Celebrity Shit You Were Surprised To Discover

Grandson.

Sorry, yes. Grandson.

Dick Smothers' son is a porn actor.

J Patric is a real shocker considering how ugly Gleason was.

Jason Patric's dad is Father Damien Karras.

Susan Koehner, who played Sara Jane in Imitation of Life,is the mother of Paul and Chris Weitz

Beatrice Straight, of "Network" and "Poltergeist" fame, was the daughter of Dorothy Payne Whitney, the socialite, feminist, philanthropist, and magazine founder.

Meghan McCain's father was US Senator John McCain. You'd never know that to hear her talk--she never mentions it.

Charley Weaver from Hollywood Squares is the grandfather of the Arquettes (David, Patricia, Rosanna, Alexis, et al.).

Aileen Wurnos was briefly married to a elderly millionaire until she started to beat him up

Dina Merrill, daughter of EF Hutton and Marjorie Merriweather Post, sold Mar A Lago to Trump.

Facially, Gleason wasn’t that ugly.

English Rose, Cara Delevingne, is Dame Joan Collin's goddaughter.

Jennifer Garner worked as a nanny for Stephen Colbert's kids.

Jack Weston is the brother of Sam Weston, aka Anthony Spinelli, famous 1970s and 80s porn movie director.

The character of Jack Horner in "Boogie Nights" was based loosely on Spinelli.

UB40's hit song "Red Red Wine" was written by ... Neil Diamond.

I just discovered that British actress Rachael Stirling is the daughter of Diana Rigg.

Actress Lily Rabe is Jill Clayburgh's daughter.

I was surprised to hear Susan Lucci is estranged from her daughter Liza, they seemed so close.

Jason Sudeikis is George Wendt's nephew.

The novelist and screenwriter Caprice Crane is the daughter of Gilligan's Island star Tina Louise.

Elle King is Rob Schneider's daughter.

I learned in the What's My Line thread that Dorothy Kilgallen loved to fuck gay men.

There’s a dude on Instagram that reveals all these sort of relationships.

I just saw that the dude that sang as grown up Simba and sang the Care Bear song and is now the lead singer of Toto is actually the great John Williams’ son!!

[quote] Elle King is Rob Schneider's daughter.

Did not know that. That explains why I hate her putrid music, almost as much as I hate her talentless father.

Sissy Spacek and Rip Torn were first cousins.

[quote]I just discovered that British actress Rachael Stirling is the daughter of Diana Rigg.

They played mother/daughter in the wonderful series "The Detectorists".

Jimi Hendrix wrote lyrics and music to Little Wing in two minutes. Genius.

Jonathan Cain from Journey was a survivor of the Our Lady of Angels fire in Chicago which killed 92 children and three nuns in 1958.

[quote]I just discovered that British actress Rachael Stirling is the daughter of Diana Rigg.

[quote]They played mother/daughter in the wonderful series "The Detectorists".

I don't see how you could possibly *not* have known. Rachel looks like her mother's twin. Detectorists is a charming little show. They play mother/daughter in another film/show.

"Celebrity shit you were surprised to discover."

Hmmm.

Let me give that a think.

Gaby Hoffmann is the biological daughter of soap opera actor Anthony Herrera (James Stenbeck, ATWT)

Mindy Cohn is the Godmother to two of Brad and Angelina's kids.

70s singer Andrew Gold was the son of Marni Nixon.

[quote] Dame Joan Collin's

Oh, dear.

R11 The Post Foundation sold it. Dina did not own it.

My ex-sister in law’s brother fucked Ally Sheedy.

[quote] 70s singer Andrew Gold was the son of Marni Nixon.

Did he do his own singing?

Tip O’Neill’s accent was actually Boston Irish-French. Growing up in Cambridge, he was raised by a Quebecois housekeeper. Everyone thought he talked funny, eh.

R32 way to bury the lede! Her mom was Viva!

Anne Baxter was Frank Lloyd Wright's Granddaughter.

Blondie Bumstead's maiden name is Boopadoop.

R12, agree. I'd go as far as to say Gleason was downright handsome in his prime.

I didn't know until recently that Toby Stephens is Dame Maggie Smith's son.

I was kind of surprised by all the recent stories about Brad Pitt. He stayed off the radar for so long and seemed harmless. Was there ever any reports of poor behavior before AJ entered his life?

Chris and Paul WeitZ are super Nepo babies. The make Dakota Johnson look like a peasant, which she sort of is what with Don J being such a trash heap.

Bunny Campione from Antiques roadshow is the niece of Stewart Granger

[quote] Jonathan Cain from Journey was a survivor of the Our Lady of Angels fire in Chicago which killed 92 children and three nuns in 1958.

He also went religion crazy and married that scam artist televangelist Paula White who was Trump's religious guru and has had more plastic surgery than every Real Housewife combined.

I was surprised to discover that 3/4 of the posters in this thread have been living in a cave for several decades.

[quote]Anne Baxter was Frank Lloyd Wright's Granddaughter.

OMG, THAT explains her propensity to chew the scenery!

Is that a marionette in R48's picture?

Jason Patric is still considered a celebrity.

Who are all these people? Never heard of half of them. Pictures and brief one sentence bios please.

I’m surprised how often I forget that Jason Schwartzman is of the Coppola Family Tree because his mother is Talia Shire.

Danny Thomas

R55 that's LITERALLY celebrity shit! 💩

Judy Garland was Liza Minnelli's mother.

Jonathan Cain was once Doug McClure's son in law.

I learned from Transparent that Gaby Hoffman has a dark hairy bush

Blossom Rock(Grandmama on “The Addams Family” television series) and MGM songbird Jeanette MacDonald were sisters.

R60 Now THAT I never knew.

The turd Bea left in my dressing room!

Debbie Reynolds and Agnes Moorehead were lesbian lovers.

R60 Speaking of The Addams Family, Lisa Loring (Wednesday Addams) was once married to the hot, late porn star Jerry Butler.

The main Eddy/MacDonald stan cornered Blossom Rock at her nursing home and supposedly got her to confirm that the two were lovers.

Charles Nelson Reilly was a survivor of the Hartford circus fire.

Jason Patric is the half brother of Joshua Miller who played weird kids in River's Edge and Near Dark.

All of these people attended Northwestern University (though not all of them graduated):

Zooey Deschanel, Hugh Hefner, David Schwimmer, Pharrell Williams, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Warren Beatty, Laura Linney, Charlton Heston, Cindy Crawford, Zach Braff, Stephen Colbert, Dermot Mulroney, Ann-Margret, Megan Mullally, Chet Hanks, Lily Rabe, Mamie Gummer, Maude Apatow [NOTICING A PATTERN HERE?], Seth Meyers, Billy Eichner, Garry Marshall, Robert Todd Lincoln, Jerry Orbach, Jerry Springer, Noah Wyle, Robert Loggia, Marg Helgenberger, Patricia Neal, Robert Reed, Paul Lynde, Jennifer Jones, Karen Black, McLean Stevenson, Brian d'Arcy James, Tony Randall, Nicole Sullivan, Ana Gasteyer, Claude Akins, Craig Bierko, and John Cameron Mitchell.

R66, Ruth Roman survived the sinking of the Andrea Doria.

“In the mid-1950s, after leaving Warner Bros., Roman continued to star in films and also began playing guest roles for television series. She also worked abroad and made films in England, Italy, and Spain. She was also a passenger aboard the SS Andrea Doria when it collided with another ship and sank in 1956.“

^ and Charlotte Rae and Cloris Leachman (who were both studying drama with Paul Lynde).

R33 How in the world does Mindy know Angie and Brad? And how did they become that close?

Henry Winkler and Richard Belzer are cousins. I guess Winkler got the looks in the family.

Jayne Mansfield was a satanist, which probably led to her tragic death.

Jenny McCarthy and Melissa McCarthy are cousins. You can see the resemblance!

Speaking of Jackie Gleason, he was very wealthy from songwriting. He got writing credits for tons of songs. It’s hard to know which songs he wrote and which he didn’t write, but made a deal to take writing credit in exchange for recording and releasing the songs. He was kind of an early adapter of Muzak because he believed in “mood music.”

