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Vincent Riotta played Jimmy Doolittle in Bille August's 2017 film The Chinese Widow aka The Hidden Soldier. Aaron Eckhart played Doolittle in Roland Emmerich 's 2019 film Midway . Bob Clampett 's 1946 cartoon Baby Bottleneck briefly portrays a dog named "Jimmy Do-quite-a-little", who invents a failed rocket ship.
Midway proved extremely popular with movie audiences, and opened at number one at the US box office with an opening weekend gross of $4,356,666 from 311 theatres. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] It went on to gross over $43 million at the US box office, becoming the tenth most popular movie of 1976 with theatrical rentals of $20,300,000. [ 18 ]
Midway is a 2019 war film directed by Roland Emmerich, who also produced the film with Harald Kloser, and written by Wes Tooke. The film covers the first six months in the Pacific Theater of World War II , from the Attack on Pearl Harbor to the titular Battle of Midway .
She played Doolittle in a touring production across the United States, Canada and South Africa. She appeared in major South African productions of famous musicals such as Guys & Dolls , Kiss Me, Kate , Daddy Long Legs , Stop the World I Want to Get Off and The Merry Widow .
The opening scene of the film Midway (1976) uses footage from Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo to launch the film's plot with the Doolittle Raid. In the Seinfeld season 3 episode "The Keys", Kramer mentions to Jerry that he is watching the film. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo inspired The Simpsons episode "Thirty Minutes over Tokyo". [19]
He also sang briefly in the film Till Death Do Us Part and played Alfred Doolittle on the studio album of My Fair Lady, Music Hall Songs, songs of the First World War, and other recordings such as The Writing's on the Wall, from 1967, on CBS, all in the Alf Garnett persona, were released in LP and 45 rpm single form, too, in Britain and Australia.
Aaron Edward Eckhart (born March 12, 1968) is an American actor. Born in Cupertino, California, Eckhart moved to the United Kingdom at an early age.He began his acting career by performing in school plays, before moving to Australia for his high school senior year.
Michelle Suzanne Dockery [1] (born 15 December 1981) is an English actress. She is best known for starring as Lady Mary Crawley in the ITV television period drama series Downton Abbey (2010–2015), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and three consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. [2]