Who said, “I’m a bagel on a plate of onion rolls”?
Barbra Streisand said, “I’m a bagel on a plate of onion rolls”, as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl (1968), comparing herself to perfect chorus-line hoofers.
Dore Schary replaced Louis B. Mayer as studio head of MGM in 1951. Schary himself was fired in 1956.
Gloria Swanson’s last film was Airport 1975 (1974).
The name of the woman who appeared on behalf of Marlon Brando at the 1972 Oscar telecast was given as Sacheen Littlefeather, an “Apache,” and “president of the National Native American Affirmative Image Committee.” On behalf of Brando, she refused his Oscar for The Godfather (1972). It later turned out that Littlefeather was actually an…
Jack Nicholson was born in Neptune, New Jersey, in 1937.
Between June 1928 and December 1929, the major studios spent about thirty-seven million dollars converting their filming structures to sound stages.
Rebecca Welles’s father was Orson Welles; Princess Yasmin Aga Khan’s father was Prince Aly Khan.