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With the movie Big Penny Marshall became the first female director of a movie with over one hundred million dollars in box office sales.

Betty Grable was the top movie actress box office draw during World War II.

Orson Welles was the first person nominated for 4 Academy Awards for one movie, Citizen Kane.

Judith N. Frank was the first female head of a major motion picture studio.

Two movie versions of an Agatha Christie mystery were released 10 years apart, under the title of Ten Little Indians. Another movie version was released earlier under the name of And Then There Were None.

The film Apocalypse Now is based on the British novel Heart of Darkness.

Elizabeth Taylor was the first person to have a one million dollar contract for a movie. It was for her role in Cleopatra.

Steamboat Willie was the first animated cartoon to use sound. It starred Mickey Mouse.

The first trial to be called a palimony case involved actor Lee Marvin. His live-in girlfriend was Michelle Triola.

Midnight Cowboy was the only X-rated movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The rating was later changed to R.

After all, tomorrow is another day were the last words in Gone With The Wind.

The Academy Award Oscar is 13-1/2 inches tall.

The only feature film ever shot in Smell-o-Vision was Scent of Mystery, in 1960.

The first drive-in movie theater was in Camden, New Jersey, in 1933.

The Four Feathers, completed in 1929, was the title of the last silent movie made.

Hattie McDaniel was the first black performer to win an Academy Award. She won in 1940, for supporting role in Gone With the Wind.

The first movie Patrick Swayze was in was Skatetown, U.S.A.

The first movie Tom Cruise was in was Endless Love.

The only G rated movie to win an Academy Award for best picture was Oliver, in 1968.

The first color movie to win an Academy Award for best picture was Gone With The Wind, in 1939.

The original title of Citizen Kane was John Citizen, U.S.A.

Birth of A Nation was the first movie shown at the White House. It was shown February 18, 1915, while Woodrow Wilson was president.

Knothead is the name of Woody Woodpecker's niece.

The first movie to win an Academy Award for best picture was Wings, in 1927.

Jack Haley replaced Buddy Ebsen in the role of the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz because Buddy Ebsen was allergic to the aluminum paint in the makeup on his skin.

The actress who gave Elvis Presley his first kiss on screen was Jana Lund, in Loving You.

The Academy Award Oscar statuette was designed on a hotel napkin in the Crystal Ball Room of the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California in 1927.

The only person to win an Academy Award by write-in was Hal Mohr, in 1935 for cinematography in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

At the age of 6, in 1935, Shirley Temple became the youngest performer to ever win an Academy Award.

Kiss Me Kate is based on the William Shakespear play The Taming of the Shrew.