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CELEBRITY TRIVIA

ACTRESSES

(134 ENTRIES)

1)
Sarah Bernhardt, the legendary French actress, never went anywhere without being accompanied by her silk lined coffin. Not only did she learn her lines while she was lying in her coffin but she also entertained a string of lovers in it as well.

2)
Hollywood actress, Jean Acker split with her new husband, hearthrob Rudolph Valentino, on their wedding night.

3)
Whenever Hollywood actress, Joan Crawford, changed a husband, she would have all of the toilet seats in the house changed.

4)
Hollywood actress, Eva Bartok's first three marriages were never consumated. She married a German SS officer when she was 15 years old then she wed film producer Alexander Paal so that she could get out of Hungary and she finally married film publicist, William Wordsworth, a descendant of the English poet but they split up at the marriage ceremony.

5)
British actress, Samantha Janus, once came 10th in the Eurovison Song Contest in 1991 with the song "A Message To Your Heart".

6)
US actress and singer Bette Midler once worked as a pineapple chunker in a cannery in Hawaii.

7)
US actress Marilyn Monroe's sexy wiggle wasn't only done for effect. She had bandy legs and weak ankles.

8)
Joyce Grenfell, the archetypal English spinster was actually American on both sides of her family.

9)
Actress Sophia Loren's first beauty contest prize included several rolls of wallpaper and a tablecloth with napkins.

10)
US child actress Shirley Temple always had exactly 56 curls in her hair.

11)
Actress Claudette Colbert always insisted that sets be made around her so that the right side of her face would be shielded against the cameras. She also demanded that any shots of her right profile should only be long shots.

12)
US actress Michelle Pfeiffer once worked in a grocery store as a checkout assistant.

13)
US actress Judy Garland was a descendant of US President Ulysses S. Grant.

14)
The anagram of US actress Alicia Silverstone is "Evil Lass In Erotica".

15)
Actress Jane Seymour was born with one green eye and one brown eye.

16)
British actress Elizabeth Taylor's husband, Eddie Fisher, was paid $1,500 a day to make sure that she arrived on time while making the film "Cleopatra".

17)
US actress Jodie Foster had to undergo psychiatric evaluation when she was 13 years old before taking on the role of a teenage prostitute in the 1976 film "Taxi Driver". This was to make sure that she would be capable of handling a potentially traumatic role.

18)
US actress Demi Moore was born cross-eyed.

19)
Actress Clara Bow, a legend of the silent films, hated the new talking pictures so much that she viewed the microphone as her sworn enemy. On more than one occasion she would grab and viciously assault the microphone.

20)
1940's actress Lupe Velez could rotate her left breast while the other one remained stationary.

21)
US actress Marilyn Monroe used to bleach her pubic hair blonde.

22)
US actress Candice Bergen is the daughter of famous ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. When Candice was a little girl her father's dummy, Charlie McCarthy had more clothes than her and a bigger bedroom.

23)
Actress Lauren Bacall, who appeared in the 1944 film "To Have And Have Not" had to mime to the singing voice of Andy Williams because she had such a deep speaking voice. No suitable female singers could be found so they hired Williams instead.

24)
US actress Anne Margaret's family were so poor when she was a child that they were forced to live in a funeral parlour. She slept next to a casket every night.

25)
Actress Katherine Hepburn had such a phobia of dirty hair that when she was on the set she would sniff everybody's hair to make sure that it had been washed.

26)
Child actress Shirley Temple recieved 135,000 presents on her 8th birthday and by the time she was 10 she was a millionaire.

27)
US actress Evelyn Venable's father had a clause inserted into her contract during the 1930's that she should never be kissed on screen.

28)
British actress Elizabeth Taylor changed her religion to Judaism and because of this her film "Cleopatra" was banned in Egypt for 15 years.

29)
British actress Honor Blackman once knocked out professional wrestler Jackie Pallo during rehearsals for the TV show "The Avengers".

30)
US actress/TV host Oprah Winfrey should have been called Orpah, after the biblical figure but the midwife spelt the name wrong on the birth certificate.

31)
British actress Elizabeth Taylor made a voice-only appearance on the cartoon series "The Simpsons" gurgling Maggie Simpson's first words.

32)
Actress Clara Bow once had the fur of her two Chow dogs dyed red to match her own hair.

33)
In 1926, US actress, Clara Bow, a star of the silent era, had sex with the entire University of South California Football team, one of the members being a very young future Hollywood star, John Wayne. After being screwed all night she then presented each of the athletes with an engraved cigarette case.
While making her first film "Wings" in 1922, 16 year old Clara had bedded at least 8 fellow cast members!
It was also rumoured that she once spent the night in a brothel and had a threesome with two prostitutes and even worse that she regularly had sexual intercourse with a great dane dog!