“His goal was to make "musical wallpaper that should never be intrusive, but conducive".[29] “

“Gleason's first album, Music for Lovers Only, still holds the record for the longest stay on the Billboard Top Ten Charts (153 weeks), and his first 10 albums sold over a million copies each.[4]

“At one point, Gleason held the record for charting the most number-one albums on the Billboard 200 without charting any hits on the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.[30]”

Richard Elfman started the Knights of Oingo Boingo as a performance art troupe. He's Danny Elfman's brother. Danny didn't start the group; Danny took over in 1976. Richard directed The Forbidden Zone.

It's Richard and his son, Bodhi (and now Jenna) who are Scientologists. Danny is an atheist.

Bodhi "unfriended" supressive person and ex friend Paul McDaniel who dared to "like" a Leah Remini post on FB:

[quote]Bodhi shattering suppression: In 2013, when his good friend Paul McDaniel dared to “like” something about Leah Remini on Facebook, Bodhi sent him a stern disconnection letter, cutting McDaniel out of his life permanently: “After some time to think things over, I don’t really think we need another conversation. Here are my thoughts. You wrote and spoke quite a bit about how you are powers for good, only want to help people and be a good guy. I’m glad you feel this way, though I’m sorry to say your actions are contrary…. I would rather not associate with those who support ‘whistle blowing’ or investigations outside of HCO/proper channels, or criticisms of Scientology or with someone who avoids auditing.”

Jason Patric is Gleason's NEPHEW.

I am Mrs. Norman Maine.

R77 Jason Patrick’s mother is Gleason’s daughter, making Gleason Patrick’s grandfather.

Bea Benaderet was the mother of Lou Grant star Jack Bannon who was married to Ellen Travolta, the sister of John.

Making Bea the mother-in-law-in-law of John Travolta.

Kinda, sorta.

[quote]70s singer Andrew Gold was the son of Marni Nixon.

And he wrote "Thank You for Being a Friend, " which became the theme song to THE GO LDEN GIRLS.

R80, Kinda, not even close.

R77 Nope.

If you ever look at Mindy Cohn’s IG page, she seems to know everybody.

Actor Kevin McCarthy was the brother of writer Mary McCarthy.

Gloria Steinem was Christian Bale's stepmother.

R81 His song "Lonely Boy" now takes on a whole new interesting meaning.

Was Marni Nixon not a good parent?

Lou Diamond Phillips is Filipino not Native American.

Lauren Bacall lost her virginity to Burgess Meredith. Ol' Burgess was quite a horndog in his day.

[quote]Gloria Steinem was Christian Bale's stepmother.

Still is, no?

She was widowed by David Bale's death; they didn't divorce.

Joanna Gleason is NOT Jackie Gleason's granddaughter.

She is, however, Monty Hall's daughter.

Weird how Joshua Miller looked more like Gleason than Jason Patric does.

Kiefer Sutherland dated Drew Barrymore's mom Jaid.

Angelina Jolie's uncle wrote Wild Thing.

Chris Evans' uncle is former Massachusetts Congressman Michael Capuano.

Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" was or wasn't (he's said both) inspired by Caroline Kennedy.

And written when she was 11 years old.

Sigourney Weaver's father Pat was the President of NBC.

Speaking of Neil Diamond, I'm in my thirties and had only heard his name here and there over the years but never knew what he actually looked like until recently, when I stumbled upon this video on YouTube.

I didn't realize he was so gorgeous!

That face. Those eyes. Those lips.

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

Winston Churchill (above) with Cara's scandalous and tragic great-aunt, Doris Castlerosse, of who Churchill is said to have said, "Doris, you could make a corpse come" after their affair had run its course.

Joanna Hall Gleason was married to Chris Sarandon, who was the 1st husband of Susan Sarandon. Chris and Susan both graduated from Catholic University.

R101 Joanna Gleason and Chris Sarandon are still married. This year marks their 30th anniversary.

Jimmy Carter and Berry Gordy are cousins.

Donna Mills was involved with Richard Holland for 20 years. Holland was the ex-husband of singer Chaka Khan, and shared a child - whom Mills helped raise when the child spent summers with the couple. It's been said Mills and Khan had developed a friendship which they still have today.

Jackie Gleason believed in UFOS and owned thousands of books on the subject. He claimed Richard Nixon showed him the body of an alien.

R98, watch The Doors "Touch me" on Ed Sullivan. I can't post the video, I don't know why. It's good, though.

R95, Mike Capuano was my representative for many years and his advocacy for marriage equality and his progressive values will always hold a special place in my heart. I still shake my head wondering how he lost the primary to Ayanna Pressley. I wasn't that impressed by her then; even less so now.

R107 incidentally, Chris Evans campaigning for his uncle in 2009.

His Boston accent is very evident here (e.g. "bumpa stickas"). 😂

Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss also went to Northwestern. She was discovered by an MGM talent scout, there, and cast in Where the Boys Are.

Northwestern had/has a famous theatre department. At one time there weren't many places to get degrees in theatre or get university acting training, so, no surprise so many actors went there.

Rosalind Russell was a Republican and a Catholic.

Keifer Sullivan is the grandson of Tommy Douglas

Rosalind Russell was a Catholic and a Republican.

Keifer Sutherland is the grandson of Canadian politician Tommy Douglas who brought Single payer to Canada and helped to start the New Democratic Party.

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Roz referred to her parish "Our Lady Of The Cadillacs."

[quote] Debbie Reynolds and Agnes Moorehead were lesbian lovers.

According to Paul Lynde, Agnes Moorehead was one of the great all time Hollywood lesbians.

Reynolds and Eddie Fisher had a marriage of convenience. Eddie Fisher was a homosexual as well.

Other noted homosexualists of the day included Danny Kaye, Arthur Kennedy, Vincente Minnelli, Rod Serling & Shelley Winters.

R88 I believe also John Mulaney’s mother or father teaches at the law school at Northwesterm and JM went for a bit and then quit. Didn’t see his name on your list.

Why does everyone go to Northwestern? Does it have a good (easy to get into?) theater or film program?

Let’s just say your SAT score is less important to the theater program…sorta like recruited athletes. Still a fine university overall.

Jackie Gleason and Richard Nixon were close friends. Nixon knew Gleason had a keen interest in UFOs and aliens. At some point during his presidency Nixon took Gleason to an undisclosed location controlled by the US military and once inside escorted him to an area where the bodies of aliens retrieved from crashed UFOs were stored and allowed him to view them.

[quote] Why does everyone go to Northwestern? Does it have a good (easy to get into?) theater or film program?

The opposite, actually.

Most of the other top drama programs like NYU and Carnegie Mellon offer a BFA from a conservatory setting. Northwestern requires a full curriculum for a BS and allows student to double major as a backup plan

Lydia Cornell (Too Close for Comfort) is Harriet Beecher Stowe's great-great granddaughter. And she speaks Spanish, fluently. (grew up in El Paso)

Neil Diamond is reputed to have a huge schwanzstucker.

Thora Birch is the daughter of 70s porn stars Carl Connors (The Erotic Adventures of Candy and Gong Show hostess) and Jack Birch (Deep Throat).

R75, I thought Jackie Gleason couldn’t read music and in fact had very little to with the actual performance or arrangement of the songs on his albums. Is that right?

Calling them “Muzak” is a little misleading because the songs are (at least the ones I’ve heard) all done in a very moody, “blue” and distinctive style, while Muzak was generic and often bouncy and upbeat. Gleason’s albums are actually quite pleasant to listen to, especially late at night. Also, they have the most Fabulous Fifties album covers ever.

1968 Olympic skating champ Peggy Fleming's father in law, Marion 'Pepper' Jenkins worked on JFK at Parkland Hospital. Peggy was also a classmate of Manson killer Susan Atkins in Morgan Creek, CA in the early 50's.

[quote] Reynolds and Eddie Fisher had a marriage of convenience. Eddie Fisher was a homosexual as well.

