Hollywood actress Joan Crawford had her back teeth removed to make her cheekbones more prominent.
Hollywood not only is a world unto itself, it has its own calendar. For instance, the year 2000 in Tinseltown started in December 1999 and will end in February 2001. It has to do with marketing and the race for the Oscars.
Hooterville was the town in the Ozarks which was home to the Clampett clan on TV's The Beverly Hillbillies.
How many film titles contain the word "white"? Here are but a few: White Christmas (1954), White Lightning (1973), White Nights (1985), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), The Great White Hope (1970), White Men Can't Jump (1992), The Spy in White (1936), White Heat (1949), White Man's Burden (1995), The White Cliffs of Dover (1944), White Cargo (1942), White Hunter, Black Heart (1990), White Zombie (1932), Three Men in White (1944), The Girl in White (1952), Miracle of the White Stallions (1963), Wedding in White (1972), White Orchid (1990), White Tie and Tails (1946), White Slave Ship (1962), White Water Summer (1987), White Palace (1990), The Woman in White (1948), White Fang (1936), The White Sister (1923), Single White Female (1992), Poor White Trash (1957), White Room (1990), White Cargo (1942), and The Man in the White Suit (1951).
How many reasons are there for an entertainer to change his or her name? Here's an uncommon one: when your name is that of the father of relativity. Actor and director Albert Brooks started out in life named Albert Einstein. His brother, David Einstein, also changed his name to become a celebrated daredevil — to "Super Dave" Osborne.
Humphrey Bogart made the following disparaging comment about James Dean, who died in a car crash at age 24: "If he'd have lived, they'd have discovered he wasn't a legend."
Humphrey Bogart never says "Play it again, Sam" in Casablanca. Instead, he says, "You played it for her; you can play it for me... If she can stand it, I can. Play it!"
Illusionist David Copperfield donated $10,000 in October, 1994 to repair the vandalized New York gravesite of legendary magician Harry Houdini. Houdini's mausoleum, with its Gothic benches and ornate headstones, had been vandalized five months earlier. Houdini and his wife both rest at the site.
In 1838, composer Franz Liszt performed several concerts to aid Danube flood victims in Hungary. His philanthropy made him a celebrated figure in Hungary for a time. There was even talk of awarding him a Hungarian title, although nothing came of this. As time went on, Liszt's inflated ego and unabashed desire to be part of aristocratic society were gleefully lampooned and ridiculed in the Paris press, and he evolved into a 19th-century media joke.
In 1892, Emile Berlinger developed the master disc, from which several copies of a record could be made on vulcanized rubber. Before then, singers had to repeat a song for each copy of a recording.
In 1924, Harry Goulding and his wife, Mike, came to Monument Valley and established a trading post and lodge. The original trading post is now a museum with artifacts from the valley's human history, including photographs from films made there. Behind the museum is the John Wayne cabin, built and used for many of the seven movies filmed by director John Ford in the area.
In 1939, David O. Selznick was ordered to pay a then-whopping $5,000 fine to the Motion Picture Producers Association because he insisted that the word "damn" remain in Gone With the Wind's final script. A perfectionist, Selznick wanted to stay true to author Margaret Mitchell's novel.
In 1939, the U.S. Treasury Department reported that actor Gary Cooper was the nation's top wage earner. That year he earned $482,819.
In 1947, 40-year-old British actor Laurence Olivier was knighted, becoming the youngest actor to be so honored.
In 1948, on her way to movie stardom, Marilyn Monroe stopped in a Salinas, California, jewelry store to reign over a diamond ring promotion. Among her many fans that day were members of the California artichoke industry, who thought it would be terrific idea to make Monroe their Artichoke Queen. Next stop for the stunning starlet was Castroville, California, the self-proclaimed "Artichoke Center of the World," where Monroe was crowned. The artichoke became an instant celebrity and began taking center stage on menus across the country.
In 1949, "Crusader Rabbit" debuted as the first made-for-TV animated cartoon
In 1953, Geraldine Page received her first Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the John Wayne film,Hondo. By the time Page won the Best Actress Oscar some 32 years later, in 1985, for her moving portrayal of a woman returning to the home of her youth in The Trip to Bountiful, Page had received a total of eight Oscar nominations (five as Best Supporting Actress and three as Best Actress). This set a record for the most nominations ever received by a performer before actually clinching an Oscar.
In 1954, RKO Pictures Corporation stockholders approved the $23.5 million sale of the company to multi-millionaire Howard Hughes. He became the first individual ever to be the sole owner of a major motion-picture company
In 1957, there was an incredibly lengthy Emmy category: "Continuing Performance in a Series by a Comedian, Singer, Host, Dancer, MC, Announcer, Narrator, Panelist, or Any Person Who Essentially Plays Himself/Herself." Jack Benny, for The Jack Benny Show and Dinah Shore, for The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, were the winners. The category name was retooled (and shortened) for subsequent Emmy presentations.
In 1959, Larry Linville, who played Maj. Frank Burns on TV’s M*A*S*H, competed for and received a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London
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