Who was the first choice for the lead in Sunset Boulevard (1950)?
Montgomery Clift was to play Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard, the young screenwriter eventually played by William Holden.
Jack Nicholson’s first job in the movies was as an office boy in MGM’s cartoon department.
Daryl Van Horne was the Devil as played by Jack Nicholson in The Witches of Eastwick (1987).
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…
Stay-Put Lipstick brought adman Rock Hunter to sudden fame, which was endorsed by sex symbol Rita Marlowe (Jayne Mansfield).
Bob Hope and Una Merkel starred in the film Some Like It Hot.