116 Fun Facts About Ghostbusters

Who directed the original 1984 Ghostbusters?

Ivan Reitman had already directed Bill Murray in Meatballs and Stripes, and Aykroyd called him the logical choice; he also voiced several of the film's ghosts himself.

Dan Aykroyd originally wrote Ghostbusters as a vehicle for himself and which Saturday Night Live castmate?

John Belushi died in March 1982 while the script was still being written; the phone call came as Aykroyd typed one of his friend's lines, and Bill Murray later took the part.

Which real New York City firehouse served as the exterior of the Ghostbusters' headquarters?

Hook & Ladder Company 8 in Tribeca was a working fire station, so only the exterior was used; the interiors were shot in a decommissioned firehouse in downtown Los Angeles.

The Ecto-1 is a converted 1959 Miller-Meteor built on a chassis from which carmaker?

Cadillac built the chassis; early scripts had the car painted black with purple strobes, until the cinematographer pointed out that a dark car would vanish in the night scenes.

What did the crew nickname the Sedgewick Hotel's gluttonous green ghost during filming?

Onionhead is the name in the closing credits, where his sculptor is listed; the ghost is never named on screen, and the name Slimer only arrived with the 1986 cartoon.

Who wrote and performed the Ghostbusters theme song?

Ray Parker Jr. had only days and had to get the title into the lyrics; a cheap late-night TV commercial gave him the idea of framing the song as an ad with a crowd shouting the name back.

Which musician sued over the Ghostbusters theme, claiming it copied one of his hits?

Huey Lewis said it copied I Want a New Drug; he had turned down the offer to write the theme himself, and the filmmakers had cut a montage to his song as a temp track.

The Ghostbusters theme lost the Best Original Song Academy Award to which Stevie Wonder hit?

I Just Called to Say I Love You, from The Woman in Red, beat it at the Golden Globes too, although the Ghostbusters theme turned the tables at the BAFTAs.

Which Prince hit did the Ghostbusters theme knock off No. 1 in 1984?

When Doves Cry topped the chart with no bass line at all: Prince had recorded one, then took it out to get a less conventional sound.

Who composed the orchestral score for the original 1984 Ghostbusters?

Elmer Bernstein had already scored the director's Meatballs and Stripes, and his son Peter helped orchestrate this one; what he never liked was the pop song Magic being used in the film.

Which unusual electronic instrument gives the 1984 score its eerie wail?

Ondes Martenot players were so scarce that one had to be brought over from England; Cynthia Millar played it on the 1984 score and came back for Afterlife in 2021.

When the Marshmallow Man explodes, what was the goo that rains down on the crowd really made of?

Shaving cream: the actor due to stand under the full load asked for a test, it flattened a stuntman, and the amount was cut; after hours of takes it still left some of the cast with rashes.

What became of many of the foam Marshmallow Man suits built for the 1984 Ghostbusters shoot?

Burned on camera: the suits cost tens of thousands of dollars each and went up in flames with a stuntman inside, and because the foam was toxic the wearer breathed from a separate air supply.

Whose childhood memory of a marshmallow mascot gives Gozer its giant final form?

Ray Stantz, told to choose the form of the destructor, tries to think of the most harmless thing he loved as a child, and a towering marshmallow sailor duly arrives to flatten the city.

What single word does the creature in Dana's refrigerator utter?

Zuul is a demigod who serves Gozer as Gatekeeper; once it takes over Dana's body, Venkman asks to speak to her and is told there is no Dana, only Zuul.

After his possession, Louis Tully insists he is which entity?

Vinz Clortho, the Keymaster, first mistakes a Central Park carriage horse for the Gatekeeper; police then deliver him to Egon, who tries to keep him away from the possessed Dana.

Who plays Dana's nerdy neighbour Louis Tully?

Rick Moranis jumped at the role as soon as the first choice dropped out, then came up with the idea of making Louis an accountant and improvised much of his party-scene patter.

Which comedian was first offered Louis Tully and pitched playing him with a German accent and dogs in tow?

John Candy never warmed to the part, and the filmmakers felt the film had quite enough dogs already; the early storyboards had even been drawn to look like him.

Which actor plays the EPA inspector who shuts down the Ghostbusters' containment unit?

William Atherton played Walter Peck without a wink and paid for it: for years strangers shouted the film's insult at him in the street, once from busloads of children on Seventh Avenue.

