In the movie Gremlins, the two films listed on the theatre’s marquee are the working titles of two Stephen Spielberg films - E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Also, the set used for Main Street was the same one they used for Back to the Future.
This thread reminded me of another one. The Ferrari in the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was actually a replica based on a modified MGB. After the movie came out, Ferrari sued the kitcar company that produced the kit for using the Ferrari logo without permission. The lawsuit bankrupt the company and forced them out of business.
You want weird movie trivia? I’ll give you weird movie trivia!
The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz actually wore a lion skin. Margaret Hamilton almost died filming the scene where she confronts Dorothy and Glinda – the elevator she was on caught fire.
Gene Kelly almost caught pneumonia filming the big “Singin’ in the Rain” number – he had a bad cold at the time. Also, he was dancing in diluted milk, it showed up better on screen. Best Singin’ trivia: In the scene where Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds) is dubbing Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen), the voice you hear is NOT Ms. Reynolds, but Ms. Hagen. In other words, you hear Jean Hagen’s natural voice dubbing Debbie Reynolds dubbing Jean Hagen. The singing Ms. Reynolds was supposed to dub was also another (uncredited) singer. (NOT Marnie Nixon, I believe.)
Mike Douglas did the singing for the Prince in Disney’s Cinderella. Alan Jones did the voice of the Prince for Disney’s Snow White. Alan Jones is the father of singer Jack Jones.
That’ll do for now.
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie is actually shorter than an episode of the TV show. This is because a host segment was cut because the studio thought the movie was too long. Also, the line about Leona Helmsley when the mutant appears near the end was originally, “Hey! It’s Bootsy Collins!” Bootsy, of course, was the bassist in George Clinton’s P-Funk band.
Also, the opening scene of Patton (the speech in front of the flag) was shot last because George C. Scott didn’t think he knew the character well when shooting started.
In Episode I, you can see E.T. in the Senate, an EVA pod from 2001 in the junkyard, and supposedly, Indiana Jones in the podrace crowd. Anakin also casts Vader’s shadow in places, just like the poster.
In The Blues Brothers, Jake’s watch is broken when he gets it back on his release. After that, a cop in every crash after a chase says “Hey! He broke my watch!” Also, a train goes by every time we see the window in Elwood’s apartment. And, Steven Spielberg and Joe Walsh make small cameos (Spielberg is the clerk in the assessor’s office, Walsh jumps on the table during “Jailhouse Rock”)
-Brianjedi
Are you sure Eddie Murphy wasn’t supposed to play a NUTTY PROFESSOR?? Sorry, couldn’t resist…
Interesting that Murphy’s role was actually written into the script, I took my info from Leonard Nimoy’s book I Am Spock and he simply stated that they dropped the idea of having Eddie Murphy in the movie. I’m sure he had reason to conveniently leave that part out since he had a writing credit, too.
“Not now, Marilyn!” is just about the best line in the whole movie!!!
I’m late in returning to the thread, but thank you.
Further trivia on-----
ALAN LADD-----he was never filmed from the front when shooting a gun----he BLINKED with every shot he fired. Can’t have a “tough guy doing THAT. As for the height thing–he was 5’6”—and there was a famous pic. of him and Sophia Loren when the were doing BOY ON A DOLPHIN. HE was standing on a rock and they here still nose to nose!
In RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK-----“someone” gets ADOLPH HITLER’S autograph----and Adolph is spelled “Adoff”. Surprised at Speilberg.
ROBERT BLAKE----was one of THE LITTLE RASCALS under his real name, Mickey Gubitosi. Played LITTLE BEAVER in the RED RYDER serials of the 40s, as “Bobby” Blake. I STILL refer to him as Bobby.
And—CAIRCAIR------I don’t know if you’ve straightened something out for me or what----
I’d always heard the DEAN STOCKWELL’S father Harry was the voice of the prince in SNOW WHITE but had always wondered if it was BOTH speaking AND singing or just one or the other?
