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Movie Quote of the Day – Blonde Ice, 1948 (dir. Jack Bernhard)
June: Les. . .I wonder which hangover you’ll recover from first.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Scar, 1948 (dir. Steve Sekely)
Freddie: You ran around. Good times, girls. You were special. You never followed the rules. There were no rules for you. Did you believe it? I think I wanted to see you get away with it. You were everything I wasn’t and everything I wanted to be. Everything we’d all like to be, only we know better. We don’t take the chances. We know sooner or later it always catches up with you.
Oscar Vault Monday – Johnny Belinda, 1948 (dir. Jean Negulesco)
I first saw this film in the weeee hours of the morning a few days into January of 2011. It was about six months into my new-found obsession with Lew Ayres and it was one of the films that really solidified my undying love for him. It’s a pretty racy film for 1948 and holds up quite wonderfully nearly seventy years later. It’s also one of the most nominated films in Academy history. Johnny Belinda was nominated for twelve Academy Awards, winning one: Best Sound, Best Score, Best Film Editing, Best B&W Cinematography, Best B&W Art Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor Charles Bickford, Best Supporting Actress Agnes Moorehead, Best Actor Lew Ayres, Best Actress Jane Wyman (won), Best Director and Best Picture. The other films up for Best Picture that year were The Red Shoes, The Snake Pit, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and winner Hamlet.
Movie Quote of the Day – I Walk Alone, 1948 (dir. Byron Haskin)
Kay Lawrence: It might take me awhile to get him out of my system. One gets kind of used to someone.
Movie Quote of the Day – Moonrise, 1948 (dir. Frank Borzage)
Danny Hawkins: You don’t sound very happy.
Gilly Johnson: Should I be?
Movie Quote of the Day – Sorry, Wrong Number, 1948 (dir. Anatole Litvak)
Leona: I like you, that’s a different thing, too.
Henry: Like me, like you. Come on, we’re both acting like a couple of kids playing cat and mouse. Besides, what does a dame like you want with a guy like me?
Movie Quote of the Day – Red River, 1948 (dir. Howard Hawks)
Cherry: There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun: a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere. Ever had a good. . .Swiss watch?
Movie Quote of the Day – The Big Clock, 1948 (dir. John Farrow)
Louise Patterson: Isn’t it a pity? The wrong people always have money.
Movie Quote of the Day – Key Largo, 1948 (dir. John Huston)
Frank McCloud: You don’t like it, do you Rocco, the storm? Show it your gun, why don’t you? If it doesn’t stop, shoot it.
Movie Quote of the Day – Portrait of Jennie, 1948 (dir. William Dieterle)
Miss Spinney: I’m an old maid; and nobody knows more about love than an old maid.
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