Daily Dialogue — June 11, 2010

“Oh, great. You get the girl, I get the coroner.”

 — Jack Vicennes (Kevin Spacey), L.A. Confidential (1997), screenplay by Brian Helgeland & Curtis Hanson, based on the novel by James Ellroy

The Daily Dialogue theme this week is film noir movies. L.A. Confidential suggested by Teelajbrown.

Trivia: Pierce Patchett’s business is based on the long-time rumor that there really was a house of prostitution in Hollywood that supplied ladies meticulously dressed and made up to resemble famous movie stars. In his memoir “Hollywood: Stars and Starlets, Tycoons and Flesh-Peddlers, Moviemakers and Moneymakers, Frauds and Geniuses, Hopefuls and Has-Beens, Great Lovers and Sex Symbols”, screenwriter Garson Kanin describes a visit to a place called Mae’s where the madam dressed as Mae West and presided over a cast of replicas of Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford, Carole Lombard, Marlene Dietrich and Ginger Rogers, among others.

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