No. W. C. Fields’s gravestone does not read, “On the whole, I’d rather be in Philadelphia”
In the first place, he isn’t in a grave: his ashes are housed in a vault.
Second, the epitaph doesn’t appear there.
Third, it wasn’t his joke. The line first appeared in the magazine Vanity Fair in the 1920s. It was attributed to Fields posthumously.
The chimp from Bedtime for Bonzo died in a trailer fire in the early 1950s, along with his four stand-ins, on the day he was scheduled to help present the first Patsy Awards for animal achievement.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) was not the man given credit for it, Senator Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart). It was Tom Doniphon (John Wayne), a relic of an older, less civilized West.
Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, and Peter Ustinov were the escapees from Devil’s Island in We’re No Angels (1955). Robert DeNiro and Sean Penn were the angels in the 1989 film of the same title.
Elizabeth Taylor’s first film was There’s One Born Every Minute in 1942. Taylor was nine at the time.
David Niven played James Bond in the movie Casino Royale (1967). His nephew, Jimmy Bond, was played by Woody Allen.
Marni Nixon’s only film appearance was as a nun in The Sound of Music (1965). Nixon is better known for dubbing other people’s singing, such as Deborah Kerr’s in The King and I (1956), Natalie Wood’s in West Side Story (1961), and Audrey Hepburn’s in My Fair Lady (1964).