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).
The German director Leni Riefenstahl spent four years in a French detention camp after World War II for her activities as a Nazi filmmaker. Her last film was Tiefland, completed in 1954.
George Jessel turned down the lead for The Jazz Singer (1927).
Princess Leia Organa’s (Carrie Fisher’s) home planet in Star Wars (1977) was Alderaan.
Dr. Strangelove was based on a novel, Red Alert, by Peter George.
Sidney Howard is credited with the screenplay for Gone With the Wind (1939).
Lock Martin played Gort, the giant robot, in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), then the doorman at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Director Robert Wise gave him the job because he was the tallest man he knew.