Who said,”I have decided that while I am a star I will be every inch and every moment a star. Everyone from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it”?
Gloria Swanson said the famous lines.
Best Picture—Wings (1927) (Best “Production”) Best Actor—Emil Jannings in The Last Command (1927) and The Way of All Flesh (1927) Best Actress—Janet Gaynor in Seventh Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1927), and Sunrise (1927) Best Director—Frank Borzage for Seventh Heaven (1927)
Directors Roger Corman and George A. Romero appear in The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Jonathan Demme directed them.
De Havilland’s (1916–). Fontaine’s (1917–) real name is Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland. Both were born in Tokyo to British parents and brought to California in childhood.
Peter Kurten played the model for the child murderer in Fritz Lang’s M (1931). He was a middle-aged German factory worker who committed nine serial murders in Dusseldorf from 1929 to 1930. He was guillotined in 1931.
Fritz Lang directed three Westerns: The Return of Jesse James (1940), Western Union (1941), and Rancho Notorious (1952).
The Bridge on the River Kwai was filmed in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).