Robert Mitchum was an actor's actor. He enjoyed his celebrity, but never took being a star very seriously. His movie career began during World War II, when the rugged, sleepy-eyed actor was fired from an aircraft plant because he threw a punch at his foreman. Acting in the movies, he figured, couldn't be any worse. Years later, he was arrested for marijuana possession. Miraculously, his film career survived the scathing publicity — in fact, Mitchum became even more popular after the headline event. It was a first in the U.S. film industry for a major star to be arrested and not have his/her career terminated by an outraged studio or public.
Robert Redford attended the University of Colorado on a baseball scholarship.
Rock and film fans are anxious to acquire any keepsake of their idols, including their neckties. The London auction house Phillips sold a tie signed by John Lennon for about $500 in the 1980s, and one of Elvis Presley’s ties from the 1960s also sold for about $500 in 1990 — a healthy piece of cash, considering it was a plain black tie made of synthetic fiber.
Rock superstar Mick Jagger sang backup for Carly Simon's hit "You're So Vain," the song supposedly written about Warren Beatty.
Roy Rogers' favorite of the 100 movies he made was My Pal Trigger.
Rudolph Valentino, great matinee idol of the silent film era, was born Rodolfo Alfonzo Raffaele Pierre Philibert Guglielmi.
Sales of designer Tommy Hilfiger’s clothes went up $90 million in 1994, the year Snoop Dogg wore his oversized jersey on TV's Saturday Night Live.
Sandra Bullock's role in the romantic comedy hit While You Were Sleeping (1995) was originally offered to Demi Moore, but Moore's salary demands were out of reach.
Sandy Gardiner, an Ottawa, Ontario journalist, coined the phrase ‘Beatlemania’ to describe the frenzy created by the 1960s British rock group. He came up with the term while covering The Beatles during a trip to Liverpool in the Fab Four’s early days.
Scarlett O'Hara's real first name was Katie.
Science fiction writer Jules Verne flew only once; he made a balloon ascension in 1873
Scott Joplin was a schooled musician. Many jazz critics are not aware that he composed a symphony and two operas, in addition to the countless popular rags he wrote. One opera, "Treemonisha," is still performed today.
Seattle has served as the backdrop or main locality for many films, including An Office and a Gentleman (1982), McQ (1974), The Parallax View (1974), My Own Private Idaho (1991), Say Anything… (1989), WarGames (1983), Little Buddha (1993), It Happened at the World’s Fair (1963), The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (1992), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), Give ‘em Hell, Harry! (1975), From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), Disclosure (1994), Cinderella Liberty (1973), Black Widow (1986), 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), The Vanishing (1993), Twice in a Lifetime (1985), and the ultimate Seattle romance film, Sleepless in Seattle (1993).
Sergio Leone, director of Clint Eastwood's innovative Italian Westerns, turned down offers to direct The Godfather (1972) in favor of developing his dream project, which ultimately became Once Upon a Time in America (1984).
Several of the Bond girls — namely Ursula Andress, Shirley Eaton, Eunice Gayson, and Claudine Auger — were unable to match an alluring voice to their sexy physical attributes. For each of them, their lines were dubbed by aspirant actress Nikki van der Zyl, who later left the film industry to practice as a barrister. On Doctor No, van der Zyl did every female voice except Miss Moneypenny and a Chinese girl, and she also dubbed Raquel Welch's grunting in One Million Years B.C.
Sex symbol and film star Marilyn Monroe said this about herself in her unfinished autobiography: "I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was 14."
Sherwood Schwartz, who wrote both The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island TV themes, reported that he earns about $60,000 each year from those two theme songs alone.
Shock rocker Marilyn Manson created his stage name by combining screen legend Marilyn Monroe with serial killer Charles Manson's last name. His real name? Brian Warner.
Sideshow performers in ancient Greece used to amaze their audiences by pressing a spot on a goat's neck — pinching off the artery leading to the brain — and causing it to go to sleep. Releasing the pressure would allow the goat to wake again. (The trick still works today.)
Sidney Schanberg's brilliant novel, "The Death and Life of Dith Pran," was retitled The Killing Fields (1984) when it was made into a film.
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