Tracing Quotations
Samuel Goldwyn? Roger Miller? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: I noticed that the Wikiquote website lists one of my favorite funny sayings attributed to Samuel Goldwyn, the famous film producer. In the version of the story I heard, a friend told Goldwyn that he wanted to honor the studio head by naming his son after …
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Samuel Goldwyn? Charlie Chaplin? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: Samuel Goldwyn, the Hollywood studio chief, was famous for his creatively humorous speech errors. A famous actor once asked if he could be in one of Goldwyn’s new productions. But Goldwyn did not like the actor, and he supposedly said: I can answer you in two …
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