Useless Facts on Movies and Movie Stars
In 1939, Hollywood film companies produced an average of two motion pictures every day.
The figure of Kong Kong seen in the original movie of the same name was actually a model 18 inches high.
During the casting of the film Gone with the Wind, more than 1,400 candidates were interviewed for the part of Scarlett O'Hara, and more than $92,000 was spent in the search.
Grace Kelly was the first motion-picture actress to appear on a postage stamp. In April, 1956, she was featured with her husband, Prince Rainier III of Monaco, on a stamp that commemorated their wedding.
Alfred Hitchcock directed the first talking film ever made in England. It was called Blackmail and was made in 1931.
The film Quo Vadis used 30,000 extras (and 63 lions).
The cowboy movie star Tom Mix drove a Rolls-Royce that had a pair of antlers as a radiator cap. Mix once ordered tires for his limousine with his initials printed in relieft. At that time Hollywood was connect by a network of dirt roads; whenever Mix drove along one of these roads he would leave a long trail of “TM”s imprinted in the dust.