15. Marlon Brando was 47 years old when he played Don Corleone -- the same age as Bradly Cooper, Leonardo DiCaprio and Joaquin Phoenix are today. (He sure looked a lot older than that to me.)
16. Before Brando was cast, the top choices tp play Don Corleone included Ernest Borgnine and Laurence Olivier.
17. Joe Spinell, who played the hitman Will Cici, went on to portray the loan shark Gazzo in "Rocky."
18. When Clemenza recites the ingredients for his spaghetti sauce ("You start off with a little bit of oil, then you fry some garlic, then you throw in some tomatoes...", that's in the Coppola family recipe.
19. Nearly every critic in America praised the family, but Stanley Kauffman of the New Republic slammed Brando's performance, said Al Pacino "rattles around in a part too demanding for him" and opined James Caan was merely "OK as his older brother."
20. Sofia Coppola was in all three "Godfather" films.
21. In the original, she was Michael Francis Rizzi, the infant son of Connie and Carlo who is getting baptized.
22. In "Godfather II," Sofia can be seen very briefly as an immigrant girl on the ship taking Vito Corleone to Ellis Island.
23. In "Godfather III," she was Mary Corleone, daughter of Michael and Kay.
--Cootleone
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