Before he pursued his acting career, Jack Nicholson worked as an office boy in MGM's cartoon department.
According to the Foreign Press, Hungarian actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was the first — and only — recipient of a Golden Globe Award for "Most Glamorous Actress." She won the peculiar (and vapid) award in 1958. The category was deleted thereafter.
According to witnesses, film comedian W. C. Fields drank two quarts of martinis a day, even when working on the movie set. In his final years, he suffered from cirrhosis and kidney trouble, and had to wear heavy makeup in his last films to conceal the swollen veins and "gin blossoms" on his face and nose.
Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger paid $772,500 for President John F. Kennedy's golf clubs at a 1996 auction.
Actor Dean Cain, the leading man in TV's Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, was signed to play professional football with the Buffalo Bills after his graduation from Princeton. However, he injured his knee three days before his first pre-season NFL game. The unfortunate injury forced Cain to pursue a new career.
Actor Jamie Farr (who played Klinger on M*A*S*H) was the only member of the television show cast who actually served as a soldier in the Korean War.
Actor Jeremy Irons provides the voice of the narrator for Spaceship Earth at Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida.
Actor John Barrymore became an eccentric animal collector in his later years. His beloved menagerie consisted of 300 different birds, dozens of Siamese cats, and 19 dogs, of which there were 11 greyhounds, several St. Bernards, and a few Kerry blue terriers. Barrymore also had a monkey, a few opossum, and mouse deer.
Actor Keanu Reeve's first name means "cool breeze over the mountains" in the Hawaiian language.
Actor Leslie Nielsen grew up in a log cabin 200 miles south of the Arctic Circle.
Actor Nick Nolte made his big screen debut in Return to Macon County (1975).
Before his front-page divorce from comedienne Roseanne, Tom Arnold commented in an interview, "A Hollywood marriage can be like a fishbowl. We'll just have a fight at McDonald's like any couple, but it turns into a nuclear bomb: it's in the papers the next day."
Before pursuing a career in comedy, Drew Carey worked as a waiter at a Denny’s in Las Vegas. He also worked for a time as a bank teller, and served in the Marine Corps.
Before she became an established film actress, Sharon Stone was one of the top ten models at the famous Ford Agency between 1977 and 1980.
Before she became the "queen of cuisine" and the darling of TV's PBS, Julia Child worked as an advertising copywriter for a furniture store.
Before she got her big break on television's Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In in the 1960s, Jo Anne Worley was Carol Channing's understudy in Hello, Dolly on Broadway.
Before she landed the role that replaced the departing Farrah Fawcett (then Fawcett-Majors) on TV's hit Charlie's Angels in 1977, Cheryl Ladd provided the voice of one of the Pussycats on the Saturday morning cartoon TV series about an all-female pop music group, Josie and the Pussycats.
Before she met Popeye, Olive Oyl went out with Ham Gravy.
Before she took to her bed permanently at 80, film legend Marlene Dietrich was almost as famous for her sexual conquests as she was for her acting and singing. The immortal screen goddess was a bisexual beauty known for having slept with such legends as Frank Sinatra, Edith Piaf, Kirk Douglas, Adlai Stevenson, and even John F. Kennedy – whom Dietrich claimed to have bedded when she was 62.
Before she was cast as the sultry Uhura on the 1960's "Star Trek," Nichelle Nichols performed as a singer with Duke Ellington.
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