What was the award-winning coffee slogan devised by Dick Powell in Preston Sturges’s Christmas in July (1940)?

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.

His father punished Alfred Hitchcock for a since-forgotten offense by sending him to the police station with a note. The chief of police read it and locked Hitchcock up for five to ten minutes, saying, “This is what we do to naughty boys.” Hitchcock was four or five years old at the time.

No, Lawrence of Arabia (1962) was not Peter O’Toole’s first film. O’Toole played several secondary roles in Ombre Bianche, Les Dents du Diable, The Savage Innocents, The Day They Robbed the Bank of England, and Kidnapped (all 1960). He did not become famous until he appeared as T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia.

Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles were credited with the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1940).

Henry V (1945) was Laurence Olivier’s directorial debut.

Margo Channing was the name of Bette Davis’s character in All About Eve (1950). Anne Baxter played her young fan and rival Eve Harrington.