Eccentric actor and former teen heart-throb Johnny Depp purchased a lavish Hollywood Hills mansion in 1996 that once was owned by famed Dracula film portrayer, Bela Lugosi.
Eddie Murphy began writing comic routines for himself when he was just 15 years old, and before he turned 20, was selected to be a cast member of TV's Saturday Night Live
Edith Head's 34 Academy Award nominations and 8 Oscars make her both the most honored costume designer and woman in Academy Award history to date. In all, Head served as costume designer for more than 340 films, TV series, and made-for-TV movies. In Edith Head's Hollywood,her 1983 autobiography co-written with Paddy Calisto, Head stated, "There's nothing like a row of Oscars on a dress designer's desk for putting the fear of God into an actress who thinks she knows everything about dress designing."
Elizabeth Taylor was seriously considered for the lead role of Nurse Nellie Forbush in the 1958 film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical South Pacific. Taylor auditioned for composer Richard Rodgers, but she was so nervous that her normally sweet voice turned raspy – she lost the part to Mitzi Gaynor.
Ellen DeGeneres was the first stand-up comedienne Johnny Carson ever asked to sit on The Tonight Show guest couch during a first appearance.
Elvis Presley had two nicknames for his daughter, Lisa Marie Presley: "Yisa" and "Buttonhead."
Elvis Presley made only one television commercial — an ad for "Southern Maid Doughnuts" that ran in 1954.
Elvis Presley's hit recording of "Love Me Tender" entered Billboard's pop charts in October 1956. It stayed on the charts for 19 weeks, and was in the Number 1 spot for five of those weeks. The song, from Presley's debut film with the same title, was adapted from the tune "Aura Lee," which had been written back in 1861.
Enrico Caruso was the first singer to sell a million records, and was also the first opera star to appear in films.
Eric Clapton attended Kingston College of Art, but his original career path in stained-glass design ended forever when the blues-obsessed youth was expelled at age seventeen for playing his guitar in an art class. Clapton worked as a manual laborer and spent most of his spare time strumming the electric guitar he had persuaded his grandparents to purchase for him.
Eric Stoltz was first cast as the lead in the film Back to the Future, but he proved to be "too intense for the comedy." Second-choice Michael J. Fox got the role.
Erich Segal, author of Love Story, also collaborated on the screenplay of the Beatles' animated movie, Yellow Submarine.
Errol Flynn worked as an inspector for a soft drink company before he became a major film star.
Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, Marlon Brando, and Mel Gibson all portrayed Fletcher Christian, first mate on the Bounty.
ESPN, a total sports network, made its debut on cable in 1979. It became the largest and most successful basic cable channel, carried by nearly all cable systems, and now reaches more than 57 million households.
Even two decades after his death, film star John Wayne still ranks among America's top five favorite male film stars.
Famous for his pet film project Gone With the Wind (1939), movie executive David O. Selznick’s middle name was Oliver.
Fast Food Jobs: Entertainers who worked in the pizza business before they became famous include Stephen Baldwin, who was a pizza parlor employee, Bill Murray, who was a pizza maker, and Jean-Claude Van Damme, who delivered pizzas. Many years back, Julia Roberts and Christie Brinkley both sold ice cream. Before she made it as a pop singer, Madonna sold doughnuts at Dunkin' Donuts. And in the burger arena, Jennifer Aniston was a waitress at a burger joint, Queen Latifah worked at Burger King, and Andie McDowell was employed by McDonald's.
Few people likely recall ABC's short-lived adventure drama H.E.L.P., which starred John Mahoney (father Martin Crane on NBC's Frasier) and Wesley Snipes. It aired for just over a month: March 3 to April 14, 1990.
Film set designer Dean Tavoularis took great pride in the many small details that create the illusion of reality in a movie. In an interview, he shared his conviction that if a film character lived in a real house (not a studio set), then real mail should be delivered to that house, addressed to the character who "lived" there. Tavoularis explained: "I remember we did that in The Conversation. We had this apartment in San Francisco and we knew months ahead of time that we were going to have it for the making of the film. The Gene Hackman character was supposed to be an electronics wiz, and it seemed rather obvious to me to subscribe to all those magazines which cater to this kind of person. So we mailed off 30 letters and started getting all this stuff with the real character's name and address on it. This was a very important detail."
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