Who was the first on-screen Don Juan in a movie?
The first on-screen Don Juan was John Barrymore in the 1926 movie Don Juan, the first movie to synchronize sound effects into a sound track.
A Place in the Sun is based on the book An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser.
The first all-talking movie was not The Jazz Singer (1927), which only featured sound in parts, but The Lights of New York (1928), a Warner Brothers gangster movie. The New York Times called it “seven reels of speech.”
Woody Allen said, “This year I’m a star, but what will I be next year, a black hole.”
Hollywood art director Cedric Gibbons designed the Academy Award statuette. It was executed by sculptors George Stanley and Alex Smith. The statuette, then and now, is 13.5 inches tall and depicts a naked man holding a sword and standing on a reel of film.
Kevin Costner’s debut in a major film was a one-word part in Frances (1982).
The line about “make him an offer he can’t refuse” appears three times in The Godfather (1972): • “My father made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.” Michael (Al Pacino) tells Kay (Diane Keaton) about Vito’s (Marlon Brando’s) threats against a bandleader. • “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.” Vito tells Johnny…