Even if you have never seen "Chinatown" you are probably familiar with the celebrated final line "Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown." But did you know that the line almost didn't make it to the screen?

When 'The Shining' was being filmed, Jack Nicholson angered Stanley Kubrick by essentially slacking off to go to Wimbledon under the guise of an injury.

When I drove down the narrow private lane leading to Jack Nicholson’s storied lair ... roles in films such as “Easy Rider,” “Chinatown,” “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest ...

Film Studies graduate, aspiring screenwriter and all-around nerd who, despite being a pretentious cinephile who loves ...

Jack Nicholson has worked with some of the greatest directors of all time, but named one he never wanted to work with. Read more about it here.

Faye Dunaway and Jack Nicholson on the set of “Chinatown,” written and directed by Polish-French Roman Polanski, in 1974. Jack Nicholson smiles at the camera in 1974. Jack Nicholson and ...

Jack Nicholson, 1970 CHINATOWN, Jack Nicholson, 1975 CHINATOWN, from left: Jack Nicholson, director Roman Polanski on set, 1974, chinatown1974-fsct14, Photo by: (chinatown1974-fsct14) HOFFA ...

Chinatown, The Shining, Reds, Batman, A Few Good Men, About Schmidt, Something's Gotta Give, and The Departed. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Nicholson, licensed under CC-BY-SA ...

The line -- "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown." -- is uttered by Lawrence Walsh (Joe Mantell), the partner of Jack Nicholson's sardonic private eye Jack Gittes, after Jake's love interest Evelyn ...

Nicholson starred opposite Faye Dunaway as J.J. Gittes in 1974’s “Chinatown.” When Jack turned up, his hair was askew, and he wore a loud yellow-and-blue-striped shirt and khaki pants along ...

CBS via Getty; Kevork Djansezian/Getty Jack Nicholson has had a storied life ... got up close and personal with Faye Dunaway in 1974's Chinatown, in which he acted alongside girlfriend Anjelica's ...