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87 unusual facts about Hollywood


Action Hollywood

You can choose to start at a Hollywood shoot set in "Temples of Chaos," "Excaliwood," "Transilvania" or "Galaxy War."

Aidan Roark

Aidan Roark (October 23, 1905 - March 27, 1984) was an Irish 10-goal polo player and in Hollywood he acted as a personal assistant to Darryl Francis Zanuck.

Alexis Krasilovsky

Her film Women Behind the Camera won Best Documentary awards at the Female Eye Film Festival (Toronto, Canada); the Moondance Film Festival (Universal City, California); and the W.I.N. (Women’s Image Network) Film Festival (Hollywood).

America Now TV

Hollywood up and coming artists, producers, supermodels and celebrities, including Sylvester Stallone, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kirstie Alley, Spanish superstar Julio Iglesias and Canadian singer Norman Iceberg were all interviewed and/or guests on America Now TV.

American football at the 1932 Summer Olympics

All-American Albie Booth of Yale as well as Erny Pinckert and All-American Johnny Baker of USC decided not to play when offered paying jobs in Hollywood.

ASIFA-Hollywood

Many branches of ASIFA exist throughout the world; in the US there are chapters in San Francisco, New York City, Atlanta, Seattle, Washington, the Detroit area, and others, while internationally, organizations exist in Annecy, France, in Italy, and Japan.

Axel Madsen

He was best known for his biographies of Hollywood celebrities, fashion pioneers, and business titans.

Backstage and Dangerous: The Private Rehearsal

Backstage and Dangerous: The Private Rehearsal is a rehearsal album of the rock band The Doors, recorded live at the Aquarius Theatre in Hollywood.

Bel Air Circuit

The Bel Air Circuit, more recently known as the Bel Air Digital Circuit, is an exclusive movie distribution service provided by the main Hollywood studios, offered to a group of movie executives, actors, as well as other wealthy individuals, in and around the greater Los Angeles area in the USA.

Benjamin Wishnietsky

Benjamin Wishnietsky retired to Florida and served on the board of the Hollywood Stamp Club, in Hollywood, Florida and was editor of their newsletter, the Hollywood Philatelist for more than 30 years.

Biff Rose

Born in New Orleans, Rose moved to Hollywood where he found a job working as a comedy sketch writer with George Carlin working sometimes on the Mort Sahl show.

Big Screen Preview Network

The Big Screen Preview Network (BSPN) is a digital cable channel focusing on upcoming movies and the current happenings in Hollywood.

Billesley, West Midlands

To the south is the Shirley West ward of Solihull and the Hollywood & Majors Green ward of Worcestershire.

Boris Shumyatsky

Another factor that was turned against Shumyatsky by his opponents: following a visit to the United States, he returned to Moscow with a vision of moving the hub of the film industry to a spot near Odessa, where the climate and geography were similar to those of Hollywood and thus more amenable to year-round film-making.

Broadway Is My Beat

Beginning with the July 7, 1949 episode, the series was broadcast from Hollywood with producer Elliott Lewis directing a new cast in scripts by Morton S. Fine and David Friedkin.

Canadian Pacific Railway No. 1293

In 1980, the locomotive was renumbered "1881", painted black with silver stripes, and leased to a Hollywood company for use in the filming of the horror movie Terror Train (1980), starring Jamie Lee Curtis.

Catalina Pottery

The pottery opened free standing stores to sell their wares in Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, Hollywood, Olvera Street in Los Angeles, and in the Arizona Biltmore Hotel, Phoenix.

Characters in Molly Moon

He was later seen with Mrs. Trinklebury that November, and went out for dinner with the main characters of the series to a French restaurant, along with the rest of the famous Hollywood stars.

Choctaw code talkers

During recent decades Hollywood has "discovered" code talkers, but not the Choctaw code talkers.

Chrome Specialties

As the Harley-Davidson craze swept through Hollywood many celebrities and rock stars looking for authentic biker gear wore the company’s leather jackets.

Craig Sawyer

Sawyer is also the owner of Tactical Insider, which brings technical advice on weapons and combat to Hollywood films and actors.

Dahn Ben-Amotz

He then traveled to the United States and went to Hollywood.

