John Travolta’s famous white suit from the film Saturday Night Fever (1977) sold at auction for an incredible $145,500 in 1995.
John Wayne was on the Top Ten Box Office List 25 times during his career, more often than any other film star in history. Between the years 1949 and 1974, there was only one year that Wayne did not appear on the list: 1956. Four times Wayne landed in the Number 1 Box Office spot — in 1950, 1951, 1954, and 1971.
Johnny Mathis dubbed Miss Piggy's singing voice in The Muppet Movie.
José Ferrer won several awards for portraying the title character in Cyrano de Bergerac in film and on the stage. He was awarded the Best Actor Oscar and the Best Dramatic Actor Golden Globe for his 1950 film portrayal, and the Best Actor Tony for his original stage performance of the lovesick poet with the large proboscis.
Julianna Margulies, Emmy-winning dramatic actress of NBC's ER, has a gifted father. He was an ad executive who is credited for writing the famous Alka Seltzer "Plop-Plop, Fizz-Fizz" jingle some years back.
Julianne Moore started her career on the television soap opera As the World Turns.
Just one episode of the macabre but popular Alfred Hitchcock Presents was never shown. It was titled "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," and was about a retarded boy who watched a magician saw a man in half and then killed someone trying to duplicate the trick. CBS refused to allow it on television, saying it was too morbid to air.
Keanu Reeve trained for four months with a martial arts expert before filming The Matrix (1999).
Kermit the Frog is left-handed and has eleven points on his collar.
Kevin Costner auditioned three times for the co-starring role of the ex-con that eventually went to Nicolas Cage in the offbeat comedy Raising Arizona (1987).
Kim Basinger was extremely shy as a child — so much so that her parents had her tested to determine if she was autistic.
Kim Basinger's mother had been a champion swimmer who performed water ballets in several Esther Williams movies in the 1940s.
Kramer made his "entrance" into Jerry Seinfeld's apartment 284 times.
L. Frank Baum, the author of the "The Wizard of Oz," couldn't swim. He always smoked a cigar when he was wading in the water so he could tell when he was getting in too deep.
Lalo Schifrin wrote the distinctive score for television's Mission: Impossible, for which he earned the Grammy for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show in 1968.
Larry Hama, who wrote the 155 issues of the "G.I. Joe" comic book, played a North Korean soldier who stole a jeep that Maj. Frank Burns was riding in a M*A*S*H episode.
Lassie is the favorite movie dog of animal experts, beating out Benji and Beethoven, according to a survey of Humane Society directors conducted by stuffed animal manufacturer Dakin, Inc.
Laura Dern earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her illuminating performance as the title character in Rambling Rose, an underrated picture in 1991 that also won a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her mother, Diane Ladd. This was the first time a mother-daughter team had been so honored; they became the first mother and daughter ever nominated for Academy Awards for the same movie.
Laura Jean Reese Witherspoon dropped the first two of her birth names before hitting it big on the silver screen.
Lauren Bacall's singing voice in To Have and Have Not her screen debut, was dubbed by a teenage Andy Williams.
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