Channing Pollock? George Raft? Tug McGraw? Stan Bowles? George Best?
Dear Quote Investigator: George Raft was my favorite film star from the Golden Age of Hollywood. He often played gangsters and was memorable in “Some Like it Hot”. Raft was known for his high income in Tinseltown and for his wild profligacy. The quotation that interests me appeared in his obituary in 1980 [RFT80]:
Raft … made, and squandered, about $10 million in his movie career, and later joked: “Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.”
Did Raft really say this or is it part of his legend?
Quote Investigator: Yes, QI thinks Raft did say it, but he probably was not the first person to do so.