Answers to Sterling Silver Dialogue #24
Sterling Silver Dialogue #24: (Answers)
“All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious."
(response) “So do martinis.”
Ken Niles as Leonard Eels (speaks first to Robert Mitchum as Jeff Bailey) and is responded to by Rhonda Fleming as Meta Carson
“So you’re going to break this marriage up. Have you decided yet how you’re going to do it? Are you going to do it with an axe?!”
Fredric March as Al Stephenson (addresses his daughter Peggy Stephenson played by Teresa Wright) in The Best Years of Our Lives
“You want [to see] me, Pa?”
(response) “Before you was born I did.”
Chuck Conners as Buck Hannassey asks Burl Ives as Rufus Hannassey in
"I've never forgotten you. You were even in my dreams. You saved me from growing old, dull and used up. My life was so empty. I felt so alone. But I kept thinking: I've no right to be sad. I'm happy. Someone loved me."
Arletty as Garance (speaks to Jean-Louis Barrault as Baptiste) in Children of Paradise aka Les Enfants du Paradis
“I came to New York from upstate. I was gonna be a dancer. I was a brunette. Started on my toes and wound up on my heels.”
Ruth Roman as Cathy Higgins (speaks to Steve Cochran as Bill Clark) in Tomorrow is Another Day
“It was a hot afternoon, and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along that street. How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?”
Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff (narrates for Edward G Robinson as Barton Keyes) in Double Indemnity
"Sister, I've known some pretty hard cases in my time; you make 'em all look like putty. You're not talking about a sack of gumdrops that's gonna be smashed - you're talking about a dame's life! You may think it's a funny idea for a woman with a kid to stop a bullet for you, only I'm not laughing!"
Charles McGraw as Detective Sergeant Walter Brown (speaks to Marie Windsor as Mrs. Frankie Neall) in The Narrow Margin
“Bick, you shoulda shot that fella a long time ago. Now he's too rich to kill.”
Chill Wills as Uncle Bawley (speaks to Rock Hudson as Jordan ‘Bick’ Benedict Jr) in Giant
“All I want is to enter my house justified.” Joel McCrea as Steve Judd (speaks to Randolph Scott as Gil Westrum) in Ride the High Country
"Somewhere in here I was born .. and there I died. It was only a moment for you, you took no notice."
Kim Novak as Madeleine Elster (points to part of a sequoia tree cross section for James Stewart as John ‘Scottie’ Ferguson) in Vertigo
“As you were leaving the room, you turned at the door, didn't you? And you said, ‘For a moment, I thought...’ What did you think? What did you think? Did you think that Dr. Jekyll was falling in love with you? You, with your cheap little dreams? Or did you think, perhaps - that in him, you saw a bit of me, Hyde?”
Spencer Tracy as Dr. Henry Jekyll (speaks to Ingrid Bergman as Ivy Peterson) in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
“Yes, I can be very cruel. I have been taught by masters.”
Olivia de Havilland as Catherine Sloper (speaks to Miriam Hopkins as her Aunt Livinia) in The Heiress
"It's human to lie. Most of the time we can't even be honest with ourselves.”
Kichijiro Ueda as ‘Commoner’ (at far left, speaks to Takashi Shimura as ‘Woodcutter” at centre) in Rashômon
“Now it isn't that I don't like you, Susan, because, after all, in moments of quiet, I'm strangely drawn toward you, but - well, there haven't been any quiet moments.”
Cary Grant as David Huxley (speaks to Katharine Hepburn as Susan Vance) in Bringing Up Baby
“Your husband keeps lousy company Mrs. Sampson… as bad as there is in L.A. And that’s as bad as there is.”
Paul Newman as Lew Harper (speaks to Lauren Bacall as Elaine Sampson) in Harper
“… but what the hell, a hole is a hole is a hole as they say.”
Richard Burton as Major Smith (speaks to Mary Ure as Mary Ellison) in Where Eagles Dare
"Ya know something Verna, if I turned my back long enough for Big Ed to put a hole in it, there'd be a hole in it."
James Cagney as Cody Jarrett (speaks to Virginia Mayo as Verna Jarrett) in White Heat
“I’m funny how? I mean funny like I’m a clown… I amuse you?”
Joe Pesci as Tommy DeVito (second from left, speaks to Ray Liotta as Henry Hill, to his right) in Goodfellas
“When Man entered the atomic age, he opened a door into a new world. What we'll eventually find in that new world, nobody can predict.”
Edmund Gwenn as Dr. Harold Medford (at far right, responds to James Arness as Robert Graham) in Them!
“It’s a hard world for little things.”
Lillian Gish as Rachel Cooper in The Night of the Hunter
“A strange calm possessed me. I thought more clearly than I had ever thought before - as if my mind were bathed in brilliant light. I recognised that part of my illness was rooted in hunger, and I remembered the food on the shelf, the cake thredded with spider web. I no longer felt hatred for the spider. Like myself it struggled blindly for the means to live.”
Grant Williams as Scott Carey in The Incredible Shrinking Man
Sterling Silver Dialogue #’s 1 - 24 begin here.