“There but for the grace of God goes God” was supposedly said by Herman Mankiewicz, screenwriter for Citizen Kane (1940).
But the apocryphal remark has also been attributed to Winston Churchill and Orson Welles himself.
Played by John Wayne, The Shootist was John Bernard Brooks. It was John Wayne’s last film.
Schlockthropus was the name of the prehuman species resurrected in Schlock (1973). The Schlockthropus is played by twenty-two-year-old John Landis in his directorial debut. The film is also known as The Banana Monster.
Twenty-nine “Carry On” films were produced in Great Britain, beginning with Carry On Sergeant (1958), and ending with Carry On Emmanuelle (1978).
Producer Michael Todd, who filled Around the World in 80 Days (1956) with forty-four cameo stars, adopted the word “cameo” as a cinematic term for walk-on parts for well-known people.
Woody Allen claimed is the only cultural advantage offered by Los Angeles is that you can make a right turn on a red light.
The tongue-twister that kicks off a song-and dance number in Singin’ in the Rain (1952) was “Moses supposes his toses are roses but Moses supposes erroneously.”