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Vanna White is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as “Television’s Most Frequent Clapper.”

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DID YOU KNOW? Marlon Brando hated memorizing lines so much that he posted cue cards everywhere to help him get through scenes. He even asked for lines to be written on an actress's posterior. (That request was denied.)