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TIL Hollywood Legend Marlene Dietrich's list of sexual conquests included Gary Cooper, John Wayne, John F. Kennedy, George Bernard Shaw, and female speedboat racer Marion Carstairs
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TIL that Conrad Veidt, whose depiction of the lead in "The Man Who Laughs" inspired The Joker, married a Jewish woman in defiance of the growing power of the Nazi party. Although he was not Jewish, he wrote "Jewish" on his racial identification card. The couple wisely fled Germany for England.
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TIL That Mae West, the Pre-Code Queen, got arrested multiple times for obscenity, even having her play “Drag” taken off Broadway for having homosexual content. She went on to become one of the most famous film stars of the 1930s, being the originator of the phrase “Come up and see me sometime.”