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• Darth Vader was played by four men. The onscreen body of Vader was bodybuilder David Prowse; the stunt double was professional fencer Bob Anderson; the voice was James Earl Jones; and the de-helmeted face of Vader in “Return of The Jedi” was Sebastian Shaw.

• David Prowse’s Bristol accent was inappropriate for a master villain. George Lucas wanted Orson Welles as the voice of Darth Vader, but dropped the idea because he thought Welles’ voice was too recognizable.

• They initially wanted a well-known movie star like Laurence Olivier or John Gielgud to be the face that is revealed behind the mask, but later thought it’d be better if Vader turned out to be a nondescript person. Stage actor Sebastian Shaw was not a widely known face.

• David Prowse turned down the role of Chewbacca.

When given the choice between portraying the two characters, Prowse said, “I turned down the role of Chewbacca at once. I know that people remember villains longer than heroes. At the time I didn’t know I’d be wearing a mask, and throughout production I thought Vader’s voice would be mine.”

• James Earl Jones was so sure the film would be a flop that he refused to allow his name to be published on the original credits.

• A big hint that Darth Vader is Luke’s father comes from the fact that the Dutch word for “father” is “vader.”

• The original Chewbacca costume was made using real yak and rabbit hair, hand knitted into a base of mohair from Angora goats. It was very hot, so when a new costume was created for “Revenge of the Sith,” a water-cooling system was included. This costume was only used for one day of shooting.

• Peter Mayhew was chosen to play Chewbacca because of his tremendous height: He was 7 feet 3 inches tall. Mayhew was working as an orderly at a hospital when he was cast.

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• Although Chewbacca was more animal than human, the studio execs weren't happy about the fact the Wookiee was essentially naked. Sketches were submitted depicting the Wookiee wearing lederhosen, culottes, and baggy shorts. The plan was scrapped.

• Yoda was originally supposed to be portrayed by a real monkey wearing a mask. Fortunately, a monkey expert who had worked with apes for the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” pointed out, “Look, the monkey’s just going to pull off the mask over and over again. It’s never going to work.” Instead, George Lucas approached Muppet master Jim Henson, who was busy with other projects. Henson suggested Frank Oz for the job. Oz, who had previously provided the voice of Miss Piggy, accepted the challenge.

The puppet was so lifelike, in fact, that director Irvin Kershner often gave it directions instead of puppeteer Frank Oz. After the release of “The Empire Strikes Back,” George Lucas lobbied for Oz to get an Oscar nomination for his performance, but he was ultimately disqualified for consideration when it was ruled that puppeteers aren’t actors.

• The film won a special-achievement Academy Award for accomplishments in sound, and it revolutionized the motion picture industry with its advancements in special effects. Some of the most famous sound effects include: • Darth Vader’s heavy breathing was created with a scuba tank.

• The humming of a light saber is actually a mixture of the noises from an old tube TV and a film projector.

• The pew-pew-pew of a blaster was achieved by banging on a long steel cable.

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• John Williams composed the score, and to this day it remains the highest-grossing non-popular music recording of all time.

• The final victory song sung by the Ewoks at the end of “Jedi” was written by Joseph Williams, lead singer of Toto (“Africa”) and son of John Williams.

• The phrase, “I have a bad feeling about this,” initially spoken by Princess Leia in the trash compactor, is spoken in every Star Wars movie.

• To create the visual effect of Luke Skywalker using the Force to grab his lightsaber, Mark Hamill was asked to throw it across the set, and then the film was reversed.

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• As a joke, R2D2 appears in a “Star Trek” movie, drifting by the starship Enterprise in a debris field.

• AT-AT actually stands for All Terrain Armored Transport.

• The Ewoks were named after a Native American tribe, the Miwok, indigenous to the Redwood forest that served as Endor in “Return of the Jedi.”

• The budget for “Star Wars” was $13 million in 1977. The budget for the “The Last Jedi” was $250 million in 2017.

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• Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks were • Marty Feldman played the hunchback Igor. He wore working together on “Blazing a fake hump and kept switching it from one shoulSaddles” when Wilder proposed der to the next just to see how long it would take making a movie about Dr. Fransomeone to notice. When one of the crew finally did kenstein’s grandson exploring his notice days later, the gag was written into the script, grandfather’s legacy. Mel loved leading to the memorable line, “What hump?” the idea and they worked together • Marty Feldman as Igor also improvised the line, to write the script.

“Walk this way” as he limped away. Steven Tyler of • Brooks wanted the film to be in Aerosmith saw the film and loved the gag. He was black and white, just as the original 1931 version of the inspired to write the song “Walk This Way” for his movie had been. A black and white film in 1974 was next album. unheard of. Columbia Studios turned down the idea so • It was Marty Feldman’s first Hollywood movie.

Brooks took the film to 20th Century Fox instead.

• Madeline Kahn was originally supposed to play the • Most of the laboratory props used in the film were origirole of Inga, the lab assistant, while Teri Garr was nal to the 1931 version, having been stored in the garage cast as Elizabeth, the high-tone fiancé. Kahn decidof the man who originally created them. ed she preferred the other role, so Mel Brooks called • Mel Brooks always had a cameo appearance in every Teri Garr into his office and said, “If you can come film he produced, but Gene Wilder thought it would be back tomorrow with a German accent, the part is distracting. Instead, the howling wolf and the yowling yours.” Garr responded, "Vell, yes, I could do zee cat are voiced by Brooks, and a gargoyle on the castle German ackzent tomorrow. I could come back zis looks suspiciously like him. afternoon!" Garr had appeared on “The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour” several times in 1971, where • While taking a train trip, the young Dr. Frankenstein the German hairdresser for the show had a heavy hears a couple bickering, in English. Later the same accent. Garr picked up the accent from her. couple is bickering, having the same argument wordfor-word, but in German.

