Useless Celebrity Facts

Useless Facts About Famous People

Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra In October, 1959 Elizabeth Taylor became the first Hollywood star to receive $1 million for a single picture - for Cleopatra.

Allman Brothers Band members Duane Allman and Berry Oakley were killed in separate motorcycle accidents within only three blocks and one year of each other.

MGM stars Clark Gable and Joan Crawford starred together in the risqué film Dance, Fools, Dance in 1931, the first of eight features that teamed the pair together

Barry Manilow sang, but did not write, the 1976 chart-topping song I Write the Songs.

Brad Pitt posed for a campus calendar in college.

Actor Billy Bob Thornton’s mother, Virginia, is a psychic.

Paris Hilton has often been dubbed as the most “useless” celebrity in America. Unable to claim talent, good deeds, any type of purpose, business acumen, or even a memorable personality, multiple sources bash the beautiful heiress whose only claim to fame is in having made an amateur pornographic video. By some descriptions of the video, she’s not even “good” in bed.

Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison were all 27 years old when they died.

Hank Patterson, the 80 year old actor, who played Fred Ziffel on Green Acres was deaf. The dialogue coach , Phil Gordon, would lay on the floor and tap him on his leg with a yardstick when it was time for him to deliver his line.

C3PO C3P0 is the first character to speak in Star Wars.

The teddy bear was named for Theodore Roosevelt because he refused to shoot a bear cub while hunting.

Some of the shortest celebrity marriages on record include Drew Barrymore and Jeremy Thomas at 30 days, Cher and Gregg Allman at 9 days, Dennis Hopper and Michelle Phillips at 8 days. But Britney Spears wins the infamous prize for shortest marriage, at just 55 hours.

The title role of the 1971 movie Dirty Harry was originally intended for Frank Sinatra. After he refused, it was offered to John Wayne, and then Paul Newman, before finally being accepted by Clint Eastwood.

Olympic swimming champion Johnny Weissmuller made his screen debut as the vine-swinging ape-man in Tarzan, the Ape Man in 1932.

Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen lost an arm in a 1984 auto accident.

Lisa Kudrow Lisa Kudrow has a degree in Sociobiology. She originally planned to be a doctor.

Traci Lords rose from an abused child to the reigning princess of porn while she was underage. One of the most popular porn stars of the time, her career was cut short by a crackdown on child pornography. Undaunted, Lords is one of the few porn stars who has been able to make the transition to mainstream television and movies.

In Meg Ryan's 1981 film debut in Rich and Famous, Candice Bergen played her mother.

As a teenager, Kevin Costner sang in a church choir.

Everyone knows the Beatles were George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr. But there were also two lesser known, previous members of the band: Pete Best and Stu Sutcliffe.

Sally Field as the Flying Nun Actress Sally Field was paid $4,000 a week for her role in the TV show The Flying Nun.

Jerry Mathers was discovered at age 2 by a department store manager who used Jerry's photo on the store's Christmas calendar. In 1954, at age 2.5 Jerry made his TV debut on The Ed Wynn Show.

Walt Disney's first cartoon character was called Oswald the Rabbit.

Broadway actress Helen Hayes made her screen debut in The Sin of Madelon Claudet in 1931 and won the Best Actress Academy Award for her first talkie.

Pierce Brosnan's first appearance as James Bond was in 1995 Golden Eye.

Gerald Ford was the only president not elected into office.

Billie Jean by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist.

Nicole Kidman suffered a broken rib while rehearsing a dance routine for Moulin Rouge.

Before succeeding in the movie industry, director James Cameron was a school bus driver.

Tom Cruise started wearing braces in 2002. He removes them during filming.

Katharine Hepburn made her screen debut in A Bill of Divorcement in 1932.

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