The Funniest People in Movies

This book contains 250 anecdotes about movies including this one: Late in Peter Lorre's career after he had begun to make bad films a fan wrote him I would love to be tortured by you. Mr. Lorre wrote back You have been tortured enough by going to my pictures.This is a short quick and easy read.Most of these anecdotes are probably just OK but there should be at least one or two that you will want to tell your friends.Anecdotes are retold in my own words to avoid plagiarism.Most of these anecdotes are meant to be funny but some are meant to be thought-provoking.- In 1988 Jodie Foster won a Best Actress Oscar for her performance in The Accused. Following her acceptance speech she joked backstage that she would immediately put the Oscar to good use: I rented three videos last night ... and they said if I brought this in I would get them free.- Craig Russell a Canadian female impersonator of genius wrote and starred in the cult classic movie Outrageous. When the film was shown at the Virgin Islands Film Festival Mr. Russell had the pleasure of winning awards for both Best Actor and Best Actress. A comedian Mr. Russell used to say I'm a drag queen. I'm a transvestite. I'm a drug addict. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a homosexual. Other than that I'm perfectly normal. He died of AIDS at the age of 42 on Oct. 30 1990.- Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce and their families once ate breakfast together while traveling on a train. Mr. Rathbone excused himself from the table picked up the morning paper then began to leave the dining car. Ever-mischievous Mr. Bruce asked Cynthia Mr. Rathbone's young daughter Darling where's Daddy going? Cynthia's answer filled the crowded dining car: Daddy's going to do after-breakfast plop-plops.- Jack Palence excellently played a bad guy in the 1953 movie classic Shane. However he was a bad horseman. After several tries he made a perfect dismount so director George Stevens used that shot in the movie every time Mr. Palence dismounted - and by running the film backward every time Mr. Palence mounted. In addition in one scene Mr. Palence was supposed to gallop into town. But Mr. Palence was such a poor horseman he finally was told to walk the horse into town. (This scene works very well in the movie.)