Interesting, R112. So Fisher dumped Debbie for Liz because he thought Liz would be a better beard? Or because he though divorcing American's sweetheart and abandoning his two children to pursue and marry a rather notorious woman was good publicity and would help his flagging career? Or because he was psychic, knew the Burton affair was coming and was hoping for a threesome?

I think Nixon was probably the last POTUS who was allowed into the inner circle of UFOs & aliens. After him a shadow faction of government formed that still works completely independently of the mainstream US government to this day. They started the policy of keeping the sitting POTUS out of the loop so he would have plausible deniability.

Donna summer is my mom

Franke Grande is Arianna Grande's half-brother. Shocking I know.

William Hopper from Perry Mason was Hedda Hopper's son.

Mike Nesmith's mother invented Liquid Paper.

Someone mentioned Sigourney Weaver. This interview is very nice. She's talking about her favor, who was a TV pioneer.

It's obvious she loved her father and is proud of him without going overboard.

Thank you r116 and r114

R113

R87 Gold said the song wasn’t autobiographical though listening to the lyrics the dates of his and his 1st younger sister birth match up. I wonder if got some major blowback from his parents and sisters and told interviewers that the song wasn’t autobiographical or about his parents.

The late Kate Spade was the sister-in-law of David Spade. Rachel Brosnahan (Mrs. Maisel) is his niece.

That Leslie Howard was Jewish.

That Minnie Riperton was Maya Rudolph's mom and Minnie was singing" maya maya maya maya maya" to her daughter at the end of Loving You.

Jesse McCartney is the son of Paul McCartney. That’s where he inherits his musical talent!

Sam Harris is the son of Susan Harris, creator of “Golden Girls.”

Brandy is the cousin of Snoop Dogg and her brother is Ray J, the one who fucked Kim K. So Kim K and Brandy are fuckbuddies-in-law!

R131 Rachel was Kate’s and David’s brother’s niece. She is not David’s niece.

[quote] Mike Nesmith's mother invented Liquid Paper.

Which she sold to the Gillette Corporation for $47.5 million in 1980. She made Mike a very rich man when she died.

Niecy Nash, Danielle Brooks, and Sterling K. Brown are cousins.

R115 Not undisclosed: Homestead AFB, conveniently located close to Nixon in Key Biscayne and Gleason in Miami Beach. See pages 15 and 16 and note the files removed on these dates.

If indeed it happened, this is when and where it happened.

R107 We (and quite a few people I know) are in complete agreement. Capuano was a terrific rep. Pressley is not.

Sissy Spacek and Rip Torn were cousins.

His mother and her father were siblings.

Cary Grant wore women's nylon panties as underwear when he travelled. He claimed it wasn't a kink, just that they were easier to wash and dry overnight in a hotel room.

[quote]Celebrity Shit You Were Surprised To Discover

It wasn't his but it was Daddy-adjacent.

3 pairs of golden age entertainment brothers-

1. Steve Forrest and Dana Andrews

2. James Arness (Gunsmoke) and Peter Graves (Mission Impossible)

3. Tom Kennedy (Name That Tune) and Jack Narz (Beat The Clock)

R120 Gleason not only composed, orchestrated and performed his own music, he played bass as an actor in "Orchestra Wives," seen here with Cesar Romero and George Montgomery.

Harry Morgan, MASH's Col. Potter, played a soda-jerk in the movie.

DL fave Glenn Close and Brooke Shields are cousins. See the resemblance?

[quote]Other noted homosexualists of the day included Danny Kaye, Arthur Kennedy, Vincente Minnelli, Rod Serling & Shelley Winters.

Shelley Winters was not a lesbian. She had many male lovers. What women did she have sex with?

[quote]I still shake my head wondering how he lost the primary to Ayanna Pressley.

R107 I'll give you two hints -- she's black and female!

That's pretty much the requirement these days in ultra-liberal Massachusetts.

Capuano had been a great congressman for twenty years, since 1999.

Sucks for him that he's white and male in a 'woke' state.

Not so much ultra-liberal Massachusetts but definitely ultra-liberal Boston, Cambridge, Somerville and surrounds, R149. Had Capuano been re-elected instead of losing to Pressley, he'd have been the Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, in a position thanks to his seniority to direct spending for transit and infrastructure towards rebuilding America.

Now we have a woman with no clout and no hair instead.

Ringo Starr (of the All-Starr Band and Thomas The Tank Engine) and Paul McCartney (of Wings and husband of Linda) were once in a band together in the 1960s.

Movie star Joanne Dru (Red River, All The King's Men) was the sister of game-show host Peter Marshall. Early in his career, Peter Marshall was one half of a comedy team with Tom Noonan (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, A Star Is Born). Noonan was the half-brother of John Ireland. Dru married Ireland.

Someone posted on another thread that Jason Patric's son is musically gifted. Maybe he gets it from great-grandpa Jackie.

R7 And her brother Michael was a Russian spy

"While a student at Trinity College, Cambridge in the mid-1930s, Straight became a Communist Party member and a part of an intellectual secret society known as the Cambridge Apostles. Straight worked for the Soviet Union as part of a spy ring whose members included Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby and KGB recruiter Anthony Blunt. A document from Soviet archives of a report that Blunt made in 1943 to the KGB states, "As you already know the actual recruits whom I took were Michael Straight"

R135 I was all excited, thinking it was that singing queen Sam Harris, but it's a different one.

When I was a kid I didn't have any kind of gaydar where about certain celebs like Roddy McDowall or Merv Griffin.

[quote] Peggy was also a classmate of Manson killer Susan Atkins in Morgan Creek, CA in the early 50's.

Really? I had no idea.

(There's no such place as Morgan Creek.)

Morgan Hill CA

Oliver Platt and Princess Diana were second cousins. They did not know each other. He has a fairly illustrious family tree.

I just discovered that Hannah Einbinder from Hacks is Laraine Newman's daughter.

Here Come the Brides co-stars Bobby Sherman and David Soul have an ex-wife in common.

Patty Carnel married Bobby shortly after the show was cancelled. Within 4 years of their divorce Mrs Sherman became the third Mrs Soul.

Since the early 1960s, Buffy Sainte-Marie has said she has Indigenous Canadian ancestry

A 2023 investigation by CBC News concluded that she was born in the United States and is of Italian and English descent.

She must have been one of those Italian Indians, like Elsa Martinelli

Or Anne Bancroft

Soon after WW2, Van Johnson was having an affair with Keenan Wynn. Louis B Mayer didn't like it, so he had Wynn divorce his wife Evie and she married Johnson.

I don't think a lot of people were really all that surprised...

Here’s one that’s horrific-

John Markel, the son of Mercedes McCambridge was a futures trader in Little Rock, Arkansas.

In the fall of 1987 his firm discovered that he had opened a secret account in his mother’s name by forging her signature. He had been crediting the account with any gains, but charging losses to the firm’s house account.

The company was willing to accept restitution in lieu of going public and presumably reporting the crime. John, unable to make the payments turned to his mother for help.

Instead of helping her son, McCambridge went after the firm insisting they owed her money as she did nothing wrong.

In November John killed his wife, his 2 daughters and himself leaving behind a lengthy, bitter letter excoriating his mother for turning on him and all her years of neglect. He signed the letter ‘Night Mother.

In 1986 McCambridge played the mother of a suicidal daughter in the play ‘Night Mother.

Jason Patric only met Jackie Gleason twice. Despite having a rich grandfather Jason and his brother grew up in poverty.

The accomplished film production designer J. Michael Riva (The Goonies, The Color Purple + many others) was the grandson of Marlene Dietrich. He was working on Django Unchained when he died of a brain hemorrhage.

r71, my guess would be either Mindy or her older sister knew Angelina when she was a child. Perhaps they were neighbors in Beverly Hills or West LA and one of the Cohn sisters babysat her. Remember those, teenage babysitters? They went out of style with helicopter parents and teenagers too addicted to smartphones to pay attention to other humans.

I know Mindy grew up somewhat privileged. She went to the Westlake School, where she gave Charlotte Rae and show producers a tour of the campus. They subsequently offered her a part on the show.

