Monthly Archives: August 2011
Movie Quote of the Day – The Blue Gardenia, 1953 (dir. Fritz Lang)
Sally Ellis: I didn’t like Prebble when he was alive. [beat] But now that he’s been murdered, that always makes a man so romantic.
Movie Quote of the Day – You’ve Got Mail, 1998 (dir. Nora Ephron)
George: Well, as far as I’m concerned, the internet is just another way of being rejected by a woman.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Dark Knight, 2009 (dir. Christopher Nolan)
Gambol: Give me one reason why I shouldn’t have my boy here pull your head off.
The Joker: How about a magic trick? [beat] I’m gonna make this pencil disappear. [beat] Ta-daa! It’s. . .it’s gone.
Movie Quote of the Day – Vampire’s Kiss, 1988 (dir. Robert Bierman)
Peter Loew: Alva, there is no one else in this entire office that I could possibly ask to share such a horrible job. You’re the lowest on the totem pole here, Alva. The lowest. Do you realize that? Every other secretary here has been here longer than you, Alva. Every one. And even if there was someone here who was here even one day longer than you, I still wouldn’t ask that person to partake in such a miserable job as long as you were around. That’s right, Alva. It’s a horrible, horrible job; sifting through old contract after old contract. I couldn’t think of a more horrible job if I wanted to. And you have to do it! You have to or I’ll fire you. You understand? Do you? Good.
Movie Quote of the Day – My Man Godfrey, 1936 (dir. Gregory La Cava)
Irene: Godfrey loves me! He put me in the shower!
Movie Quote of the Day – House on Haunted Hill, 1959 (dir. William Castle)
Ruth Bridgers: Who would want to mark me?
Fredrick Loren: I would say any self-respecting male ghost.
Oscar Vault Monday – Top Hat, 1935 (dir. Martin Sandrich)
Featuring one of Hollywood’s most famous screen pairings – Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers – Top Hat was the duo’s most financially successful film; it was the second highest grossing film of 1935. At once a musical, a dance film and a screwball comedy, the film is non-stop fun from start to finish. Top Hat was nominated for four Academy Awards, though it didn’t win any: Best Song – “Cheek To Cheek”, Best Art Direction, Best Dance Direction (a category that only existed from 1935-1937) and Best Picture. The other films nominated that year were Alice Adams, Broadway Melody of 1936, Captain Blood, David Copperfield, The Informer (which, with four wins, won the most awards that year), Les Misérables, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Naughty Marietta, Ruggles of Red Gap and winner Mutiny on the Bounty (nominated for seven awards, it is the last film to only win Best Picture and nothing else).
Movie Quote of the Day – Overboard, 1987 (dir. Garry Marshall)
Dean Proffitt: Feel better?
Joanna Sayton: I don’t belong here. I feel it. Don’t you think I feel it? I can’t do any of these vile things and I wouldn’t want to. [beat] My life is like death, my children are the spawn of Hell and you’re the devil. Oh God.
Movie Quote of the Day – A Thousand Clowns, 1965 (dir. Fred Coe)
Albert Amundsen: And do you know what you are?
Murray Burns: [shakes head no]
Albert Amundsen: Maladjusted!
Murray Burns: Oooh! [strikes heart and sinks to the floor]
Loving Lucy: Miss Grant Takes Richmond
I was going to write a lengthy post about my love for Lucy’s film Miss Grant Takes Richmond with William Holden, but as many of you know my internet connection has been non-existent for a few weeks now and my internetting has been limited to a few minutes every morning sitting on a bench in the freezing cold.
If you click the link on the title above you can read a review I wrote of the film for YAM Magazine. I wish I could have written more on the film, but I will say it is definitely worth your time if you can find it. The two of them are fantastic together. The ending is particularly fantastic. I wish I could have found a video of it to share with you.
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