No one won the Cannes Film Festival prize for Best Film in 1968.
Political demonstrations led by directors like Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Claude Lelouch forced the festival to close in mid-proceedings that year.
The great Sarah Bernhardt, in Queen Elizabeth (1912, France), was the first actress to play Queen Elizabeth I.
In The Big Easy (1987), the name of the slush fund into which police graft is being funneled is The Widows and Orphans Fund.
The rear window in Rear Window (1954) was located in Greenwich Village in New York City.
The following actors played Indians: Linda Darnell—Buffalo Bill (1944) Burt Lancaster—Apache (1954) Audrey Hepburn—The Unforgiven (1960) Paul Newman—Hombre (1967)
Lauren Bacall sang for Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not (1944). Andy Williams was hired to dub her voice, but Bacall’s voice was used after all.
Tim McIntire gave his voice to the telepathic dog Blood in the post-apocalyptic science fiction movie A Boy and His Dog. Blood himself was played by Tiger of TV’s “The Brady Bunch” (ABC, 1969-74).