In the prologue that frames the story, Douglas Walton plays Shelley and Gavin Gordon plays Lord Byron in The Bride of Frankenstein.
Elsa Lanchester plays Mary Shelley (author of the novel Frankenstein), as well as the monster’s bride.
The Wings of Eagles was based on World War I aviator Frank “Spig” Wead, who after a debilitating accident, became a screenwriter. The screenplays he wrote included Air Mail (1932), The Citadel (1938), and They Were Expendable (1945).
Silent film star Francis X. Bushman (1883-1966) was known as “The Handsomest Man in the World”.
Robert Redford and director Sydney Pollack made seven movies together: This Property Is Condemned (1966); Jeremiah Johnson (1972); The Way We Were (1973); Three Days of the Condor (1975); The Electric Horseman (1979); Out of Africa (1987); and Havana (1990).
New Orleans’ streets are threatened with panic in Panic in the Streets (1950). The city is threatened by a deadly plague which may be carried by a pair of murderers.
Cary Grant had five wives: Virginia Cherrill, Barbara Hutton, Betsy Drake, Dyan Cannon, and Barbara Harris.
In Grand Hotel (1932), to John Barrymore, Greta Garbo says, “I want to be alone”.