Thursday, July 16, 2009

Top classic comedies


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!)
  1. "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."

  2. "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."

  3. "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."

  4. "If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to. It's been my life's work."

  5. "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."

  6. "All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people."

  7. "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."

  8. "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."

  9. "Get me a bromide - and put some gin in it!"

  10. "When a man is wrestling a leopard in the middle of a pond, he's in no position to run."

  11. "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."

  12. "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:

DuPree said...

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

Lori E said...

Apparently I must be way younger than all of you because I am not recognizing any of these quotes.
Feeling very inadequate lately.Sigh.

Lou said...

Only 2 for me - All about Eve and The Women. Can't believe I missed The Philadelphia Story one.

That was very hard DuPree.

ayem8y said...

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...

DuPree said...

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!