Who was the inspiration for Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in The French Connection (1971)?
New York City policeman Eddie Egan was the inspiration for Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in the movie The French Connection.
The name of the dinosaur bone lost by David Huxley was an intercostal clavicle.
The Time Machine (1960) opened on December 31, 1899.
Bernard Herrmann’s final movie score was the Oscar-winning score was for Taxi Driver (1976).
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.”
Little Sheba was the name of Lola Delaney’s (Shirley Booth’s) dog in Come Back, Little Sheba (1952).
According to the song “Think Pink” in Funny Face (1957), Banish the black, burn the blue, and bury the beige.