Do You Know The Difference Between Hollywood Urban Legends And Reality?
Do You Know The Difference Between Hollywood Urban Legends And Reality?
Rumors are commonplace in the film industry, but some of them turn out to be true. Do you know which ones those are?
Rumors are commonplace in the film industry, but some of them turn out to be true. Do you know which ones those are?
Audience members at the first public film screening, Train Arriving at a Station, ran from the theater when the train came barreling towards the camera because they didn’t understand special effects.
Steven Spielberg actually directed ‘Poltergeist,’ even though Tobe Hooper is the one credited. The only reason Spielberg wasn’t given credit is because his contract with Universal Studios didn’t allow him to direct another movie while getting ready for ‘ET: the Extra Terrestrial.”
Shortly after Charlie Chaplin’s death, two men dug up his body and held it for ransom.
Walt Disney’s final words were "Kurt Russel,” he jotted down the actor’s name on some paper as his last communication.
According to a crew member, Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie actually had sex while filming ‘Don’t Look Now.’
Darth Vader wasn’t originally supposed to be Luke’s father.
Dolph Lundgren almost killed Sylvestor Stallone while filming Rocky IV.
During Ben-Hur’s iconic chariot race scene, one of the stuntmen driving a chariot was killed while filming the sequence. The footage was left in the final version against the wishes of the stuntman’s widow.
One of the extras in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ fell in love with Judy Garland during filming, and when she rejected him he hanged himself on set. You can see him in the forest during a major musical number.
A transgender woman appears in the James Bond film ‘For Your Eyes Only.'