DID YOU KNOW?
GIG YOUNG (Byron Elsworth Barr) - Actor 1978 shot and killed his wife of three weeks, KIM SCHMIDT, then shot himself.
LILLIAN MILLICENT ENTWISTLE
23 year-old actress depressed from being dropped by RKO and after a night of drinking, jumped to her death from the top of the 50-foot high 'H' of the HOLLYWOODLAND sign. Shortly after her death a letter from the Beverly Hills Playhouse arrived at her uncle's home for her. They wanted her to star in their next production which, ironically, was about a young girl who commits suicide.
GLENN MILLER 1941 Received the 1st Gold Record ever awarded to a recording artist.
PETER SELLERS 1964 1st male to appear on the cover of PLAYBOY magazine.
BILLY CRYSTAL 1977 played 1st openly gay main character, Jodie Dallas, on network TV on ABC's SOAP
which aired from 1977 to 1981.
HALLE BERRY 2002 1st Black Woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress.
CARNEGIE HALL in New York City opened in 1891 with TCHAIKOVSKY as Guest Conductor.
Chocolate Syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 second shower scene in ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S PSYCHO
which actually took 7 days to shoot.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
1959 became the first Hollywood star to receive $1 million for a single picture CLEOPATRA.
Adjusting for inflation, Cleopatra 1963, is the most expensive movie ever made to date (mid-1999). Its budget of $44 million is equivalent to $288 million in 2008
In the movie CASABLANCA Rick never says "Play it again Sam" he actually says:
"You played it for her, you can play it for me. Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By'.
The 1st time the 'f-word' was spoken in a movie was by MARIANNE FAITHFUL in the 1968 film I'LL NEVER FORGET WHATSHISNAME. In Brian De Palma's 1984 movie SCARFACE the word is spoken 206 times - an average of once every 29 seconds.
The MONTY PYTHON movie THE LIFE OF BRIAN was banned in Scotland.
The Song WHEN IRISH EYES ARE SMILING was written by George Graff, who was German
and was never in Ireland all his life.
Between 1931 and 1969 WALT DISNEY collected thirty-five oscars.
Time Magazine's MAN OF THE YEAR for 1938? ADOLF HITLER.
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
"Either that wallpaper goes or I do" OSCAR WILDE d 1900
"Get my swan costume ready" ANNA PAVLOVA ballerina d 1931
"I've never felt better" DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS Sr actor d 1939
"That was a great game of golf fellers" BING' CROSBY singer/actor d 1977
"I should never have switched from scotch to martinis" HUMPHREY BOGART d 1957
"Goodnight my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow" NOEL COWARD writer/actor d 1973
"Adieu, mes amis. Je vais la gloire" ISADORA DUNCAN dancer d 1927
"Farewell my friends. I go to glory"
"Damn it.......Don't you dare ask God to help me" JOAN CRAWFORD d 1977
To her housekeeper, who had begun to pray aloud
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