3
Number of times a week Joe DiMaggio had fresh roses delivered to Marilyn Monroe's crypt for 20 years after her death.
19
Number of hours after Gregory Peck's divorce from his first wife, Greta, was final before Peck married Veronique in 1955.
100
Number of times Cary Grant, according to himself, took LSD. He began taking the drug as part of his psychotherapy program instituted by his psychiatrist and encouraged by his third wife, Betsy Drake. Even after their divorce, he continued to take it and said that he greatly benefited from it overall.
15
Age at which high schooler Audrey Hepburn began working as a courier for the Dutch Resistance in WW2. She delivered forged identify papers and counterfeit ration cards in her book bag or lunch box.
10
Number of minutes a day alloted to arithmetic at the MGM schoolhouse that Elizabeth Taylor attended as a child star. 15 minutes of spelling or geography might be crammed between takes. This amounted to virtually no education at all, a circumstance that bothered her for most her life.
1800
In military time, the time of the evening at which Humphrey Bogart stopped working, as stipulated in his contract once he became a big star. At exactly 6:00pm his assistant would hand him a scotch and water; he would drink it and then leave the set.
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