Henry Zebrowski

He's kind of in the background and you can see his eyes darting around.

He's like looking at the members of the production.

But the most interesting bit of trivia about The Devil's Reign concerns the actor who played the head henchman in the satanic cult.

He only had one line, but The Devil's Reign was indeed the first movie to ever feature John Travolta.

Well, they gave him billing because of the job that he booked after filming was done.

We've mentioned this many times before, but it was on the set of The Devil's Reign that someone gave the stressed-out young actor a book that they said would help manage his life.

That book was, of course, Dianetics.

And it was that book that set Travolta down the path towards Scientology.

Sure, yeah.

Wow.

Interestingly, though, even though Travolta's role was a smaller one, and even though John Travolta was, at this point, it was his first movie, he was not a star in any way whatsoever, it was said that he and Anton LaVey became fast friends.

And a picture does indeed exist of the two of them standing together in a candid moment.

And it really shows you Anton LaVey is like...

He's sitting there wearing a fucking t-shirt.

See, Travolta was fascinated by old Hollywood, particularly Marilyn Monroe, and LaVey claimed to have known Monroe biblically.

But Travolta's obsession with Marilyn was not about her looks or her gnashing and farting during orgasm, as LaVey had put it.

Instead, LaVey said that John Travolta wanted to know how Marilyn moved and acted because Travolta could do the most convincing and realistic Marilyn Monroe impersonation that Anton LaVey had ever seen.

Straight as an arrow, that John Travolta.

I love that John Travolta, man.

I mean, fucking, I mean, Hairspray, he's an incredible drag queen.