Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, commonly just called Mies, was the last director of Berlin’s Bauhaus, and then headed the department of architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, where he developed the Second Chicago School. Along with Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, and Frank Lloyd Wright, he is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture.
In a scene in Back to the Future (1985), Christopher Lloyd’s character, Dr Emmett L “Doc” Brown, hangs on the arm of a large clock. This mimics a stunt done by Harold Lloyd (no relation) in the movie Safety Last! (1923).
Some of the footage of the climactic football game in the Rose Bowl from Harold Lloyd’s silent The Freshman was reused in the much-later talkie The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, about a man who had been a football hero in his youth but was a pile of meh the rest of his life. Howard Hughes showed that, as a film producer, he made a great aviation industry magnate.
Howard Hughes film producing credits include the hits **Hell’s Angels, the Front Page ** and the classic film Scarface.
Howard Hughes’s favorite movie was Ice Station Zebra, a Cold War melodrama that he watched hundreds of times late in life.
Bryce Dallas Howard, daughter of Ron, got her middle name from the city where she was conceived.
Ron’s brother, actor Clint Howard, was awarded the MTV Lifetime Achievement Award at the MTV Movie Awards in 1998.
Clint Eastwood was the only nominee for the Best Actor Oscar in 2004 (for Million Dollar Baby) to play a fictitious character. All four other nominees portrayed real people in their respective films.
Clint Eastwood produced and starred in The Outlaw Josey Wales, based on the novel Gone to Texas by Forrest Carter, who later penned the best seller The Education of Little Tree. Forrest Carter claimed to be a Cherokee storyteller, but was in fact a white former KKK leader named Asa Carter who wrote the famous segregation speech by George Wallace and took his nom de plume from Nathan Bedford Forrest. Far from the peaceful nature loving alter ego he assumed, Carter had a long history of violence and died as a result of a beating received from his son.
The Doors have more songs in Forrest Gump (1994) than any other band, with a total of six. These are “Soul Kitchen” (in one of the Vietnam scenes), “Hello, I Love You” (first song in Gump’s first ping pong sequence), “People Are Strange” (second song in Gump’s first ping pong sequence), “Break On Through” (third song in Gump’s first ping pong sequence), “Peace Frog” (during a New York scene with Lt. Dan) and “Love Her Madly” (when Jenny is leaving her abusive boy friend).
After Steve Winwood left Traffic to join Blind Faith, the rest of the group recruited Mick Weaver to replace him, and did a few gigs under the name of Mason, Capaldi, Wood, and Frog, later shortening the name to Wooden Frog. Weaver performed under the stage name of Wynder K. Frog, hence the name.
English actresses Elsa Lanchester and Estelle Winwood appeared as aging sleuth Jessica Marbles (a Miss Marple parody) and her ancient former nanny in the film Murder By Death.
English actress Keira Knightley will play the young wife of Chris Pine in the upcoming reboot of the Tom Clancy character, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.
William II was the only adult King of England since the Conquest who never took a wife.
Prince William and Kate are fifteenth cousins.
Who isn’t? 
The “tenth and fifteenth” was the standard form of taxation in the English medieval period. It was worth about £39,000 in revenue to the Crown.
Steve McQueen considered The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) his favorite film that he made.
Actress Butterfly McQueen gained fame for her role as Prissy in Gone With the Wind, but grew tired of being typecast and quit acting in films in 1947. She returned for occasional TV and theater performances and won an Emmy in 1980.
Butterfly McQueen’s Emmy was for the ABC Afterschool Special “The Seven Wishes of Joanna Peabody.” She played a fairy godmother.
In April 2009, Joanna “Absolutely Fabulous” Lumley, a former Bond girl, became the spokeswoman for the Gurkhas in Britain and was instrumental in persuading the British government to allow Gurkhas who had served in the Army the right to settle in Britain. When she visited Nepal in July 2009, she was treated as a heroine and a goddess by crowds of people on the street and was thanked by Nepal’s president and prime minister for her work in championing the Gurkhas’ cause.