And Sigourney Weaver’s mother was in the Classic Hitchock version of The 39 Steps along with John Laurie (Private Fraser from Dad’s Army)
Kenneth Williams (of the Carry On films) and Peter Sallis (comedy actor in Last of the Summer Wine sitcom and the voice of Wallis from Wallis & Gromit) appeared in a 1955 theatre production by and with Orson Welles (Moby Dick Rehearsed ) based on a play within a play .
The cast also included Christopher Lee, Joan Plowright & Patrick McGoohan.
The Chapman Brothers were once assistants to Gilbert & George
The original tile for T S Eliot’’ The Waste Land was
!He do the Police in Different Voices!
A phrase taken from Dicken’s Our Mutual Friend
Maybe just an urban legend but similar (and more of an anecdote than trivia):
Amy Carter once had a high school homework assignment about the Industrial Revolution that she couldn’t figure out. Her dad asked someone to look up an answer for her. Amy wound up with a box full of complex papers and print-outs because someone thought the question came from the president himself.
Another:
The late Zhou Enlai, China’s legendary premier, was once insulted by (I think) Kruschev who wiped his hand with a handkerchief after shaking Zhou’s hand. Zhou Enlai one-upped him at their next meeting by wiping his own hand after shaking hands and then throwing the handkerchief into the trash. Now that’s statesmanship.
David A. Goodman wrote the popular Futurama episode, Where No Fan Has Gone Before, which partially satirized and partly paid tribute to Star Trek. He credits this episode with getting him a writer’s job on Star Trek: Enterprise after Futurama’s cancellation.
There are no lawyers in heaven
Katherine Hepburn won 4 Oscars. Cate Blanchett one an Oscar for impersonating her.
Daniel Radcliffe’s dream is to be chased by Andrew Staruss with a Cricket bat.
Eh? You sure?
More Star Trek trivia. I’m full of it. 
“Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country’s” casting director was Mary Jo Slater. Her son, Christian Slater, had a cameo appearance in the film as a crewman on Sulu’s ship, the U.S.S Excelsior.
I’m not sure which part of AK84’s post you’re questioning, but Katharine Hepburn did win 4 Oscars and Blanchett’s role as Hepburn in The Aviator earned her a supporting actress Oscar. Or were you taking exception to the role being described as an impersonation? If so, I would agree that she wasn’t just doing some Martin Short version of Hepburn, and that she did an excellent job portraying one of the most iconic women in Hollywood history.
At the beginning of “Marathon Man” (1976), an irritable Lou Gilbert rams his clunker car into a Mercedes Benz. The driver of the Mercedes was played by actor Joseph Späh under his stage name “Ben Dova.”
Joseph Späh was a) a survivor of the 1937 Hindenburg explosion, and was also a person of interest for possible sabotage. He was played by concentration camp survivor Robert Clary in the 1975 movie.
There are now two Football (Soccer) managers in the English Premier League with appropriately sounding names
Arsene Venger has manged Arsenal since 1996
and now
Roberto Mancini manages Man City.
Wars have been fought over soccer, Football War - Wikipedia, and a severed ear, War of Jenkins' Ear - Wikipedia.
At the 1970 Nebula Award dinner, Isaac Asimov was toastmaster. He announced the winner: Gene Wolfe’s “The Island and Dr. Death and Other Stories.” As Wolfe walked to the podium, someone whispered to Asimov, who turned white and then announced that he had made a mistake: No award, an option on the ballot, got the most votes, so no award was chosen. Wolfe was gracious. Later that night, at a party, someone told him that if he wanted to win the award, all he had to do was write a story called “The Death of Doctor Island.” Wolfe did so, and won the award in 1973. He later wrote “The Doctor of Death Island” and “Death of the Island Doctor.”
Harlan Ellison’s first draft of the award-winning Star Trek episode “The City on the Edge of Forever” included a drug dealer among the Enterprise crew.
I don’t know how obscure or weird this is but:
The song Paradise by the Dashboard Lights has some amazing female vocals (they need to be to match Meatloaf’s). The woman who appears in the video is not the original vocalist – she’s lip syncing to someone else’s voice.
The original singer is not entirely lost to obscurity. She’s Ellen Foley, who played Billie on Night Court.
Probably bad form to quote something from the first page, but I want to address this:
Not quite. There was a fire, and one of the reasons they couldn’t get it out initially was because they didn’t have enough crewmen to do it (this was before the voyage, and thus they hadn’t hired all of their boiler room staff yet). With the extra help, they managed to put it out…the day of the sinking.
A couple other Titanic facts:
-Molly Brown was never actually called “Molly” in life, apart from a couple rare instances in print. As a child she was called Maggie, but as an adult, she was Margaret. It was decided, during the writing of the musical, to call her “Molly” because it was easier to sing.
-The medical crew on board would give you heroin, cocaine, and morphine for all that ailed you…but they wouldn’t give you aspirin, for fear that it would be habit-forming.
-The day that the finished hull of the Titanic was first launched in 1911–May 31st–was also the same day that Millvina Dean, the last living survivor, died in 2009.
Actually, I came in here to note that she was Jeannette MacDonald’s big sister.
The actress who appeared in the video, Karla DeVito, toured with Meat Loaf and performed with him onstage. Later, while performing in “The Pirates of Penzance” on Broadway, she fell in love with co-star Robby Benson and they married in 1981.