I Never Knew That...........(Thread)

[babie_blu1984]

Marilyn Monroe's final movie "Something's Got to Give" was left unfinished as a result of her death.
The same story was later filmed as "Move Over Darling" with Doris Day(!).

 

[Animal Crossing Dude]

He was also the model and voice for the robot(?) taxi driver in Total Recall

 

[Ringo]

A fridge? LOL that just so wouldn't work

 

[Kayy♫]

The Jubilee Line station at Canary Wharf was inspired by the submarine pen in The Spy Who Loved Me.

 

[vikhs]

You're joking ain't you? That was Evanna Lynch who played Luna "Loony" Lovegood.

But I am guessing you were joking.

 

[roxbubbagum]

Also here is a bit of trivia.

The line "Elvis has left the building", which Will Smith yells toward the end of Independance day, is translated "Last train to Mikkeli has just left" on the Finnish DVD. Mikkeli is a town in Finland.

 

[Dianne A]

He's also in The Empire Strikes Back as the Deck Officer

 

[jlb299]

Gene Hackman was the first choice for Hannibal Lecter in Silence Of The Lambs but was replaced by Anthony Hopkins after a disagreement with the director.

 

[~~Wishing~~~]

Sarah Michelle Gellar was one of the original choice of Alice in the upcoming Tim burton movie. I collected the buffy magazines and they were always saying how she was up for the role. That was about 4 years ago, so it shows how long it took for the movie to lead to script to screen.

 

[Apu D]

is she 'sorted' in the scene? also, is this the first film?

 

[Treblinka_]

Crowd noise is called

 

[schoolgirl09]

Sammo Hung also fights Bruce Lee at the beginning of Enter The Dragon. Yuen Biao was also there and was stunt double for Bruce Lee and he was one of the 'fake' Bruces Lee's in Game of Death

All where schoolmates at the Peking Opera School... except Bruce Lee who was a the Crown Colony Cha-Cha dance champion of 1958

 

[Motor Mouth]

Ben Stiller is in Empire Of The Sun

 

[Haptic.Hazard.]

I never knew

Amy adams is 35. Shocked as she looks like 26/28. She looks great for 35

Cher won an oscar

 

[Nikki H]

The great British film comic Will Hay was a respected amateur Astronomer.

Gary Cooper and Humphrey Bogart were overly well endowed in the marriage tackle department.

In The Manchurian Candidate actress Angela Lansbury as the Mother was only 4 years older than her son Lawrence Harvey.

 

[s_is_for_skye]

Speilberg directed Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Did Indiana climb into a fridge to escape a nuclear blast?

 

[rainy days are back]

John Travolta turned down the leading role in An Officer & A Gentleman Doh!!!!

 

[KSbooks]

Brad Pitt had one of his front teeth chipped by a dentist for his part in Kalifornia.

 

[Phyzixx]

Eddie Murphy was only 23 when he played the 'streetwise/seen it all before' Axl Foley in Beverly Hills Cop.The same age as Ralph Macchio when he played the Karate Kid that same year.

A real human skeleton was used in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.Likewise,the scene where girl's finger is cut is also real.

For the character of Louis Cyphre in Angel Heart,Robert De Niro used Michael Scorsese as the inspiration.

 

[MariaAntonietta]

Only Discovered yesterday that Gweneth Paltrow played Young Wendy darling in hook.