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- In "The Wizard of Oz," Dorothy's last name is Gale.
- The name of the Vulcan's heaven is Sha Ka Ree.
- The last female to occupy the Number 1 spot on the Top Ten Box Office list was Julie Andrews in 1967; the top position has been filled by a female film performer only 12 times (by six actresses) since 1932, when the list was established. The other five females to hold the Number 1 box office position are Shirley Temple (four times), Doris Day (twice), Marie Dressler (twice), Betty Grable (once), and Elizabeth Taylor (once). Andrews was ranked Number 1 twice.
- The 1987 film "Hot Rod Harlots" was promoted with this tag line: "Unwed! Untamed! Unleaded! Backseat Bimbos meet their Roadside Romeos."
- Kathleen Turner was the voice of Jessica Rabbit, and Amy Irving was her singing voice.
- In the film 'Star Trek : First Contact', when Picard shows Lilly she is orbiting Earth, Australia and Papua New Guinea are clearly visible... but New Zealand is missing.
- Cheryl Ladd (of Charlie's Angels fame) played the voice, both talking and singing, of Josie in the 70s Saturday morning cartoon Josie and the Pussycats.
- More than 150,000 feet (28+ miles) of film was used by David O. Selznick just to film the screen tests of potential actresses for the lead role of Scarlett O'Hara in his 1939 epic "Gone With the Wind".
- "Cats" is based on fourteen poems of T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
- The original production of "Cats" opened at the New London Theatre, in the West End on May 11, 1981. Eight years later it celebrated both its birthday and another important milestone: it had become, after 3358 performances, the longest running musical in the history of the British theatre.
- On Thursday, June 19, 1997, "Cats" became the longest running show in the history of Broadway. With the 6138th performance "Cats" passed "A Chorus Line" which staged the last production in April 1990.
- "Cats" closed at the Winter Garden Theatre on 25 June, 2000.
- The concept of a countdown before a rocket launch originated as a tension-building device in the 1929 movie "The Woman on the Moon".
- Bambi was originally published in 1929 in German.
- The first crime mentioned in the first episode of 'Hill Street Blues' was armed robbery.
- Jean-Claude Van Damme was the alien in the original PREDATOR in almost all the jumping and climbing scenes.
- Breath, by Samuel Beckett, was first performed in April, 1970. The play lasts thirty seconds, has no actors, and no dialogue.
- Before Mickey Mouse, Felix the Cat was the most popular cartoon character.
- Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo.
- In the movie "Toy Story", the carpet designs in Sid's hallway is the same as the carpet designs in "The Shining."
- The name of the 'Love Boat' was the 'Pacific Princess'.
- 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.
- The Peanuts were first animated in 1957 for a Ford Fairlane automobile commercial.
- If you pause Saturday Night Fever at the "How Deep Is Your Love" rehearsal scene, you will see the camera crew reflected in the dance hall mirror.
- When Walt Disney Productions released Return to Oz in (1985), it represented the longest time span that had ever occurred between the original and the remake of a film.
- Skull island is the jungle home of King Kong.
- At one time, the line "Let's get outta here" had been used in 84% of Hollywood movie productions.
- The largest outdoor film set ever built was the Roman Forum used in The Fall of The Roman Empire (1964). It was 1,312 feet long by 754 feet wide, took 1,100 workers seven months to construct, and rose some 260 feet in the air.
- The largest indoor film set ever built was the landing site for the UFO in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). Constructed inside a 10 million cubic foot hangar in Mobile, Alabama. it was 450 feet long by 250 feet wide and was 90 feet tall.
- Charlie Chaplin once reshot a scene in City Lights (1931) some 342 times before he felt he had gotten it right. In Some Like It Hot (1959), Marilyn Monroe required 59 takes on a scene in which her only line was "Where's the Bourbon?" Similarly, Stanley Kubrick required Shelley Duval to redo a scene 127 times in The Shining (1980).
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