Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger paid $772,500 for President John F. Kennedy's golf clubs at a 1996 auction.
Actor Keanu Reeve's first name means 'cool breeze over the mountains' in the Hawaiian language.
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshmen roommates at Harvard.
Actress Sarah Berhardt played a 70 year old Juliet when she was only thirteen years old.
Although starring in many gangster films, James Cagney started his career as a chorus girl.
As a child, actress Jodie Foster appeared in Coppertone commercials.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
Dan Aykroyd's conehead from Saturday Night Live was auctioned off at $2,200.
David Niven and George Lazenby were the only two actors who played James Bond only once.
David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
Hulk Hogan's real name is Terry Bollea.
Ice Cube's real name is O'Shea Jackson.
In 1953, Marilyn Monroe appeared as the first Playboy centerfold.
James Doohan who plays LT. COMMANDER MONTGOMERY SCOTT on Star Trek is missing his entire middle finger on his right hand.
Mae West did not utter her infamous line "Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?" until her last film Sextette. It has been floating around for years and has always been attributed to her, but its exact origins are unknown.
Melanie Griffith's mother is actress Tippi Hedren, best known for her lead role in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.
Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with Midnight Cowboy. Her entire role lasted only six minutes
