Hollywood Trivia

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Wow, I really think both of those stories are remarkable!!

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Hugh Grant and Thomas Sangster ("Love, Actually" and "King of Thrones") are cousins. Hugh’s grandmother and Thomas’ GREAT-grandmother were SISTERS!!

Showtime's new show, 'Penny Dreadful' has everything...

Exquisite photography, costumes, locations, and Josh Hartnett, apparently having a great time....

One of the characters is Dorian Grey, played very well by a beautiful (not handsome, beautiful) American actor named Reeve Carney.

Talent must run in his family....

His grandfather was Art Carney.

Jackie Earle Haley auditioned for the role of Glen in A Nightmare on Elm Street. He was accompanied by his friend Johnny Depp, who got the part instead. 26 years later, Haley was cast as Freddy Krueger in the remake of the film.

Citizen Kane

During the scene where Kane chases Jim Gettys down a staircase, Orson Welles tripped, chipped his anklebone and spent two weeks acting with metal braces or directing from a wheelchair.

Apparently, Orson Welles' ashes were sprinkled/tossed down an abandoned well on the ranch in Ronda, Spain.

The ranch belongs to his good friend, Antonio Ordonez, a retired bullfighter, and Mr Welles stayed there, and was

quite fond of the place.

The Academy Award statue was designed on a napkin at a special luncheon at the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel to found the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Biltmore_Hotel . The hotel was home to the award ceremonies for several years during the 1930s and 1940s, and was a location in several movies.

Because the 2015 Sundance Film Festival completed on Sunday, I thought it would be fun to include some unique trivia about its 1986 world premiere of Sidney Lumet's film about a political campaign consultant played by Richard Gere:

Wow, that's interesting----I like the one about the Oscar design, too!!

Harrison Ford was not the original choice to play Indiana Jones.

Tom Selleck was.

His T.V. network would not let him out of his 'Magnum, P.I.' Contract.

Despite the 1998 and 2014 Godzilla films being known as "American" movies, neither of them were directed by Americans. The 1998 version starring Matthew Broderick was directed by Roland Emmerich, a German, and the 2014 version starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson was directed by Gareth Edwards, an Englishman.

Anna Nicole Smith's mother is a former policewoman.

They never, ever got along, according to Anna Nicole.....

Her mother, though expressed 'sincere' sorrow ( ) as soon as Anna was dead and wanted custody of Dannie Lynn, and a share of Anna's estate.

She got neither.

Gremlins

Hoyt Axton, who plays inventor Rand Peltzer, was a renowned folk singer/songwriter in the 1960s. His most famous song, “The Pusher“, was covered by Steppenwolf and used in the soundtrack to Easy Rider.

Alfred Hitchcock discussed North by Northwest with Jimmy Stewart before making the film. Stewart wanted to star in it, but Hitchcock wanted Cary Grant. Hitchcock didn't have the heart to turn Stewart down, so he waited until Stewart was committed to Anatomy of a Murder before offering him North by Northwest, knowing that he wouldn't be able to accept.

Tippi Hedren, who starred in Hitchcock's 'The Birds', was terrified of him.

"Witness"

Surprisingly, David Cronenberg was amongst the directors approached to helm the thriller, but refused because of the story's "idealized" treatment of the Amish: "To me they were a very repressive, sort of cult-ish group that I didn’t have much affection for."