Who wrote the short story on which Alfred Hitch-cock’s The Birds (1963) is based?
Daphne du Maurier wrote the short story that inspired Hitch-cock’s The Birds.
Director John Ford’s (1895-1973) real name was Sean Aloysius O’Feeney.
Born in 1946 in Davenport, Iowa, Sue Lyon appeared from time to time in films such as The Night of the Iguana (1964), The Flim-Flam Man (1967), Tony Rome (1967), Evel Knievel (1971), and Alligator (1980). She was fifteen when she played Lolita, who is twelve in the book.
Fatty Arbuckle was accused of killing Virginia Rappe. Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was accused of killing her in a drunken stupor after a Labor Day party in San Francisco in 1921, but he was acquitted of criminal charges.
Ethel Merman in Call Me Madam (1953) said, “When you call me madam, smile”.
James Dean was born on February 8, 1931, and died in a car crash on September 30, 1955.
Walter Huston played the part of Captain Jacobi, the ship’s officer who delivers the falcon, in The Maltese Falcon (1941). His role was unbilled.