Daily Dialogue — May 29, 2015

Sergeant Sarah Brown: You want to take me to dinner in Havana, Cuba?
Sky Masterson: Well, they eat in Cuba the same as we do.

— Guys and Dolls (1955), screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on a play by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, story by Damon Runyon

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The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Dating.

Trivia: The storyline was based on the 1933 Damon Runyon short story, “The Idyll Of Miss Sarah Brown”, That story was later a radio play, broadcast on “Damon Runyon Theater”, in 1949, on NBC radio.

Dialogue On Dialogue: The dialogue in this scene is excellent. Writers of that era — 40s and 50s — really had an ear for snappy dialogue grounded in conflict.