Who was the first film director?
W. K. L. Dickson (1860-1935), Thomas Edison’s assistant, was the first film director.
He directed Edison’s first films in 1889.
Played by Dean Martin, Matt Helm was a secret service agent for ICE (Organization for Intelligence and Counter-Espionage). The four Matt Helm movies were: The Silencers (1966), Murderer’s Row (1966), The Ambassadors (1967), and The Wrecking Crew (1969). The character is taken from a series of novels by Donald Hamilton.
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).
The following actors played Indians: Linda Darnell—Buffalo Bill (1944) Burt Lancaster—Apache (1954) Audrey Hepburn—The Unforgiven (1960) Paul Newman—Hombre (1967)
Humphrey Bogart never said “Tennis, anyone” in any movie or play, though Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations has quoted him as saying it.
Jack Nicholson’s first job in the movies was as an office boy in MGM’s cartoon department.
Bette Davis said, “There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne” in Old Acquaintance (1943).