34)
American actress Uma Thurman's father became the first ever American citizen to be ordained as a buddhist monk.

35)
American actress Laura Dern was constantly bullied during her school years because her actor father, Bruce Dern, was the only man ever to have killed western actor John Wayne
in a movie.

36)
The father of Rachel Weisz is responsible for inventing the artificial respirator.

37)
The father of British actress, Dame Helen Mirren, was once part of the Russian aristocracy and was stranded in London in 1917 after the Russian Revolution began.

38)
The fathers of American actresses Liza Minelli and Judy Garland were both homsexual.

39)
American actress Priscilla Presley became a mother again after becoming a grandmother.

40)
The mother of American actress, Uma Thurman, was once married to Timothy Leary.

41)
American actress Victoria Principal's mother's maiden name was Ree Veal.

42)
The mother of actress Clara Bow was a prostitute.

43)
The mother of American actress Jodie Foster was a lesbian.

44)
British actress Kate Beckinsale once won the W.H. Smith young writers competition for poetry and prose two years in a row.

45)
Australian actress and singer Olivia Newton John is the president of the Basking Shark Association of the Isle of Man.

46)
American actress Melissa Joan Hart can count out the mathematical expression "Pi" to 400 decimal places without a calculator.

47)
American actress Mae West did all of her writing in bed later saying "Everybody knows I do my best work in bed!"

48)
US actress Betty Grable had her legs insured for $1,250,000!

49)
When Vivien Leigh was making the classic film 'Gone with the wind' she complained that she did not like kissing Clarke Gable because he had bad breath!

50)
US Actress Sophia Loren was once prosecuted for tax evasion.

51)
Actress Elizabeth Taylor renounced her American citizenship and instead became a British subject.

52)
Actress Pola Negri was the very first woman in Hollywood to wear toe-nail polish.

53)
In 1979 US actress Judy Garland had a pair of her false eyelashes sold at auction for $125.

54)
US actress Jane Russell's real name was Ernestine Russell.

55)
Actress Debbie Reynolds was once crowned Miss Great Britain.

56)
US actress Bette Davis turned down the role of Scarlett O'Hara in the film 'Gone with the wind' because she thought that her co-star was going to be Errol Flynn and she refused to work with him.

57)
US child star Shirley Temple made most of her money by reproducing and selling the dresses that she wore in her films.

58)
US actress Jayne Mansfield's favourite colour was pink.

59)
US actress Carole Lombard's real name was Jane Peters. She renamed herself after a chemist's shop called the 'Caroll Lombardi Pharmacy'.

60)
Actress Hedy Lamarr was a very early star of nude films and she was the first actress to participate in scenes of simulated sex.

61)
Actress Greta Garbo once worked as a manicurist in a Stockholm barber shop.

62)
In 1962 US actress Natalie Wood divorced US actor Robert Wagner.
Ten years later they changed their minds and got remarried again.

63)
US actress Faye Dunaway used to eat just one meal a day so that she could keep her slim figure.

64)
US actress Judy Garland is related to US President Ulysses S. Grant.

65)
British actress Joyce Grenfell is related to Nancy Astor.

66)
British actress Dame Judi Dench is a collector of doll's houses and furniture.

67)
British actress Josie Lawrence is a collector of ornamental ducks.

68)
US actress Melissa Joan Hart is a collector of Shirley Temple memorabila.

69)
US actress Kim Basinger is a collector of inflatable ducks.

70)
US actress Penelope Cruz is a collector of coat hangers.

71)
British actress Joan Collins once launched her own brand of jeans.

72)
US actress Bo Derek has her own brand of shampoos, fragrances and hair conditioners.

73)
US actress Jamie Lee Curtis once had her legs insured for 1.5 million pounds.

74)
US actress Marilyn Monroe worked in a defense plant during World War II while her husband, James Dougherty, was in the Merchant Marines.

75)
Audrey Hepburn was in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II and almost starved to death. She lived on two loaves of bread for an entire month.

76)
US actress Gwyneth Paltrow was bullied at school because she was "Gawky".

77)
US actress Gillian Anderson was bullied at school because of her independent and bossy attitude.

78)
US actress Sandra Bullock was bullied at school because she was classed as ugly.

79)
US actress Michelle Pfeiffer was bullied at school because of her big lips.

80)
British actress Kate Winslet was bullied at school because of her weight.

81)
US actress Winona Ryder was bullied at school because of her androgynous look.

82)
British actress Felicity Kendal was nicknamed "Fatty Foo" when she was at school.

