Classic Hollywood Icons Codexery — Data & Quality

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Last full accuracy audit: 2026-09-01 · 6 entries checked · 6 flagged · 8 issues confirmed · 6 corrected · 2 still open

Recent findings (audit lane, verbatim)

Patricia Neal — The entry states Neal made her film debut with Ronald Reagan in 'John Loves Mary' in 1949, followed by another role with Reagan in 'The Hasty Heart' the same year. Factual error: 'The Hasty Heart' (1949) starred Ronald Reagan, but Patricia Neal was not in that

Patricia Neal — The entry says 'Variety magazine ran her obituary after she suffered three cerebral aneurysms in 1965, but she survived.' Factual error: Variety did not run her obituary; it was a premature obituary published by a different source.

Patrick Swayze — The 'DID YOU KNOW' section claims Whoopi Goldberg thanked Swayze in her Oscar speech 'for being a great co-star, not for hiring her,' but the 'not for hiring her' clause is fabricated and contradicts established canon.

Paul Muni — Muni did not win a Tony Award for Inherit the Wind; he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for that role but did not win.

Paul Muni — Muni was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor only twice (for The Story of Louis Pasteur and The Life of Emile Zola), not five times.

Pearl Bailey — The claim that Pearl Bailey was the first African American to receive the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1976 is incorrect; the first African American recipient was Sidney Poitier, who received the award in 1976, while Bailey received it in 1976

Pearl White — The entry states a stunt double died during the filming of The Perils of Pauline (1914) after a hot air balloon fall, but the widely reported death occurred during the filming of Plunder (1923).

Telly Savalas — Savalas was born on January 21, 1922, but his actual birth year is 1924.

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