Hollywood Trivia

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Ian Fleming originally didn't care much for Sean Connery's portrayal of James Bond, but eventually came around and retroactively gave Bond Scottish ancestry in the novels.

Legendary producer David O. Selznick was fined $5,000 for using the line "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" in the movie Gone With The Wind as many people thought of the line as immoral.

The first movie to have a scene where a toilet was shown flushing was Psycho.

The line "You're gonna need a bigger boat" from Jaws was not in the script, but improvised.

Before he became an actor, Christopher Lee worked for British intelligence during World War II.

The kissing scene between Aragorn and Arwen is considered one of the most awkward kissing scenes.

Writer Paul Schrader wrote the script for Taxi Driver in five days with the help of a loaded gun. Nobody knows if he actually had a loaded gun, but if he did, he used it to help him complete the script.

Jimmy Stewart's last words were 'Now I will see Gloria again.'

Whenever the aliens "talk" in District 9, it's because a pumpkin is being rubbed.

The Breakfast Club was supposed to have had sequels every 10 years, but to this day, no sequels have been greenlit for full production.

The Blair Witch Project caused the 1999-2000 hunting season to be one of the worst on record.

Ripley from Alien did not get a first name until the sequel Aliens.

Sean Connery's voiceover for Highlander was recorded in a bathroom.

The name of Edward Norton's character in Fight Club is never mentioned once in the movie.

Steven Spielberg had plans for a sequel to ET that would have been called "Nocturnal Fears", in which audiences would have learned more about ET's background.

Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg both expressed interest in directing the movie version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, but the studio {Warner Bros.} had no interest in either of them directing, so the director's chair was given to David Yates.

All of the main cast of Saving Private Ryan were given basic military training, all except Matt Damon.

David Cronenberg was one of many directors originally considered to direct to movie Witness, but he turned it down because he didn't care at all for the Amish.

Seven Samurai is actually an homage to the Westerns of John Ford.

In The Social Network, split screen was not actually used for scenes featuring the Winklevoss Twins.

Esther Williams wrote, in her autobiography, that Jeff Chandler was a cross-dresser, and that that is why she left him.


Years later, a friend publicly stated that she had put a few fibs into her book to help sales, andthatwas one of them.

Hardly a little 'fib' I think....that could haveaffectedhis career, in the 1950's and 1960's.

R.I.P. Sawyer Sweeten. He played "Geoffrey Barone" on "Everybody Loves Raymond" (one of the little boy twins, who was one of Raymond's kids). He committed suicide by gunshot. He was 19.

In the first Star Wars movie, Darth Vader only has 12 minutes of screen time.

In the first Spider-Man movie, the organic web shooters are from a rejected script treatment that was written by James Cameron.

For the drawing scene in Titanic, the picture of Rose was drawn by James Cameron, not Leonardo DiCaprio.

Infamous movie director Ed Wood served in the Marines before becoming a movie director. He enlisted shortly after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

Nicholas Rowe got his big break in 1985 when he played the lead in Young Sherlock Holmes. He never played Holmes again, though he's returning, in a way, in the 2015 film Mr. Holmes. Instead of playing Holmes himself, he plays an actor who plays Holmes in a film that's watched by the real Holmes, played by Ian McKellen.

"Lilies of the Field" was shot in 14 days, on Linda Ronstadt's father's ranch.

Linda Ronstadt is in a wheelchair now, and can no longer sing.

The first movie in the Saw series was filmed in 18 days on a budget of $1 million.

Jack Lemmon's tombstone says:

"Jack Lemmon In"

Jackie Gleason was William Friedkin's first choice to play Popeye Doyle in 'The French Connection'.

Jackie Gleason is Jason Patric's grandfather on his mother's side.

Patric's father was Jason Miller, best known for playing Father Karras in The Exorcist.