Marion Davies, an actress for whom Hearst founded a movie production company, Cosmopolitan Pictures (which was absorbed by MGM in 1925), was William Randolph Hearst’s extramarital love interest and the model for Susan Alexander in Citizen Kane (1941).
Charlton Heston starred in only one horror film, The Awakening (1980). He played archaeologist Matthew Corbeck in this latter-day mummy film.
In 1970, Lillian Gish received a special Oscar for her cumulative work, then spanning nearly sixty years. She began making films in 1912; in 1987, she appeared in The Whales of August.
The RKO movie studio come to an end in 1958, when it was sold to Desilu.
The Taming of the Shrew (1929), directed by Sam Taylor featured the credit “Script by William Shakespeare, Additional Dialogue by Sam Taylor”.
The name of director Howard Hawks’s musical remake of his own film Ball of Fire (1941) was A Song Is Born (1948). Who played the leads in each film? Ball of Fire, Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck; A Song Is Born, Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo.
James Bond creator Ian Fleming wrote the book on which Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is based on.