1Mary Tyler Moore
In 1996, Mary Tyler Moore offered a restaurant $1,000 to sell her a 65-year-old lobster so she could return it to the wild. Rush Limbaugh then offered $2,000 to eat the lobster. The restaurant denied both offers and kept the lobster as a mascot.
2Joan Crawford
When Joan Crawford died, her longtime rival Bette Davis said: “You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.”
3Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews initially refused the role of Mary Poppins because she was pregnant. Walt Disney, however, insisted that she played the nanny, saying, "We'll wait for you."
4Debbie Reynolds
In 1970, when she was the highest paid woman on television with 42% of the viewing audience, Debbie Reynolds quit her show because NBC was running cigarette commercials during its airtime.
5Mary Astor
In 1906, Mary Astor planned the release of 10,000 imported Brazilian butterflies at her Debutante ball housed in nets lining the ceiling. They didn't take into account the heat of the lights, and her party ended with 10,000 dead insects showering her party guests.
6Hattie McDaniel
After Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American to win an Academy Award for her role in "Gone with the Wind" she was accused of being an Uncle Tom by the NAACP to which she responded that she would "rather make seven hundred dollars a week playing a maid than seven dollars being one."
7Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith continued acting as Professor McGonagall in the last Harry Potter movie in spite of battling cancer because she didn’t want to disappoint fans.
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8Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn was so slim because from ages 9 to 16 she was severely malnourished during World War 2 in Holland. Among other things, she sustained herself on tulip bulbs.
9Bette Midler
When Bette Midler started her career in the early 1970s, she was the singer in a gay bathhouse in New York often accompanied by Barry Manilow on piano. Manilow produced her first album and patrons of the bath house were her first hardcore fans.
10Halle Berry
Halle Berry refused to shower for 10 days to accurately portray a drug-addicted prostitute in Spike Lee's 1991 movie Jungle Fever. She felt sorry for co-star Samuel L. Jackson, "(I played) a foul-mouthed crack-smoking hoe. It’s true (I didn’t wash), ask Sam Jackson, he had to get a whiff of it!"