- The ruby red slippers in the movie "The Wizard of Oz" were sold off at an auction for $660,000.
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- Actress Debra Winger helped to perform the voice of E.T. in the movie E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982)."
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- In the movie "The Wizard Of Oz," Toto the dog's salary was $125 a week, while Judy Garland was $500 a week.
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- India's movie industry, Bollywood, is the largest in the world producing over eight hundred movies a year. Hollywood only produces half of this number in a year.
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- James Bond is also known as Mr. Kiss-Kiss-Bang-Bang.
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- The MGM lion, whose name was Leo, lived in Memphis until his death.
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- The movie "Cleopatra" cost $44 million to make in 1963. The same movie would now cost $300 million to make taking inflation into account.
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- The name for Oz in "The Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
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- The most expensive animated movie is "Prince of Egypt", which cost $70 million to make.
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- For the 1939 movie "Gone With the Wind" 1,400 actresses were interviewed to play the part of Scarlett O'Hara.
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- The movie "Chicken Run" made in 2000 had the most plasticine used in an animated movie. They used 2,380 kg of plasticine for the movie.
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- Actress Michelle Pfeiffer was the first choice to play Clarice Starling in the movie "Silence of the Lambs." She turned down the role because she found it too scary.
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- The original movie poster for the 1943 movie "The Outlaw," which portrays actress Jane Russell sold for more than $82,200 at Christie's auction house.
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- The 1988 move "Big" which was directed by Penny Marshall was the first movie by a female director to gross over $100 million domestically.
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- The sketch that Jack drew of Rose wearing the famous necklace in the blockbuster movie "Titanic" was really drawn by director James Cameron. The hands that we see drawing the sketch are really Cameron's. Cameron was also responsible for all the other sketches that were in Jack's sketchbook.
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- During the making of the the movie "Fight Club," actor Brad Pitt chipped his tooth. However, he did not get his tooth capped until after the movie was done filming as he thought it would look better chipped for his character.
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- The first theatre to show motion pictures was the Nickelodeon on June 19, 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was opened by Harry Davis on Smithfield Street.
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- Approximately 55% of movies released are Rated R.
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- The original name that was chosen for Cameron Crowe's movie "Almost Famous" was "Untitled." The name had to be changed because Dreamworks would not allow it to be called this.
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- The longest acceptance speech in the history of the Oscars was by Greer Garson in 1942. She received an Oscar for Best Actress for the movie Mrs. Miniver, and her speech was five minutes and 30 seconds long.
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- Movies approximately make five times more from video sales than ticket sales.
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- When an orange is shown in any of the "Godfather" movies, this means that someone is about to die or a close call is to occur.
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