The Big Sleep (1946) dir. Howard Hawks
Louise Brooks under the mistletoe in Pandora’s Box (1929).
JOAN CRAWFORD in THE WOMEN ― 1939, dir. George Cukor
His Girl Friday (1940) dir. Howard Hawks
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
Well, you know we don’t love each other anymore. We’re just habits, bad habits… And when love’s gone, there’s nothing left but admiration and respect. The Palm Beach Story (1942) dir. Preston Sturges
Yvonne De Carlo and Burt Lancaster in CRISS CROSS (1949)
Out of the Past (1947) dir. Jacques Tourneur
Lana Turner combing out her perfect curls in ZIEGFELD GIRL (1941).
Get out, Veda. Get your things out of this house right now before I throw them out into the street and you with them. Get out before I kill you!
MILDRED PIERCE 1945, dir. Michael Curtiz
RITA HAYWORTH in Gilda (1946) dir. Charles Vidor
Renée Adorée in The Big Parade (1925), dir. King Vidor.
Hedy Lamarr in Boom Town (1940) dir. Jack Conway
IT’S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN 1966 | dir. Bill Meléndez
Josephine Baker in Zouzou (1934) dir. Marc Allégret
my favorite halloween movies ↳ Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)