The Wildest Myths Viewers Have Been Led to Believe by Movies & Media

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• Toto was paid $125 per week while filming The Wizard of Oz.
• In classic Hitchcock movie North by Northwest, Cary Grant was actually older than his on-screen mother, Jessie Royce Landis.
• Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who played the character of ‘Fogell/McLovin’ in the coming-of-age indie flick ‘Superbad,’ was only 17 when filming took place. Being a minor at the time, his mother was required to be on the set during the filming of his sex scene.
• In 1982, Spileberg’s kids classic stayed in the US top ten for ten months.