useless trivia: What Word Means: Abrades - Speaks Hoarsely?

Questions

Whose nickname was 'babe'?

Whose show claimed to have "the world's most dangerous band"?

Whose story did the books 'born free', 'living free' and 'forever free' tell?

Whose suicide made robert mitchum sigh, "she seemed like a lost child"?

Wide muscular partition separating the thoracic, or chest cavity, from the abdominal cavity?