Who was the first black man to win an Oscar for Best Actor?
Sidney Poitier for Lilies of the Field (1963), was the first black man to win an Oscar for Best Actor.
The actors wearing the ape costumes in Planet of the Apes (1967) breathed through a specially designed passage in the ape mask’s upper lip. The mask’s nostrils, raised higher than those of a human nose, were non-operating. The ape makeup was designed by John Chambers.
The twelve jurors in the 12 Angry Men were played by: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, E. G. Marshall, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Jack Klugman, Edward Binns, Joseph Sweeney, George Voskovec, and Robert Webber.
No, Krakatoa is not east of Java. The volcanic island of Krakatoa is in the Sunda Strait west of Java, making the title of the 1969 movie (Krakatoa, East of Java) incorrect.
C. C. stands for Calvin Clifford in the 1960 film The Apartment. The character was played by Jack Lemmon.
The Taming of the Shrew (1929), directed by Sam Taylor featured the credit “Script by William Shakespeare, Additional Dialogue by Sam Taylor”.
According to Jerry/Daphne (Jack Lemmon), it was Marilyn Monroe as Sugar who moved like “Jell-O on springs, in Some Like It Hot (1959).