Charlie Chaplin once lost a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

In Disney's animated version of Peter Pan, the character Tinker Bell was modeled after Marilyn Monroe.

Marisa Tomei won the 1992 Academy Award for best supporting actress because presenter Jack Palance read the wrong name by mistake.

Actor James Caviezel was struck by lightning while filming the 2004 movie The Passion of the Christ, in which he portrayed Jesus.

The 1996 movie Fargo is based on a true story.

During a scene in the movie Three Men and a Baby, you can see the ghost of a boy who died in the apartment where it was filmed.

A coat purchased at a used-clothing store for Professor Marvel's costume in The Wizard of Oz turned out to have originally belonged to L. Frank Baum, the author of the story.

It was once common practice to flash subliminal advertisements (like "Drink Coke") during movies for a fraction of a second to increase concession-stand sales.

The original Academy Award statuettes were made of solid gold.

A tornado ripped through a drive-in movie theater in Canada while patrons were watching the movie Twister, initially leading them to believe that the movie's special effects were remarkably realistic.