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Remembered the film Splitting Heirs

The Sound of Music facts:
In the song 'Favourite Things' it mentions "schnitzel with noodles" this was added to rhyme with "apple strudel" because traditionally in Austria at least you don't have noodles with schnitzel.

The scene where the rowing boat overturns and Maria and the kids fall into a lake was hard on Kym Karath, who played 5-year-old Gretl. Since Karath couldn’t swim, Andrews was supposed to fall forward when the boat turned over and rescue her. Instead, Andrews fell backwards and couldn’t get to Karath in time. “I went under, I swallowed a lot of water, which I then vomited all over Heather [Menzies-Urich, who played Louisa]"

In the movie, the von Trapp family escapes the Nazis by crossing over the mountains into Switzerland. In real life, the von Trapps took the train to Italy. If they had gone over the Austrian mountains, they would have ended up in Germany—right by where Hitler had his mountain retreat.

Christopher Plummer, who played Captain von Trapp, hated the film so much that he called it The Sound of Mucus. “Because it was so awful and sentimental and gooey,” he said. “You had to work terribly hard to try and infuse some minuscule bit of humor into it.” He drank and ate away his sorrows in Salzburg, which caused him to gain so much weight his costumes had to be let out. He also admitted on the DVD commentary that he was drunk when filming the music festival.

Angela Cartright(Liesl) and Nicholas Hammond went on to bigger things. Hammond was the first actor to play Spiderman for a television series of the 70's and Angela played Penny Robinson in a sci-fi series 'Lost In Space' Julie Andrews of course went from Mary Poppins to other films. Christopher Plummer was Sir Charles Lytton, the jewel thief in the first Pink Panther film(in that film there is a mistake by Peter Sellers left in "you are Sir Charles Phantom, the famous Lytton" )

In 2007 a new version of the stage show being cast by Sir Andrew Lloyd-Webber decided to look for a new girl to play Maria and a BBC1 series was set up called 'How Do Solve A Problem Like Maria - the winner, which was decided by public vote was Connie Fisher.
Sources: Various.

In the original script of Beetlejuice he was going to be a demon that disguised himself as a old man and was supposed to kill the Deetzes.

The next Bond25 (Title not announced yet) will feature Daniel Craig in his last Bond.
Most of the lead players will be the same, with Rami Malek playing the villian. And Jeffrey Archer (Bernard from Westworld) is being brought in to play Felix Leiter.

Stand By Me was Stephen King’s favourite adaptation of his own work. He hated Stanley Kubrick’s version of The Shining.

TV: Paul Atterbury, who does the Miscellaneous stuff for the programme Antiques Roadshow was the original blueprint for the 70's children's television programme ANDY PANDY - apparently his mother worked on the programme and his face was used for the puppet.

Fred(die) Dalton Thompson (19th August, 1942 – 1st November, 2015) was in movies and television shows including The Hunt for Red October, Die Hard 2, In the Line of Fire, and Cape Fear, as well as in commercials. Later served eight years as a U.S. Senator for Tennessee, was also a GOP presidential candidate, and had been an attorney during President Nixon's Watergate scandal.

Speaking of Watergate another one involved in that scandal G Gordon Liddy became a radio talk show host and an actor and yes he played villains. Liddy was a former FBI agent, lawyer, and figured in the Watergate scandal as the chief operative in the White House Plumbers unit during the Nixon Administration. Films included Street Asylum, Feds, Adventures in Spying, Camp Cucamonga, and Rules of Engagement. No I've not heard of them either

The Script for Back To The Future was rejected over 40 times and first draft was wrote in 1981. Disney rejected the movie because they thought the movie had a incest theme with Marty’s mum falling in love with him, years later Disney admitted it was a mistake in rejecting the movie.

Whilst filming RoboCop in the summer of 1986,Peter Weller tried to stay in character between takes by asking the other cast and crew members to only refer to him as RoboCop.After days of being laughed at,Weller relented and let everyone call him Peter.

Tom Welling (Clark Kent) is the only actor to have been in all 217 Eps of Smallville.