How scene stealer Steve McQueen tried to make sure all eyes would be on him in “The Magnificent Seven” and not Yul Brynner
The real “Sound of Music”: Moody Maria married a man 25 years her senior, the family lost their wealth before WWII, and she sold her autobiography to Hollywood for $9,000
The dress Marilyn Monroe wore to sing “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” was so tight she had to be sewn into it
When Rudolph Valentino died in 1926, over 100,000 people swarmed the streets of New York City in riots during the funeral and several women committed suicide
From Ziggy Stardust to Lazarus, the late David Bowie’s passion for space travel and science fiction revealed a search for the meaning of life