He also provided his son to star as the film's hero.

Chaplin built a story around the idea of walking a tightrope while besieged by monkeys, which became the film's " climactic incident ", and turned The Tramp into the accidental star of a circus.

She played a wisecracking showgirl who becomes a rival to the film's star, singer Belle Baker.

In 1980 Jeff Lynne was asked to write for the soundtrack of the musical film Xanadu, with the other half written by John Farrar and performed by the film's star Olivia Newton-John.

This time there was no soundtrack album in spite of the importance of music in the film as the film's writer, director and star Tim Robbins was concerned that the politically right wing content would be taken seriously and used by right wing politicians.

Variety reported that Cruz had originally auditioned for the role of the film within a film's star, Claudia, which eventually went to Nicole Kidman.

On 1 April 2011, prior to the film's release, Cruz received the 2, 436th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in front of the El Capitan Theatre.

It won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, for the film's star Russell Crowe.

By most accounts, the low-budget film shot on location in Arizona was a learning process for Peckinpah, who feuded with Fitzsimons ( brother of the film's star Maureen O ' Hara ) over the screenplay and staging of the scenes.

For example, the star motif featured predominantly throughout the movie started with the film's production designer Richard Heinrichs ' design for the bowling alley.

During 1936, the studio's film The Story of Louis Pasteur proved a box office success and Paul Muni, the film's star, won the Oscar for Best Actor in March 1937.

While filming Carmen Jones ( 1954 ), Preminger began an affair with the film's star, Dorothy Dandridge, which lasted four years.

The film's success made Eastwood a major star in Italy and he was re-hired to star in For a Few Dollars More ( 1965 ), the second of the trilogy.

Dirty Harry essentially lifted its star Clint Eastwood out of his cowboy typecasting, and became the urban-action film's first true archetype.

Jeffrey " Mad Dog " Beck, a star investment banker at the time with Drexel Burnham Lambert, was one of the film's technical advisers and has a cameo appearance in the film as the man speaking at the meeting discussing the breakup of Bluestar.

The film's popularity opened the door for Anderson to become the screen's first cowboy star, making several hundred Western film shorts.

Historical accounts indicate that Thomas Ince and C. Gardner Sullivan had originally titled their project Dago, but agreed to change the title at the request of the film's star, George Beban.

The film's use of imaginative gymnastics fit the athletic star, his " catlike, seemingly effortless " movements were as much dance as gymnastics.

She managed to steal several scenes away from the film's star, Katharine Hepburn.

Paul Newman, the film's star, had also stated his disappointment with the adaptation.

( 1955 ), Zinnemann's version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, is noted for the wide screen format Todd-AO making its debut, as did the film's young star, Shirley Jones.

The film's star, actress Bette Davis, had a childhood friend who moved to Plaquemine as a young adult and subsequently lived her entire lifetime on fashionable LaBauve Avenue, having come to the area with her husband who was an early Petrochemical Executive.

Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas was unhappy to share the screenwriting credit with the film's star Sylvester Stallone, as he felt that Stallone's input had been minor, while Stallone claimed to have basically rewritten the whole script.

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back ( also known as The Empire Strikes Back ) is a 1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner and written by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, with George Lucas writing the film's story and serving as executive producer.

General George Marshall came to Huston and the film's defense, stating that because of the film's gritty realism, it would make a good training film.

Due to the film's perceived failure, Hawks was released early from his two-film contract with RKO and Gunga Din was eventually directed by George Stevens.

The film's final image is a photograph of the actual George Jung.

TWA ( Trans World Airlines, an actual airline of the time ) chief mechanic at Lincoln, Joe Patroni ( George Kennedy ) is enlisted by Bakersfeld to lead the efforts to move the stuck aircraft, another Boeing 707, even though it belongs to a different airline, TGA ( Trans Global Airlines, a fictional airline and the parent company of the film's Golden Argosy jet ) Patroni, who is " taxi-qualified " on Boeing 707s, is trying to move the stuck aircraft in time for Demerest's damaged aircraft to land.

Centered on a series of Las Vegas casino robberies, the film's other stars included Angie Dickinson, Cesar Romero, Richard Conte, Akim Tamiroff, Henry Silva, Ilka Chase, Norman Fell, Harry Wilson, and Buddy Lester, as well as cameo appearances by Shirley MacLaine, Red Skelton, and George Raft.

Various other script-writers, including Laura Phillips ( who had previously written several episodes of Fraggle Rock ), George Lucas, and Elaine May, subsequently re-wrote and made additions to the screenplay, although Jones received the film's sole screen-writing credit.

George Lucas did not have significant involvement with the film's production, and was unhappy with the results.

It included seven major new featurettes: three cast interviews, a behind-the scenes look at the score, two short documentaries about George Stevens ' memories from the war and the history of the diary, and a perspective piece on the film's legacy by Thomas Rothman.

George Lucas has acknowledged influence of The Hidden Fortress on Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, particularly in the technique of telling the story from the perspective of the film's lowliest characters, C-3PO and R2-D2.

Many point to the film's commercial failure as a result of the movie being released a month after George Lucas ' runaway box-office smash of 1977, Star Wars.

George Lucas is credited with popularizing this with his Star Wars films which display only the film's title at the start.

Director George Lucas was one of the film's producers, but refused screen credit because he believed the film's racy content would reflect badly on Lucasfilm's image

He became a favorite of director Frank Capra, who used him in several films ; in It's a Wonderful Life, Lane played a seemingly hard-nosed rent collector for the miserly Henry Potter ( Lionel Barrymore ), who tried to explain to his employer that many of his tenants were moving out, taking advantage of affordable mortgages provided by the film's protagonist, George Bailey ( James Stewart ).

Ennio Flaiano, the film's co-screenwriter and creator of Paparazzo, reports that he took the name from a character in a novel by George Gissing.

George Brent played her intermittent love interest, but the film's star was Bette Davis.

Kubrick, George, and Southern shared the screenplay credits, but competing claims about who contributed what led to confusion and some conflict between the three men after the film's release.

After considering a number of locations, the stalled construction of the sports bar atop the Schilthorn was chosen when the film's producer financed the completion of the famous revolving platform for the right to use the facility for his next film, the first and only Bond film starring George Lazenby.

The film's depiction of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer as a lunatic at the Battle of the Little Bighorn was intended as satire, though many of his quirks and vanities were inspired by contemporary observations.

She also had a small part in George Roy Hill's The Great Waldo Pepper ( 1975 ), where she helped cast some of the film's extras.

In the film's dramatic climax, Lester and Jill happen upon George and Jackie having vigorous sex on a kitchen floor.