Daily Dialogue — June 14, 2010

“Mr. Oxley’s been complaining about my punctuation, so I’m careful to get here before nine.”

 — Lois Laurel (Marilyn Monroe), Monkey Business (1952), screenplay by Ben Hecht & Charles Lederer & I.A.L. Diamond, story by Harry Segall

This week’s Daily Dialogue theme is movies written by I.A.L. “Izzy” Diamond, Billy Wilder’s longtime writing partner.

Trivia: The off-screen voice during the opening credits is director Howard Hawks.