William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols, as Capt. James T. Kirk and Communications Officer Lt. Uhura, shared network television's first interracial kiss in the episode "Plato's Children" on the popular sci-fi series Star Trek. The revolutionary episode aired in 1968.
William Shatner is the CEO of the Toronto-based Core Digital Effects company that created the effects for the 1996 film Fly Away Home.
Write-in votes for the Academy Awards were disallowed after 1935.
Zeppo Marx of Marx Brothers fame owned a patent for a wrist watch with a heart monitor.
In the late 1980s, the lead role of Hayden Fox on the newly developed TV sitcom Coach was considered for many actors, namely Gerald McRaney, Burt Reynolds, Tom Skerritt, James Farentino, Rob Leibman, and Richard Crenna. Craig T. Nelson won the part, and later received an Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series Emmy for his performance.
In the movie "Speed" (1994) Twelve buses were used, including two which exploded; one for the freeway jump; one for high-speed scenes; and one used solely for 'under bus' shots.
In the original non-musical film of Annie Oakley, the title character was played by Barbara Stanwyck. The musical version, Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun, starred Betty Hutton, who had replaced the fired Judy Garland; when it became a TV show, Annie was played by Gail Davis.
In the original script of 1988's Oscar-winning Rain Man, the character of Raymond was depicted as slow-witted but amiable. After an initial reading, actor Dustin Hoffman successfully lobbied for Raymond to be a withdrawn autistic.
In the play "Cyrano de Bergerac," the recipe for tart almondine is quoted by Ragueneau.
In the ten years it was on the air, Alfred Hitchcock actually directed only 20 of the 362 episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
In the TV sitcom Cheers, the legal capacity of the popular Boston bar was 75. It was shown in a notice posted over the door.
In the U.S., prime-time Westerns on TV reached their peak in 1958-1959, when there were 31 shows on the air. The public's taste shifted, and by 1964-1965, the number of TV Westerns had plummeted to 7. Westerns have never enjoyed such popularity on U.S. television since.
India, NOT the United States, is the number one movie producer in the world. Annually, India averages more than 800 films compared to just over 500 in the U.S.
India's thriving film industry has been nicknamed "Bollywood." The bulk of the industry is based in Bombay.
Ingenue actress Neve Campbell once auditioned for TV's Baywatch. The casting director turned her down because he thought she was too pale.
Ingmar Bergman's "Smiles of a Summer Night" was the film inspiration for the Stephen Sondheim musical" A Little Night Music."
Ironically, there was an American silent-era film actor named Harrison Ford. Born on March 16, 1884 in Kansas City, Missouri, this Harrison Ford made films from 1915 to 1931, including Zander the Great (1925), The Price of a Party (1924), Vanity Fair (1923), Her Beloved Villain (1920), A Lady In Love (1920), Hawthorne of the U.S.A. (1919), Girls (1919), and Experimental Marriage (1919). He died in 1957 in Woodland Hills, California — the “other” Harrison Ford of Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Fugitive, and Clear and Present Danger fame, was just 15 years old at that time.
Irving Berlin was prolific, writing more than 900 songs, 19 musicals, and the scores of 18 movies. Some of his songs that have become beloved classics include “There's No Business Like Show Business,” “Easter Parade,” and “White Christmas.”
It can be rough being a TV star. In an interview a few years ago, actor Don Johnson said, "You can be the most magnanimous, loving, and giving person in the world, but fail to sign one autograph at the wrong time and you are the meanest, most arrogant, self-centered (expletive) who ever walked the face of the earth."
It is believed that the shortest name ever given to a cinema was maintained by the K in Mattoon, Illinois in 1925.
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