• Teri Garr’s mother was the wardrobe mistress on the film.

• Gene Hackman, who regularly played tennis with Gene Wilder, found out about the film and begged for a part • The clock chimes thirteen times at the beginning of because he’d never done comedy before. A special the film when the coffin is opened. scene was written just for him, where he plays a blind • “Young Frankenstein” won 11 Oscars at the Acadcharacter serving soup to Frankenstein’s monster and emy Awards. spilling it in his lap, then commenting: “I was going to make espresso….” The cameo was uncredited and Gene • Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder worked together on three wildly successful films including “The ProHackman is all but unrecognizable in the scene. ducers” and “Blazing Saddles” but after “Young • Peter Boyle, who played the monster, met his wife when Frankenstein” they never found an opportunity to she showed up on set to write an article about the film. work together again.

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• On May 30, 1899, amateur bandit Pearl Hart and her boyfriend Joe Boot hold up an Arizona stagecoach.

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• On May 28, 1902, Owen Wister's "The Virginian" is published. It was the first "serious" Western. The book became a sensation almost overnight, selling more than 1.5 million copies by 1938 and inspiring four movies and a Broadway play.

• On May 26, 1927, Henry Ford and his son Edsel drive the 15 millionth Model T Ford out of their factory, marking the famous automobile's official last day of production. The "Tin Lizzie" averaged about 17 mpg and could travel up to 45 mph.

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• On May 27, 1939, a ship carrying 937 Jewish refugees is turned away from Cuba. The ship sailed close to Florida, hoping to disembark there, but a State Department telegram stated that the asylumseekers must first "await their turns on the waiting list and qualify for and obtain immigration visas."

After appeals to Canada also were denied, the ship was forced to sail back to Europe.

• On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa of Nepal, become the first explorers to reach the summit of Mount Everest. News of their achievement broke on June 2, the day of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation.

• On May 31, 1962, in Israel, Nazi SS officer Adolf Eichmann is executed for his crimes against humanity during World War II. Following the war, Eichmann had fled to Argentina, where he was found by Mossad agents.

• On May 25, 1977, Memorial Day weekend opens with an intergalactic bang as the first of George Lucas' blockbuster "Star Wars" movies hits American theaters.

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• Axel Heiberg Island is one of the larger islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, and is Canada’s second northernmost island. It’s the size of Switzerland, located about 700 miles south of the North Pole.

• The island has been inhabited sporadically in the past by the Inuit but was uninhabited when it was explored in 1900 by a Norwegian crew, who named it after the man who sponsored their trip.

Norway claimed ownership of the island, but in 1930 it became part of Canada. In the 1940s the island was photographed in an aerial survey, and in 1955 two Canadian geologists surveyed it on the ground, resulting in the construction of a permanent research station in 1960.

• On nearby Ellesmere Island, there are a few remnants of ancient trees that died millions of years ago. A helicopter pilot who regularly ferried supplies to Ellesmere Island was flying over Axel Heiberg Island in 1985 when he spotted the same sort of stumps poking out from the gravel there.

He landed, took samples, and reported his discovery. Researchers soon returned and found an extensive fossilized forest that dated to the Eocene era some 45 million years ago. The forest had been buried in sediments for eons until erosion exposed it.

• Rather than being fossilized, this forest is mummified. Preserved by cold, dry temperatures and covered in silt, the logs, leaves, needles, bark, cones, and seeds are hard to tell from modern trees. Fossilization occurs when organic matter is replaced with minerals, turning the tree to stone.

Here, the wood is so fresh it can be burned.

• It’s clear that 45 million years ago, the island was a high-latitude wetland forest, with a climate similar to Florida or California today. The island has consistently been located north of the Arctic Circle in spite of continental drift. ...cont'd

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• 45 million years ago, the climate was much warmer. Still, however, there would have been about three months of perpetual light in the summer, and three months of continuous darkness during the winter on the island.

• The average temperature would have been in the mid-60s F and it never would have dropped below freezing in spite of experiencing three months of darkness. It’s remarkable that a vigorous, diverse forest was adapted to prolonged periods of darkness.

• Many species of tree grew there, including spruce, pine, redwood, larch, sycamore, and chestnut. Some trees reached heights of 115 feet and tree rings show that some lived 1,000 years. Today, the nearest “real” tree is more than a thousand miles south, and the tallest vegetation currently growing on the island is the dwarf willow which reaches heights of one to two inches.

• Today, the permafrost averages about 1,600 ft deep and the average temperature runs -33 F in January and 42 F in July. A third of the island is permanently ice bound, and the rest is bare ground.

• Trees can only live where temperatures remain above freezing for at least one-third of the year, and where temperatures in July average at least 50 F. • Excavation showed that the forest was occasionally wiped out by floods, buried by sediments, only to regrow. This happened 19 different times, at intervals of perhaps 10,000 years.

After the final flood, the forest never regrew, and the remnants remained buried in protective sediments until being eroded away 45 million years later.

• Remnants of extinct animals have also been found, including a turtle, a bird, an alligator, and an herbivore similar to the rhino.

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