Dallas Stoudenmire

Hollywood briefly considered a movie of him, but it has yet to materialize.

DeWayne Quirico

At the unavailability of drummer Dalton Powell, Bobby Fuller personally chose Quirico to be the band's drummer upon their relocation to Hollywood from El Paso.

Dick Briefer

At the time of his death, Briefer was living in the Hollywood / Pembroke Pines area of Broward County, Florida.

Dj SchizophreNik

Records in Canada, and dance label iMusic in the UK, and is also currently working with A&R Select in Hollywood.

Earl Hofmann

Earl and Jean Hofmann lived in a house and studio they built in Hollywood, Maryland, not far from Leonardtown, Maryland.

Earl Reginhard

As he accelerated his knowledge in film making, he realized that his heart lied in making movies or to be a part of movies, which are globally appealing; breaking the barriers between Hollywood and Bollywood.

Five Billion Years of Change: A History of the Land

Hollywood movies dealing with ecological threats are especially misleading; rather than imparting an accurate image of ecological issues, movies present a villain such as a mad scientist or a greedy, evil business person.

Happy ending

In the 1928 Austrian operetta Die Herzogin von Chicago, the two lovers who are too proud to speak to one another are finally brought together by a Hollywood producer who explains that he plans to make a movie of their love story, but that he cannot until it has the required happy ending.

Harry Gant

He was known as Handsome Harry Gant due to his Hollywood-style good looks, The Bandit after his longtime sponsor Skoal Bandit, Mr.

Haunting the Chapel

Recorded in Hollywood the recording process proved difficult when recording drums in a studio without carpet, although it resulted in drummer Dave Lombardo meeting Gene Hoglan who was to become an influence in his drumming style and speed.

Henry MacRae

In addition to the many westerns and adventure films to his credit, he directed the first Thai-Hollywood co-production, Miss Suwanna of Siam, in 1923.

Hollywood cycles

In the classic era of Hollywood cinema (1930 – 1945) "cycles" or genres matured.

Hollywood, County Wicklow

About 3 km northeast of the village is the picturesque Poulaphouca, where the Liffey cascades in three stages.

Hollywood, Maryland

Sotterley was founded in 1703 by James Bowles, a wealthy planter, eventually changing hands to former Maryland Governor George Plater and through the 20th century to Louisa Satterlee (daughter of J.P. Morgan) and her husband.

Hollywood's Comedy Nights

Hollywood's Comedy Nights is the name of an English-language stand-up comedy show in Cologne, Germany.

Hollywood/I Am the Resurrection

The artwork also resembles the artwork of The Stone Roses' artwork for their I Am the Resurrection single.

Hooah

While used in Hollywood and in common usage among upper ranks in an effort to raise morale, many lower enlisted find its use to be irritating, especially when it comes from soldiers they perceive as sycophantic towards the chain of command or the armed services in general.

Hortense Powdermaker

Hortense Powdermaker (December 24, 1900 - June 15, 1970) was an anthropologist best known for her ethnographic studies of African Americans in rural America and of Hollywood.

Ibunda

It did not turn a profit, a situation the Subentra Group blamed on imported Hollywood films being more popular.

India Dupre

At seventeen she moved to Hollywood to attend UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and has been acting in plays, film and television ever since.

Irene Mayer Selznick

Considered by her peers within the entertainment industry as one of the foremost historians of Hollywood and Broadway, in 1983 Irene M. Selznick published her autobiography A Private View.

Ish Amitoj Kaur

Presently, she is working on an untitled book to be made into a Hollywood movie.

Isle of Missing Men

Oswald was an exiled Austrian director who had fled Germany when the Nazis came to power going to France, Britain and finally to Hollywood where he made a handful of films.

Jacek Yerka

In 1990, Yerka received a contract with Hollywood producer Renee Daalder to design figures, monster-machines and surreal landscapes for the science fiction film Strawberry fields.

Jan Weber

Honza performed in Hollywood at Tony Hawk`s charity event "Stand up for Skateparks".

Kiki Sørum

The books she authored included Hollywood i moten (Hollywood in Fashion, 1986) and Kle deg magisk (Dress Magically, 1999).

