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unusual facts about B movies



Archie Stout

In a career largely confined to B movies, he provided cinematography assistance on such films as the original version of The Ten Commandments (1923) and several Hopalong Cassidy and Tarzan films.

Charity Rahmer

Prior to working on Days she appeared in several B movies, two of which were directed by David DeCoteau and co-starred former One Life to Live actor Matthew Twining.

Man of Tai Chi

During the film's five years of scripting and production, Reeves acted in several B movies with lead roles as Henry in 2010's Henry's Crime and John in 2012's Generation Um....

Peggy Moran

Born Mary Jeanette Moran in Clinton, Iowa, Moran starred in a number of B movies like The Mummy's Hand (1940), Slightly Tempted (1940), Treat 'Em Rough (1942) with Eddie Albert and William Frawley, and King of the Cowboys (1943) with Roy Rogers and Smiley Burnette, and played smaller parts in A pictures, such as the "first cigarette girl" in Ninotchka (1939), which starred Greta Garbo.


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Arthur P. Schmidt

He worked on several of the Bulldog Drummond B-movies, The Blue Dahlia (1946) and When Worlds Collide (1951).

Arthur Q. Bryan

Bryan never earned a big break in film, his live action work remained largely uncredited cameos, usually employing the Fudd persona, or minor supporting roles in B-movies (like the apoplectic newspaper editor in the Bela Lugosi thriller The Devil Bat).

Confessions of a Sorority Girl

Confessions of a Sorority Girl is a part of the Showtime Network's Rebel Highway series that featured films using titles from Eisenhower-era B-movies, also including Roadracers (1994) and Girls In Prison (1994).

Cosmix

However, a wave of or-suffixed action/horror Hollywood blockbusters and B-movies spread in France in the 1980s including Exterminator, Terminator, and Predator.

Is It ... Man or Astroman?

Alien Visitors contains dialogue audio samples from the b-movies Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, Plan 9 from Outer Space, and the television series The Outer Limits.

Rainbeaux Smith

This led to supporting roles in other films, including the cult classic B-movies Caged Heat, Phantom of the Paradise, The Swinging Cheerleaders, Revenge of the Cheerleaders, The Pom Pom Girls, Laserblast and a cameo role in Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke.

Richard E. Cunha

Cunha wrote and directed only a handful of films, with his four best-known ones all being low-budget, sci fi-horror B-movies released in 1958 by Astor Pictures -- Giant from the Unknown, She Demons, Missile to the Moon, and Frankenstein's Daughter.

The Three Mesquiteers

The Three Mesquiteers is the umbrella title for a Republic Pictures series of 51 Western B-movies released between 1936 and 1943, including 8 films starring John Wayne.