The Hollywood Foreign Press Association sponsors the Golden Globe awards.
Founded in 1940, it is an association of foreign journalists covering the Los Angeles entertainment scene.
The awards were first presented in 1944, with the first Best Motion Picture award going to The Song of Bernadette (1943).
No one won the Cannes Film Festival prize for Best Film in 1968. Political demonstrations led by directors like Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Claude Lelouch forced the festival to close in mid-proceedings that year.
No, the films of silent film director John Waters were not anything like those of his present-day namesake. Silent film director John Waters was responsible for formula Westerns like Nevada (1927), starring Gary Cooper and Thelma Todd. Present-day cult movie director John Waters is responsible for offbeat works like Pink Flamingos (1972) and Hairspray (1988).
Three of Bob Hope’s movies have the word favorite in the title: My Favorite Blonde (1942), My Favorite Brunette (1947), and My Favorite Spy (1951).
Charles Foster Kane’s estate in Citizen Kane, Xanadu, was on the Gulf Coast of Florida. The estate of William Randolph Hearst, on whom Kane was based, is located in San Simeon, California.
During the Depression, dish houses were movie houses that offered dishes as inducement for attending the shows.
C. C. stands for Calvin Clifford in the 1960 film The Apartment. The character was played by Jack Lemmon.