Cary Grant
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DisputedCommonly credited to Cary Grant; the attribution does not hold up.
Judy, Judy, Judy.
Cary Grant · 1939 · film
The most famous line Cary Grant never said.
Traced to Only Angels Have Wings (1939) and to 1940s nightclub impressionists; Grant's own account appeared in Variety, 7 January 1970.
On the attribution

Grant never spoke this line in any film. In Only Angels Have Wings (1939) he addresses a character named Judy — 'Hello, Judy… Come on, Judy… Now, Judy' — and the phrase was assembled from that and fixed on him by nightclub impressionists, the comedian Larry Storch chief among them. Grant knew the story and enjoyed it: asked in Variety in January 1970 whether he ever said it, he replied that he did say it, but only to friends, as 'an imitation of an imitation of an imitator.'