Killarney, Gauteng

It was formerly known as the Hollywood of Johannesburg, due it being the location of one the first film studios in South Africa.

Kilteevan

The Hollywood actor Tom Cruise can trace his roots back to Kilteevan through his real surname, Maypother.

Kodambakkam, Chennai

Kodambakkam is the centre of the Tamil film industry known as Kollywood, a portmanteau of Kodambakkam and Hollywood.

Leopoldo María Panero

#The reference to "Dulce pájaro de juventud" (Sweet Bird of Youth, theatre play by Tennessee Williams, which was brought to film by Richard Brooks in 1962 and which tells how a bon viveur has to leave his hometown, after seducing the boss's daughter. Installed in Hollywood he will become the lover of an autumn star).

Live at the Aquarius Theatre: The Second Performance

Live at the Aquarius Theater: The Second Performance is a double live album of the band The Doors, released as a double CD recorded live on the Aquarius Theatre in Hollywood on 21 July 1969.

Live: A Night on the Strip

Live: A Night on the Strip is a live recording by L.A. Guns which occurred October 7, 1999, at the Key Club on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.

MacArthur, West Virginia

Originally, it was named Hollywood and renamed MacArthur in 1942.

Mamee Double-Decker

Hollywood Pulpy Orange is a orange juice from Mamee-Double Decker was launched on 1 December 2012.

Max Van Ville

Max Van Ville (born January 13, 1987), a.k.a. VANVILLE, is an American DJ/producer/from Hollywood, Los Angeles.

Michael Worth

Surviving on odd jobs and construction work, Michael accepted whatever small parts he could as he climbed the Hollywood ladder.

Mid-air retrieval

The Genesis mission returned a sample of solar wind that was so delicate that it would have been damaged by a parachute landing, so a mid-air retrieval using helicopters flown by Hollywood stunt pilots contracted by NASA was planned.

Mike Fanning

In his years at Notre Dame he shared the practice field with Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger whose saga was made into a Hollywood film, "Rudy."

Mimi Freedman

Mimi Freedman is an American documentary filmmaker who specializes in films about Hollywood history.

Moore Brothers

The Moore Brothers were three Irish born brothers who became famous in the motion picture business in early Hollywood.

Mr. Skin

In 2007, MrSkin.com was referenced in Judd Apatow's comedy, Knocked Up, which was discussed in a New York Times Business section feature which detailed MrSkin.com's history, its prominence in Knocked Up, and the site's positive relationship with Hollywood companies as a marketing tool.

Nosson Zand

After further gigs and performance with Matisyahu, in 2007 he went to Hollywood to play the lead role in Song of David a movie about a young Hasid who is studying to become a rabbi in a Los Angeles yeshiva.

Paramount Resources

In addition to its own name, Paramount has several subsidiaries with names resembling those of Hollywood companies, including Fox Drilling, Summit Resources, and Pixar Petroleum.

Pareh

During this period cinemas in the country mainly showed Hollywood productions.

Pearry Teo

Pearry Reginald Teo Zhang Pingli (born 23 July 1978), film director/producer, is the first Singaporean movie director to make a Hollywood film.

Ponderosa Ranch

The stairs led nowhere, as the "bedrooms" were actually located on a sound stage in Hollywood.

Pontiac Star Chief

When the storyline of I Love Lucy pointed towards a Hollywood setting in the 1954-1955 season, the characters "drove" (in episode 110, "California Here We Come") to the West Coast in a 1955 Star Chief convertible.

R. R. Venkat

The producer has also made his foray into Hollywood with the 2012 English movie Divorce Invitation starring Jonathan Bennett directed by veteran S. V. Krishna Reddy which is a remake of S. V. Krishna Reddy's Srikanth and Ramya Krishnan starrer Aahwanam.

Richard Hough

After leaving school, he joined the RAF (Royal Air Force) at the beginning of World War II and received his initial flight training at an airfield not far from Hollywood.

Rick Sylvester

Rick Sylvester (Born April 3, 1942) is a climber and was a Hollywood stuntman, most famous for his BASE jump using skis and a Union Flag parachute from Canada's Mount Asgard for the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me in July 1976.

