Who was originally cast as Vicki Vale in Batman (1989)?
Sean Young was originally cast as Vicki Vale in Batman (1989).
She fractured her shoulder in a riding accident two weeks before the start of principal filming. Kim Basinger took over.
The cornfield in Field of Dreams (1989) was filmed near Dyersville, Iowa.
Blackboard Jungle (1955) was the first film to feature rock music. Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock” played over the opening credits.
Mike Altman, son of the film’s director, Robert Altman, wrote the lyrics of “Suicide Is Painless,” theme song of M*A*S*H (1970). Johnny Mandel composed the music.
Tim McIntire gave his voice to the telepathic dog Blood in the post-apocalyptic science fiction movie A Boy and His Dog. Blood himself was played by Tiger of TV’s “The Brady Bunch” (ABC, 1969-74).
Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson played Marianne and Johan in the Ingmar Bergman film Scenes from a Marriage (1973).
Mike Todd, Jr., introduced the aromatic cinema gimmick Smell-O-Vision in 1960. Smells were directed at each individual theater seat through a tubing system activated by a “smell track” on the film. The only film made in Smell-O- Vision was Scent of Mystery. John Waters’s “Odorama” system, introduced with Polyester in 1981, used a more low-tech…