Who was the “King of Daredevil Comedy”?
Harold Lloyd, whose best-known movie is Safety Last (1923), was the “King of Daredevil Comedy”.
In the 1920s, John Wayne was a University of Southern California student who worked as a laborer and bit player on the Fox lot, where he got to know director John Ford. In 1929, Wayne and fellow USC football player Ward Bond came out to Annapolis with the entire USC football team to appear in…
The German director Leni Riefenstahl spent four years in a French detention camp after World War II for her activities as a Nazi filmmaker. Her last film was Tiefland, completed in 1954.
John Wayne Airport is at Santa Ana, Orange County, California.
Two of the four of Bing Crosby’s sons have killed themselves. Lindsay Crosby shot himself in 1989; Dennis Crosby shot himself in 1991.
Bernard Herrmann’s final movie score was the Oscar-winning score was for Taxi Driver (1976).
Elvis died in one, his first, Love Me Tender (1956). It was also the only one in which Elvis did not receive top billing. Its original title was The Reno Brothers, but the title was changed when a song from the movie, “Love Me Tender,” became a hit.