Daily Dialogue — October 5, 2013

Tony: You know every time I think how lucky I am, I feel like screaming.
Alice: Tony, please promise you’ll invite them.
Tony: Uh-oh, I feel a scream coming on right now.
Alice: We’ll have to face it sooner than later…
Tony: It’s starting right now in my toes, sort of a tingling sensation.
Alice: Now look…
Tony: Then in my knees, my legs, going faster and faster.
Alice: Tony, you’re not really going to scream…
Tony: It’s in my stomach. It’s got me Alice. It’s going up and up…
Alice: No.
Tony: …control of my body, and up and up and up… (clasps his throat)
Alice: No, Tony!
Tony: It’s in my throat now. It’s fighting to get out, I can’t hold it any longer. Here it goes.

Alice sticks her fingers in her ears and screams.

— You Can’t Take It With You (1938), screenplay by Robert Riskin, play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is witty banter, suggested by kevinpgoulet.

Trivia: Shortly before filming began, Lionel Barrymore lost the use of his legs to crippling arthritis and a hip injury. To accommodate him, the script was altered so that his character had a sprained ankle, and Barrymore did the film on crutches.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Yet another screwball comedy with plenty of witty dialogue.