Marni Nixon was the first cousin once removed of Richard Nixon, which makes Andrew Gold the first cousin twice removed of Richard Nixon!

Jessica and Ashlee Simpson share an ancestor with OJ Simpson.

Jesse Lee Soffer from Chicago PD played Bobby Brady in the Brady Bunch movies

Lenny Kravitz's mother was Roxie Roker from the Jeffersons, and she was also Al Roker's second cousin once removed.

Marni Nixon also went to Northwestern!

Jamie Lee Curtis has a penis.

Lots of ppl know about Lenny Kravitz’s mom being Roxie Roker of The Jeffersons.

Sorry, i thought this thread was about little-known things, not things that surprise you.

Rick James slept with some of the nurses after he checked himself into McLean Hospital for cocaine rehab (McLean's is the Mass General's psych hospital.)

Ray Charles, ditto.

Are you psyched when you heard this?

I had an aunt who “visited” McLean. It was spoken of in very hushed tones in my mom’s family. But my dad would just tell us that your aunt was batshit crazy.

[quote]She must have been one of those Italian Indians, like Elsa Martinelli

At least she wasn't one of those Puerto Rican (dot, call center) Indians like Rita Moreno.

See if this link works

Cool stuff .

Not really—nothing that wasn’t known already…

Keenan Wynn's father Ed Wynn said, "I can't keep them straight. Evie loved Keenan. Keenan loves Evie. Van loves Evie. Evie loves Van. Van loves Keenan. Keenan loves Van."

r9 Charley Weaver was just a character. His name was Cliff Arquette. Yeah, he's the head of the Arquette clan.

[quote] Jayne Mansfield was a satanist, which probably led to her tragic death.

r73 That's common knowledge. Yeah, Anton LaVey, Church of Satan.

Jayne Mansfield is Mariska Hargitay's mother.

[quote]R185 Jason Patric is Jackie Gleason's son. Whaaaa????!!

I assumed Joanna Gleason was Jackie Gleason’s daughter, because I’d always heard she was a nepo baby.

Her dad’s someone else in TV, though.

Daniel Day-Lewis is married to Arthur Miller's daughter Rebecca.

Sarah Drew (from Grey's Anatomy) and Benjamin McKenzie (The OC) are cousins

Ariel Winter (Alex from Modern Family) is the younger sister of the kid who played Pugsley in the 90s Addams Family movies.

Thread…sinking…fast. Bottom level celebrities floating by…

Speaking of Rick James, he and Linda Blair were banging. She got knocked up and had an abortion.

Todd Bridges and Dana Plato were fucking while doing "Diff' rent Strokes"--pun intended.

r153 Discussed numerous times in this thread

Brian Keth of Family Affair was the stepson of Peg Entwistle, the woman who killed herself by jumping off the Hollywood sign. Keith's life also ended in suicide.

He killed himself, R193?

Monty Hall is Joanna Gleason's father, I believe.

Oh Jesus!

r194 Google

[quote]On June 24, 1997, at the age of 75, Keith died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Malibu, California. He suffered from emphysema and lung cancer during the latter part of his life, despite having quit smoking ten years earlier. He reportedly also struggled with financial problems and suffered from depression throughout his final days.

[quote]Maureen O'Hara stated in an interview not long after Keith died that she believed he did not commit suicide. She stated that he had a large gun collection and enjoyed cleaning them and showing them to people. She believed he might have been cleaning the gun or looking at it when it went off, and that his death was an accident and not a suicide. She had just visited him and said he was in good spirits. She also stated that he would not have committed suicide given his Catholic beliefs.

Marlene Dietrich fucked JFK and his father (on separate occasions).

Madge from Palmolive was also in the Hartford Circus Fire.

Brian Forster from The Partridge Family- his great great great grandfather was Charles Dickens !

Someone or some people have mentioned the fact that Jason Patric was the grandson of Jackie Gleason.

Here is a photo of his naked ass from some movie.

NICE ass too

Arianna and Franke Grande's family is very wealthy. Her Grandfather is/was a billionaire.

Kiefer Sutherland's Mother lost her American work permit after she attempted to purchase a hand-grenade for the Black Panthers using a personal cheque.

r204 lolwut?

R185 The thread's about shit YOU were surprised to discover. Common knowledge or not.

[quote] Jayne Mansfield is Mariska Hargitay's mother.

R185 That's common knowledge, too

Elvis was Jewish

Jackie Coogan- child star of the silent era, co-star of Chaplin, namesake of the Coogan Law which protects child actors from being ripped off by their parents/guardians (which Coogan was) and most famously, Uncle Fester may have been a participant in, but most definitely was present at, a lynching in 1933.

Coogan’s close friend department store heir Brooke Hart was kidnapped by 2 men as he drove his car out of a parking lot. Hart was already dead when the kidnappers sent a ransom demand to the family. After several subsequent demands the men were caught, arrested and admitted to the murder. They were taken to a San Jose jail where they were promptly extricated by an angry mob. Things did not end well for them.

The mob hung them both from a nearby tree and it was rumored that Coogan held the rope.

2 years later Coogan was the sole survivor of a car crash that claimed the lives of his father, his best friend the actor Junior Durkin and 2 others. Coogan was 21.

He was also married to Betty Grable.

Stringbean on Hee Haw didn’t trust banks and kept all his money in his house. He was killed during a robbery at his house.

I bet they didn’t sing about that in Shucked!

Add Charles Nelson Reilly to the list of the Hartford Circus Fire survivors

R212. Really, you don’t say?

R198 Keith was known to be severely depressed by the suicide of his daughter Daisy just 2 months prior to his own death.

R212 with 214 replies is it so hard to believe 1 or 2 might be missed? Or forgotten?

Even after the fire Charles Nelson Reilly continued to flame.

Actor Kevin McCarthy and his sister, novelist Mary McCarthy, were orphaned in the flu epidemic of1918

😳🤯

Stop with same lame Insta link

R199 And when he did fuck her, he asked if his father had been there first. She said she told him, "No" so as not to hurt his feelings.

It happened at the White House on a Saturday afternoon when Jackie was in Virginia horseback riding and Dietrich was in town to get an award from B'nai B'rith. He said his back hurt, so she rode on top and when they were done, they both fell asleep. She woke with a start an hour or two later and Kennedy wanted her to stay but she said, "I can't, Jack. There are 3000 Jews waiting for me at the Hilton."

Dave Powers, JFK's appointment's secretary, is shown below escorting Miss Dietrich to her assignation with JFK at the White House.

Davy Jones appeared on the same episode of the Ed Sullivan show as the Beatles in February 1964.

He was no Wild Jack…

Jason Bateman is the son in law of Paul Anka.

Dr. Ruth is a trained sniper.

Bob Hope is really my father!

Keenan Wynn was the uncle by marriage of the Hudson Brothers, and his granddaughter Jessica Keenan Wynn played the baby that was thought to be abandoned in the Golden Girls episode "And Then There Was One".

Jerry Springer resigned from his city council position in Cincinnati when it came out that he had paid for sex at a brothel with checks.

Mary Badham, who played Scout in To Kill A Mockingbird, is the sister of director John Badham.

Carol Channing was black.

Because of very poor sound recording on the outdoor set, Mary’s final child performance was re-dubbed by the voice of Rocket H. Squirrel.

J*

Bewitching Pool*

Gloria Loring is Robin Thicke’s mother.

No. She’s Alan Thicke’s former wife.

[quote]R224 Dr. Ruth is a trained sniper.

I thought this said “trained stripper” (!!)

Gloria Loring was Alan Thicke’s wife. And after 7 during the marriage she gave birth to their son Robin.

Look at that, both R232 and R233 are correct.

After 7 drinks?

After 7 fucks?

After 7 am?

After 7 years of marriage. But it could have been 7 fucks for all I know.

And why the fuck don’t we have an edit function?

Even those assholes over on Reddit have an edit function.

#Power2ThePosters

Oldest "My Three Son" Tim Considine was the grandson of Alexander Pantages, of Pantages theater and vaudeville notoriety.

An original nepo baby?!

R220 Wow. Which one of them recorded their conversation and sexual position for posterity?

