Hitchcock’s animosity for his former producer, David O. Selznick, inspired the villain in “Rear Window”
The serial killer called “The Vampire of Dusseldorf,” executed by guillotine in 1931, was the subject of the first psychological study of such a murderer
The dress Marilyn Monroe wore to sing “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” was so tight she had to be sewn into it
Beatrix Potter, work rejected, self-published “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” now a bestseller for all time