There’s another old story that an extra in one of his epics, irritable, bored and tired after a very long shooting day, said very loudly, “Who do I have to fuck to get off this picture?”
One of the Roman soldiers in Spartacus can be seen wearing a wristwatch.
The cast of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock serenaded Dame Judith Anderson with the Broadway tune “There’s Nothing Like a Dame” when she first came on-set.
Director John Ford told Maureen O’Hara to whisper something naughty to John Wayne in the last scene of The Quiet Man, to get a good reaction from him. She did, and he did, and none of them ever revealed what she said to him.