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1. Fred Astaire teamed with Ginger Rogers in a total of ten movies.
2. Harry Belafonte's first movie was "The World, the Flesh, and the Devil", made in 1959.
3. Richard Burton portrayed Julius Caesar in the 1963 film "Cleopatra."
4. Yul Brynner was born Taidje Khan in Ulan Bator, Mongolia.
5. James Cagney won an Academy Award for his performance as George M. Cohan in "Yankee Doodle Dandy".
6. Gary Cooper portrayed real-life baseball hero Lou Gehrig in "The Pride of the Yankees".
7. Bing Crosby won an Academy Award for playing an alcoholic in "The Country Girl".
8. Kirk Douglas made his film debut as boxer "Midge" Kelly in the 1949 film "Champion".
9. Errol Flynn was married for a brief time to his most frequent co-star, Olivia deHaviland.
10. Henry Fonda once portrayed Wyatt Earp on-screen.
11. Clark Gable was a major in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II.
12. Burt Lancaster won his only Academy Award for Best Actor for the film "Atlantic City."
13. Robert Mitchum escaped from a Georgia chain gang while in his early teens.
14. Paul Newman has been a professional race car driver as well as an actor.
15. David Niven won his Academy Award for the 1956 extravaganza "Around the World in Eighty Days."
16. Sidney Poitier was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1937.
17. Anthony Quinn was born Anthony Patrick O'Quinn in Galway, Ireland.
18. Mickey Rooney was married to both Lana Turner and Ava Gardner.
19. Spencer Tracy directed as well as starred in "Inherit the Wind" (1960).
20. Cary Grant made his first appearance in a film in 1932.
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