Big-Time Celebrities Who Don't Get Hired Anymore

Burgess Meredith

Burgess Meredith played the Joker in the 1950's Batman film. He was also a popular character in The Twilight Zone. During the red scare, he was blacklisted over his possible connections to communists. He was never involved with the movement and luckily at enough proof to clear his name. 

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The More You Know

  • George Lucas wanted to make a Flash Gordon movie but could not obtain the rights so instead, he created Star Wars.
  • In the movie 'The Hangover', no effects or prosthetics were created for Stu's missing tooth. Actor Ed Helms never had an adult incisor grow, and his fake incisor was taken out for the parts of filming where Stu's tooth is missing.
  • Stanley Kubrick had all the sets and models from the filming of 2001: A Space Odyssey destroyed to prevent a sequel from being made.
  • The first film to feature a fully naked woman appeared in 1915
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