Who said, “This year I’m a star, but what will I be next year, a black hole?”
Woody Allen said, “This year I’m a star, but what will I be next year, a black hole.”
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz met on the set of Too Many Girls (1940), produced by RKO and directed by George Abbott.
Margo Channing was the name of Bette Davis’s character in All About Eve (1950). Anne Baxter played her young fan and rival Eve Harrington.
Movie acting in silent movies was well-paying, even then. For example, in 1913, when Mary Pickford was starting out, she made $500 per week. In 1916, after she had become “America’s Sweetheart,” she commanded $10,000 per week, plus bonuses.
Jack Nicholson’s first job in the movies was as an office boy in MGM’s cartoon department.
Wicked Stepmother (1989) was Bette Davis’s last film.
At the end of The Invisible Man (1933), when the invisible, naked man runs through the snow, the police spot him by his footprints, but his footprints are those of shoes instead of bare feet.