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  • David Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.


  • Dirty Harry's badge number is 2211.


  • Dracula is the most filmed story of all time, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is second and Oliver Twist is third.


  • Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.


  • In Disney's "Fantasia", the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backwards.)


  • Jamie Farr (who played Klinger on M*A*S*H) was the only member of the cast who actually served as a soldier in the Korean war.


  • Roger Ebert is the only film critic to have ever won the Pulitzer prize.


  • Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an aligator while he hosted "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."


  • In the Wizard of Oz Dorothy's last name is Gail. It is shown on the mail box.


  • The "Grinch" singer and voice of Tony the Tiger is a charming man named Thurl Ravenscroft.


  • The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."


  • When a film is in production, the last shot of the day is the "martini shot", the next to last one is the "Abby Singer".


  • In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.


  • The "second unit" films movie shots that do not require the presence of actors.


  • Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries.


  • The movie "Paris, Texas" was banned in the city of Paris, Texas, shorty after its box office release.


  • The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977) is 3263827.


  • In the movie "the Right Stuff" there is a scene where a government recruiter for the Mercury astronaut program (played by Jeff Goldblum) is in a bar at Muroc Dry Lake, California. His partner suggests Chuck Yeager as a good astronaut candidate. Jeff proceeds to badmouth Yeager claiming they need someone who went to college. During the conversation the real Chuck Yeager is playing a bartender who is standing behind the recruiters eavesdropping. General Yeager is listed low in the movie credits as 'Fred.'


  • Lucy Ricardo's maiden name was McGillicudy.


  • Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.


  • Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.


  • It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her.


  • Cinderella is known as Tuhkimo in Finland.


  • Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.


  • The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile".


  • Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.


  • In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."


  • Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."


  • Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott".


  • Mr. Spock's (of Star Trek) blood type was T-Negative


  • In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time.


  • Walt Disney had wooden teeth.


  • Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes.


  • Cheryl Ladd (of Charlie's Angels fame) played the voice, both talking and singing, of Joise in the 70s Saturday morning cartoon "Josie and the Pussycats."


  • Pinocchio was made of pine.


  • The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."


  • A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.


  • 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy ) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.


  • Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.


  • Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.


  • Jean Harlow was the first actress to appear on the cover of Life magazine.


  • All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp fiction" are stuck on 4:20.


  • Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.


  • Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator.


  • The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a band-aid in every episode. Either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing.


  • There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo.


  • Former US Senator Barry Goldwater attended the opening night ceremonies and festivities at Bugsy Siegel's famous Las Vegas casino. They left him out of the movie Bugsy. He is pissed.


  • One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the set by a raging elephant.


  • The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the first letter ("shin," pronounced "sheen") of the word "shalom." As a small boy, Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it; eventually he was able to add it to "Star Trek" lore.