Daily Dialogue — April 30, 2012

Jerry: Oh no you don’t! Osgood, I’m gonna level with you. We can’t get married at all.
Osgood: Why not?
Jerry: Well, in the first place, I’m not a natural blonde.
Osgood: Doesn’t matter.
Jerry: I smoke! I smoke all the time!
Osgood: I don’t care.
Jerry: Well, I have a terrible past. For three years now, I’ve been living with a saxophone player.
Osgood: I forgive you.
Jerry: [tragically] I can never have children!
Osgood: We can adopt some.
Jerry: But you don’t understand, Osgood! Ohh…
[Jerry finally gives up and pulls off his wig]
Jerry: [normal voice] I’m a man!
Osgood: [shrugs] Well, nobody’s perfect!
[Jerry looks on with disbelief as Osgood continues smiling with indifference. Fade out]

— Jerry (Jack Lemmon), Osgood (Joe E. Brown), Some Like It Hot (1959), screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, story by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan

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The Daily Dialogue theme this week is revelation, suggested by Alexander Gorelik. Today’s suggestion by John Geraci.

Trivia: The film was adapted into a Broadway musical entitled “Sugar”, which opened at the Majestic Theater on April 9, 1972 and ran for 505 performances.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Funny thing neither Wilder nor Diamond liked the last line, “Nobody’s perfect.” Pretty much tossed it in, figuring they’d come up with a better line. They didn’t and it stayed and has been part of movie history every since.

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