WELCOME
I have decided to concentrate on my best trivia subject, baseball.
I now have a seperate blog in which I am writing my book
"1001 Baseball Trivia Facts". Please come see it.
http://www1001baseballtriviafacts.blogspot.com/2011/10/1001-baseball-trivia-facts-part-1-1-50.html
A HORSE STORY
In the 1938 Movie "The Adventures Of Robin Hood" Olivia de
Havilland played Maid Marion and rode on a horse named
"Golden Cloud" After the movie the horse was sold to Roy
Rogers and he renamed it Trigger.
AN EXPENSIVE WORD
The Producers of the movie "Gone With The Wind" were fined
$5,000 for using the word "Damn"
SOME TRIVIA FROM BEDFORD FALLS
The two characters on Sesame Street, Bert and Ernie, were
named after the cop and the taxi driver in the movie "It's
A Wonderful Life"
PLAY BALL !!
The Character Archibald "Moonlight" Graham, played by
Burt Lancaster in the movie "Field Of Dreams", actually
existed. As in the movie, he only played in one game. It was
on June 29, 1905. He was sent in to play right field for the New
Yotk Giants in the bottom of the 8th inning and was scheduled
to bat 4th in the top of the 9th. Three quick outs, however,
left him in the on deck circle. He never batted. He never
played again. He went to the University Of Maryland medical
school and, just like the movie, was a small town doctor in
Chisholm, Minnesota for 50 years. Doc Graham died in
in Chisholm in 1965.
BIG BUCKS
"Big"(1988) starring Tom Hanks was the first movie in history
to gross over 100 million dollars that was directed by a woman.
It was directed by Penny Marshall.
HELLO, MY NAME IS
Here is a list of famous actors and their real names:
............Lauren Bacall.............................Betty Joan Perske
...........Charles Bronson.........................Charles Puchinski
...........Kirk Douglas...............................Issur Danielovitch
...........Sally Field...................................Sally Mahoney
..........Cheryl Ladd.................................Cheryl Stoppelmoor
...........Karl Malden................................Mladen Sekulovich
...........Walter Mathau............................Walter Matuschanskayask
...........Edward G. Robinson...................Emmanual Goldenberg
...........Gene Wilder................................Jerome Silberman
...........Moe.............................................Moses Horowitz
...........Larry...........................................Larry Fienberg
...........Curly...........................................Jerome Horowitz
FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD
Actor Frank Morgan played five different roles in the movie "The
Wizard Of Oz". He played the carnival huckster (Professor Marvel),
the gatekeeper of Emerald City, the driver of the carriage drawn
by the horse of a different color, the armed guard leading to the
wizard's hall and of course the Wizard himself. The role was
originally meant for W.C.Fields.