Sigourney Weaver changed Dana Barrett's profession from a model to what?

A cellist, because Weaver felt Dana could be uptight and a bit strict but plainly had a soul if she played the cello; at her audition she had growled, barked and gnawed the director's sofa cushions.

Who plays Janine Melnitz, the Ghostbusters' deadpan secretary?

Annie Potts had only dropped by the set when the director put her straight into a scene, so she took the thick prescription glasses off a wardrobe dresser's face and was stuck with them for the rest of the shoot.

Gozer was originally written as a business-suited architect to be played by which comic actor?

Paul Reubens passed, and the kindly man in a suit became a woman instead, played by Yugoslav model Slavitza Jovan with another actress dubbing over her strong accent.

Columbia boss Frank Price says which rival studio blocked the title 'Ghostbusters', until he left to run it himself?

Universal, by Price's account, controlled the title and let it go once he arrived as its new chief; until then the crew had been filming 300 extras chanting a name they did not own.

Why did Columbia's promised 1% for the Ghostbusters title never pay out?

No profit on paper: the title cost Columbia $500,000 plus 1%, but Hollywood accounting meant one of the biggest hits of 1984 never officially had any profits to share.

Which film ended Ghostbusters' seven-week run at No. 1?

Purple Rain opened in late July and knocked it off the top, but Ghostbusters won the spot back within a fortnight and was still in the top two a month later.

Which December release narrowly edged Ghostbusters as the highest-grossing film of 1984 in North America?

Beverly Hills Cop arrived that December and finished just ahead, until the August 1985 reissue carried Ghostbusters back past it as the decade's biggest comedy.

Prop makers gutted a handheld shoe polisher and packed it with lights to create which Ghostbusters gadget?

The PKE meter began life as an Iona SP-1 shoe polisher, gutted and refitted with lights and electronics; the team's gear was meant to look home-made and off-the-shelf rather than sleek.

The look of the Ghostbusters' proton packs was based on which piece of military equipment?

A flamethrower remembered from military magazines was designer Stephen Dane's starting point; the finished fibreglass packs sat on army surplus frames and strained the actors' backs, so lighter ones were made for action scenes.

Which Swedish screen legend provided the dubbed voice of Vigo the Carpathian in Ghostbusters II?

Max von Sydow recorded every one of Vigo's lines in a single day, and his voice replaced that of Wilhelm von Homburg, the German actor who plays the tyrant on screen.

In Ghostbusters II, the villain Vigo is imprisoned inside what?

A painting sent for restoration at the museum where Dana works holds the 16th-century tyrant, who needs a child to possess so that he can step out of it and rule again.

Which New York landmark do the Ghostbusters spray with slime in the sequel?

The Statue of Liberty walks once its inside is coated in positively charged slime: the team wanted a symbol to rally New Yorkers, because the crowd's good feeling weakens the slime sealing the museum.

What put the Ghostbusters out of business before Ghostbusters II?

Lawsuits over the damage from the Gozer battle, plus a court order barring them from chasing ghosts, left Ray and Winston entertaining at children's birthday parties.

The climax of Ghostbusters II takes place on which night?

New Year's Eve is when the slime beneath the city rises to the streets, and it is the crowd outside the museum singing Auld Lang Syne that finally weakens Vigo.

Which Bobby Brown song from Ghostbusters II earned him a cameo as the mayor's doorman?

On Our Own came with a video crowded with famous faces who are nowhere in the film, among them Jane Curtin, Iman, Malcolm Forbes and Donald Trump.

Who plays Janosz Poha, Dana's accented museum boss in Ghostbusters II?

Peter MacNicol found the scripted curator so nondescript that he made him Carpathian, building the accent from a Czech friend and the staff of a Romanian tourist agency.

The abandoned, slime-filled Van Horne station in Ghostbusters II was modelled on which real New York system?

The Beach Pneumatic Transit ran one block under Broadway from 1870, dug under a permit that covered only parcel tubes; the film borrows the idea for a fictional station beneath First Avenue.

Ghostbusters II's record three-day opening narrowly beat which film released weeks earlier?

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade had set the three-day mark over the Memorial Day weekend; Ghostbusters II edged past it and held the record for exactly one week, until Batman arrived.

What is the name of Dana's baby in Ghostbusters II?

