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

The Godfather

Most of Maron Brando’s lines had to be re-recorded in the opening scene of The Godfather because the cat’s purring muffled most of his dialogue. It turns out the kitty was actually a stray that Coppola found in the Paramount lot; it wasn’t originally part of the script.

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The More You Know

  • Fantasia (1940) was originally a short called The Sorcerers Apprentice, but Walt Disney overspent on the score and decided to make it feature length film rather than waste money.
  • Will Smith wanted to adopt the German Shepherd in I Am Legend.
  • The Dark Knight made more money in its first six days in the US than Batman Begins made in its entire domestic run.
  • In classic Hitchcock movie North by Northwest, Cary Grant was actually older than his on-screen mother, Jessie Royce Landis.
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