Who was Louis B. Mayer’s first film star?
Louis B. Mayer’s first film star was Anita Stewart.
She starred in Virtuous Wives (1918), the first film made by Mayer’s production company, Alco (later Metro).
Shane supposed to come back to a ranch in the Grand Tetons, Wyoming, in the movie Shane (1953).
The great Sarah Bernhardt, in Queen Elizabeth (1912, France), was the first actress to play Queen Elizabeth I.
Beach Party (1963) was Annette Funicello’s and Frankie Avalon’s first movie together. Their arch-nemesis in that film was Eric Von Zipper, the would-be tough biker, played by Harvey Lembeck.
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.
Director John Ford’s (1895-1973) real name was Sean Aloysius O’Feeney.
Andy Garcia’s real name is Andres Arturo Garci-Menendez. He was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1956.