Read facts you never knew about Elizabeth Taylor: She hated being called Liz because ‘it can sound like such a hiss’. As a child actor she was fired from her first studio Universal because, as the casting director said: ‘Her eyes are too old, she doesn’t have the face of a child’. She broke her back …
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Read facts you never knew about Laurence Olivier: Laurence’s role models as a young actor were Douglas Fairbanks and John Barrymore. When Laurence had to go to college he told his father he did not want to go. He was going to follow his brother and become a rubber planter in India. Although his father …
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Read facts you never knew about James Stewart: James was head male cheerleader at Princeton. He never took an acting lesson and felt that people could learn more when they were working than when they were studying the craft. He sent the Best Actor Oscar he won in 1940 to his father, who displayed it …
Read facts you never knew about Katharine Hepburn: Katharine was a natural red head. As a child, Katharine cut her hair off, wore boys’ clothes and made people call her Jimmy. When Katharine was growing up, it was normal in the Hepburn household to take ice-cold baths or showers daily. She continued to do this …
Read facts you never knew about Greta Garbo: Greta got her first job at the age of six selling newspapers Her school records show that she was a ‘fair’ but lazy student, who was always daydreaming. The only subject that interested her was History. Greta is known as a timeless beauty, but not everything came …
Read facts you never knew about Marlon Brando: When Marlon was a kid, everybody called him Bud. Close friends and family would continue to do so throughout his life. He was close friends with Wally Cox, who he had known since childhood. He took Wally’s sudden death at 48 very hard. He got a part …
Read facts you never knew about Judy Garland: Judy was less than 5ft. tall She was put on a constant diet by her mother and MGM as a teenager. She later stated that that was what she remembered most about those days. She felt that her biggest hit, Over The Rainbow, was symbolic of her …
Read facts you never knew about Humphrey Bogart: Humphrey Bogart’s mother Maud was a militant woman suffragist. She was also a very successful commercial illustrator. Some years she made more money than her husband, a cardiopulmonary surgeon. Bogie is distantly related to the late Princess Diana, through her American relations. Although he took his enlistment …
Read facts you never knew about Grace Kelly: When Grace was a child her favorite actors were Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotton. In her senior yearbook, her classmates predicted that she was certain ‘to become a great stage and screen star’. Grace’s uncle was George Kelly, a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright. He and Grace were …
Read facts you never knew about James Dean: In high school, James was a star basketball player. When James had to write a case study about himself as a High School assignment, he wrote that ‘Mom became ill and passed out of my life at the age of nine. I never knew the reason for …