Famed Hungarian director Michael Curtiz rivaled Samuel Goldwyn as the emperor of verbal bloopers. A flamboyant bundle of nervous energy, he was hardly noted for his patience. "The next time I send a damn fool for somethink," he once exclaimed, "I go myself!"

[Curtiz once described Bette Davis as "the flea in the ointment and a no good sexless son-of-a-bitch."]