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Those at his bedside all said that Joe DiMaggio's last words were:

"I'll finally see Marilyn again."

Though he has a big, elaborate grave, I always wondered if Joe DiMaggio wanted to be buried beside Marilyn....they were planning on re-marrying when her sudden death prevented them trying again.......they might have had a good life; she was pretty disillusioned by the Hollywood dream, and might have focused on him.

Josh Hutcherson read the entire Hunger Games trilogy in five days to prepare for his role as Peeta.

The late, actress Mary Astor had SUCH a life...

An actress in her teens, dominated and controlled by her parents, a movie star in her twenties, a prisoner in her own home, strictly controlled by parents who had made her purchase a famous, legendary, actually, mansion called Moorcrest.

She grew to hate them, and the house too...their lavish lifestyle and the upkeep on Moorcrest was eating up her money.

She finally literally escaped by climbing out of a window.

Her parents sued her, and she was forced to support those leeches until they died.

They even wanted to be supported living in that home, but she was finally able to sell it.

It was renovated recently, and sold for one million dollars less than the original asking price, to Andy Samberg, star of the T,V. Show 'Brooklyn Nine Nine'.

Jayne Mansfield is buried in Stansfield, Pennsylvania.

Her fans felt that their movie star idol should be memorialized in Hollywood, so they raised money, and had a beautiful cenotaph placed in Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Soon after, her portrait on the stone was deliberately smashed.

The fans raised money to repair the memorial, and replaced her picture.

It happened again, at least twice.

Turns out that the legendary Woman In Black who, for decades would leave a bouquet of flowers on Rudolph Valentino's grave on the anniversary of his death, is buried near Jayne's cenotaph.

Turns out that Jayne and the Woman in Black had some sort of feud going on for years, until the death of 'the Woman'.

When a memorial to Jayne was placed near her mother's grave, the daughter of 'The Woman' felt it was deliberate and has been vandalizing her stone, always destroying her face.

One of Hollywood's wierder stories, I think.

Wow, I really think both of those stories are remarkable!!

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Hugh Grant and Thomas Sangster ("Love, Actually" and "King of Thrones") are cousins. Hugh’s grandmother and Thomas’ GREAT-grandmother were SISTERS!!

Showtime's new show, 'Penny Dreadful' has everything...

Exquisite photography, costumes, locations, and Josh Hartnett, apparently having a great time....

One of the characters is Dorian Grey, played very well by a beautiful (not handsome, beautiful) American actor named Reeve Carney.

Talent must run in his family....

His grandfather was Art Carney.

Jackie Earle Haley auditioned for the role of Glen in A Nightmare on Elm Street. He was accompanied by his friend Johnny Depp, who got the part instead. 26 years later, Haley was cast as Freddy Krueger in the remake of the film.

Citizen Kane

During the scene where Kane chases Jim Gettys down a staircase, Orson Welles tripped, chipped his anklebone and spent two weeks acting with metal braces or directing from a wheelchair.

Apparently, Orson Welles' ashes were sprinkled/tossed down an abandoned well on the ranch in Ronda, Spain.

The ranch belongs to his good friend, Antonio Ordonez, a retired bullfighter, and Mr Welles stayed there, and was

quite fond of the place.

The Academy Award statue was designed on a napkin at a special luncheon at the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel to found the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Biltmore_Hotel . The hotel was home to the award ceremonies for several years during the 1930s and 1940s, and was a location in several movies.

Because the 2015 Sundance Film Festival completed on Sunday, I thought it would be fun to include some unique trivia about its 1986 world premiere of Sidney Lumet's film about a political campaign consultant played by Richard Gere:

Wow, that's interesting----I like the one about the Oscar design, too!!

Harrison Ford was not the original choice to play Indiana Jones.

Tom Selleck was.

His T.V. network would not let him out of his 'Magnum, P.I.' Contract.

Despite the 1998 and 2014 Godzilla films being known as "American" movies, neither of them were directed by Americans. The 1998 version starring Matthew Broderick was directed by Roland Emmerich, a German, and the 2014 version starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson was directed by Gareth Edwards, an Englishman.

Anna Nicole Smith's mother is a former policewoman.

They never, ever got along, according to Anna Nicole.....

Her mother, though expressed 'sincere' sorrow ( ) as soon as Anna was dead and wanted custody of Dannie Lynn, and a share of Anna's estate.

She got neither.