Did Samuel Goldwyn say, “The next time I send a damn fool for something, I go myself”?
Director Michael Curtiz said “The next time I send a damn fool for something, I go myself” in disgust at a building prop person.
Louis B. Mayer’s first film star was Anita Stewart. She starred in Virtuous Wives (1918), the first film made by Mayer’s production company, Alco (later Metro).
Raymond Massey played Abraham Lincoln twice. In Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) and in How the West Was Won (1962).
In the closing lines of The Grapes of Wrath, Jane Darwell says, “Can’t nobody wipe us out. Can’t nobody lick us. We’ll go on forever, Pa. We’re the people.”
Stewart Granger’s real name was James Stewart.
The Motion Picture Association of America started the Code and Rating Administration Board in 1968.
Charles Foster Kane’s estate in Citizen Kane, Xanadu, was on the Gulf Coast of Florida. The estate of William Randolph Hearst, on whom Kane was based, is located in San Simeon, California.