I was surprised to discover that Jessica Tandy, who was married to Hume Cronyn for many years, was previously married to Jack Hawkins. Years after their divorce, which was in 1940, Hawkins and Tandy were cast in a TV version of The Fallen Idol, on the DuPont Show of the Month (1959), playing an unhappily married couple.

[quote] Van Johnson was having an affair with Keenan Wynn. Louis B Mayer didn't like it, so he had Wynn divorce his wife Evie and she married Johnson.

This makes no sense at all. What’s the point of making a beard divorce her gay husband to marry another gay husband? Nobody gains anything.

Someone didn’t think this rumor through.

R243, Van Johnson was one of MGM's top stars, an All-American boy-next-door type. Keenan Wynn was a dependable, but clearly dispensable, character actor. MGM had a lot at stake if rumors of their bankable star's homosexuality became known to the public, so Louis B. engineered the sham marriage by threatening not to renew Wynn's contract if they didn't go along with the plan.

Viggo Mortensen can speak 9 languages. English, Spanish, French, Italian, Swedish, Arabic, Catalan, Norwegian, and German.

How the fuck can anyone learn that many? I took 5 years of Spanish and I can barely hold a conversation. You either have to be really intelligent or I must be an idiot.

I’m gay costume designer Adrian, married to lesbian Janet Gaynor.

Why not get some ambitious young thing marry Johnson and let the Wynns stay married? They had kids. Keep the family together and the sweet young thing could give Johnson a baby

Did Mrs. Wynn-Johnson have anything to say in all this?

R247 I wasn't there, but I would say Van marrying Evie would conveniently explain why he was always hanging around, since the rumor about Van and Keenan was gaining traction. But I've also heard that Van said the only woman he would marry was Evie.

There's a hugely long love letter from Van to Evie that I think was written after they were married.

Meanwhile, didn't Evie always act resentful of Van later on? - so it doesn't seem like a mere marriage of convenience.

[quote] I thought this said “trained stripper” (!!)

r234 Better she kill people than we have to watch her strip!

Janet Gaynor and her gay husband Adrian, and Mary Martin and her gay husband, had farms in the same town in the interior of Brazil.

R241 Neither. Marlene told the story to Kenneth Tynan and he wrote it down.

Mick Jagger's father Joe is credited with introducing basketball to Great Britain. He was a well-regarded teacher and lecturer. My uncle traveled to his university for a year (I want to say it was called Twickenham? I forget) and spent a year working with him - he also taught history - and said he was a very nice person. My uncle was an eccentric intellectual and had zero clue who the Rolling Stones were. This was in the early 70s.

Bi-sexual porn star Paul Barresi (he of the John Travolta National Enquirer escandalo) was the person who found Paul Lynde dead when he went over to Lynde's home to check on him. He had to break a window to get inside the house and found Lynde dead in his bed with a bottle of poppers sitting on the night table next to him.

Side note: I went to a play way back when Paul Lynde was doing around the country called "California Suite". At the very end of the play a half naked Paul Barresi walks on stage for basically a less than 30 second appearance in the play, yet in the playbook Barresi's bare chested photo occupied a full page and a big write up, including info about his Playgirl photospread, making it look like he was a major star of the play. I had little doubt then and now that Barresi was basically travelling with the play to keep Lynde sexually satisfied, something he had experience in.

Also, many people are surprised to learn that Zoe Perry who plays Sheldon's mother on 'Young Sheldon' is the real daughter of Laurie Metcalf who played Sheldon's mother on 'Big Ban Theory'.

R254 I had no idea there was a Paul Lynde-Barresi connection.

No doubt Barresi was his paid companion.

Also, many people are surprised to learn that Zoe Perry who plays Sheldon's mother on 'Young Sheldon' is the real daughter of Laurie Metcalf who played Sheldon's mother on 'Big Ban Theory'.

… no one is surprised because it is common knowledge among viewers of the show…it was an actual selling point for the series at inception. Do better.

Guess what Nimrod R256. There are plenty people who are not religious viewers of either BBT or YS and only watch/watched those shows sparingly. So take your "do better" and shove it up your excruciatingly tight asshole.

Before you just sounded ill-informed. Now you sound ridiculous.

[quote] Also, many people are surprised to learn that Zoe Perry who plays Sheldon's mother on 'Young Sheldon' is the real daughter of Laurie Metcalf who played Sheldon's mother on 'Big Ban Theory'.

Her father is Jeff Perry, who played gay Cyrus Beene on all seven seasons of "Scandal."

[quote] Before you just sounded ill-informed. Now you sound ridiculous.

And you sound like some silly queen on the 4th day of a 2 day pad. Go clean yourself, you're drawing flies.

Leontyne Price is related to Whitney and Cissy Houston. People were shocked when Whitney riffed out a section of La Donna e Mobile with Pavarotti.

Now you sound deranged. Take a pill and dial it down —

I just read a brief review of a memoir by the son of Keenan and Edie Wynn and he said both husbands used to beat his mother up.

Ugh

Mothers, don’t let your daughters grow up to be beards.

[quote] Take a pill and dial it down

Are you offering me one of your Midols? Thanks but I'll pass old girl.

Hayley Mills looks completely different as a grown up than she did as a kid so I was surprised to learn the Parent Trap kid and frequent Love Boat guest star were actually the same person.

Morgan Fairchild was Faye Dunaway's stand in for Bonnie and Clyde. She was 17 at the time.

Hayley was also on the last season of "Unforgotten."

Mark Ruffalo's shit is flushed by an assistant!

I have been re-watching "The Practice" (acquired it long ago) since someone on DL posted a recent thread about Boston Legal. I looked up a number of the Practice actors online and was surprised to discover that Kelli Williams, who plays Lindsey Dole, is currently in a relationship with a woman! Apparently, Kelli's partner is well-known in certain circles (although not by me) and is the somewhat famous choreographer and director Lynsey Peisinger.

I couldn't find a pic of them together (although I didn't look that hard) but I imagine they make a cute couple.

R83 Wow! Jason Patrick's father is Father Damien - the priest in The Exorcist who dies at the end after diving through Regan's bedroom window and crashing down the stairs.

Bradley Cooper shits in front of his daughter.

Bradley Pooper

I don’t think Jayne Mansfield was truly a satanist just a publicity whore desperately trying to stay relevant and in the press.

That Susan Dey has never commented

Samantha Fox is a big lesbo.

Sexuality is so different with women tho. She very well could have been sick of men...

Sandra Bullock and Ryan Gosling secretly dated while making "Murder by Numbers", a horrible film they made together.

She wanted to keep it private since she's so much older than he.

Mrs. Danny Thomas did not like glass coffee tables, she felt they got too messy.

Dave Clark (of the Dave Clark 5) and Freddie Mercury were friends since the mid-1970s, and Clark claimed to have been with Mercury when he died.

r245, usually Europeans can speak at least 3 languages: native, English, and one other, given how small Europe is. I would love to be in a foreign country in an hour or less- I envy the Europeans to be able to have a weekend in another country.

I was surprised to find out that Jeff Goldblum (even with the Jewish name) is Russian Jew, and not a drop of Mediterranean or Middle Eastern Blood at all.

[quote] I looked up a number of the Practice actors online and was surprised to discover that Kelli Williams, who plays Lindsey Dole, is currently in a relationship with a woman!

That’s so sad. She’s certainly pretty enough to find a nice-looking man.

I was surprised to read the character Ripley from Alien was named after Tom Ripley from the Highsmith novels.

Linda Darnell was gorgeous, so it was particularly sad to learn she died in a fire with burns over 80% of her body.

I read recently that while she was involved with Robert Foxworth (1979 - 1995), Elizabeth Montgomery had an affair with ballet dancer /actor Alexander Godunov, who was 16 years younger. She broke it off with him, and he was devastated from the break-up. On May 18, 1995 she died from colon cancer at 62 years old. On that same day, Godunov was also found dead in his home, with the cause of death being hepatitis. It is believed he may have been dead for a few days, but May 18, 1995 is listed as his official date of death by most sources. He was 45.

r283, Ripley was orginally supposed to be a man in the movie as well.

r285, I'm glad you reported her age correctly. At the time of her death, some were reporting that she was born in 1938.

