Daily Dialogue — June 20, 2010

Dr. Julian Winston: You really tried to kill yourself over me? 
 Toni Simmons: Stupid, wasn’t it? 
 Dr. Julian Winston: I’m a bastard, the biggest bastard in the whole world. 
 Toni Simmons: Julian, please, you’re starting to make it sound like bragging.

 — Dr. Julian Winston (Walter Matthau), Toni Simmons (Goldie Hawn), Cactus Flower (1969), screenplay by I.A.L. Diamond, based on a play by Abe Burrows

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

Trivia: Making this movie was the first time Ingrid Bergman had been on a Hollywood sound stage since the 1940s — all her subsequent films up to that point had been made in Europe, even those for American studios.