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Legendary director/actor/pilot John Huston once flew over a celebrity golf tournament and dropped 5,000 ping pong balls on it.
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Director John Huston directed his father (Walter Huston) and daughter (Angelica Huston) in Oscar winning roles.
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Most of the cast and crew of the 1951 classic 'The African Queen' suffered from sickness while filming in parts of Uganda and the Congo. Only Humphrey Bogart and Director John Huston claimed to escape illness because they didn't drink any water on location, only copious amounts of whiskey
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John Huston has the unique distinction of directing both his father Walter and his daughter Anjelica in Oscar-winning performances (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Prizzi's Honor, respectively), making the Hustons the first family to have three generations of Academy Award winners.
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Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, George Strait, Whitney Huston, The Temptations, Diana Ross, Rhianna, and Elton John (music only) never wrote their own songs.
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During the filming of John Huston’s 'Beat The Devil' Humphrey Bogart was in a serious car accident and had several teeth knocked out. When he was unable to provide some of his dialogue Peter Sellers was hired to dub his voice. It remains undetected in the movie to this day.