Oscar is the infant the villain wants to possess, so a bewitched Janosz turns up as a ghostly nanny and snatches him from the ledge outside Peter's apartment window.

Who directed the 2016 female-led Ghostbusters reboot?

Paul Feig let the studio add the subtitle Answer the Call, meant to stop the two films being confused, only on condition that it stayed off the opening titles.

In the 2016 Ghostbusters, Chris Hemsworth plays Kevin, who holds what job with the team?

Receptionist is Kevin's job until the villain Rowan possesses him, flees to a hotel in his body and opens the portal that lets the ghosts loose.

Bill Murray's cameo in the 2016 reboot casts him as what kind of character?

A paranormal debunker named Martin Heiss, who is thrown out of a window by the ghost he scoffs at; elsewhere Dan Aykroyd drives a taxi and Ernie Hudson runs a funeral home.

Principal photography on the 2016 Ghostbusters began in which city, standing in for New York?

Boston played New York for most of the shoot, and the locals pitched in: MIT physicists vetted the film's science and wrote out the equations for its whiteboards.

In Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the Spengler family inherits a farm in which state?

Oklahoma is home to Summerville, the small town Ivo Shandor built beside his mine, which is why Egon had moved out there alone to stand guard.

Which young actress plays Egon's granddaughter Phoebe in Afterlife?

Mckenna Grace also wrote and performed Haunted House, the song of her own that plays during the film's end credits.

Who directed Ghostbusters: Afterlife?

Jason Reitman had been in the series before he ever ran it: as a boy he played the rude child at the birthday party early in Ghostbusters II.

Under what working title was Ghostbusters: Afterlife filmed?

Rust City was the title on a project kept so secret that Finn Wolfhard has said he auditioned without knowing it was a Ghostbusters film.

Afterlife's dusty farm country was actually shot in and around which Canadian city?

Calgary was the base, while the small Alberta towns of Crossfield, Drumheller and Fort Macleod played the film's town, with Fort Macleod's main street closed off for the Muncher car chase.

What is the name of the horned, fear-wielding demigod released in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire?

Garraka was sealed in a brass orb four thousand years ago by sorcerers called the Firemasters, which is why Phoebe ends up adding brass to her proton pack to fight him.

Who directed Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)?

Gil Kenan had co-written Afterlife before taking the director's chair for the sequel, which one of its stars said set out to be a long episode of The Real Ghostbusters cartoon.

By the time of Frozen Empire, old foe Walter Peck holds what job in New York City?

Mayor Peck is still out to shut the Ghostbusters down forty years on: he seizes on Phoebe being underage to get her benched, then has the firehouse condemned.

Frozen Empire's principal photography took place mostly in and around which city?

London, not Manhattan, hosted most of the shoot: the crew built a full replica of the firehouse interior on an English soundstage, then filmed street scenes in New York that June.

Peter Venkman's early voice in The Real Ghostbusters came from the actor voicing which cartoon cat?

Garfield's voice, Lorenzo Music, played Venkman for two seasons before Dave Coulier took over; years later the trade ran the other way, when Bill Murray voiced the cat in two live-action films.

The Real Ghostbusters cartoon aired from 1986 to 1991 on which US network?

ABC carried it for its whole run, apart from a 65-episode season sold into syndication; in 1988 it was stretched to an hour and retitled Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters.

Which animation house's own Ghostbusters cartoon pushed the 1986 series to add 'Real' to its title?

Filmation had made a live-action Ghost Busters show in 1975 and launched a cartoon of it in September 1986, days before the film's own spin-off, which added the word to tell the two apart.

Ernie Hudson auditioned to voice Winston in The Real Ghostbusters cartoon but lost the part to which comedian?

Arsenio Hall got the part after, by Hudson's own account, the voice director told him his reading was all wrong and not how Ernie Hudson had done it in the film.

Which snack does Egon use to show how much psychokinetic energy is building in New York?

A Twinkie stands for the city's normal level; the current reading, Egon reckons, would be one thirty-five feet long weighing about six hundred pounds, or as Winston puts it, a big Twinkie.

In most versions of Ghostbusters: The Video Game, whom does the player control?

A new recruit, known only as the Rookie, is hired to test the team's experimental gear two years after Ghostbusters II; Dan Aykroyd called the game essentially the third movie.

Dan Aykroyd's brief for Stay Puft crossed the Pillsbury Doughboy with which other mascot?

