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The wonderful Ms. Jane Curtin?

Who was delightful in 'Third Rock From The Sun'.


Who started his acting career portraying a transgender former Super Bowl footbowl star named Roberta?

none other than the multitalented john Lithgow.

what were the first words uttered in a full-length Hollywood movie?

I assume that you mean the first words uttered in a movie with sound ( a nonsilent movie). The first "talkie" was the "Jazz Singer" in the late Twenties. So is that the movie you are talking about?

yup. "you ain't seen nothin' yet!" but there were test films [short subjects] made in 1925 also using primitive sound.

anybody here hear how bill garity helped to make movies what they are today?

I give up.

What did he do?

he invented [among very many other things] multiplane photography, used most tellingly in walt Disney's "fantasia." he invented cinematic stereo multichannel surround-sound and high-fidelity sound recording techniques for movies at least a decade before anybody else. he was an all-round fix-it man.

who was the voice for demon-possessed "regan" in "the exorcist"?

Mercedes McCambridge.

FTW
true or false- the exorcist was based on a true story.

The original incident occurred in Washington State, or Oregon, happened in the 1940's, and the subject was a boy of twelve or fourteen.

And the 'possessor' was a recently-deceased, cranky old aunt or great-aunt, not a demon.

which actor was infamous for refusing to do more than one take?
bonus question- which movie did this actor quit because of the requirement for twin takes?

Frank Sinatra.

He supposedly walked off the set of 'Here To Eternity' when the director told him to do a scene again.

wasn't ol' blue eyes a pill? now this one is really obscure- which actor was an heir to the angostura bitters fortune? HINT- "horse of a different color."

Was that Desi Arnaz, or did his family manufacture a famous rum?

Who said, referring to rock and roll music:

"The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear"?

Frank Sinatra? I looked it up.

Meanwhile Kirk Douglas' obituary was mistakenly posted online.

The same thing happened to Mark Twain.

He published a simple notice:

Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,"

What famous rock star was rumored to have died, and a plastic surgery enhanced double performing in his place?

What three deceased celebrities are believed by some (many?) to be alive?