While writing about Casablanca just a moment ago I noticed something interesting while getting a couple of links from IMDB. I got the links for Mr. Bogart and Ms. Bergman and I noticed that his link ended in “/name/nm0000007/” and her link ended in “/name/nm0000005/”
Hmmm, two famous actors that were in one of the most famous movies of all time together looked like they were put into the IMDB’s database right after each other. I then had to check out who else was in the “top 10″.
Here they are from /name/nm0000001/ to /name/nm0000010/
01 Fred Astaire
02 Lauren Bacall
03 Brigitte Bardot
04 John Belushi
05 Ingmar Bergman
06 Ingrid Bergman
07 Humphrey Bogart
08 Marlon Brando
09 Richard Burton
10 James Cagney
A few things jump out at me. First, there seems to be a high percentage of Bergmans from Sweden. Second, it is quite a group of high quality actors. Except for one. One of these names is not like the other. I would never say that John Belushi isn’t a funny man, because he is. But he is in odd company here at the beginning of the IMBD’s list.
Oh well, I found it interesting.
If you look at them they are in alphabetic order!
Comment by Linzy Eck — Tuesday, June 21, 2005 @ 10:51 am
Well, well, well. Would you look at that? I didn’t even notice. Quite the eye you’ve got Linz.
I wonder what the original list of actors was that they put in–obviously in alphabetical order. I still wonder how Belushi got in there.
Comment by Brenden Johnson — Tuesday, June 21, 2005 @ 1:48 pm