Gloria Grahame shot to stardom after appearing in the Christmas classic It’s a Wonderful Life. Yet if her name isn’t as well known today, maybe that’s because this ingénue never got a happy holiday ending—far from it.

Plenty of today’s Hollywood action stars seem a little below average when it comes to height—hello, Tom Cruise. Jeff Chandler was something different entirely. With his broad frame, he towered over most of his costars. The wavy silver hair, dark complexion, and deep, resonant voice certainly didn’t hurt either. When a terrible tragedy took his life far too early, Hollywood lost one of its true leading men. But years later, a shocking accusation would force people to see Chandler in a completely different light.

We all know Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha Stephens from the popular TV comedy Bewitched, where she played a typical suburban housewife with a terrible secret. What the world didn’t know then was that Montgomery had even more secrets than her character. In fact, Montgomery had a long list of husbands and an even longer list of illicit lovers. Yes, behind Montgomery's angelic face, she had her own dark backstory.