# Favorite Hollywood Stories? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 20, 2025, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-hollywood-stories/1013172 "2025-01-20T18:54:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 13
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> [@MortSahlFan](#): > > An anecdote that Vincent Price told. > > When making the Ten Commandments, Cecil B DeMille would use a crane and fly over the set on it with a megaphone in hand… There’s another old story that an extra in one of his epics, irritable, bored and tired after a very long shooting day, said very loudly, “Who do I have to fuck to get _off_ this picture?” One of the Roman soldiers in _Spartacus_ can be seen wearing a wristwatch. The cast of _Star Trek III: The Search for Spock_ serenaded Dame Judith Anderson with the Broadway tune “There’s Nothing Like a Dame” when she first came on-set. Director John Ford told Maureen O’Hara to whisper something naughty to John Wayne in the last scene of _The Quiet Man_, to get a good reaction from him. She did, and he did, and none of them ever revealed what she said to him. Some good stories here, I hope: > [@I met Keir Dullea tonight!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-met-keir-dullea-tonight/589324): > > The Cleveland Cinematheque screened a new print of 2001: A Space Odyssey tonight and Keir Dullea, who played astronaut David Bowman, appeared for Q&A and autographs afterwards. The Cinematheque has shown several of his other movies recently, too (he’s made 25, but of course is best remembered for 2001). Dullea was born in Cleveland but moved away with his parents when he was just three. He met up with the daughter of some of his parents’ friends while he was in town this weekend, and saw th… > [@In which I meet Willem Dafoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-meet-willem-dafoe/690377): > > The Cleveland Cinematheque just had a Willem Dafoe weekend, with screenings of his movies The Dust of Time, Platoon, Go Go Tales and Shadow of the Vampire. The actor himself appeared for Q&A with a sellout crowd after the showing of Shadow on Saturday night. These notes are from memory; all quotations are as accurate as I can recall. Dafoe is from a large Wisconsin family and said he became an actor in part because, to get attention in his family, he had to sort of assume roles. He enjoyed t… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-hollywood-stories/1013172)._