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James Cagney

"You dirty rat!"

What James Cagney actually said was: "Mmm, that dirty, double-crossin' rat," in the 1931 film, Blonde Crazy. As another example of how misquotes can take on a life of their own, in the 1990 comedy, Home Alone, Macauley Culkin watches a scene from a fictional gangster movie entitled, "Angels With Filthy Souls" (a take-off on the 1938 Cagney film Angels With Dirty Faces), in which a gangster shoots while saying, "Take that, you dirty rat!

Tarzan

"Me Tarzan, you Jane."

The actual exchange between Maureen O'Sullivan and Johnny Weissmuller in the 1932 movie, Tarzan the Ape Man is much more involved, and realistic I think. It goes like this:

Jane: "Thank you for protecting me."

Tarzan: (pointing to Jane) "Me?"

Jane: "I said, 'Thank you for protecting me."

Tarzan: (pointing to Jane) "Me."

Jane: "No, I'm only 'me' for me.

Tarzan: (pointing to Jane) "Me."

Jane: "No. To you I'm 'you'."

Tarzan: (pointing to himself) "You."

Jane: "No... I'm Jane Parker, understand? Jane, Jane."

Tarzan: (pointing to Jane) "Jane, Jane, Jane."

Jane: "Yes, Jane. You? (pointing to herself) Jane."

Tarzan: (pointing to Jane) "Jane."

Jane: "And you, you."

Tarzan: (pointing to himself) "Tarzan, Tarzan."

Jane: "Tarzan."

Bela Lugosi

"I want to suck your blood."

Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi) does not utter this line in the 1931 classic movie, Dracula. However, It is used humorously in the 1994 Tim Burton directed film, Ed Wood by Ned Bellamy's character, Dr. Tom Mason, in the context of his doing a Bela Lugosi impersonation; which proves that a misquote can sometimes take on a life of its own and continue to haunt the person who never said it, even after death.



This is a different, but very funny seen from Ed Wood with Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi.