Who took the lead parts in The King and I (1956)?
Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner had the lead parts in The King and I (1956).
Brynner won an Oscar.
Alone or in collaboration, Ben Hecht (1893-1964) wrote about seventy credited stories and scripts. He worked on many more without credit. The last film he worked on, Casino Royale (1967), was such a film.
The Big Clock (1948) was the basis for No Way Out (1987), set in the world of magazine publishing instead of at the Pentagon. Ray Milland played the role later taken by Kevin Costner and Charles Laughton played the Gene Hackman role.
In Grand Hotel (1932), to John Barrymore, Greta Garbo says, “I want to be alone”.
Metro Pictures Corporation (founded 1915), Goldwyn Pictures Corporation (1917), and Louis B. Mayer Pictures (1918) merged to form MetroGoldwyn-Mayer. The three companies merged in 1924 under the control of Loew’s, Inc., the theater exhibition company.
Fahrenheit 451 (1967) is Francois Truffaut’s only film in English.
Country singer Randy Travis is a ring member in Young Guns (1988).