Who was “The Oomph Girl”?
Ann Sheridan was “The Oomph Girl”.
Veronica Lake was “The Peekaboo Girl”.
Lizabeth Scott was “The Threat”.
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Where did Butterfly McQueen get her nickname?
Born Thelma McQueen in 1911, in Tampa, Florida, she got her nickname Butterfly McQueen when she danced as a young woman in the Butterfly Ballet in a theatrical production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She is best known for playing the weepy slave Prissy in Gone With the Wind (1939).
What was the first all-talking movie?
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.”
In what movie does Bette Davis say, “What a dump!”?
Bette Davis says, “What a dump!” in the movie Beyond the Forest (1949).
Who developed Cinerama?
Fred Waller (1886-1954) of Paramount’s special-effects department developed Cinerama. The wide-screen process used three cameras and three projectors to record and project a single expansive image. The process debuted in 1952 with This Is Cinerama, a travelogue. What was the first story feature filmed in Cinerama? How the West Was Won (1962).
How many times had Humphrey Bogart been married when he met Lauren Bacall?
Before he met Bette Joan Perske (aka Lauren Bacall), he had been married three times: first, to Helen Menken, then to Mary Philips, both actresses. These marriages had ended in divorce. When he met Bacall on the set of To Have and Have Not (1944), he was married to Mayo Methot.
How wide was the readership for Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons?
At the height of their careers as newspaper columnists in Hollywood’s Golden Age, Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons had together about seventy-five million readers.