Hollywood Trivia

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The Jazz Singer (1927) was only about 25 percent "talkie", and ad-libbed at that.

In Silent Movie, one word is spoken, 'Non', by a mime, no less.

The Merv Giffin Show's director was Dick Carson, Johnny Carson's brother.

The late Dame Elizabeth Taylor's beloved Maltese dog, Sugar, was unfortunately not the best housebroken dog in the world....

Though she had his favorite brand of 'potty pads' put down everywhere she went (he accompanied her EVERYWHERE), it has been said that he peed his way across the carpets of the finest hotels in the world.

Thirty thousand Hawaiians signed a petition to change Maui's name to Gilligan's Island.

During the filming of 'Interview With The Vampire', Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise did NOT get along.

Partway through the filming, Brad Pitt had a private meeting with the film's producer.

He asked how much it would cost to buy his way out.

He was told 'Forty million dollars'.

He finished the film.

Which made lots of money, but which Antonio Banderas stole with one single scene.

The first movie stars to leave their hand and footprints at Grauman's: Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, April 30, 1927.

^^ thanks Sylkat, I always enjoy your Hollywood stories.

I'm off now to try to find Antonio Banderas in Interview with a Vampire on YouTube. Not sure how I've lived this long without seeing it.

Desi Arnaz's mother was one of the heirs to the Bacardi Rum fortune.

American author with the most feature films made of his work: Edgar Allan Poe.

Record for most costume changes by an actor in one film: 85, by Madonna in "Evita" (1996).

Tom Hanks is related to Abraham Lincoln. He is Lincoln's third cousin, four times removed.

William Powell gave Jean Harlow a one hundred fifty carat star sapphire ring as an engagement ring.

No one knows what happened to it.

In addition, a full-sized full-length portrait of her disappeared as well......neither item was listed in her estate.

Jay North, star of TV's Dennis the Menace, was also the voice of Bam-Bam Rubble.

George Sanders, the beloved debonair cad of British and American films, was married to not one Gabor sister, but two!

He was most famously married to Zsa Zsa, but was also the second husband of Magda.

She, of course, married four more times.