The Michelin Man and the Pillsbury Doughboy were Dan Aykroyd's brief to an artist friend; brand mascots seem cute and puffy, he reasoned, until one is blown up to tower over a city street.

Dan Aykroyd says he wrote the part of Winston Zeddemore with which comedian in mind?

Eddie Murphy, by Aykroyd's account, though the director insists he was never a consideration; the part went to Ernie Hudson, who says he kept hearing the story for years afterwards.

Why did Ghostbusters' effects go to Richard Edlund's newly founded company?

The major effects houses were busy, ILM with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, so Columbia advanced Richard Edlund, who was leaving ILM, the money to equip a company of his own in time for the film.

Gozer's final look was inspired by the androgynous style of which two pop icons?

Grace Jones and David Bowie were the models after the director suggested the god would be more interesting as an androgynous woman than as the man in a business suit first planned.

In Ghostbusters, Venkman tells the mayor he could save millions of what?

Registered voters: Venkman's pitch is that if he's wrong the team goes quietly to jail, and if he's right the mayor takes the credit. The mayor has the EPA man thrown out and frees them.

Which soft-drink company owned Columbia Pictures when Ghostbusters came out in 1984?

Coca-Cola had bought Columbia in 1982. After an industry screening of Ghostbusters played to a deadpan room, executives braced for a flop, and the film became one of the decade's biggest comedies instead.

What dangerous trick, which Egon had warned against, closes Gozer's gateway at the end of Ghostbusters?

Crossing the streams was the one thing Egon said never to do, because it could end all life as they knew it. With the Marshmallow Man climbing the building he proposes it himself, and the blast seals the gate.

In Ghostbusters, what does Egon tell Janine he collects as a hobby?

Spores, molds and fungus: Janine is flirting, tells Egon she reads a lot and plays racquetball, and asks whether he has any hobbies.

Aykroyd wanted Ghostbusters to update the old ghost comedies of Bob Hope and which team, stars of 1941's Hold That Ghost?

Abbott and Costello were among the comedy teams Aykroyd was a big fan of. Ghosts were the family business too: his great-grandfather was a spiritualist, and the Ontario farmhouse hosted séances for generations.

Which monster comedy opened on the same June 1984 weekend as Ghostbusters and finished second at the box office?

Gremlins took $12.5 million that weekend against $13.6 million for the ghost-catchers, who went on to hold the top spot for seven straight weeks.

What kind of hat does the giant Stay Puft Marshmallow Man wear as he stomps through Manhattan in Ghostbusters?

A sailor hat was in Dan Aykroyd's first brief for the mascot, which he imagined rising out of the East River just 20 minutes into the film.

Dan Aykroyd reprised his Ghostbusters character for an uncredited cameo in which 1990s family film?

Casper has the spoiled heiress of Whipstaff Manor call in a Ghostbuster as one of her attempts to exorcise the haunted house.

Which hip hop group recorded an updated version of the Ghostbusters theme for the 1989 sequel Ghostbusters II?

Run-DMC co-wrote and performed the new version, developed with help from the singer behind the 1984 original.

Ghostbusters II moved its June 1989 opening a week earlier to avoid going head to head with which superhero film?

Batman was due on 23 June, the date the sequel had picked for itself, so the studio pulled the ghost comedy forward to the 16th and left its producers racing to finish.

Which Stranger Things star, who had worn a Ghostbusters costume on that show, plays Trevor in Ghostbusters: Afterlife?

Finn Wolfhard doubted the director would even look at his tape, because his Stranger Things character had already dressed up as a Ghostbuster.

In Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Phoebe meets the teenage ghost Melody while playing which game alone in a park?

Chess brings the pair together after Phoebe is benched from the team for being underage, though Melody turns out to be secretly working with the film's villain.

Which comedian plays Nadeem Razmaadi, who sells the team a mysterious brass orb, in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire?

Kumail Nanjiani's character turns out to descend from the Firemasters, the sorcerers who first sealed the film's ice demon inside that orb.

What colour is the river of mood slime that flows beneath New York City in Ghostbusters II?

Pink won out after the effects team mocked up batches in other colours, including a green to match Slimer, and the shoot used about 100,000 gallons.

In Ghostbusters, Venkman and his colleagues meet their first ghost among the book stacks of which institution?

