Arts and Entertainment Trivia

  • During the film Don Juan, John Barrymore delivers a grand total of 191 kisses to a variety of different women, at the rate of one every 53 seconds.
  • Tweety Bird was originally named Orson. He was originally pink, but censors thought he looked naked, so his color was changed to yellow.
  • Donald Duck's father is named Quackmore Duck.
  • Van Gogh didn’t pick up a paintbrush until he was 27 years old.
  • In 1400 BC, it was fashion among rich Egyptian women to place a large cone of scented grease on top of their heads and keep it there all day. As the day wore on, the grease melted and dripped down over their bodies, covering their skin with an oily, glistening sheen and bathing their clothes in fragrance.
  • The first Dada Saheb Phalke award was given to Devika Rani.
  • The original name for Mickey Mouse was Mortimer Mouse.
  • Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
  • The original representation of Cupid by the Greeks was that of a beautiful young boy whose naked form was considered to be the embodiment of sexual love.
  • A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background - when they say walla-walla it looks like they are actually talking.
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