Laurel Near plays the woman with the deformed cheeks who sings about Heaven in Eraserhead (1978).
The music and lyrics of her song are by Peter Ivers.
Fans know the character as the “Lady in the Radiator.”
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).
Props or scenery such as barroom tables and walls that are constructed to break easily during action sequences are called breakaways.
The name of the Broadway play in The Producers was Springtime for Hitler. Nazi refugee Franz Liebkind, played by Kenneth Mars, was the play’s author.
David Wayne took the role of the child murderer in the 1951 remake of M (directed by Joseph Losey).
Ann Sheridan was “The Oomph Girl”. Veronica Lake was “The Peekaboo Girl”. Lizabeth Scott was “The Threat”.
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.