Entertainment : 5 things you didn't know about Godfather

1. In the film’s opening scene, Vito is famously seen holding a cat. Amazingly this was a stray - there was no cat in the original script. 
2. Marlon Brando wanted to make Don Corleone look "like a bulldog," so he stuffed his cheeks with cotton wool for the audition.
3. The shooting of Moe Greene square through the eyeball was inspired by the real life death of gangster Bugsy Siegel.
4. The most complicated scene for special effects was the death of Sonny Corleone at the Jones Beach Causeway toll plaza.
5.  Robert De Niro had auditioned for the role of Sonny.