.
Peter Kurten played the model for the child murderer in Fritz Lang’s M (1931). He was a middle-aged German factory worker who committed nine serial murders in Dusseldorf from 1929 to 1930. He was guillotined in 1931.
The renegade androids in Blade Runner (1982) were called Replicants. “Blade runners” were the people assigned to hunt them down.