You’ll Never Believe What Went on Behind the Scenes of These Award-Winning Films

Schindler’s List

In order to acquire costuming for 20,000 extras, the costume designer for Schindler’s List took out advertisements looking for clothes. Many people had been affected by poor economic conditions in Poland, meaning they were eager to sell clothing they had owned from the 1930s and 1940s.

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The More You Know

  • The names of the taxi driver and the policeman in everybody’s favourite Yuletide outing, It’s A Wonderful Life, are Bert and Ernie. The writers working on Sesame Street at the time claim it’s merely a coincidence.
  • Gone With the Wind’s fire scene is old sets being burned.
  • Alred Hitchcock’s Psycho was the first American film to show a toilet flushing.
  • In Iron Man/Avengers, J.A.R.V.I.S is an acronym for “Just A Rather Very Intelligent System.”
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