S. V. Krishna Reddy

He ventured into Hollywood with the upcoming 2012 English romantic comedy, Divorce Invitation, a remake of his 1997 acclaimed Telugu film, Aahvaanam in post production, produced by R. R. Venkat.

Sari Maritza

She made the German-UK film Monte Carlo Madness in Germany in 1932 before travelling to Hollywood, but her few films there for Paramount Studios and RKO Radio Pictures were poorly received.

Siamak Pourzand

He also reported on Hollywood and became one of Iran's "best known film critics", writing for the French film journal Cahiers du cinéma.

Sophia Choi

She moved to the U.S. at the age of seven, and attended Hollywood Elementary School in Hollywood, Maryland.

Swaroop Kanchi

Kanchi also collaborated with DreamWorks to make a film on the similarities and differences between Bollywood and Hollywood; the film featured many notable film personalities of Indian film industry.

Teague Egan

The entertainment promotions company held events at entertainment venues throughout the Hollywood area, including the J Restaurant and Lounge.

The Dance of Passion

An early premiere along the lines of Hollywood movie premieres was held on April 24, 2006 at the International Finance Centre Palace.

The Mercer Hotel

Also owned by André Balazs Properties are the Standard Hotels, including The Standard, Hollywood; The Standard, Downtown LA; The Standard Spa, Miami Beach; The Standard, High Line and the newest addition, The Standard, East Village.

The Pilgrims of Rayne

It is said that Dewey Todd went to manage a hotel in Hollywood, CA.

The Red Skelton Show

The program was produced at Desilu Productions and CBS Television City in Hollywood, and over five years, from 1955 through 1960, was telecast in color approximately 100 times.

The Saint's Vacation

Also, unlike the previous Saint films, which were produced in Hollywood, The Saint's Vacation was produced and filmed in the United Kingdom.

Tommy Tang

After emigrating to the U.S., Tang took a day job as chef and manager at a small Thai restaurant in Hollywood, California.

Vishal Kanoi

Toured the country with India’s first reality show all girls pop band VIVA for their debut album ‘Hum Naye Geet Sunaye’, performed ballet in Sahara TV’s epic show Ramayana, and to top it all performed at the World Aids Day in the presence of Hollywood great Richard Gere.

Wojeck

Although it was one of the highest-rated shows on Canadian television in its time, only 20 episodes of the series were made, because Vernon was lured to Hollywood by the promise of more money than the CBC could offer.

Xavier Ruiz

In 2005, he also directed the documentary Swiss Made in Hollywood, which relates the actual experiences of three young Swiss people who try to build their career in Hollywood.


Ace Atkins

As a Pinkerton Agency detective, Hammett investigated the rape and manslaughter case against early Hollywood star Roscoe Arbuckle, one of the most sensational trials of the 20th Century.

Aguinaldo Filho

2 years later the station went bankrupt, and Naldo and Rosa decided to go into business for themselves, and bought a TCBY franchise at Hollywood Beach in Florida.

Ambre Hammond

Lalo Schifrin, a renowned Hollywood film score writer has composed a double concerto for Ambre Hammond and trumpeter James Morrison which was premiered on 19 July 2007 at the Sydney Opera House with the Sydney Symphony; the concert was later broadcast on ABC Television.

Blood of the Innocent

Breck Eisner is set to direct the upcoming Hollywood film adaptation.

Broken Springs

Broken Springs had its world premier on June 4, 2010 in Hollywood at the Dances With Films festival on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

Cal Tjader Plays Harold Arlen

He swipes string-section sounds (icy and twangy by turns) from the moderns, steals chords from Bartók's string quartets, throws in some Hollywood soundtrack stuff, conks on the bare piano strings, and fools around with counter-rhythms.

Carl A. Roles

A Thoroughbred trainer and owner, he trained for prominent stable owners such as Ada L. Rice of Chicago and Hollywood film studio boss, Louis B. Mayer.

Charles Gordone

His acting credits included Brother Jerro in "The Trials of Brother Jerro Bohem," Hickey in "Of Mice and Men," and The Valet in Jean Genet's The Blacks (1961–1966) alongside of James Earl Jones, Maya Angelou, Cicely Tyson, and many other Black actors who went on to change Hollywood.

