Daily Dialogue — October 23, 2013

NICK: My name is Arden.
CONCIERGE: Oh yes, Mr. Arden. I believe that uh…
(Concierge glances over Nick’s shoulder at Ellen, she waves him off)
NICK: Huh?
CONCIERGE: Oh, nothing.
(rings for bellhop) Suite A.
NICK: Oh, suite A?
CONCIERGE: It’s our best.
NICK: I’d rather not have suite A if you don’t mind.
CONCIERGE: I beg your pardon?
NICK: Have you anything else?
CONCIERGE: Suite C.
NICK: I couldn’t take that suite A, because… I’ve been here before.

— My Favorite Wife (1940), written by Bella & Sam Spewack and Leo McCarey

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is meet cute, suggested by bolo boffin. Today’s suggestion by Traci Nell Peterson.

IMDB logline: Missing for seven years and presumed dead, a woman returns home on the day of her husband’s second marriage.

Trivia: Cary Grant wears a leopard print smoking jacket throughout much of the last third of the film. He was just coming off the huge flop Bringing Up Baby in which the titular character is a leopard.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary from Traci: “This is an atypical meet-cute: the dialogue isn’t between the love interests, the love interests already know each other, and now our Hero has (legally) one too many… love interests.”

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