What was the real name of Ish Kabibble?
Ish Kabibble’s real name was Merwyn A. Bogue.
As “Ish,” the man with the Moe Howard haircut, he did comedy with Kay Kyser and appeared in such Kyser vehicles as Carolina Blues (1944).
Kevin Costner’s debut in a major film was a one-word part in Frances (1982).
Before he met Bette Joan Perske (aka Lauren Bacall), he had been married three times: first, to Helen Menken, then to Mary Philips, both actresses. These marriages had ended in divorce. When he met Bacall on the set of To Have and Have Not (1944), he was married to Mayo Methot.
Tom Selleck was first approached to play Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), then known for his commercials for Chaz Cologne. He turned the offer down for the lead in a TV series, “Magnum, PI” (CBS, 1980-88).
Dore Schary replaced Louis B. Mayer as studio head of MGM in 1951. Schary himself was fired in 1956.
Jack Hawkins played Pharaoh in Land of the Pharaohs (1955).
Paul Newman is older than Joanne Woodward. Newman was born in 1925, Woodward in 1930.