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Movie Quote of the Day – Craig’s Wife, 1936 (dir. Dorothy Arzner)
Harriet Craig: Nobody can know another human being well enough to trust them.
Movie Quote of the Day – Night Must Fall, 1937 (dir. Richard Thorpe)
Danny: What’s that? Like the sound of a big wall falling over into the sea. Everything’s slipping out from under me. Can’t you feel it? Starting in slow, then hundreds of miles an hour. There’s a wind in my ears, a terrible rushing wind. Everything’s going past me like telegraph poles! Everything’s going backwards! Everything I’ve ever seen! Faster and faster, back to the day I was born! I could see it coming — the day I was born! I’m going to die.
Movie Quote of the Day – Forsaking All Others, 1934 (dir. W.S. Van Dyke)
Eleanor: Oh, I’m so tired of being a bridesmaid. I’d like to get married so I could wear a decent hat.
Shempy: That’s the best reason for getting married I ever heard.
Movie Quote of the Day – Auntie Mame, 1958 (dir. Morton DaCosta)
Auntie Mame: Life’s a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!
Movie Quote of the Day – His Girl Friday, 1940 (dir. Howard Hawks)
Walter Burns: There’s been a lamp burning in the window for ya, honey… here.
Hildy Johnson: Oh, I jumped out that window a long time ago.
Oscar Vault Monday – Picnic, 1955 (dir. Joshua Logan)
This is a year wherein I 100% agree with the winner the Academy picked – Marty. It’s one of my favorite films period, let alone one of my favorite Best Picture winners. That being said, the three nominees I’ve seen from that year (Marty, Picnic and Mister Roberts) are all fabulous films. I decided to talk about Picnic because it has one of my all-time favorite performances and there’s lots of shirtless William Holden. Picnic was nominated for six Oscars, winning two: Best Score, Best Color Art Direction-Set Decoration (won), Best Film Editing (won), Best Supporting Actor Arthur O’Connell, Best Director and Best Picture. The other films nominated for Best Picture that year were: Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, Mister Roberts, The Rose Tattoo and winner Marty.
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