Mickey Rooney

His third child, Teddy Rooney, was born weighing 7 lb. 3 oz. on April 13, 1950, to Martha Vickers.

Candice Bergen

Appeared on Groucho Marx's "You Bet Your Life" game show at age 12 and actually sang with Groucho on the show.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

His maternal grandfather was Michael Gordon, who directed such films as Cyrano de Bergerac and Pillow Talk . Gordon's career was crippled when he was blacklisted during the Red Scare of the mid-Twentieth Century.

Doris Day

According to her autobiography, she got the nickname Clara Bixby when Billy De Wolfe told her, on the Tea for Two set, that she didn't look like a "Doris Day," but more like a "Clara Bixby." To this day, that remains her nickname among a close circle of old friends, such as Van Johnson.

Elizabeth Taylor

The premiere of her film Father of the Bride took place two days after her real-life marriage to Conrad Hilton Jr.. The publicity surrounding the event is credited with helping to make the film so successful. The marriage lasted as long as the 3 month European honeymoon. Irreconcilable differences were cited in the divorce court.

Sylvester Stallone

In the 1950s he and his brother Frank Stallone lived in Philadelphia with their mother Jackie Stallone for approximately two years and attended Notre Dame Academy, a private Catholic school on Rittenhouse Square in center city (no longer there). It is the same school that John Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore had once attended.

Bette Davis

Her performance as Margo Channing in All About Eve is ranked #5 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time .

Gary Cooper

Although Cooper dismissed the new school of actors in the 1950s as "a bunch of goof balls" and could be caustic about "the Method" advanced by the Actors Studio in New York, Lee Strasberg told everyone that Cooper was a natural Method actor, he just didn't know it. Cooper did at least admire Marlon Brando's work, and became a producing partner with his father, Marlon Brando Sr..

In the late 1950s, his voracious eating habits finally caught up with him. After decades of incomparable thinness, Cooper put on 15 lbs, pushing his weight up to 190 lbs, which on his 6'3" frame was still slender.

Christopher Walken

Jerry Lewis influenced Walken to make show business his career. At age 10, he met Lewis on "The Colgate Comedy Hour" , where Lewis and Dean Martin were guest hosts. Walken was an extra on the show and was in a skit with Lewis.

Elvis Presley

Once an opera singer attended one of his 1950s concerts and met him backstage. The singer told Elvis that he sang like a hillbilly and needed singing lessons. Elvis replied by saying, "Thanks for the advice, but how many of the thousands of people out there tonight came to hear you sing?".

He is responsible for the best selling single of the 1950s ("Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel", 1956) and that of the 1960s ("It's Now Or Never", 1960).

Angela Lansbury

She was considered for the role of Miss Caswell in All About Eve , but Marilyn Monroe was cast in the part instead.

Oliver Hardy

Billy Wilder planned on doing a film with him and Stan Laurel in the 1950s. The film would have opened with each of them sleeping in one of the letter O's of the Hollywood sign. The plot centered on a woman coming between them. The project was aborted owing to Ollie's failing health.

Roddy McDowall

An accomplished ballroom dancer, he won both the Charleston and Cha-Cha contests on the "The Arthur Murray Party" .

Rosalind Russell

Helped Van Johnson overcome his fear of live audiences after goading him into performing in nightclubs. He made his Las Vegas debut in the 1950s.

Paul Newman

His father, Arthur, died in 1950 at the age of 55 and his mother, Theresa, died in 1982 at the age of 86.

During the 1950s and 1960s he was a close friend of fellow Democrat and civil rights activist Charlton Heston. Later, in 1983, after Heston's political beliefs had moved to the Right, both actors took opposing sides in a television debate on President Ronald Reagan's Star Wars defense missile program. Heston, much better briefed and prepared than Newman, was judged to have won the debate easily. Some years later, when Newman learned that Heston was supposed to introduce him at an awards ceremony, Newman insisted that his one-time friend be replaced by the liberal Donald Sutherland.

Is one of only five actors to be nominated for acting honors by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences over five decades . Laurence Olivier , Katharine Hepburn ,Jack Nicholson and Michael Caine are the others who have turned the trick.

Robert Mitchum

His driving license from 1950 gave his height as 6' even, one inch less that was always reported.