16 Strange Movie Facts You Probably Didn’t Know Until Now
Judy Garland Diet
While filming “The Wizard of Oz,” 16-year-old Judy Garland was put on a diet of chicken soup, coffee, and 80 cigarettes a day.
Dinosaur noises
The dinosaur noises in the “Jurassic Park” movie were made from recordings of tortoise sex.
American movies
Over 90% of American movies made before 1929 are lost, no copies are known to exist.
Movie trailers
Movie trailers used to play after the film.
Modern movies
Modern movies have an invisible watermark that can track any person filming at the theatre illegally.
The Blues Brothers
While shooting “The Blues Brothers” movie, they had a budget for cocaine.
Highest grossing movie
“Gone with the Wind” is the highest grossing movie of all time, when adjusted for inflation.
Saved from the Titanic
29 days after the Titanic sank, a movie about it was released. It featured an actress who was actually on the Titanic and survived.
The movie industry
The movie industry relocated from New York to LA to escape from Thomas Edison’s patents.
Yoda
Yoda, from Star Wars, was modeled after the appearance of Albert Einstein.
Movie Props
The Horse Head used in the movie “The Godfather” was real.
Sandra Bullock
Sandra Bullock won the Oscar and the Golden Raspberry (for worst film) in the same weekend. She collected both.
Before being an actor..
Before being an actor, Bruce Willis worked as a private investigator.
Pulp Fiction
The F-word is used 265 times in the movie Pulp Fiction.
The First movie in color
The first movie in color was made already in 1901.
Mafia
The word “mafia” is never mentioned in the film version of The Godfather because the actual mafia demanded it.