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platinum blonde star, Jean Harlow, appeared in her first major role in
Howard Hughes' World War I aviation epic, Hell's Angels in 1930.
Harlow was then signed by MGM in 1932 and soon became a major star.
Between 1931 and 1969 Walt Disney collected
thirty-five Oscars.
Curly-topped,
dimpled child star Shirley Temple appeared in her first films, an
Our Gang type series of shorts titled Baby Burlesks, in
1933.
Actress Jayne Mansfield accidentally exhaled
her breast out of her dress during the telecast of the Academy Awards in
1957.
Rock and roll singer, Little Richard, played a
transvestite named Lavonne in gay clubs early in his career.
 Actor
Kurt Russell once played minor league baseball for two years before
tearing a shoulder muscle.
When
Tom Cruise
was seven years old, he was diagnosed as dyslexic. He claims Scientology
helped him overcome it.
Christian Brando, Marlon
Brando's son, murdered his pregnant, mentally disturbed sister's boyfriend
in a drunken rage. Brando and prosecutors reached a plea and Brando pled
guilty to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Dolly Parton was the first
woman in country music to have her her own syndicated television show.
Doris Day, the wholesome
actress whose movie career was on a down slide by the late Sixties, was
approached to play the role of Mrs. Robinson. She turned the part down
because she thought the movie was "trashy."
Winona Ryder's childhood
home in Elk,
California had no electricity.
The Beatles song Dear
Prudence was written about Mia Farrow's sister Prudence, when she
wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat
in India.
Oprah Winfrey's
production company Harpo is Oprah spelt backwards.
Musician Eric Clapton
grew up thinking his mother was his sister.
American Pie
star Jason Biggs spent a year playing bad boy Pete Wendall on the TV soap
opera As The World Turns.
Roger Ebert is the only film critic to win the
Pulitzer Prize.
Jenna Elfman of
Dharma & Greg fame had such bad buck teeth in high school that the
other kids all called her Bucky Beaver.
 Bela
Lugosi was buried in his Dracula cape.
Actress Elizabeth Shoe’s
movie debut was as Ralph Macchio’s girlfriend Ali in Karate Kid.
B-actor John Wayne made
his first major role debut a western called The Big Trail in 1930.
The film was one of the first shot in "Grandeur," Fox's experimental
wide-screen 70mm format. Both the film and the new process flopped; it
would be nine more years before his star-making appearance in
Stagecoach in 1939.
James Doohan, who played Scottie in Star
Trek, is missing the entire middle finger on his right hand.
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Many
of the sweaters worn by Mr. Rogers on the popular television show,
Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, were actually knitted by his real
mother.
The
Beach Boys waited 22 years to score their first chart-toping single.
