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Boris Karloff's real name William Henry Pratt.

"The Wizard of Oz" is one of the troubled motion pictures to ever make it all the way through filming. All but one of the major parts were recast, there were multiple directors and writers, and many of the actors were injured.

Poor Bert Lahr had to wear a costume that weighed nearly 100 pounds while performing in front of huge klieg lights that made the sound stages insufferably hot. Its said that every time a scene was finished, he unzipped the costume and was dripping with sweat. Its a wonder he never fainted.

Esther Rolle was 10th of 18 children, and was Bahamian, though she was born in the U.S.

Believe it or not, but Vivien Leigh was accompanied by two elderly survivors of the Confederate Army to the premiere of "Gone With The Wind".

William Cameron Menzies invented the job title "Production Designer" to describe what he did for movies. He fulfilled this job quite admirably for "Gone With The Wind."
Later in life, he directed the famous "Invaders From Mars."

Angie Dickinson, Susan Olsen ("Cindy Brady"), and Ed Asner all had one child, each, with an ASD; Angie's daughter, her only child, committed suicide at age 40.

Angie Dickinson played a gambler in "Rio Bravo" in 1959. The name of her character was 'Feathers'.

Most comedians are quite different than their onscreen persona.
Not W.C. Fields. When he wasn't busy making movies, he would hide in the bushes surrounding his home and shoot nosy tourists in the posterior with a BB gun.

^^ LOL Too funny!!

Ed Asner has won more Emmys (7), as an actor, than any other male performer.

Everybody knows Ed Asner from the movie "Elf" where he portaryed Santa, but did you know he started off in a sci-fi television show? He was Detective Sgt. Thomas Siroleo in the 1963 episode of The Outer Limits titled "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork."

(I loved that show.)

I was more of a "My Favorite Martian" kind of girl!! LOL

Seriously though, I liked "The Twilight Zone", too!!

I love watching old shows and spotting "current-day" actors. I just recently binge-watched "Celebrity Bowling"----it was a never-ending delight, from the 70s, with such gems as Angie Dickinson, Lloyd Bridges, Roy Rogers, Michelle Lee, William Shatner, JoAnn Worley, Fannie Flag, Peter Marshall, Bob Newhart, Loretta Swit, Arte Johnson, Ruth Buzzi..... There was one episode where "Greg" and "Marsha" bowled against "Jan" and Peter" (NOT in character); and another episode where "Bobby" and "Cindy" bowled against 2 kids from "The Little House on the Prairie". I watched back-to-back episodes, for 2 days straight (when I was home). It was on this new CBS channel, that's gonna have all retro-programs, after this IPO of "Binge Watching".

http://www.decades.com/

Speaking of that, when Leonard Nimoy passed away recently, an oldies channel played various episodes of old TV shows he was in. There was an unsettling episode of 'The Twilight Zone' where an American World War II Army Lieutenant exchanged places with his Japanese counterpart. You had to keep a sharp eye out for Nimoy as he played a foot soldier and only had a couple of lines.
Then there was an episode of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." with Nimoy and William Shatner (! !) But they were never in the same scene together. I thought maybe this was where Roddenberry found them, but reading about Nimoy supposedly it was when he had a part in a TV show Roddenberry produced.

"Frozen" is the highest grossing animated movie, EVER----of ALL-TIME----I think I heard that it grossed 2.1 BILLION!!

Oops, you're RIGHT----damn dyslexia!!

"Frozen" has done very well at the box office, but early Disney animated movies weren't always successful.
"Pinocchio" was not a box office success at first run. The box office returns from the film's initial release were both below Snow White's unprecedented success and below studio expectations. Of the film's $2.289 million cost – twice the cost of Snow White – Disney only recouped $1 million by late 1940, with studio reports of the film's final original box office take varying between $1.4 million and $1.9 million. Animation historian Michael Barrier notes that Pinocchio returned rentals of less than one million by September 1940, and in its first public annual report, Walt Disney Productions charged off a $1 million loss to the film.

Of course, the world situation had a lot to do with all that.