Who said, “My mind is not one that grasps the immorality of the bathroom”?
Cecil B. DeMille said, “My mind is not one that grasps the immorality of the bathroom”, defending his right to film bathtub scenes.
Jodie Foster’s real name is Alicia Christian Foster. She was born in 1962 in the Bronx, New York.
No. W. C. Fields’s gravestone does not read, “On the whole, I’d rather be in Philadelphia” In the first place, he isn’t in a grave: his ashes are housed in a vault. Second, the epitaph doesn’t appear there. Third, it wasn’t his joke. The line first appeared in the magazine Vanity Fair in the 1920s….
Rene Clair directed the first version of And Then There Were None (1945), starring Barry Fitzgerald and Walter Huston. The Agatha Christie story was remade three times, each time as Ten Little Indians: in 1966 (directed by George Pollock), in 1975 (Peter Collinson), and in 1989 (Alan Birkinshaw).
The Variety headline “Stix Nix Hix Pix” refers to the idea that small-town residents do not like movies about small-town life.
Humphrey Bogart won one Oscar, as Best Actor for his role as Charlie Allnut in The African Queen (1951).
In Grand Hotel (1932), to John Barrymore, Greta Garbo says, “I want to be alone”.