BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE:FILM #17

ON A WOMAN CROSSING HER LEGS IN MOVIES

"When you make a woman cross her legs in the films,
 maybe you don't need to see how high she can cross 
them, but how low she can cross them and still be 
interesting."

Will H. Hayes, Censorship "Czar of the Movies"
See Current Biography 1943
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FROM THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005) starring Tom Cruise

“When the aliens are investigating the junk in the basement,
 one of them plays with a bicycle wheel. This is a reference
 to the original book; the main character observes that,with
 all the advanced technology the aliens possess, they do 
not use any wheels, and wonders if the alien life form had skipped the invention of the wheel.”

IdMb Trivia 
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THERE IS A GENUS OF GIANT SPIDERS NAMED FOR ORSON WELLES

Orson Welles is among the most influential filmmakers of all time, but his impact isn’t confined to the world of cinema and radio. The multihyphenate behind Citizen Kane has even made a splash among biologists — there’s a genus of giant spiders named after him. In total, there are 13 species in the Orsonwelles genus….. Gustavo Hormiga, the arachnologist who discovered them, explained their name thus: “[Welles] was gigantic in a way in terms of moviemaking. These guys are very unique. They’re also very gigantic. So I just said, OK, I'm going to name them Orson Welles.”

Excerpt from INTERESTING FACTS website (November 4, 2020)

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U.S. POSTAGE STAMPS AND HOLLYWOOD MOVIES
 
Until sometime in the 40s, films made in the United
States could not show real U.S.postage stamps,so the
major movie studios created their own "movie" stamps.
Here is one example of a stamp used in films:

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)

This film had an "extra" cast like no other. Many Hollywood stars showed up on set to watch the shooting and were pressed into service as extras, especially in the chariot race. In addition, many who would later become Hollywood's top stars, but who were at the time just struggling actors, were also in the crowd scenes as extras. Among well-known and soon-to-be-well-known names "working" in the film were John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Marion Davies, Myrna Loy, John Gilbert, Douglas Fairbanks, Clark Gable, Harold Lloyd, Carole Lombard, Janet Gaynor, Fay Wray, Mary Pickford, Colleen Moore, Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Samuel Goldwyn and Rupert Julian.

iDMb Trivia

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PLAYING LOVE SCENES IN THE MOVIES
“Director Mark Robson observed: ‘You know, there are times when it is advantageous to a love story if the two leading players are not too close: they save their emotions for the cameras. I’ve seen enough instances when co-stars were making it in the dressing room. When they were called on the set a few minutes later, the effect on their performances, particularly in a romantic scene, was disastrous. They were afraid something would come across, especially when one or the other (or both) were married. They subconsciously froze. Take Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. They were madly in love when they did The V.I.P.’s, yet their chemistry in the film was nonexistent.”

Beverly Linet. Susan Hayward: Portrait of a Survivor
(New York: Atheneum, 1980)
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QUESTION #96543
The famous locomotive song about "The Atchinson, Topeka, 
and the Santa Fe" was introduced in what movie starring Judy Garland?

answer below:

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ABOUT I MARRIED A WITCH (1942)

The movie I Married a Witch, starring Veronica Lake and Frederic March, opened with a scene of witches being buried in 17th Century New England. No England was buried in New England,.

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JUNE ALLYSON AND FRED ASTAIRE

June Allyson "took up swimming to strengthen her muscles and eventually won a Greater New York City freestyle swimming championship. She also taught herself to dance by watching Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers motion pictures (she reportedly saw The Gay Divorcee eighteen times) and then imitating the dance routines as soon as she got home. While a student at Theodore Roosevelt High School in the Bromx she once announed to her friends that she could dance like Ginger Rogers. When they dared her to try out for a Broadway show she won a place in the chorus line of Sing Out the News in the fall of 1938."

Current  Biography 1950.
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ANSWER TO QUESTION #96543
THE HARVEY GIRLS

THE DIFFICULTY IN CREATING A CLERIHEW
TO REMEMBER PRISCILLA LANE (1915-1995)


Priscilla Lane
(Now if I only had a 2nd line)
Co-starred with Cary Grant in Arsenic and Old Lace.
(Maybe I cd repeat the 2nd line in this place?)

PAUL MUNI

Paul Muni
Earned some money
By acting in the movie Key Largo,
But he wd have made much more had he robbed Wells Fargo.

Louis Phillips

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