The Black and White Screwball Comedy Appreciation Thread, Featuring Your Favorite Lines

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"Yes, that's right, I have a continental mind, will you have an eggnog?" -The Awful Truth

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Sunday, 8 January 2006 01:14 (twenty years ago)

"You fell in love with Khrushchev?" - One, Two, Three

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Sunday, 8 January 2006 01:18 (twenty years ago)

Just to clarify: the first one was spoken by Cary Grant, the second by James Cagney.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Sunday, 8 January 2006 02:05 (twenty years ago)

Walter Burns: I still wish you hadn't done that, Hildy.
Hildy Johnson: Done what?
Walter Burns: Divorced me. It makes a man feel he's not wanted.
Hildy Johnson: Oh, now look, junior... that's what divorces are FOR!

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Sunday, 8 January 2006 02:17 (twenty years ago)

Jerry the Nipper to thread!

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Sunday, 8 January 2006 02:30 (twenty years ago)

OH I DON'T KNOW I JUST WENT GAY ALL OF A SUDDEN!!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 8 January 2006 02:33 (twenty years ago)

(Now all we need is a quote from My Favorite Wife and we'll have tonight's TCM lineup all sewn up)

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Sunday, 8 January 2006 02:49 (twenty years ago)

From It Happened One Night

Alexander Andrews: Oh, er, do you mind if I ask you a question, frankly? Do you love my daughter?

Peter Warne: Any guy that'd fall in love with your daughter ought to have his head examined.

Alexander Andrews: Now that's an evasion!

Peter Warne: She picked herself a perfect running mate - King Westley - the pill of the century! What she needs is a guy that'd take a sock at her once a day, whether it's coming to her or not. If you had half the brains you're supposed to have, you'd done it yourself, long ago.

Alexander Andrews: Do you love her?

Peter Warne: A normal human being couldn't live under the same roof with her without going nutty! She's my idea of nothing!

Alexander Andrews: I asked you a simple question! Do you love her?

Peter Warne: YES! But don't hold that against me, I'm a little screwy myself!

― Jimmy Mod (I myself am lethal at 100 -110dB) (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, 8 January 2006 03:27 (twenty years ago)

"He wouldn't have died of pneumonia if I hadn't shot him."

― clotpoll, Sunday, 8 January 2006 05:13 (twenty years ago)

http://www.impawards.com/1976/posters/silver_streak.jpg

― Dan (Predictable) Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 8 January 2006 05:15 (twenty years ago)

Godfrey: May I be frank?
Molly: Is that your name?
Godfrey: No, my name is Godfrey.
Molly: All right, be frank.

[at the city dump]
Irene: Could you tell me why you live in a place like this when there's so many other nice places?
Godfrey: You really want to know?
Irene: Oh, I'm very curious.
Godfrey: It's because my real estate agent felt that the altitude would be very good for my asthma.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 8 January 2006 05:20 (twenty years ago)

Ninotchka: Why do you want to carry my bags?
Porter: That is my business.
Ninotchka: That's no business. That's social injustice.
Porter: That depends on the tip.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 8 January 2006 05:31 (twenty years ago)

Lily Vautier: Darling, remember, you are Gaston Monescu. You are a crook. I want you as a crook. I love you as a crook. I worship you as a crook. Steal, swindle, rob. Oh, but don't become one of those useless, good-for-nothing gigolos.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 8 January 2006 07:21 (twenty years ago)

Gaston Monescu: Madame Colet, if I were your father, which fortunately I am not, and you made any attempt to handle your own business affairs, I would give you a good spanking--in a business way, of course.
Mariette Colet: What would you do if you were my secretary?
Gaston Monescu: The same thing.
Mariette Colet: You're hired.

(haha xpost)

― Yawn (Wintermute), Sunday, 8 January 2006 07:26 (twenty years ago)

Lubitsch and Sturges are gods.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 8 January 2006 07:59 (twenty years ago)

"There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society -- outside of a kennel." -Joan Crawford, The Women.

― miss michel legrand (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 8 January 2006 20:47 (twenty years ago)

Charles Pike: You're certainly a funny girl for anybody to meet who's just been up the Amazon for a year.

Jean Harrington: Good thing you weren't up there two years.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:41 (twenty years ago)

"Marriage is the most beautiful... setup between the sexes"- Akim Tamiroff as The Boss, in The Great McGinty.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 05:09 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

crossposting w/ ILF -- seen either?

http://m.thelmagazine.com/newyork/rep-pick-she-married-her-boss-and-unifinished-business/Content?oid=2205940

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 January 2012 18:34 (fourteen years ago)

eight years pass...

Positively the same dame!

― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 August 2020 00:18 (five years ago)

ten months pass...

so much snappy dialogue in My Man Godfrey it almost seems pointless isolating and quoting any - it's all good!

― calzino, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 21:27 (four years ago)

The guy who runs film blog Shadowplay has been doing a cinema club and has been diving deep into the career of My Man Godfrey's director, Gregory La Cava. So far we've watched: 5th Avenue Girl (kind of a gender swapped My Man Godfrey - old millionaire guy picks up vagrant Ginger Rogers to trick his family into thinking he's gone full hedonist; Rogers underplays the part, which is a v smart decision, and there's also a bolchevist chauffeur that would be good value on the UK pol thread); Primrose Path (Rogers and Joel McCrea, highly OTT melodrama with anti-Portuguese racism); Bed Of Roses (pre coder with Constance Benett as a con artist/sex worker, laid on a bit thick for me but good value if you're into that era) and Unfinished Business (40's weepie with Irene Dunne with the melodrama skillfully mixed with comedy and visual style; at times it feels directed by Tashlin!).

― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 09:52 (four years ago)

I'm going on a mission to the torrents, because they sound great and won't be streaming anywhere

― calzino, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 09:57 (four years ago)

so much snappy dialogue in My Man Godfrey it almost seems pointless isolating and quoting any - it's all good!

― calzino,

Perhaps you left it in your other suit?

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 11:44 (four years ago)

If them cops would stick

to their own racket,

we'd get somewhere

in this country...

― calzino, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 11:50 (four years ago)

I couldn't find 5th Avenue Girl but managed to find a vhs rip of Private Lives which most certainly wasn't a 30s screwball comedy!

― calzino, Thursday, 24 June 2021 09:22 (four years ago)

I can hook you up calz, not 100% sure if my mail on this site is still active but try it and we'll see?

― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 24 June 2021 09:54 (four years ago)

oh great thanks dan, you email me: jayunkempt at that gmail.com if that makes it easier

― calzino, Thursday, 24 June 2021 10:23 (four years ago)

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