Ramsay McDonald, leader of the “Lib-Lab” coalition, was the United Kingdom’s first Socialst Prime Minister.
Willard Scott played the original Ronald McDonald as well as Bozo the Clown.
Martin Mull and Fred Willard played a gay couple Leon Carp & Fred, who adopt an Asian baby, in the final two years of the Roseanne show.
Martin Mull recorded several albums for Capricorn Records in the early 70s. His song “Deuling Tubas” as a minor FM hit. As a live musical act, he opened for Frank Zappa and Bruce Springsteen.
In 1963, Frank Zappa played a bicycle as a musical instrument during an appearance on Steve Allen’s syndicated TV show.
According to Mia Farrow’s biography, What Falls Away, Frank Sinatra offered to have Woody Allen’s legs broken when he was found to be having an affair with her adopted daughter, Soon-yi Previn. (Frank and Mia used to be married.)
That was his shortest marriage. Sinatra had four wives:
1939-1951: Nancy Barbato
1951-1957: Ava Gardner
1966-1968: Mia Farrow
1976-1998: Barbara Marx
Sinatra also reportedly slept with two First Ladies, Jackie Kennedy and Nancy Reagan.
Sinatra supposedly introduced Judith Campbell Exner, one of his former lovers, to JFK. She would later also become involved with Chicago Mafioso Sam Giancana, whom many suspect as having had a hand in Kennedy’s assassination.
When his buddy Dean Martin learned that Sinatra intended on marrying the much younger Mia Farrow, Martin joked, “I’ve got Scotch that’s older than Mia Farrow!”
In the 1950s, Sinatra’s future lover Judith was married for six years to actor William Campbell, perhaps best known as the Squire of Gothos and the Klingon Captain Koloth on STAR TREK: TOS.
Carol Kaye, a member of the legendary “Wrecking Crew” studio musicians played bass on Nancy Sinatra’s hit “These Boots are Made for Walking”. She played on an estimated 10,000 recording sessions including “La Bamba” and “Good Vibrations”.
Strangers would often walk up to Danny Kaye and say, “The pellet with the poison’s in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle holds the brew that is true.”*
*If they got it right.
Kaye said that line in the movie, The Court Jester (1956). In that movie, John Carradine played an Italian jester and assassin. John Carradine’s son, John Arthur Carradine, is better known as David Carradine. David (John Arthur) Carradine does not have a “junior” appended to his name because his father’s birth name is Richmond Reed Carradine.
David Carradine played a Shaolin monk named Kwai Chang Caine in the 70’s TV show “Kung Fu”. His brother Keith portrayed Caine as a teenager in flashbacks to Caine’s training with Master Po.
The Caine Mutiny (1954) gave aspiring actor and Humphrey Bogart fan Maurice Micklewhite the inspiration for his screen name – Michael Caine.
Notwithstanding the novel, play and movie versions of The Caine Mutiny, there has in fact never been a ship called the USS Caine in the United States Navy.
After the incident with the Bounty, Captain William Bligh was tried and acquitted in a court martial for the loss of the ship. Rehabilitated, he was eventually named governor of New South Wales in Australia.
The colonists then staged their own mutiny, the Rum Rebellion.
William Bligh was entombed in the back garden of the church building that now houses the Museum of Garden History in the Lambeth section of London, in recognition of his services in bringing the breadfruit tree into cultivation in the West Indies.
William Howard Taft, Republican of Ohio, was appointed Chief Justice of the United States by President Warren G. Harding, who was also a Republican of Ohio. Taft is the only person to serve as both President and Chief Justice.
Harding County occupies the northwest corner of South Dakota. It was named for J.A. Harding, who served as Speaker of the House for the Dakota Territory.