Who plays the young Jack Nicholson in Batman (1989)?
Young Jack Napier (the character who later becomes the Joker) is played by Hugo E. Blick in Batman (1989).
No, Samuel Goldwyn, famous for his malapropisms, never said, “It rolls off my back like a duck”. Critic George Oppenheimer remembers coming up with this line when he was a Hollywood screenwriter. He won the commissary pool that the writers had going for the best Goldwynism of the day.
The tongue-twister that kicks off a song-and dance number in Singin’ in the Rain (1952) was “Moses supposes his toses are roses but Moses supposes erroneously.”
The 1929 Western In Old Arizona, for which Warner Baxter won the Best Actor Oscar, was billed as “the first 100% all-talking drama filmed outdoors”.
The first all-talking movie was not The Jazz Singer (1927), which only featured sound in parts, but The Lights of New York (1928), a Warner Brothers gangster movie. The New York Times called it “seven reels of speech.”
Paul Newman is older than Joanne Woodward. Newman was born in 1925, Woodward in 1930.
George Burns and Gracie Allen were married in 1926. Their marriage lasted until Gracie’s death in 1965.