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11 unusual facts about Steve Martin


Coal City, Illinois

The Steve Martin and John Candy comedy, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, was partially filmed in Coal City and other nearby towns.

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.

Gowanda, New York

Parts of the 1987 comedy movie Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, starring Steve Martin and John Candy, were filmed at the Gowanda Train Depot, as well as the Olympia Diner on Jamestown Street.

Idaho wine

The gag gets extended treatment in The Muppet Movie from 1979, as Kermit the Frog orders a bottle of wine from the waiter (played by Steve Martin) to share with Miss Piggy.

Irina Baronova

Through Victoria, she became the mother-in-law of Steve Martin.

Joe Sagal

He has played Elvis in three movies, one TV show, and a play that Steve Martin wrote "Piccasso at the Lapin Agile", Joe was in the original Steppenwolf Production that played at the Westwood Playhouse (now the Geffen Playhouse), he then played the same part five years later at the Laguna Beach Playhouse, both Productions he was in broke all box-office and attendance records for the theaters and companies he played in.

Kimberly J. Brown

She also co-starred in the 2003 film Bringing Down The House with Steve Martin and Queen Latifah.

LaShun Pace

Three years later, Pace returned with Wealthy Place; in addition to successive releases including 1998's Just Because God Said It, she also enjoyed a career as an actress, most notably co-starring as the Angel of Mercy in the 1992 Steve Martin film Leap of Faith.

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute

Mathematician Robert Osserman has held a series of public "conversations" with prominent artists who have been influenced by mathematics in their work, such as composer Philip Glass, actor and writer Steve Martin, playwright Tom Stoppard, and actor and author Alan Alda.

The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z

The Alphabet From A to Y with Bonus Letter Z! is a children's book aimed at infants and preschoolers containing couplets written by comedian, writer, and humorist Steve Martin, with illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast.

The Return of Godzilla

New World's biggest change was in adding around ten minutes of new footage, most of it at The Pentagon, with Raymond Burr reprising his role as Steve Martin from Godzilla, King of the Monsters!.


Ben Fong-Torres

He conducted interviews for Rolling Stone of entertainment figures including Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, comedian Steve Martin and Linda Ronstadt's first cover story in 1975.

Bill Macy

He was also an original cast member of the long-running theatrical revue Oh! Calcutta! He has made more than 70 appearances on film and television, including a memorable role as the co-inventor of the 'Opti-grab' in the 1979 Steve Martin comedy The Jerk, and as the head television writer in My Favorite Year (1982).

Cheaper by the Dozen

Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) and Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005), starring comedians Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt, bear no resemblance to the original book or 1950 film, except that both feature a family with twelve children, though the mother's maiden name is Gilbreth.

Cliff Ellen

A theatre actor of many years, Mr Ellen played the role of Gaston in the Australian touring production of Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile as well as Hannie Rayson's Inheritance.

Ed Limato

Edward Frank "Ed" Limato (July 10, 1936 – July 3, 2010) was an American talent agent and a senior vice president at the William Morris Agency, representing clients such as Michelle Pfeiffer, Nicolas Cage, Mel Gibson, Steve Martin, Richard Gere, and Denzel Washington.

Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.

The book inspired two films of the same name - one (1950) starring Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy, and the other (2003) starring comedians Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt.

Hotel del Coronado

Since then, it has been featured in at least twelve other films, including: Some Like It Hot (which starred Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, and Tony Curtis where it was called the "Seminole Ritz"), The Stunt Man (which starred Peter O'Toole), Wicked, Wicked (which was completely filmed on location there), and the 1990 version of My Blue Heaven (which starred Steve Martin and Rick Moranis).

Jack Handey

For several years Handey worked on other television projects: the Canadian sketch series Bizarre in 1980; the 1980 TV special Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty; and Lorne Michaels' short-lived sketch show on NBC called The New Show in 1984.

John Fulbrook

For seven years he was the art director for the literary Simon and Schuster imprint, Scribner, where he designed bestselling book jackets for authors such as Stephen King, Steve Martin, Annie Proulx, Don DeLillo, Miranda July, Kathy Reichs, Bobby Flay and many more.

Kathy Westmoreland

She teamed up with friend and Garden Grove High School classmate Steve Martin in a musical comedy act, working together at the Birdcage Theater at Knott's Berry Farm and playing local coffee houses.

Let's Face the Music and Dance

It is also used in Pennies from Heaven, where Astaire's voice is lip-synched by Steve Martin, and in a celebrated Morecambe and Wise sketch involving newsreader Angela Rippon.

Louis Zorich

In 1986 he played a Swiss businessman in Club Paradise with Robin Williams, and in 1988 appeared as Nikos, the Greek millionaire, part of a group arriving in a yacht party, in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Steve Martin and Michael Caine.

Red House Painters

He also dabbled in acting, playing small parts in the Cameron Crowe films Almost Famous and Vanilla Sky, as well as appearing more prominently as a rock musician alongside Jason Schwartzman in the 2005 Steve Martin vehicle Shopgirl.

Steve Tyrell

Tyrell's performance singing "The Way You Look Tonight" in Father of the Bride, starring Steve Martin, pushed him center-stage as a vocalist, with live performances and a recording career of his own.

The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo

The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo is a 2009 album by Steve Martin, featuring Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, Earl Scruggs, Tim O'Brien, Tony Trischka and Mary Black.

The Pleasure of My Company

Steve Martin stated in an interview with About.com that if The Pleasure of My Company is made into a film, he would like Ashton Kutcher to play Daniel.

Ziggy Steinberg

Steinberg produced and wrote the screenplay for "The Jerk, Too," the sequel to Steve Martin's "The Jerk" as well as "Porky's Revenge," the sequel to "Porky's." He then wrote and directed "The Boss' Wife" for Tri-Star Pictures.