"If you want to send a message, use Western Union"

[Fred Shapiro]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>    Attributed to Louis B. Meyer or Samuel Goldwyn.  I don't know what
> Fred Shapiro has, but this is a famous Hollywood phrase.

It is quoted as a Golwynism as early as 1937.

Fred Shapiro


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