What movie did Universal advertise as “the strangest love story of our time”?
Dracula (1930) was advertised as “the strangest love story of our time”.
Alone or in collaboration, Ben Hecht (1893-1964) wrote about seventy credited stories and scripts. He worked on many more without credit. The last film he worked on, Casino Royale (1967), was such a film.
Bob Hope and Una Merkel starred in the film Some Like It Hot.
Jean Harlow said “Do you mind if I slip into something more comfortable?” in Hell’s Angels (1930).
Miss Jean Brodie’s (Maggie Smith’s) pupils were the “crime de la creme” in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969).
Charles Boyer did not say, “Come with me to the Casbah” in any movie. Many people have supposed incorrectly that he said it in Algiers (1938), where he played the French ne’er-do-well Pepe Le Moko living in the Casbah. Boyer said his press agent made it up.
Gene Autry’s “Ten Commandments of a Cowboy” were: 1. A cowboy never takes unfair advantage, even of an enemy. 2. A cowboy never betrays a trust. 3. A cowboy always tells the truth. 4. A cowboy is kind to small children, to old folks, and to animals. 5. A cowboy is free from racial and…