83)
British actress Kate Winslett was nicknamed "Blubber" when she was at school.

84)
US actress Cameron Diaz was nicknamed "Skeletor" when she was at school because she was so skinny.

85)
Italian actress Sophia Loren was nicknamed "Stick and Toothpick" because she was so skinny.

86)
US actress Denise Richards was nicknamed "Fish Lips" when she was at school.

87)
Actress Nicole Kidman was nicknamed "Stalky" when she was at school.

88)
US actress Sandra Bullock was voted "Most likely to brighten your day" when she was at school.

89)
US actress Meg Ryan was voted "Cutest girl in class" when she was at school.

90)
US actress Gillian Anderson was voted "Most likely to go bald and most likely to be arrested" when she was at school.

91)
US actress Halle Berry was once voted Prom Queen but she was forced to share the title with a "white, blue eyed, blonde, all American girl."

92)
British actress Natasha Richardson was named after the heroine in Tolstoy's novel "War And Peace".

93)
US actress Charisma Carpenter was named after an Avon perfume.

94)
US actress Marilyn Monroe (Real name Norma Jean Baker) was named after the actress Norma Talmadge.

95)
US actress Mariel Hemingway was named after a bay in Cuba.

96)
US actress Shirley Maclaine was named after US actress Shirley Temple.

97)
British actress Dame Thora Hurd was named after a a song called "Thora, Speak To Me Thora!"

98)
US actress Bette Midler was named after US actress Bette Davis.

99)
British actress Gillian Taylforth was named after the dancer Gillian Lynne.

100)
US actress Halle Berry was named after the Halle Brothers Department Store.

101)
US actress Meg Ryan's real name is Margaret Hyra.

102)
US actress Bo Derek's real name is Mary Cathleen Collins.

103)
US actress Jodie Foster's real name is Alicia Foster.

104)
US actress Bernadette Peters's real name is Bernadette Lazzara.

105)
US actress Stockard Channing's real name was Susan Williams Antonia Stockard.

106)
US actress Doris Day's real name is Doris Kapelhoff.

107)
US actress Whoopi Goldberg's real name Caryn Johnson.

108)
US actress Demi Moore's real name is Demetria Guynes.

109)
US actress Winona Ryder's real name is Winona Horowitz.

110)
British actress Jane Seymour's real name is Joyce Frankenberg.

111)
US actress Sigourney Weaver's real name is Susan Weaver. She took her name from a character in the book "The Great Gatsby".

112)
British actress Julie Andrews's real name is Julia Wells.

113)
US actress Anne Bancroft's real name is Anna Italiano.

114)
US actress Diane Keaton's real name is Diane Hall.

115)
US actress Jennifer Jason Leigh's real name is Jennifer Morrow.

116)
Australian actress Nicole Kidman also uses the name Miss Honey.

117)
US actress Jodie Foster once appeared in a TV ad for Coppertone Batteries when she was a child.

118)
British actress Leslie Ash once appeared in a TV ad for Fairy Washing Up Liquid when she was a child.

119)
British actress Kate Winslett once appeared in a TV ad for Sugar Puffs cereal when she was a child.

120)
US actress Drew Barrymore once appeared in a TV ad for Gainsburgers when she was a child.

121)
US actress Sarah Michelle Gellar once appeared in a TV ad for Burger King when she was a child. She had such a bad time saying the word "Burger" that she needed a voice coach.

122)
US actress Melissa Joan Hart once appeared in a TV ad for Splashy Bath Toys when she was a child.

123)
US actress Kirsten Dunst once appeared in a TV ad for a doll with all it's bodily functions when she was a child.

124)
US actress Yasmine Bleeth once appeared in a TV ad for Johnson and Johnson Baby Products.

125)
British actress Danniella Westbrook once appeared in a TV ad for Asda Stores when she was a child.

126)
US actress Shannon Elizabeth was so good at tennis that she could have been a professional.

127)
US actress Sarah Michelle Gellar was a figure skater for three years and was ranked third in New York State.

128)
US actress Genna Davis once tried to qualify for the US Olympic Archery Team in 1999.

129)
Britt Ekland sang backing vocals on Rod Stewart's song "Tonight's The Night".

130)
US actress Geena Davis worked as a live mannequin in a New York Department Store before becoming famous.

131)
Renee Zellweger worked as a bartender's assistant before becoming famous.

132)
US actress Lucy Lawless worked in a goldmine before becoming famous.

133)
US actress Whoopi Goldberg worked as a bricklayer, bank teller and a makeup artist in a funeral parlour before becoming famous.

134)
US actress Meg Ryan worked as a journalist before becoming famous.