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[roses-in-hollywood]

Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty, and Isabelle Adjani in Ishtar (1987)

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Wilder and Diamond were precise writers. But when it came time to Some Like It Hot’s punch line, they were absolutely indecisive. They got as far as Lemmon ripping off his wig and saying he can’t marry Osgood Fielding III because, “I’m a man.” What comes next? Diamond suggested “Nobody’s perfect,” and Wilder said to keep it in so they could send the script to the mimeographer. But then they were really going to settle it. “We have a whole week to think about it,” Wilder said. “We thought about it all week. Neither of us could come up with anything better, so we shot that line, still not entirely satisfied.” Viewers felt entirely differently. “The audience just exploded,” Wilder said. “That line got one of the biggest laughs I’ve ever heard in the theater. But we just hadn’t trusted it when we wrote it; we just didn’t see it. ‘Nobody’s perfect.’ The line had come too easily, just popped out.”

Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder

[divineandmajesticinone]

WONDER BAR (1934) | dir. Lloyd Bacon

“The other [scene that stands out above the rest] involved a handsome man, asking a dancing couple if he could cut in. The female partner, expecting his attention, agrees, only to see him dance with her male partner. Jolson then flaps his wrist and says, “Boys will be boys. Woo!”. This scene almost caused the Production Code to reject the film, and was featured in the opening scenes of the documentary film The Celluloid Closet (1996).”

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THE MUPPET SHOW (1976 - 1981)  —1.19 Special Guest: Vincent Price

[cinemaspast]

AUDREY HEPBURN in ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953) dir William Wyler

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Joan Crawford’s Home Movies 1940s Digitized by The George Eastman Museum

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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) dir. Frank Capra

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Do you know how long it takes a working man to save five thousand dollars? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) dir. Frank Capra

[hellboys]

ANTHONY HOPKINS as Dr. Frederic Treves in The Elephant Man (1980)

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THE INVISIBLE MAN dir. James Whale | 1933

[classicfilmsource]

Wait a minute, Mister. You're not talking to one of your chumps. You're talking to your wife! You're talking to somebody who knows you red, white and blue. And you can't fool me anymore.

Coleen Gray as Molly in Nightmare Alley 1947 dir. Edmund Goulding

[roses-in-hollywood]

Dorothy Lamour in On Our Merry Way (1948)

[divineandmajesticinone]

Marilyn Monroe at a press conference at the Savoy Hotel in London, 1956

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The Twilight Zone The Lonely | 1.07

[cinemaspast]

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962) dir. Robert Aldrich

[trainstationgoodbye]

Katharine Hepburn in Sylvia Scarlett (1935) dir. George Cukor