I hate when people lie about their age.

The very idea

[quote] Ripley was orginally supposed to be a man in the movie as well

Alien 3 was in the other night. I never saw it before. Funny how Alien had 2 strong female characters and people said, “Yeah! Great! It’s about time women were in movies as characters who are strong, brave, smart. They’re not just sex symbols, Let’s see more of that!”

And Sigourney Weaver is the only female in the whole movie in Aliens 3.

So we got…less of that.

And her ass was hanging out of her underpants for titillation.

R284, Darnell died a day after the fire at Cooks County Hospital.

Keith Richards has his blood completely removed every evening and replaced with antifreeze while he sleeps

Cindy McCain got busted for dealing drugs.

That I am a 2nd cousin, once removed to Ross Matthews. Thank's Ancestry......

Actually, Cindy got busted for stealing drugs.

r289, Aliens was directed by James Cameron, who has strong female characters in his films. Alien3 was directed by David Fincher, who does not-his women are beautiful side pieces, or psychos.

Jason Patrick must have his agent on the phone wondering what's going with all of these google alerts.

Sheryl Hines is technically JFK's niece.

In blind items it is suggested that January Jones' son is from Liam Hemsworth. Is this old-cunt-syndrome? Kinda like how the wife of Aaron Taylor Johnson wants to ruin a young man's life with a spawn??? Anyways, I looked up pictures of that brat to see if it is true and see there, it looks just like Liam but in small. An embarrassment because she could have gone to a fertility clinic, yet instead she wanted a child by a 20 year old who just wanted to start out in Hollywood. My my and people tell me we live in a patriarchy.

Tori Spelling and Aaron Spelling are related.

That he is related to Natasha Bedingfield

Openly gay John Megna, who played Dill in "To Kill a Mockingbird," was the half-brother of Connie Stevens.

R287 Yes, I remember a lot of her obits said she was 57 at the time, knocking off five years. Supposedly, her family released that misinformation to the media when she died, which confused a lot of people. A few weeks later, her death certificate was made public and her DOB was 1933, not 1938. (Agnes Moorehead had also reported she was born in 1905 for the longest time, when she was actually born in 1900).

I should point out that her Godunov affair was reportedly in 1992, and she broke it off around the holidays (Foxworth supposedly was aware of it for some time). Shortly after ending it, she married Foxworth in January, 1993. Godunov never 'recovered' from the break-up, according to his friends.

yes I heard margote robbie lies about her age too and I have to agree. Officially I am born one year later than her but she looks way older than me. This is not a millenial touching Zommer but a millenial touching gen X. lying ass cunt!!

It's hard to believe that Montgomery could get away with lying about her age, as her father was a famous movie star at the time of her birth.

R304 She really didn't - it was her children who lied about her age when she died. They sent out a press release which chopped five years off her birth year. Not sure why they attempted that.

[quote] John Megna

One of the ugliest child actors in film history.

r303, Millie Bobby Brown is younger than both of you, and yet she looks older. Some people are born with older faces, like Angela Lansbury.

And one of the better ones…

Elizabeth Montgomery looked a dozen years younger than her actual age. Loved her. How was she denied the Emmy year after year, losing to Lucy?

I knew Dill (To Kill a Mockingbird) was a DLer.

Come to think of it, Scout was a lesbian.

Nancy Kulp (Miss Jane Hathaway) and Buddy Ebsen (Jed Clampett) of the Beverly Hillbillies hated each other off set. She was very liberal, he was very conservative, and argued about politics constantly.

When Kulp ran for Congress in 1984, Ebsen recorded a commercial for her opponent. She lost.

They made up before they died, r311.

The music to the song "It's All In the Game," a #1 Billboard hit in 1958, was written in 1912 by Charles Dawes, later the Vice President of the US under Calvin Coolidge. He was also a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

When Tommy Edwards recorded the song with lyrics added much later, it had a six-week run as #1 on Billboard's Hot 100.

In 1916, Douglas Fairbanks made a movie about a scientific detective who merrily spends each day shooting up drugs and sniffing coke.

Love this thread. It's what makes The Data Lounge worth reading.

My contribution...I was surprised to learn the Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle's father-in-law was James Mason.

Gary Merrill and Bette Davis's son Micheal Merrill was a Selectman in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Tony Shaloub is married to Brooke Adams.

Carol Wayne and her sister were in The Ice Capades as teens. The man she was vacationing with when she 'drowned' was also with Diane Linkletter when she fell to her death, supposedly in a LSD-induced delirium (no drugs were found in her system).

Carol's niece was Drew Barrymore's half-sister.

Ann Prentiss (sister of Paula Prentiss) tried to hire someone to kill her father and her brother-in-law Richard Benjamin. At the time, she was serving a jail sentence for assaulting her father.

Katharine Ross’ daughter attacked her with a pair of scissors, and the police had to be called.

—————

[italic]Ross writes in the restraining order that Cleo, 26, "verbally and emotionally abused me even as a little girl but became increasingly violent at age 12 or 13," and that the problem came to a head earlier this year.

<- Looks like Cleo's father Sam Elliott was in his early 50's when she was conceived- and Katharine was mid-40s. Schizophrenia?

Frank Sinatra dated Mia Farrow's mother Maureen O'Sullivan before O'Sullivan gave birth to Farrow.

Mary Ann Mobley was a racist cunt.

I once saw Vanessa Williams in a San Francisco performance, and she talked about when she won Miss America. Mary Ann Mobley, a former Miss America, was part of the pageant committee. During a meeting where they were discussing Williams' promotional tour, Mobley said with an acid tongue, "Well, be prepared to go to Harlem."

Williams is from Syracuse, a far cry from the Harlem of 1984.

Mia's father John Farrow had an affair with Ava Gardner, Sinatra's 2nd wife.

Is this thread for rumors or facts?

[quote]Tony Shaloub is married to Brooke Adams.

SHALHOUB

Shalhoub, schmalhoub.

Trish Van Devere kept a sex slave tied up in her basement.

R323 Vanessa is actually from Westchester County, Chappaqua to be specific, where her mother also still lives.

She sent to Syracuse for college.

^^^^ WENT

Dominic Dunne was the brother-in-law of Joan Didion. She was cooling off in the baby end of the house in Beverly Hills owned by Dominic's (wealthy) wife when she heard the news of the Sharon Tate massacre.

* baby end of the pool

Queen Latifah is Queen Elizabeth II's illegitimate daughter.

In his youth, Lenny Kravitz sang in the Metropolitan Opera boy choir.

She inherited her mother’s beautiful skin, R333

[quote]R104 Donna Mills was involved with Richard Holland for 20 years.

I thought she was a lezzie lou??

In honor of the passing of Steve Lawrence today

Eydie was almost 6 years older than Stevie.

R337- responding to myself- correction almost 7 years.

6 years and 11 months.

That Merle Oberon wasn’t born in Tasmania.

R337, and speaking of white bread Steve Lawrence, I had no idea he was born Sidney Liebowitz in Brooklyn, NY. Son of a cantor at Beth Sholom Tomchei Harav.

So does that make him rye bread Steve Lawrence?

Marble rye

The word on Alan Thicke was his had a huuuuuuge cock - which was got him his b list level of fame amd women. Robin is rumored to have inherited that size.

Susan Konner and the real Gidget are cousins

This thread stinks of nepo.

Susan Konner

.????

Susan Kohner (actress, Imitation of Life). Her father was Paul Kohner (agent and producer), his brother was writer Frederick Kohner, who wrote the Gidget novels - based the character on his daughter.

She was an interesting actress. Her bearing, facial expressions, and line readings are compelling.

I walked into the bathroom at the Mondrian Hotel just as Ryan Reynolds was walking out. He said excuse me as he passed me by. I thought nothing of it as I went to one of the lovely stalls to do my business. I was shocked and surprised to find a massive turd in the toilet, unflushed. It was a celebrity shit I was surprised to discover.

You should have scooped it up and sold it on eBay

I see what you did there.

