Golden telephone

Golden telephone sets were notably presented to Pope Pius XI in 1930 and to the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1957.

For that occasion, the Catholic Church in the United States presented a golden telephone to Pope Pius XI.

[3] The instrument is currently on display in Museum of the Revolution, formerly Batista's presidential palace, in Havana.

Various business heads and Mafia figures are seen playing with it, with the exception of Michael Corleone, who briefly admires it, and Hyman Roth, who passes it to the next man without so much as glancing at it.

In Oliver Stone's The Doors, Jim Morrison meets Andy Warhol at a party.