Who wrote Summer of ’42, the book on which the 1971 movie is based?
Herman Raucher wrote the book Summer of ’42, which was also a movie.
Twenty-nine “Carry On” films were produced in Great Britain, beginning with Carry On Sergeant (1958), and ending with Carry On Emmanuelle (1978).
Schlockthropus was the name of the prehuman species resurrected in Schlock (1973). The Schlockthropus is played by twenty-two-year-old John Landis in his directorial debut. The film is also known as The Banana Monster.
Rouben Mamoulian was the original director of Cleopatra (1963). After he was fired, Alfred Hitchcock was offered the job, but refused. Joseph L. Mankiewicz eventually took over.
Ivan Triesault says to Claude Rains at the end of Notorious (1946), “Alex, will you come in please? I wish to talk to you”.
In 1940, when producer Sam Katzman brought some of the kids to Monogram Pictures. The kids (who eventually included Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Billy Halop, and others) had started out as the “Dead End Kids” in Dead End (1937, Samuel Goldwyn). They had gone on to work for Warner Brothers and Universal. Their…
The rich bons vivants, Nick and Nora Charles, played by William Powell and Myrna Loy in The Thin Man (1934), lived in San Francisco.