Surely it wasn’t 35 years ago this week that the “disaster film” spoof Airplane!, with Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen and Robert Hays, opened? It looks like you picked the wrong week to stop reading movie trivia, because we’ve got more inside.
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Movie history take a quick look at pivotal points in the history of cinema. Movie History features noteworthy and historical film facts from the turn of the last century to current hollywood events.
This Week in Film History: 6/21/15
It was 54 years ago this week that Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn and company set out to destroy an impregnable German fortress in the WWII action classic The Guns of Navarone. More high-caliber Hollywood history awaits inside.
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Marlon Brando as Lawrence of Arabia? Captain Blood with Robert Donat? For our sixth installment of Originally Starring, we continue telling the back stories of actors who won (or lost) choice roles and the reasons why they did.
Read more →This Week in Film History: 6/14/15
The era of the Hollywood “Summer Blockbuster” began 40 years ago this week, with the debut of director Steven Spielberg’s aquatic actioner Jaws. There are so many more memorable movie moments inside you’re going to need a bigger computer (not really).
Read more →This Week in Film History: 6/7/15
Director Robert Altman’s groundbreaking drama Nashville, with an ensemble cast that included Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, Henry Gibson and Lily Tomlin opened 40 years ago this week. Hankering for more Hollywood trivia? You’ll find it here; it’s easy.
Read more →This Week in Film History: 5/31/15
Marilyn Monroe had a memorable movie night with neighbor Tom Ewell–and a classic encounter with a subway grate–In Billy Wilder’s The Seven Year Itch, which opened 60 years ago this week. There’s more Hollywood trivia waiting for you inside…isn’t it delicious?
Read more →This Week in Film History: 5/24/15
It was 82 years ago this week that audiences first sang along to “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?,” as Walt Disney’s animated short The Three Little Pigs opens to wild acclaim. No need to huff and puff for further dates from Tinseltown’s past…just read inside.
Read more →This Week in Film History: 5/17/15
Jack Nicholson delivered a classic ad lib when he poked his head through a door and yelled “Heeeere’s Johnny!” in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, which opened 35 years ago this week, If you’d like to catch more key Hollywood moments, all you have to do is “ax.”
Read more →This Week in Film History: 5/10/15
Who’s that absent-minded lab assistant in 1955’s Revenge of the Creature? Why, it’s Clint Eastwood, whose film debut came in the Universal shocker 60 years ago this week. If Hollywood trivia like this makes your day, we’ve got other notable dates waiting for you inside.
Read more →This Week in Film History: 5/3/15
Hollywood’s iconic dance duo, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, made their final screen appearance together 66 years ago this week in MGM’s The Barkleys of Broadway. There are many more memorable moments from cinematic history to read about inside.
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