New York Public Library let the crew film in its main reading room only in the early morning, with everything wrapped by 10 am.

What is the day job of Louis Tully, Dana Barrett's party-throwing neighbour in the 1984 Ghostbusters?

Accountant was the actor's own idea for the character, and he also improvised the long, rambling speech Louis gives at his party.

Gozer the Gozerian, the shape-shifting villain of Ghostbusters, is described as a god of which ancient people?

The Sumerians get the credit for worshipping Gozer, who was played on screen by Slavitza Jovan with her voice dubbed by another actress.

Bill Murray and Harold Ramis had already starred together in which 1981 army comedy from the Ghostbusters director?

Stripes had a budget the director simply tripled when Columbia asked what the ghost comedy would cost, a figure he later admitted he had made up.

Which science-fiction author, a hero of Dan Aykroyd's, complained to him in person about the Ghostbusters street shoot?

Isaac Asimov, a hero of Aykroyd's, grumbled that the crew was inconveniencing the building while the streets around it were shut at rush hour.

The interior of the Ghostbusters' firehouse was really a decommissioned fire station in the downtown of which city?

Los Angeles supplied Fire Station No. 23 because the real New York firehouse was still in service and could not be taken over for long enough.

In Ghostbusters, which cult leader designed Dana Barrett's apartment building as an antenna for summoning Gozer?

Ivo Shandor led a Gozer-worshipping cult in the early 20th century, and J. K. Simmons finally played him on screen in Afterlife.

At the start of Ghostbusters II, what job has Peter Venkman taken while the team is out of business?

Talk show host is the gig, on a television programme about psychics, while two of his old partners scrape by as children's party entertainers.

Which juice brand sold Ecto Cooler, the green citrus drink with the Ghostbusters ghost Slimer on its box?

Hi-C kept the drink on shelves until 2001, long after the cartoon it was tied to had ended, though Slimer left the box around 1997.

Which actor plays Gary Grooberson, the summer-school teacher and Ghostbusters fan in Ghostbusters: Afterlife?

Paul Rudd's teacher is a seismologist by training, and the actor had an uncredited part in Year One, the last film Harold Ramis made.

Which Saturday Night Live star plays the gadget-building engineer Jillian Holtzmann in the 2016 Ghostbusters?

Kate McKinnon's Holtzmann builds the prototype proton packs and bases the team's logo on a graffiti artist's scrawl.

The writer of the Ghostbusters theme song found his idea for it while watching what on late-night television?

A cheap local advert reminded him that the film's heroes run a commercial of their own, which gave him a way to have a crowd shout the awkward title for him.

Which New York landmark was closed so the stars of Ghostbusters could dance through it in the theme's music video?

Times Square was shut for the shoot, though a sizeable crowd is still visible behind the cast, and none of the video's celebrity guests were paid.

Ghostbusters: The Video Game, released in 2009, is set in New York during which holiday's celebrations in 1991?

Thanksgiving 1991 puts the story two years after the second film, and Dan Aykroyd has called the game essentially the third movie.

Which member of the student team in the cartoon Extreme Ghostbusters is a wheelchair athlete?

Garrett Miller proved the favourite with children in focus groups, and the series won a disability commission's award for how it portrayed him.

Which ghostly siblings, once sentenced to death by the judge, burst into his courtroom in Ghostbusters II?

The Scoleri brothers erupt from a slime sample offered as evidence, and catching them wins the team a dismissal of the charges and the right to work again.

The accent of museum official Janosz Poha in Ghostbusters II was inspired by which actress's role in a 1982 drama?

Meryl Streep's accent in Sophie's Choice was the model, blended with a Czech friend's voice and what the actor picked up at a Romanian tourist agency.

Ghostbusters II got to film on Second Avenue while forty blocks were restricted for which world leader's visit?

Mikhail Gorbachev, then leader of the Soviet Union, had the avenue locked down, yet the city backed the sequel firmly enough to let the crew in.

Which comic actor filmed scenes as Louis Tully's cousin Sherman that were cut from Ghostbusters II?

Eugene Levy played an employee on the psychiatric ward where the team is locked up, and his character was the one who got them out.

Which comedian plays Hubert Wartzki, the anthropologist who explains the orb's history in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire?

Patton Oswalt's scholar reveals that the orb was made over four thousand years ago to imprison a demigod who kills by fear.

