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Movie Quote of the Day – Gaslight, 1944 (dir. George Cukor)
Paula Alquist Anton: It isn’t here, you must have dreamed you put it there. [beat] Are you suggesting that this is a knife I hold in my hand? Have you gone mad, my husband?
Movie Quote of the Day – Camille, 1936 (dir. George Cukor)
Armand: Take it if you can. Only, I warn you, lucky in love, unlucky at cards.
Baron de Varville: That also means lucky at cards, unlucky in love.
Armand: We shall see.
Oscar Vault Monday – The Philadelphia Story, 1940 (dir. George Cukor)
This was a hard year for me to pick just one film to talk about. Like 1939 before it, so many great films were up for Hollywood’s top prize in 1940. I decided to go with The Philadelphia Story, however, because I saw it on the big screen a few weeks ago and I fell in love with it even more than I already had been. It’s so perfectly written, acted, directed, paced, shot, everything. Truly one of the greatest films of Hollywood’s Golden Era – or ever, really. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, winning two: Best Screenplay (won), Best Supporting Actress Ruth Hussey, Best Actress Katharine Hepburn, Best Actor Jimmy Stewart (won), Best Director and Best Picture. The other films nominated for Best Picture that year were: All This, and Heaven Too, Foreign Correspondent, The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Dictator, Kitty Folye, The Long Voyage Home, Our Town and winner Rebecca.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Women, 1939 (dir. George Cukor)
Crystal Allen: There’s a name for you, ladies, but it isn’t used in high society. . .outside of a kennel.
Movie Quote of the Day – Dinner At Eight, 1933 (dir. George Cukor)
Kitty Packard: I was reading a book the other day.
Carlotta Vance: Reading a book?
Kitty Packard: Yes. It’s all about civilization or something. A nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy says that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?
Carlotta Vance: Oh, my dear, that’s something you need never worry about.
Movie Quote of the Day – Born Yesterday, 1950 (dir. George Cukor)
Billie Dawn: All that stuff I’ve been studying, what Paul’s been telling me. It just mixed me up. But when you hit me before it was like everything knocked itself together in my head and made sense. All of the sudden I realized what it means. How some people are always giving and some taking; and it’s not fair. So I’m not gonna let you anymore. [beat] Or anybody else.
Movie Quote of the Day – Holiday, 1938 (dir. George Cukor)
Ned: [whispers] Happy New Year.
Linda: Same to you.
[beat]
Linda: What’s it like? To get drunk, Ned?
Ned: It’s…how drunk?
Linda: Good and drunk?
Ned: Grand.
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