Are you sure it wasn't Mark Ruffalo, R349?

It could have been. He didn't remember eating corn

Carol Channing is part black. Her dad was a Creole, and her mother didn't tell her about who her real father was until she was grown.

Agnetha's.

R349, Reynolds is known for doing that.

And they're not even his. He buys them from a reliable provisioner. Otherwise he'd be stuck with being able to fulfill his "surprise fouling" fetish only once a day or so.

Actors are a mess.

Carol Wayne was Durstoned.

Also, Diane Linkletter's body didn't test positive for drugs after her death.

Carol Channing in her younger days, before her Caucasianization was complete.

Very early in their careers, John Waters and Divine made a movie about Diane Linkletter.

Gee, Aunt Jordan will never get out of that warehouse, will she? Hmmmm.....maybe an earthquake or a tornado will level the warehouse and poof...she's gone, presumed dead. Victor and Nick should have just shot her and made it look like a suicide. And Adam is telling Sally everything, in Abby's bistro, and maybe that would have been a perfect time to clue her in. No one seems terribly upset Victoria's house got torched, not when we can guess Victoria- or Cole - will move into the house the lezzies are about to vacate.

And this surprised you, R360?

R360 Her struggling to hold that gun on Victor was ridiculous. These characters/actors are TOO fucking old to be outmaneuvering the FBI and trained security guards.

R360, R361, R362 What the hell are you talking about?

LOL OMG those posts above should have been on the Aunt Jordan Y&R thread. It's shit, just not celebrity shit.

Kathy Hilton and Michael Jackson were best friends.

R363 We were asking ourselves the same thing.

[quote] Morgan Fairchild was Faye Dunaway's stand in for Bonnie and Clyde. She was a youthful 7 at the time.

FIXED

Laurence Fishburne's daughter and Steven Spielberg's daughter are porn actresses.

[quote] Steven Spielberg's daughter are porn actresses

Receipts on Spielberg's daughter, E368. I find that HIGHLY doubtful.

That was for R368.

R369 she's adopted

R371, so what? She's still his daughter.

Chevy Chase was in Steely Dan.

I just saw a commercial on TV with Ryan Reynolds and now I can't stop t hinking about him not flushing that turd. It has affected my perception of him.

[quote] I can't stop t hinking about him not flushing that turd.

Don't refer to me that way!

[quote]Laurence Fishburne's daughter and Steven Spielberg's daughter are porn actresses.

So was Dick Smothers' son. And Jerry Van Dyke's daughter.

R376 Uh, yeah. We know. R3

Didn't the uber Catholic Loretta Young have an illegitimate baby with someone famous? It was all kept very hush hush for years until the kid was grown?

Clark Gable, R378

Cool

Susan Strasberg is Greta Gerwig's aunt.

R381 Can you elaborate on that because I couldn’t find anything about it. Is she a blood relative?

Judy Lewis was the love child of Gable and Loretta Young. Catholic Loretta 'adopted' her own child, and raised her her. Pics of Judy - and her ears - proved unmistakably she was Gable's.

Marky Mark has three nipples.

Carole Lombard, Mrs. Clark Gable, got three passengers bumped from TWA flight 3 en route from New York City to Burbank, CA in mid-January 1942 so that she, her mother and her press agent could get home sooner after a war bond drive in her native Indiana that raised over 2 million dollars. She pulled rank, insisting she was "essential" to the war effort having raised the money and thus a higher priority than the passengers whose seats her group took. One of the displaced passengers was the world-famous Hungarian violinist Joseph Szigeti who had fled the Nazis and emigrated to the US in 1939.

Fifteen minutes after take-off from Las Vegas, Nevada the TWA plane, a Douglas DC-3, hit Potosi Mountain, about 30 miles south of the airport killing everyone on board.

Morgan Freeman fucked his granddaughter.

Wow, R385! Just goes to show....God don't like ugly.

R385 I had no idea.

Karma sometimes works swiftly.

Karma? What bullshit that is. Plenty of horrible people never pay for their terrible behavior, and I would hardly say getting people bumped off a plane is deserving of death.

R389 I did.

R389, God was in a mood that day.

God, you're an asshole. Luckly, you don't exist, just like karma doesn't.

Link to Dick Smothers' son as a porn actor? Is he packing?

R385 - the rumors were she rushed back because Gable was filming Somewhere I'll Find You with Lana Turner at the time and Lombard (apparently very reasonably) believed she shouldn't have trusted them alone in Hollywood. Gable was so heartbroken (and guilt ridden) he joined the Army once shooting was over, not making another film until his discharge in 1946.

Everyone loved Carole Lombard.

[quote] I would hardly say getting people bumped off a plane is deserving of death.

Also, just because a plane crashes, doesn't mean you die!

George Peppard quit his show"Banacek" after 2 seasons so the Ekizabeth Ashley his wife whom he was divicing wouldn;t get any more of his earnings.

Beyonce now cosplays as a white woman that cosplays as a black woman (Kylie Jenner).

[quote]R397 George Peppard quit his show"Banacek" after 2 seasons so the Ekizabeth Ashley his wife whom he was divicing wouldn;t get any more of his earnings.

He only ended up with Ashley because Carroll Baker said no. They all did THE CARPETBAGGERS together.

——————

“George played my son in ‘How the West was Won’, and a couple of years later, we were teamed again, in ‘The Carpetbaggers’. As I understand it, George Peppard later became a nice guy, a gentleman, but when we worked together back then, he was pretentious, egotistical, a brat, and an asshole—and that’s just for starters! He pretended he was seven years younger than he was; he even claimed to be a bachelor and denied he was married—in front of me. I knew better. The role of Jonas Cord in ‘The Carpetbaggers’ really went to his big head. He acquired delusions of grandeur—thought he was God’s gift to women and the movies! His attitude towards me was very bizarre—he acted as though we’d never met! Or that I had a husband! George asked not ‘if’ but ‘when’ we could be intimate together! He came to my house uninvited with an ultimatum—if I don’t have an affair with him, he’ll have an affair with Elizabeth Ashley! Can you believe this guy?”

I always liked Elizabeth Ashley.

I saw her in The Skin Of Our Teeth, she was great. Perfect choice for a role originated by Tallulah Bankhead.

Patricia Neal had done scenes with George Peppard at the Actors Studio in their early days, and they got along so well, that she was excited about working with him again several years later on "Breakfast at Tiffany's." But by then, Peppard had become a pompous asshole, and Neal had come to dislike him. Audrey Hepburn detested him.

And where is he now, R402? Forgotten and erased.

To be fair, George Peppard died in 1994, so most people are "erased" 30 years after their death.

Again (as with Carole Lombard), there's a lot of judgmental cuntiness here--no surprise. Don't bump anyone from a plane and don't be a really good-looking actor with an ego--you'll pay for it 30-80 years later on a gay gossip site!

R404 People didn’t say Peppard was a good looking actor with an ego, they said he was a prick.

The only thing I was surprised to learn about Peppard years ago was that he studied at the Actors Studio. That really did surprise me because I didn’t think he was very good. And also that he didn’t have a lot f the traits of the Method actors of his time.

*a lot of

Sebastian Cabot had been a professional wrestler. Pin me, Mr. French!

R405, being a good-looking movie star was what made him a prick.

R408 No doubt, but there are good looking stars who aren’t pricks.

People probably already know t his but Harrison Ford was a carpenter when he was finally cast in movies and George Lucas didn't really want him for Star Wars.

George Peppard was a B-list actor. Never nominated for an Oscar or Emmy (the A Team was very popular in initial run).

Peppard and George Hamilton played the sons of Robert Mitchum (Peppard was the bastard son) in Home from the Hill (1960), which brought them both fame.

Peppard became bigger in the next few years than Hamilton. He was A-list. Not on the level of Paul Newman, but starring in big pictures like Tiffany’s, How he West Was Won (male lead of the second half), The Victors, The Carpetbaggers, Operation Crossbow, Tobruk, The Blue Max, Rough Night In Jericho, etc. He made some flops and his film career faltered.

