Daily Dialogue — April 22, 2012

Myra: Where are we goin’?

Jerry: Take a look in that glove compartment there. I wanna show you somethin’. It’s a marriage license.

Myra: I… I thought you had to stand there and say something.

Jerry: Well, it’s only a permit, Myra.

Myra: Oh, so we ain’t married?

Jerry: Not yet. But that’s my prayer. I’m asking you to marry me.

Myra: Me?

Jerry: I love you.

Myra: Oh, Jerry. Jerry, I’m only thirteen years old.

Jerry: Oh, heck. My sister Frankie Jean, she was only twelve when she got married.

— Jerry (Dennis Quaid), Myra (Winona Ryder), Great Balls of Fire (1989), screenplay by Jack Baran & Jim McBride, based on a book by Myra Lewis and Murray Silver

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The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is marriage proposals, suggested by Teddy Pasternak who also suggested Great Balls of Fire.

Trivia: Murray Silver Jr. and Myra Lewis sold the film rights to the book for $115,000, plus a share of the profits. The two were supposed to serve as script consultants, but after the rights were sold three times, they lost that role when Director Jim McBride and Producer Adam Fields opted to put some distance between the film crew and their real-life counterparts.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Puts a new spin on ‘shotgun marriage’ as Myra is riding shotgun in the car when Jerry broaches the subject.