After her success in the stage and film treatments of The Miracle Worker, Patty Duke was the first teenager to be given her own American TV show – The Patty Duke Show – which aired from 1963 through 1966.
After Orson Welles for Citizen Kane (1941), Warren Beatty was the next person to be nominated for four Oscars for one film: Heaven Can Wait (1978). Beatty received nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Writing. Unfortunately, he scored no Oscars for the film. Welles faired a bit better, winning one Academy Award out of his four nominations: Best Writing, Original Screenplay, which he shared with co-writer Herman J. Mankiewicz.
After Spencer Tracy won the 1937 Best Actor Oscar for Captains Courageous, the gold statuette was sent out to be inscribed. When it was returned to the actor, it was engraved "To Dick Tracy." The Academy was justifiably embarrassed by the error.
Albert Finney turned down the role of Lawrence in David Lean's epic Lawrence of Arabia (1962) because it would have required him to sign a 5-year contract. The part went to newcomer Peter O'Toole, who had not done a major film before. O'Toole's performance catapulted him to international fame..
American actresses Sharon Stone and Lara Flynn Boyle both have appeared in Japanese ads for cosmetics
Americans buy an average of 4.6 movie tickets per year. According to Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, Ireland buys the most of the European countries, with 3.2 tickets a year.
Among those successful film actors who never ranked on the Top Ten List Box Office list, as of 1999, were Anne Baxter, Jack Benny, Jeff Bridges, Michael Caine, Jennifer Jones, Bruce Lee, Sophia Loren, Liza Minnelli, David Niven, Peter O'Toole, Joe Pesci, Katharine Ross, and Shelley Winters.
An assortment of madcap clowning, the 1964 movie was originally titled Beatle-Mania. The Fab Four decided against it, and chose a new title for their first major film: A Hard Day's Night.
Both Paul Newman and Tom Selleck turned down the lead role in the film Witness (1985). Film producer Edward S. Feldman was looking for a "Gary Cooper-type" to play the part of the Philadelphia cop who hid out among the Amish. His final choice was Harrison Ford, who had also accepted another lead role turned down by Selleck — that of archeologist Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Witness was the first big box office hit that year.
Boxers or Briefs? Seinfeld's Kramer was passionately attached to his briefs. When a doctor instructed him to switch to boxers to increase his sperm count, Kramer found the experience so traumatic that he gave up underwear entirely rather than don the hated boxers.
Box-office champ Toy Story (1995) is said to be filled with subtle inside jokes. One is in the name of the evil boy who lives next door to Andy and the toys. Sid Phillips, the wicked boy, was reportedly inspired by a former Pixar employee of the same last name who was known to disassemble toys and use the parts to build bizarre creations.
British-born actor and director Charlie Chaplin died of natural causes on Christmas Day 1977 in Switzerland. Considered to be one of the most influential talents in film history, he was married four times and was the father of 11 children. Chaplin was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1975.
Bruce Willis turned down the male lead in Ghost (1990), which co-starred his then actress-wife Demi Moore. Patrick Swayze took the part of the murdered man whose ghost remains on Earth, and the film was a resounding success at the box office. In a 1994 USA Today interview, Willis was quoted as groaning, "I passed on it. Another one of my smarter moves."
Bruce Willis, Bette Midler, George Clooney, and John Ritter were all elected and served as the class presidents of their high school student councils.
Burt Reynolds grew up in Palm Beach, Florida, and was the son of the town's police chief.
Burt Reynolds lives in a house in Jupiter, Florida that was once used by Al Capone as a hideaway.
Captain Kirk's Enterprise crew numbered 430. His successor, Captain Picard, had 1,012 under his command.
Cary Grant made some serious money for his work in the 1959 classic North by Northwest. According to Donald Spoto's "The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock," Grant had starred in several successful Hitchcock films. Consequently, his contract for this new vehicle gave him an outright salary of $450,000, plus 10 percent of the gross profit on all earnings over $8 million (the same profit percentage as director Hitchcock's), plus an extra $5,000 per day beginning 7 weeks after the contract was signed and continuing until the production was complete. The 7-week grace period came and went before any shooting on the picture began, escalating Grant's salary beyond belief. Filming took an unexpected 4 months. Hitchcock had a reputation for underpaying his actors, and so it is assumed that Grant made more money for this film than any other lead actor or actress had while working for the closefisted Hitchcock.
Cary Grant's real name was Archibald Leach, for whom John Cleese's character in A Fish Called Wanda was named
Cat's cradle is one of the most universal games in the world. Played in almost every culture, what is a puzzle to ethnologists is that widely scattered peoples -- Maoris of New Zealand, North American Indians, Arctic Eskimos, and Africans, for instance -- make figures of string between their hands that are exactly the same.
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