 "Life" magazine attributed the line to Curtis while performing in the 1951 film "The Prince Who Was a Thief".This chestnut used to be quoted in "Radio Times" whenever the film was on BBC television, and found its way into a 2007 study by Clive James of Tony Curtis's work.Curtis has denied ever saying that line, but he did actually say a similar line in the film "Son of Ali Baba", released in 1952 (and one of two "Arabian Nights" style film fantasies he made with Piper Laurie), that reads, "This is the palace of my father, and yonder lies the Valley of the Sun", and he did deliver it on screen with a markedly New York accent.