Interesting and Amusing Trivia About Famous Actors and Actresses

Celebrities are always in the public eye.  However, not everything about them is common knowledge.  These little known details about famous people are sure to be interesting, amusing and even down right spooky.

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Bob Hope once pursued a career as an amateur boxer.  He was known then as Packy Ease.

Rock Hudson was born Roy Fitzgerald.  His agent said "I named him after the Rock of Gibraltar and the Hudson River."

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At the time when Lucille Ball was under contract with the MGM Studio, she was loaned to Paramount for a role in the movie The Greatest Show on Earth.  However she became pregnant.

• When Cecil B. De Mille learned of the impending arrival, he told her husband, Desi Arnaz "Congratulations.  You're the only man who's ever screwed his wife, Cecil B. De Mille, Paramount Pictures and Harry Cohn - all at the same time."
• Horror movie stars Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee share the same birthday - May 27th.
  Rudolph Valentino's owned a cat's eye ring, which was purchased in a San Francisco novelty store.  It was dubbed the "destiny ring" because Valentino died while wearing it.  Then a major hollywood studio's chosen successor to Valentino, Russ Columbo, who was heir to the ring, died in a car crash while wearing it.  The ring then went to Columbo's friend Joe Casino, who died shortly afterward when a truck hit him.
• Humphry Bogart was quoted as saying "In my first twenty nine pictures, I was shot in twelve, electrocuted or hanged in eight, and was a jailbird in nine....Is that a record to be proud of?"
• James Dean's voice had to be dubbed into the banquet scene for his drunken mumblings.  His voice was inaudable but when it came time to redub the lines Dean has already died.  The voice you hear is that of Nick Adams.
• Natalie Wood's appearances in the last scenes of the movie Brainstorm had to be edited in from earlier footage because she died in a boating mishap before completion of the film.
• We all know Pablo Picasso because of his artistic genius.  However, he once wrote a play called Desire Caught by the Tail.  Characters included Big Foot, Fat Anxiety and Thin Anguish.  One disappointed critic wrote in his review that it had "the features of medieval morality plays with twentieth century smut".  Needless to say, it was a complete flop and has only been performed three times since it was first produced in 1941.
• W.C Fields was so paranoid about losing track of his loose cash that he continually opened bank accounts.  What is fascinating is that he used fictious names such as Figley E. Whitesides, Aristotle Hoop, Ludovic Fishpond and Cholmondley Frampton-Blythe.  Talk about eccentric.