Coastal Studios

The company has previously provided ADR work for Hollywood films and television in the 1990s such as Batman & Robin, The Lion King, and Dawson's Creek.

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.

Costume jewelry

If you admired a necklace worn by Bette Davis in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, you could buy a copy from Joseff of Hollywood, who made the original.

Culmore

The Hollywood feature film, "L.A. Story", starring Steve Martin and Sarah Jessica Parker is, according to Martin in "Born Standing Up", partly based on an Irish traditional song, The Maid Of Culmore.

Dadasaheb Torne

He caught another young man there, Baburao Pai, and started releasing Hollywood movies in Karachi.

David Sheehan

In the 1980s, while at NBC, Sheehan was the first local entertainment reporter to host and produce his own series of network specials, including “Macho Men of the Movies” (with Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger) and “Hollywood’s Leading Ladies” (with Julia Roberts, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sharon Stone and Barbra Streisand).

Del Reeves

In the late 1960s, he recorded an album paying tribute to Jim Reeves (no relation) and also appeared in several Hollywood films, including a starring role in "Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers", and a supporting role in Burt Reynolds' first big movie Sam Whiskey.

Edward Beale McLean

Edward McLean then suddenly announced he had already married Rose Douras, a sister of Hollywood film star Marion Davies.

Eilat International Film Festival

Guests who have attended the festival include, American actress Valerie Harper, Oscar winner Ari Sandel, cinematographer Adam Greenberg, TV director Jeremy Kagan, leading Hollywood producers Avi Lerner and Dan Dimbort and additionally a host of Israeli leading industry professionals and celebrities.

Harry von Zell

Von Zell delivered the commentary on Celebrity Golf, a series of half-hour, nine-hole golf matches made in 1960 with Sam Snead taking on Hollywood celebrities at Los Angeles golf courses such as Woodland Hills and Lakeside Country Club.

Herbert Stothart

In 1929, Stothart was signed to a large Hollywood contract by another would-be playwright of the day, Louis B. Mayer.

History of VFX in Indian Films

The recent film "Krrish" had hollywood vfx supervisor Craig Mumma and was completely executed in India by Prasad EFX.

Jack Palladino

In April 2009, Australian businessman Peter Holmes à Court admitted in the NSW Supreme Court that the Hollywood actor Russell Crowe had hired Palladino & Sutherland to investigate opposition to the planned takeover of the South Sydney Rabbitohs.

John Wozniak

On June 6, 1997, at the John Anson Ford Theatre in Hollywood, Woz joined Toad the Wet Sprocket on stage during the band's encore, trading verses with Toad frontman Glen Phillips, to sing a cover of David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust".

Julian Blaustein

He spent a year in flight training at the Randolph Air Force Base before heading to Hollywood, where he became a reader in the story department at Universal Pictures.

Last Summer in the Hamptons

Proskurov has been the site of an intimate outdoor theatrical performance for many summers, and the family (and Helena's interns) are preparing the final details of the show when successful Hollywood actress Oona Hart (Victoria Foyt) arrives.

Mazda RX-7

Mazda introduced a convertible version of the RX-7 in 1988 with a Naturally aspirated engine — introduced to the US market with ads featuring Hollywood actor James Garner, at the time featured in many of Mazda's television advertisements.

Mistress Nell Gwyn

The year of its publication, the novel was adapted for the silent film Nell Gwyn, a prestige production directed by Herbert Wilcox for which the Hollywood actress Dorothy Gish was brought over to Britain to play Gwyn.

MotorStorm: Apocalypse

After watching the title sequence for Smokin' Aces Alan McDermott from Evolution approached VooDooDog to explore developing a Hollywood block buster title sequence for the game.

Ned Scott

Ned Scott arrived in Hollywood in February, 1935 and took up residence with Fred Zinnemann, Henwar Rodakiewicz and Gunther von Fritsch in a studio apartment complex at 7900 Honey Drive, North Hollywood.