Columbia agreed to fund which passion project of Bill Murray's in the hope of securing him for Ghostbusters?

The Razor's Edge was backed on the theory that it would lose little money if it flopped; it did flop, and Murray then left acting for four years.

In Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Phoebe's new friend and ghost-hunting sidekick goes by which nickname?

Podcast, played by newcomer Logan Kim, helps Phoebe test a proton pack and later recaptures one of Gozer's minions.

What name do the children give the metal-eating ghost of a miner they chase through town in Ghostbusters: Afterlife?

Muncher is the film's counterpart to Slimer, and Josh Gad was among the actors who supplied his voice.

In Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Egon's daughter and grandchildren move to an inherited farm outside which small town?

Summerville sits beside an old mine once owned by the occultist behind Dana Barrett's building, which is why Egon moved there with the team's equipment.

Which actress and filmmaker played Gozer on screen in Ghostbusters: Afterlife while someone else supplied the voice?

Olivia Wilde gave Gozer a body while Shohreh Aghdashloo supplied the voice, echoing the 1984 film, where the villain was also dubbed.

Where do the heroes of the 2016 Ghostbusters set up their first headquarters after losing their university jobs?

Above a Chinese restaurant is only a temporary base, and they move into a disused firehouse once the city starts covertly funding them.

Which subtitle was added to the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot for its home media release to tell it apart from the original?

Answer the Call also appears in the end credits, though the director asked the studio not to put it on the front of the film.

Which Full House star took over as the voice of Peter Venkman in the cartoon The Real Ghostbusters?

Dave Coulier replaced the original voice from the third season because a producer wanted the character to sound more like Bill Murray.

Which toy company made the original 1980s action figures and playsets based on the cartoon The Real Ghostbusters?

Kenner's line included a toy proton pack, which in 1988 was the most popular toy in the United Kingdom.

What name for devoted Ghostbusters fans is also the title of a 2016 documentary about them?

Ghostheads was crowdfunded and mixes fans' stories with interviews with Dan Aykroyd and Sigourney Weaver.

A ghost puppet built for Ghostbusters but judged too scary for children was reused in which 1985 vampire film?

Fright Night inherited the first version of the film's opening ghost, a cable-operated puppet that could turn from a woman into a ghoul.

Which comedian's cameo as a dock supervisor was added to Ghostbusters II during its last-minute reshoots?

Cheech Marin's scene was one of several shot in March and April 1989, only two months before the film opened.

Which item of clothing, written for the 1984 Ghostbusters but cut, comes to life and runs away in Ghostbusters II?

A mink coat bolts from its owner in the sequel, a gag achieved with four coats whose parts were worked by servo motors.

A dinosaur named in 2017 after the terror dog that possesses Dana Barrett in Ghostbusters belongs to which group?

Ankylosaurs got the honour because the film monster's head looks so much like one, and the species name means destroyer of shins.

Which publisher, co-founded by designer David Crane, finished the hit 1984 Ghostbusters computer game in just six weeks?

Activision met the deadline by reworking a half-built driving game called Car Wars, swapping its guns and missiles for ghost-catching gear.

In an early Ghostbusters script, Winston Zeddemore was a demolitions expert from which branch of the US military?

The Air Force major came with an elaborate backstory, but the actor was handed a much thinner script the night before shooting began.

Which effects company did Richard Edlund found with money advanced during the making of the 1984 Ghostbusters?

Boss Film Studios was set up with a $5 million advance and split its crew between the ghost comedy and the space sequel 2010.

Who scored Ghostbusters II, choosing not to rewatch the 1984 film so that the sequel would sound different?

Randy Edelman had rarely worked with a large orchestra before, and his score went unreleased until 2021.

Which real hotel stood in for the fictional Sedgewick Hotel, where the Ghostbusters catch their first ghost?

The Biltmore was also an early home of the Academy Awards, staging eight ceremonies between 1931 and 1942.

Which stand-up comedian turned down the role of Janine Melnitz, the Ghostbusters' secretary, in the 1984 film?

Sandra Bernhard passed, and her replacement was rushed onto set on her first day wearing glasses borrowed from the set dresser.

Wilhelm von Homburg, who appears on screen as Vigo in Ghostbusters II, first made his name in which sport?

Boxing was his trade before films, and he reportedly learned that his lines had been dubbed only at the premiere, then stormed out.