David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars.
He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going
to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening
of the movie.
Forrest Gump Movie Trivia....
The girl in the school bus with the red hair is Tom Hanks
daughter Elizabeth.
The Vietnam scenes of Forrest Gump were shot on what is
now the Ocean Point Golf Course on Fripp Island, SC.
Tom Hanks' younger brother Jim doubles for him in many of
his mindless running sequences.
Tom Hanks patterned his accent after the little boy who
played young Forrest, who actually talked that way.
The movie budget was $55 million. It grossed worldwide
$673.8 million.
Simpsons TV Trivia....
Many of the characters are named after major streets in Portland,
Oregon, where creator Matt Groening grew up. Examples: Flanders,
Lovejoy, Terwilliger, Kearney.
In 1997, broke "The Flintstones" record for longest-running prime
time animated TV show. Also holds the record for most guest stars
in a television series.
Many of the characters are named after Matt Groening's family and
relatives, including Homer, Marge, Lisa and Maggie, which are the
real names of his parents and younger sisters.
Nancy Cartwright, voice of Bart, first tried out for Lisa's voice.
John Wayne got his nickname Duke from his pet Airedale dog.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her
hands in Jello.
Marilyn Monroe appeared on the first issue of Playboy in 1953.
Who was the voice of Mr Ed? Rocky Lane, a cowboy movie hero whose films included: King of
the Mounties, Red Gulch Renegades, and Silver City Kid. On at
least one occasion, George Burns also supplied Mr. Ed's voice.
In the beach scene near the end of the Beatles' film "Help!" (1965), John Lennon had an appointment and could not be present. Another actor stood in for him.
In the biographical film "Man on the Moon" (1999), the role of young Carol Kaufman, Andy Kaufman's sister, was played by Andy’s real-life granddaughter Brittany Colonna.
Secrecy about who the Oscar winners would be didn’t start until 1941.
Before then, newspapers were given an advance list of winners to be published at 11p.m.
However, in 1940, the Los Angeles Times published the winners in their 8:45 p.m. edition, before the ceremony even started.
The very next year sealed, secret envelopes were used for the first time and have been in use ever since.
Sergio Leone, director of Clint Eastwood's innovative Italian Westerns, turned down offers to direct "The Godfather" (1972) in favor of developing his dream project, which ultimately became "Once Upon a Time in America" (1984).
While editing his murder mystery movie, Woody Allen realized that all the best footage was of its romance subplot, so he reedited Annie Hall (1977) as a romantic comedy.
While the actual source of the name Oscar, for the Academy Awards’ statuette is under debate, it was Hollywood columnist Sidney Skolsky that first used the nickname, in print, in his column on the sixth Academy Awards in 1934.
He was referring to Katharine Hepburn’s first win for Best Actress.
It wasn’t until 1939 that the Academy first officially used the nickname.
Sidney Poitier became the first black actor to win an Oscar for his leading role in "Lilies of the Field."
Wilson, the volleyball that kept Tom Hanks' character company on a deserted island in the hit Cast Away (2000), sold for $18,400 in an online auction of movie props in 2001.
Sylvester Stallone earned $23,000 for his work on "Rocky" (1976).
In 1999, he earned $20 million for "Into Thin Air."
Sylvester Stallone was paid just $60,000 for his role in the 1997 movie "Cop Land", a far cry from his previous film salaries.
"Blackmail," Alfred Hitchcock's 1929 masterpiece, was the first British sound film.
"Cleopatra," starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and Rex Harrison, made its greatly-anticipated world premiere in 1963.
It was one of the most lengthy (4 hours, 3 minutes) and expensive ($40 million) pictures of all time.
Adjusting for inflation, the film would cost $212.8 million to produce in 1998 dollars. Inspirational Posters
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