R410 Ford was also a very popular weed dealer in LA in the early 60's. The Dunne-Didions and Eve Babitz were among his customers.

Ina has a problem with public flatulence.

Ina Balin?

Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears

R416 What were you surprised to learn about her?

Not to be confused with Sweet Sue and Her Society Syncopaters, R416

r417 - See r414 and r415.

R419 Oh.

There is only one Ina that matters and to my knowledge she has never been in a movie unless it was a cameo.

Ina Garten is a dedicated advocate for Planned Parenthood.

Well, R416, that was certainly peppy. I am surprised to discover that Ina Ray did not burst a seam in that painted-on dress as she was truckin' around the stage.

Al Sharpton and the late Strom Thurmond are related.

[quote]Ina Garten is a dedicated advocate for Planned Parenthood.

Having a gay husband does not mean you’re an advocate for Planned Parenthood.

JP Morgan's uncle wrote Jingle Bells.

Madonna is very kind and generous, in person. She even offered Drake the chance to hookup with her, free, and without charge!

Morbid trivia: It was Lisa Loring (original-recipe Wednesday Addams, Cricket Montgomery on ATWT) who discovered the body of Kelly Van Dyke (Jerry's daughter) after Kelly committed suicide. Loring had been staying at Van Dyke's apartment after leaving her porn-actor husband, Jerry Butler.

More morbid trivia: It was Mark Goddard and his wife who discovered the body of Karen Kupcinet the morning after her murder.

Anyone familiar with the murder of the murder of a United States senator's daughter in Chicago? I was a little kid and my mother and her friends couldn't get enough of the scandal. Charles Percy. Apparently he was a real big shot corporate Don and he was a Republican Senator whose daughter was murdered in their own home. Never solved the murder.

R429, Mark Goddard was handsome and hot, but was he the type who wouldn't resist your lips?

R429 wasn't Hope Lange's brother a lead suspect? And sexy Andrew Prine was Kari's bf for a long time before the murder. Some crazy spec had it all mixed up in JFK's assasination. I have always wondered WHY there was never a movie about this case. It hit all the marks.

Arnold Scwarzenegger once lived with Sharon Tate's sister, Debra.

Weird, neat, "small-world" thing, which Lydia Cornell refers to as a "god-shot" (lower-case G).

When Lydia auditioned for TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT, she was still using her real last name, Korniloff. At one of the call-backs, she was introduced to Deborah Van Valkenburg -- they were going to read together as Jackie & Sarah.

Deborah asked her: "Your last name is Korniloff???" Lydia said something to the effect: "Yeah, it's weird, I'm changing it!" To which DVV replied: "I know someone named Korniloff. When I lived in Holland, I worked as a receptionist for a Jack Korniloff ...."

It was Lydia's father -- Gregory Jacob "Jack" Korniloff. Her parents had moved to Holland when Lydia was in college/her early 20s (while she remained in the U.S.). They couldn't believe it once they made the connection. An incredible coincidence, HUNDREDS of actresses auditioned for Jackie & Sarah! A "god-shot".

They are still the best of friends. It's very endearing.

Henry Fonda was hired by a guy's mother to drive with her son from Omaha to Princeton, where the son went to college. Bette Davis, her mother and sister were at Princeton for a football game. Hank and the other guy made a bet on who could kiss a girl first. The guys met Bette and her sister, and Hank paired off with Bette, and they ended up kissing. This was before either of them was a professional actor, and they ended up knowing each other again on the Cape doing summer stock, then later co-starred in two movies together.

r435 love that story, and Bette - a virgin at the time - said she thought Hank kissing her meant they were 'engaged'.

R436 Yes, she wrote it in a letter to Fonda - she said her mother would announce the engagement - she was joking.

I didn't know Tyrone Power was madly in love with Judy Garland. I read about it in one of the Garland biographies. The studios were having heart attacks over it.

I thought he was gay. Well, another Judy-loving gay man does kinda make sense.

[quote]I didn't know Tyrone Power was madly in love with Judy Garland.

But Judy only wanted Clark Gable.

Judy and Tyrone had an affair that lasted quite a while. They'd break up and get back together, and he wanted to marry her. It was serious.

Angelina J's uncle Chip Taylor also wrote Angel of the Morning.

Tyrone and Judy were still fooling around when he was married. Rumor was she got pregnant and the studio went crazy. He had to stay with his estranged wife and Judy got an abortion.

I thought Tyrone Power was gay, or bi?

And no, sorry, I didn't scroll through this thread. Just droping in, curious.

Well if he was bi that would explain his attraction to women...

There's that infamous tale about Tyrone Power leaving a little gift in Miss Betty Grable's cooch.

And Judy would never date someone like that, right, R444? I think he was bi.

R446 Yeah! That was great!

[quote] Judy got an abortion

Liza was fabulous, Lorna was mediocre, Joey was a retard. Can you imagine how great that child would have been if they had been born as the first child?

I don't think it works like that.

I was surprised Joey Luft did a show about Judy @ 10 years ago, showing a lot of clips and talking about her. I didn't think he ever did anything like that.

I've been on Datalounge too long, I thought was profoundly mentally challenged the way you guys go on about him.

[quote]I was surprised Joey Luft did a show about Judy

As the picture in the back demonstrates, the fucker had his hands going the wrong way.

Palms out, Joey, palms out.

Well, anyway, I was surprised to discover that.

[quote]Judy got an abortion

That's my favorite Ramones song.

I am acquaintances with Tyrone's granddaughter. Her name is Tai (Power), and she was very beautiful when she was younger, now just a pleasant looking woman.

Is she the beautiful Tyrone Power Jr.'s daughter? Have you met him?

I'm not sure- she was best friends with my younger trust fund cousin, and I always saw her at our family gatherings, but I've never met her parents.

Horror novelist Michael McDowell wrote the screenplay for Beetlejuice. He was working on the sequel when he died from AIDS in 1999.

Marianne Williamson was the minister who married Elizabeth Taylor and Larry Fortensky.

Stephen Sondheim wrote Liza Minelli's 1980s pop dance song, "Losing My Mind."

One-hit wonder Elle King, who hit the charts and scored Grammy nominations with "Xs and Os" in 2015, is the daughter of former comedian and current MAGA fuck Rob Schneider.

R462, did you learn this after reading R22's post?

R463 No. I heard the song at the gym this morning and looked it up online when I got home. I was surprised to see she's his daughter.

[quote]Stephen Sondheim wrote Liza Minelli's 1980s pop dance song, "Losing My Mind."

Turn in your gay card. On two counts.

What R465 said.

R465 Sondheim did write the song, but it was was for the musical "Follies."

The Pet Shop Boys discoed it up for Liza.

Why are you addressing that to me?

Mark Ruffalo's unflushed turds.

Amy Schumer said that Kevin Hart has the biggest dick she's ever seen.

Well R470, He is tiny and tiny guys are sometimes "compensated" by nature.

Or look as though they had been, R471.

Average dick on tiny body = big-looking dick. Isn't that why so many porn stars are short?

Howard Hughes once crashed his plane into this house at 803 North Linden Drive in Beverly Hills.

Phil Hartman dubbed Jack Nicholson's dialogue in several scenes of THE BORDER (1982).

Apparently, Jack was so huge/lazy, he refused to come in for any looping, so they hired Phil (then with The Groundlings). Dana Carvey tells great story about Phil introducing himself to Jack many years later, on a golf course -- and mentioning that he looped THE BORDER. (Classic Nicholson response). Starting at 1:12:20

That Barbra fucked Peter Matz. It is like walking in on your parents!

Babs’ little sister had to slave in a bakery for years while Miss Big Fat Movie Star lived on champagne and caviar!

Who's Peter Matz?

I was surprised that Michael Merrill said Bette Davis "truly was a wonderful mother." Surprised and glad one of her kids said something nice about her.

^Satan

I am always impressed when an actor demonstrates a new skill, like singing or dancing. Amy Adams comes to mind, Jeremy Renner, Chris Pine, Anne Hathaway, Jake Gyllenhaal. (We knew Ryan Gosling could dance because Mickey Mouse Club)