Do you mean “Adoff” or “Adolf?” If you mean “Adolf,” that’s how it really was spelled. I should know.
If it was Mr. Stockwell’s voice, it would have had to be for the dialog, and I don’t remember the prince saying more than one or two lines, at best.
Reason I’m almost certain it was Alan Jones is that he was a singer, and quite popular at the time. Check out his performance in “A Night at The Opera”, and you’ll see what I mean.
“Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” had the most credits of any movie. This is rather ironic if you consider the fact that Kathleen Turner (Jessica Rabbit) is completely uncredited.
I’m not sure this is true but…
Prior to his role as the Riddler, Frank Gorshin was well known as an impersonator. (He appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show) The Riddler is actually Frank Gorshin’s impersonation of Richard Widmark in the movie “Kiss of Death”
John Wayne appeared on screen with Oliver Hardy in the movie “The Fighting Kentuckian”
You must mean Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ?
Just to complete the trifecta of nitpicking on this one, exchicagoan, by “someone,” don’t you mean Indiana Jones?
I have never before said this regarding an movie Richard Widmark was in, but here goes: I have got to see that movie now!
Gay novelist Gore Vidal was one of the screenwriters for “Ben-Hur,” and he claims he loaded the screenplay with gay innuendo. He met privately with actor Stephen Boyd, who played Charlton Heston’s evil Roman nemesis, and told Boyd that his character and Judah Ben-Hur were former homosexual lovers, and THAT was to be Boyd’s motivation for ruining Ben-Hur’s life (a woman scorned, and all that)!
Heston, of course, never knew about any of this- but he and Stephen Boyd were, essentially, involved in a very violent lovers’ spat!
The opening shot of “The Naked Gun” shows a majestic white building subtitled as “Beirut.” This building is actually the Brand Library in Glendale, where I’ve been many times. They didn’t even check my papers! 
Oh, and while watching the “Army of Darkness” DVD the other day it was pointed out to me that Sam Raimi is in his own film as like five different small characters. (Including “You can count on my steel” and the bored “So did you say the words right this time?” where he looks like the character he played later on SeaQuest DSV, if I’m not mistaken. But I digress)
I’ve also been told that in the pool sequence of the latest version of “Romeo and Juliet,” diCaprio and Danes were told to duck underwater to buy time whenever they couldn’t remember their lines. Watch how many times diCaprio dunks himself.
AND … in Jurassic Park 2, the city the T-Rex tears up is actually “downtown” Burbank. When the guy gets chomped right before he gets through some glass doors (I believe he’s called “Unfortunate Bastard” or something to that effect in the credits) I annoyed the whole movie theater by exclaiming “Hey! That’s Super Crown!”
Okay, I’ll stop now.
For those who rely upon me for their Star Trek trivia, the secretary in Trek IV is actually “Madeline,” not Marilyn. It’s still Elvira though.
In The Search For Spock, George Takei was so taken with the Vulcan costumes, that he asked and received permission from director Nimoy to don one and pull the hood down low over his face to be in a crowd scene on the steps leading up to Mount Selaya. Most of the shot was dropped eventually.
Sulu was supposed to encounter his GreatX??? grandfather as a ten-year-old boy in San Francisco in Trek IV, but the little boy playing him froze up on the set, couldn’t get his lines out, and the scene was abandoned.
Harrison Ford is supposedly the actor who plays “Keys” in ET (written by Melissa Matheson, his wife), being shot from the waist down.
Escape From New York was originally written with the pipe-dream of getting Clint Eastwood to play Snake, thus Kurt Russell does a knock-off imitation of him as a nod to this idea.
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That’s not Sam Raimi, but rather his younger brother, Ted.
Rod Serling, of Twilight Zone fame, co-wrote the screenplay to Planet of the Apes (the original).
Erich Segal (Love Story, novel and screenplay) co-wrote Yellow Submarine. Before he wrote LS, that is.