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1 ‘Smile when you say that, pardner.’ What Gary Cooper actually said to Walter Huston in The Virginian (1929) was, ‘If you want to call me that, smile.’

2 ‘Me Tarzan, you Jane.’ Johnny Weismuller’s first Tarzan role was in Tarzan, the Ape Man (1932). He introduced himself to co-star Maureen O’Sullivan by thumping his chest and announcing, ‘Tarzan’. He then gingerly tapped her chest and said, ‘Jane’.

3 ‘You dirty rat.’ In fact, James Cagney never uttered this line in any of his roles as a hard-boiled gangster. It has often been used by impersonators, however, to typify Cagney’s tough-guy image.

4 ‘Come with me to the Casbah.’ Charles Boyer cast seductive glances at Hedy Lamarr throughout Algiers (1938), but he never did make this suggestion. Delivered with a French accent, the line appeals to many Boyer imitators who enjoy saying, ‘Come weez mee …’

5 ‘Why don’t you come up and see me sometime?’ Cary Grant found himself the recipient of Mae West’s lusty invitation, ‘Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?’ in She Done Him Wrong (1933).

6 ‘Play it again, Sam.’ In Casablanca (1942) Ingrid Bergman dropped in unexpectedly at old lover Humphrey Bogart’s nightclub, where she asked the piano player to ‘Play it, Sam’, referring to the song ‘As Time Goes By’. Although Bogart’s character was shocked at hearing the song that reminded him so painfully of his lost love, he also made Sam play it again – but the words he used were, ‘You played it for her, you can play it for me … play it.’

7 ‘Judy, Judy, Judy.’ Cary Grant has never exclaimed this line in any film, but imitators often use it to display their Cary Grant-like accents.

8 ‘I want to be alone.’ In 1955, retired film star Greta Garbo – despairing of ever being free of publicity – said, ‘I want to be let alone.’ The melodramatic misinterpretation, however, is the way most people have heard and quoted it.

– K.P.