Daily Dialogue — January 2, 2013

Nestor: What are you doing?
Irma: He’s trying to get the lipstick off.
Nestor: Lipstick? Where did that come from?
Irma: That’s a good question.
Nestor: It must have been you.
Moustache: That’s it.
Irma: Me? I was in the hotel with His Lordship.
Moustache: That’s not it.
Nestor: Oh, yes, I was at the board meeting, we were takin’ a vote and one of the girls was doin’ a little lobbyin’.
Moustache: That must be it.
Irma: Just which girl was doing a little lobbying?
Lolita: Come on, Tiger, how about it?
Irma: Hey, you dropped something.
Lolita: Where?
Irma: There!

— Irma La Douce (1963), written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, based on the play by Alexandre Breffort

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The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is bar fights, suggested by Dean Scott. Today’s suggestion by Teddy Pasternak.

Trivia: Shirley MacLaine signed on without having read the script because she “believed in Wilder and Lemmon”.

Dialogue On Dialogue: A variation on theme with women partaking in the action in this movie.