Porn starlet Traci Lords (real name Nora Louise Kuzma), who later had a respectable but minor career in mainstream films and TV, took her screen name from the character Katherine Hepburn played in The Philadelphia Story, Tracy Lord. The revelation that much of her work was done before her 18th birthday forced her production company to pull most of it from the stores, at a cost of millions.
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Left to dangle was Sternvogel’s “Ida Lupino actually joined Four Star Productions after Joel McCrea and Rosalind Russell had dropped out of the company.”
And now, perhaps knowing it’s gone invalid, the game thread itself has dangled for a day. I’ll try to revalidate the links by linking to both #10253 and #10260. [/SPOILER] Humphrey Bogart was called "the greatest male star in the history of American cinema. Although he’s most famous for films with Lauren Bacall and Ingrid Bergman, his leading ladies also included Ida Lupino (in High Sierra) and Katherine Hepburn (in African Queen).
Humphrey Bogart considered himself a serious actor. Enjoying success on Broadway before he started in movies, he considered the latter a lower art form, something he did just for the money they were willing to pay him, but his heart always remained back in New York.
Humphrey Bogart is occasionally cited as being the model for the Gerber Baby Food baby. This is incorrect. He was, however, the model for the Mellin’s Baby Food baby; his mother Maud Humphrey was a commercial artist and used a drawing of her son for the assignment.
In 1965, Humbert Humphrey was made an Honorary Life Member of Alpha Phi Alpha, a historically African American fraternity.
Hubert Humphrey died of bladder cancer in January 1978, one of the coldest winters in recent history.
On Johnny Carson’s final** Tonight Show**, he showed a montage of guests over the years. The final image in the montage – and one of only two that were in black and white – was that of Hubert Humphrey.
Johnny Carson’s final guest was Bette Midler, who sang “Here’s That Rainy Day” and “One for My Baby” to him. On the following “Tonight Show” episode, the first hosted by Jay Leno in a permanent slot (he had guested many times), his first guest was Billy Crystal, who sang “You Made Me First Guest” to the tune of “You Made Me Love You” to him.
Billy Crystal played the first openly-gay character on primetime American TV, on Soap.
The most expensive champagne glasses in the world are diamond encrusted crystal and cost $400,000 a pair.
Linda Evans, who played Crystal Carrington on “Dynasty,” had worked with John Forsythe, who played her husband Blake, years before on “Bachelor Father.”
Nitpick: Evans’s character’s name was Krystle.
In play: In 1936, an eighteen-year-old John Forsythe became the public-address announcer for Dodgers games at Ebbets Field.
Ebbets Field’s main entrance was located on Sullivan Place in Brooklyn.
After “Toast of the Town” debuted on CBS, one critic remarked that “As an emcee, Ed Sullivan makes a great newspaper columnist!”
Frank, George, Al, Joe and Matt Sullivan were brothers all killed as a result of the sinking of the USS Juneau in the Pacific in WWII. A 1944 movie, “The Fighting Sullivans”, dramatized their story.
A commemorative plaque on the waterfront in Juneau, Alaska, the state capital, honors those lost in the sinking of the World War II American warship of that name.
James Gandolfini (best known for The Sopranos) and busy character actor David Morse had starring roles in a Broadway musical version of the Elia Kazan film On the Waterfront in 1995. The play flopped and closed within a few days of opening.
On the Waterfront was John Belushi’s favorite movie. He would often carry a videocasette of it around with him and watch it wherever he happened to find a VCR.
When Marlon Brando shot his “I could have been a contender” speech in On the Waterfront, he insisted that Rod Steiger (who played his brother) sit opposite him, even though the camera never included Steiger. After his lines were shot, though, Brando went home and Steiger had to say his lines to a production assistant.
When playing Pontius Pilate in Zefferelli’s Jesus of Nazareth, Steiger “washed his hands” because he had just arrived from a long ride on horseback and was dusty. (He said that he and Franco agreed the hand-washing bit “had been done to death.”)