Who was Shaft in the movie of the same name (1971)?
John Shaft, “the black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks,” was played by Richard Roundtree in the movie Shaft.
The Oscar-winning “Theme from Shaft” was by Isaac Hayes.
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Rebecca Welles’s father was Orson Welles; Princess Yasmin Aga Khan’s father was Prince Aly Khan.
For what fictitious movie did Vicki Lester (Judy Garland) win the Best Actress Oscar in A Star Is Born (1954)?
A World for Two was the fictitious movie where Vicki Lester (Judy Garland) win the Best Actress Oscar in A Star Is Born (1954)?.
Who said, “From what I hear about Communism, I don’t like it because it isn’t on the level”?
Gary Cooper said, “From what I hear about Communism, I don’t like it because it isn’t on the level”.
What film was the basis for No Way Out (1987)?
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.
How much was the option on Thomas Dixon, Jr.’s The Klansman, the book on which The Birth of a Nation (1915) was based?
D. W. Griffith paid $2,500 for the rights to Thomas Dixon, Jr.’s The Klansman, the book on which The Birth of a Nation (1915) was based. Dixon also received a twenty-five percent interest on the picture, which brought him several million dollars. The Birth of a Nation also drew on Dixon’s novel The Leopard’s Spots.
In what movie did Humphrey Bogart say, “Tennis, anyone”?
Humphrey Bogart never said “Tennis, anyone” in any movie or play, though Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations has quoted him as saying it.