
Inspired by Lou's "Don't Quote Me" post over at The Quiet Life, I've decided to post my own top twelve movie quotes list.
This time, it's classic film comedies (1930s - 1950s) - see how many you can get right. I'll post the answers in the comments! (no peeking!)
- "Now lets get this straight, Gus. The chaperone's job is to see that nobody else has any fun. Nobody chaperones the chaperone. That's why I'm so right for this job."
- "I'll admit I may have seen better days, but I'm still not to be had for the price of a cocktail like a salted peanut."
- "Is this a courting or a donnybrook? Have the good manners not to hit the man until he's your husband and entitled to hit you back."
- "If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to. It's been my life's work."
- "The important thing is the rhythm. Always have rhythm in your shaking. Now a Manhattan you shake to fox-trot time, a Bronx to two-step time, a dry martini you always shake to waltz time."
- "All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people."
- "Oh... Do you remember, Martha, once, a long time ago, we thought if he'd be George Washington, it might be a change for him, and we suggested it...And do you know what happened? He just stayed under his bed for days and wouldn't be anybody."
- "Oh, that's the first sane remark I've heard today. C'malong, ____, I know a formula that's said to pop the pennies off the eyelids of dead Irishmen."
- "Get me a bromide - and put some gin in it!"
- "When a man is wrestling a leopard in the middle of a pond, he's in no position to run."
- "If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, it makes us feel as though our hard work ain't been in vain for nothin'. Bless you all."
- "You're willing to pay him a thousand dollars a night just for singing? Why, you can get a phonograph record of Minnie the Moocher for 75 cents. And for a buck and a quarter, you can get Minnie."
5 comments:
How'd you do?
Here are the answers:
1. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
2. All About Eve
3. The Quiet Man
4. Dinner at 8
5. The Thin Man
6. My Man Godfrey
7. Arsenic and Old Lace
8. The Philadelphia Story
9. The Women
10. Bringing Up Baby
11. Singing in the Rain
12. A Night at the Opera, Marx Brothers
Apparently I must be way younger than all of you because I am not recognizing any of these quotes.
Feeling very inadequate lately.Sigh.
Only 2 for me - All about Eve and The Women. Can't believe I missed The Philadelphia Story one.
That was very hard DuPree.
Well since I’ve made it my life’s work to watch every old movie ever made I got ten of them. The Quiet Man, and The Thin Man, threw me.
That was fun do it again do it again...
I am such a spaz for old movies - my apologies to those who aren't as prone as I am to retaining useless trivia.
Congrats for getting any all of you - with a couple exceptions, I purposely avoided the most obvious quotes (i.e., "fasten your seatbelts - it's going to be a bumpy night.") to make it a bit more challenging.
Thanks for playing, y'all!
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