Samuel Goldwyn? Louella Parsons? Sylvia Porter? Leonard Hall? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: A famous producer from the Golden Age of Hollywood once complained to his scriptwriters that their stories were uninspired. The producer made an inadvertently comical request: Let’s have some new cliches. This saying has been attributed to Samuel Goldwyn, but I am …
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Quote Origin: I Never Seek To Take the Credit; We All Assume That Oscar Said It
Dorothy Parker? Louella Parsons? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: The 19th-century Irish playwright Oscar Wilde is a superstar in the realm of quotations, and many scintillating expressions have been incorrectly attributed to him. A humorous verse about this phenomenon was composed by another wit, Dorothy Parker. The verse ends with this line: We all assume …
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Quote Origin: You’re Only As Good As Your Last Performance
James R. Quirk? Douglas Fairbanks? Walter Winchell? Louella Parsons? Barbara Stanwyck? Jack Osterman? Al Jolson? Walter Huston? Will Rogers? Hedda Hopper? Marie Dressler? Arthur Ashe? Laurence Olivier? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: The popularity and power of an entertainer, top athlete, or financial whiz can ascend vertiginously, but it can also decline precipitously. A harshly pragmatic …
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