Daily Dialogue — June 18, 2010

“Who wants to be a stray dog? You got to belong to someone, even if he kicks you once in a while.”

 — Irma la Douce (Shirley MacLaine), Irma la Douce (1963), screenplay by Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond, based on a play by Alexandre Breffort

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

Trivia: Billy Wilder loved Marilyn Monroe’s performance in Some Like It Hot (1959) and wanted her for this role but she died before production started.