Joan Crawford's last film was Trog, a British horror film about the discovery of a living troglodyte.

During the filming of Guardians of the Galaxy, Gunn kept a pile of Play-Doh containers on set. If someone did an exceptionally good job that day, whether it was an actor, a grip, a stunt man, or a PA, he would reward them with a canister of Play-Doh. "Who doesn't love playing with Play-Doh?" he said. "I love the smell of Play-Doh; opening a new container and smelling it puts me in a creative, child-like place."

There are only sixteen visible cuts in the entire film. Michael Keaton and the rest of the cast had to adapt to Alejandro G. Iñárritu's rigorous shooting style, which required them to perform up to fifteen pages of dialogue at a time while hitting precisely choreographed marks.

The board game played by the three fairies is an actual game called nine-men's morris that was popular in medieval England. The game is also known as The Mill Game or Ninepenny Marl and is sometimes printed on the back of checkerboards.

12 Years a Slave was the first film from director Steve McQueen that did not have a one word title.

In scenes that involved cocaine, the actors snorted crushed B vitamins.

In one of the best-known scenes from The Godfather, Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) is visited by his godson, the famous singer Johnny Fontane (a character widely believed to be based on Frank Sinatra). Fontane asks for Vito's help to secure a film role that will boost his fading career. The head of the film studio, has previously refused to give Fontane the part, but Don Corleone promises to make him an offer he can't refuse. The studio head later wakes to find the severed head of his expensive racehorse in his bed, and Fontane is subsequently given the part.

Bette Davis won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, was the first person to accrue ten Academy Award nominations for acting, and was the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.

Sunset Boulevard stars Swanson as Norma Desmond, a faded silent film star who dreams of making a triumphant return to the screen.

In The African Queen, Bogart earned himself an Oscar playing the rough-and-ready Canadian boat captain Charlie Allnut.