Who said, “Pictures are the only business where you can sit out front and applaud yourself”?
Will Rogers said, “Pictures are the only business where you can sit out front and applaud yourself”.
The actor who played the Mayor of Munchkinland in The Wizard of Oz (1939), Billy Curtis, was four feet, two inches tall. Curtis (1909-1988) was also the star of the first all-little-people Western The Terror of Tiny Town (1938).
Tillie’ s Punctured Romance (1914), directed by Mack Sennett, was the first feature-length comedy.
Bette Davis said, “There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne” in Old Acquaintance (1943).
Tony Curtis said, “With all the unrest in the world, I don’t think anybody should have a yacht that sleeps more than twelve” to hoped-for conquest Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot (1959).
Humphrey Bogart won one Oscar, as Best Actor for his role as Charlie Allnut in The African Queen (1951).
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…