Norris J. Nelson

Norwegian actress Asta Bertels was mentioned in the testimony, Nelson relating that he brought her from Norway the same month, April 1946, that he separated from his wife and that he was acting as her agent in furthering a Hollywood career; she signed a contract with showgirl impresario Earl Carroll.

Rick Hurst

Richard Douglas "Rick" Hurst (born January 1, 1946) an American actor who portrayed Deputy Cletus Hogg, Boss Hogg's cousin, in the 1980 to 1983 seasons of The Dukes of Hazzard and most recent The Dukes of Hazzard Reunion in 1997 and Hazzard in Hollywood in 2000.

Rudy Jahchan

Becoming known for its Robot Chicken like fan-based humor, sharp editing, and recreation of Hollywood effects with minimal to no budget, it has grown a loyal following of over a quarter million viewers a month.

Ryan Kahn

As an avid music fan, Ryan spends his free time playing bass in a Los Angeles based band, The Night Riders which has headlined on Hollywood’s world famous Sunset Strip.

Seminole Warriors Boxing

Launched in 2003 and based in Hollywood, Florida, the company amassed veterans like Oliver McCall, Lance Whitaker, and prospects like Danny O'Connor, Roman Greenberg, Wilmer Vasquez, Carl Davis Drummond and Jonathan González.

Shanghai Girls

The sisters' story is interrelated with critical historical events, famous people, and important places—the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Battle of Shanghai, internment at Angel Island, Los Angeles Chinatown, Hollywood, World War II, the Chinese Exclusion Act, McCarthyism, etc.

Sid Meier's SimGolf

Other facilities made available as players progress through the game include a bar, a putting green, a tennis court and homes to parodies of Hollywood stars or other international celebrities, such as William Robins, Bruce Springstone, Pamela Panderson, or Rosie O'Doul.

Steal This Film

Material found in Steal This Film includes the music of Can, tracks "Thief" and "She Brings the Rain"; clips from other documentary interviews with industry and governmental officials; several industry anti-piracy promotionals; logos from several major Hollywood studios, and sequences from The Day After Tomorrow, The Matrix, Zabriskie Point, and They Live.

Sternocleidomastoid muscle

"Even C-3PO has it, in the form of little pistons on his neck. Watch Star Trek: The good guys always have them, and the bad guys don't. It's a classic alien designer trick," notes biologist and Hollywood anatomy consultant Stuart Sumida.

The Cripple of Inishmaan

1934, the inhabitants are excited to learn of a Hollywood film crew's arrival in neighbouring Inis Mór to make a documentary about life on the islands.

The Desert Spear

It has been confirmed that the Demon Cycle has been optioned for film production by the major Hollywood director Paul W. S. Anderson and longtime producing partner Jeremy Bolt, the duo behind the Resident Evil film franchise.

The Isle of Pingo Pongo

Additionally, it was recently viewed with other films part of the Censored Eleven at the TCM Film Festival in Hollywood on April 24, 2010 as part of a classic film series, presented by Donald Bogle.

The Mary Tyler Moore Hour

Moore announced plans to return in a new sitcom in the fall of 1980, but instead turned to Broadway, where she starred in a revival of Whose Life Is It Anyway? (winning a special 1980 Tony Award for her performance of a role originally played by Tom Conti), and then went back to Hollywood, where she played the emotionally crippled mother in the acclaimed film Ordinary People, directed by Robert Redford.

Toyota USA Automobile Museum

1. Hollywood/Futuristic: the Lexus “Minority ReportTom Cruise movie prototype, three very rare Toyota 2000GTs, along with a poster of the James Bond movie, “You Only Live Twice”, where the car appeared, plus a cutaway drawing and technical schematics

Triangle of the Sun

This destination got its fame from the 50's and 70's also becoming a favorite of Hollywood stars such as Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley, among others.

Vienna, Georgia

It is the birthplace of the late Georgia governor George Busbee and the late Hollywood film director Vincent Sherman.

Vineland

Vineland may be a play on the word "Hollywood", a reference to the first Viking settlement in North America, Vinland, or a reference to Andrey Vinelander, a character in Vladimir Nabokov's Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle.

Will H. Hays

After a year in office, he resigned to become the choice of the Hollywood movie studios to become the first president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) (1922–45).