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Marilyn Monroe was dropped in 1947 by Twentieth Century Fox after one year under contract because production chief Darryl Zanuck though she was unattractive.

Barbra Streisand made her stage debut at age nineteen in 1961 in the off-Broadway revue Another Evening with Harry Stoones. The show opened and closed in a single night.

Barbra Streisand became the top-selling female recording artist in the world and starred in the films Hello Dolly! and The Way We Were.

Peter Benchley was fired as a speech writer for Richard Nixon.

He went on to write the best-selling Jaws, selling the movie rights before the book was even published.

Michael Jordan was cut from his high school’s varsity fotball team as a sophomre.

Michael Jordan became one of the greatest basketball player in the history of the sport.

Tom Cruise auditioned for a role n the television version of Fame, but the casting director told him he wasn’t “pretty enough.”

Tom went on to become the heartthrob of millions of women as the star of the films Risky Top Gun, Rain Man, Jerry McGuire and Mission Impossible.

Joan of Arc was illiterate.

Joan of Arc, a French national heroine and beloved saint of the Roman Catholic Church, liberated the besieged city of Orleans from the English in 1429 and escorted the uncrowned King Charles to the City of Reims for his coronation.

Frank Sinatra was expelled from high school after just forty-seven days for his rowdy behavior.

Frank Sinatra became a superstar as an actor and singer, one of the wealthiest men in show business, and leader of the Rat Pack. He starred in the films Guys and Dolls and The Manchurian Candidate.

Edgar Allan Poe was expelled from West Point for “gross neglect of duty” and “disobedience of orders.” His early poems met with no success.

Edgar Allan Poe became one of America’s Greatest poets, short-story writers, and literary critics. He wrote “The Raven,” The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Black Cat,” and “The Pit of the Pendulum.”

Humphrey Bogart, dropped by Twentieth Century-Fox in 1931 after appearing in six mediocre movies, returned to New York, where he was fired from a job reading radio playlets for laxatives. He then earned a living playing chess for fifty cents a round.

Humphrey Bogart became a top box-office attraction in movies and won an Academy Award for his role in the African Queen. He starred in The Petrified Forest, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, The Treasure of Sierra Madre and Key Largo.

Sigmund Freud bacame the father of psychoanalysis and one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. His most widely read book, The Interpretation of Dreams, is considered the gospel of psychoanalysis.

Walt Disney’s first carton production company Laugh-O-Gram, went bankrupt.

Walt Disney created Mickey Mouse and became the most famous name in the film animation. He produced Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi and Cinderella, and founded Disneyland.

Cyndi Lauper lost her voice after intense vocal training in 1977, prompting the doctors to say she would never sing again.

Cyndi Lauper regained her voice and recorded the hit rock rock ‘n’ roll albums She’s So Unusual and True Colors, won the 1984 Grammy Award for Best New Artist, and recrded the hit songs “Girls Just Want to Have fun” and “Time After Time.”

Martin Luther was excommunicated by Pope Leo X for nailing his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Castle Church at Wittenberg.

Martin Luther went on to lead the Reformation in Germany, giving birth to Protestantism. His translation of the bible into German is considered a literary masterpiece.

David Letterman was a regular on The Starland Vocal Band Show [cancelled by CBS after three months in 1977], a regular on Mary Tyler Moore’s television comedy variety series, Mary [canceled by CBS after only three telecasts in 1978], and the host of The David Letterman Show, a national morning talk show [cancelled by CBS after just a few months in 1980].

David Letterman became the Emmy Award-winning host of Late Night with David Letterman on NBC and The Late Show on CBS.

Theodore Roosevelt ran in 1886 as the Republican Candidate for mayor of New York City — and lost.

Theodore Roosevelt served two years as governor of New York, was elected vice president of the United States under William McKinley, became president upon McKinley’s assasination, and was elected to a full term as president in 1904. His face is carved into Mount Rushmore.

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