Who wrote A Summer Place, the book on which the 1959 movie is based?
Sloan Wilson, author of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, wrote A Summer Place.
“Mister Senor Love Daddy” (Sam Jackson) is the DJ at WE LOVE radio, 108 FM in Do the Right Thing (1989), “The last on your dial, but the first in ya hearts, and that’s the truth, Ruth!”
De Havilland’s (1916–). Fontaine’s (1917–) real name is Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland. Both were born in Tokyo to British parents and brought to California in childhood.
John Barrymore played Ahab in the original film version of Moby Dick. No one played Ishmael. The character was cut out of the screenplay, which differed heavily from Herman Melville’s novel.
In the opening lines of Sunset Boulevard (1950), William Holden says, “Yes, this is Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. It’s about five o’clock in the morning. That’s the homicide squad, complete with detectives and newspapermen. A murder has been reported from one of those great big houses in the ten-thousand block.”
Duane Jones played the black hero Ben in Night of the Living Dead (1968).
The canine silent movie star Rin Tin Tin is buried in Cimetiere du Chiens in Paris, France. The black onyx tombstone is inscribed “The Greatest Cinema Star”.