No, Samuel Goldwyn, famous for his malapropisms, never said, “It rolls off my back like a duck”.
Critic George Oppenheimer remembers coming up with this line when he was a Hollywood screenwriter.
He won the commissary pool that the writers had going for the best Goldwynism of the day.
Director John Ford’s (1895-1973) real name was Sean Aloysius O’Feeney.
Judy Garland had four husbands besides Vincente Minnelli. The five husbands were: David Rose, Vincente Minnelli, Sid Luft, Mark Herron, and Mickey Deans. She was married to Minnelli from 1945 to 1951.
Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch were credited with the screenplay for Casablanca (1942).
James Cagney’s sign-off line (as George M. Cohan) in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) was “My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.”
The Egg and I (1947) gave Ma and Pa Kettle their debut. It is about a city woman (Claudette Colbert) who marries a chicken farmer (Fred MacMurray). Ma and Pa Kettle were supporting characters played by Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride. They went on to star in the same roles in their own movie series.
The shooting in North by Northwest (1959) is supposed to be a surprise to onlookers. But in the background, a boy extra (who has rehearsed once too often) puts his fingers in his ears before the gun goes off.